MARIE WOLF

Cluster Contemporary Jewellery Exhibitor | 2024

Marie Therese Wolf is a technologist turned artist, born in Vienna, Austria and currently residing between Italy, Austria and Spain. She attended universities in Vienna, Tokyo and London and then embarked on a career in technology. She worked in management roles in internet, media and telecoms companies, but continued her education in art and design at the NABA, Nuova Academia di Belle arte in Milan (with jewellery designer Barbara Uderzo, and with Italian artist Attilio Tono) and at Central St. Martins in London.

Her work is influenced by interests ranging from science and technology to art, music and design. More recently, she has gone full circle and AI has become a springboard for development in her pieces. She started exhibiting in spring 2021 at the Munich Jewellery Week, continued with the NYC Jewelery week in November 2021. In 2022 she was invited to show her work at the Brussels Jewellery week then, participated virtually at the Munich JWE and then at the Milan Jewellery week and the Rome Jewellery Week in October. In February 2023 her work was shown at the Venice Design week. In May 2023 she was part of the Slovenian Jewellery week. In September 2023 she was a selected artist at Visionairies at the Homi F&J show.

In October 2023 she again took part at the Venice design week, as well as at the Rome Jewellery week. In February 2024 she was again invited to show her work at “Visionaries” now part of the Milan Fashion and Jewels fair. Part of her collection is exhibited at the VIII Muestra Orfebrería Contemporánea at the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas in Madrid in February and March 2024. At the Munich Jewellery in 2024 week she was part of the collective show “Dazzled” organized by the Venice Design week. Her exhibition pieces have been featured several times in the contemporary jewellery magazine Current Obsession. Her work is showcased in online galleries such as “A room with a view” and Arte y Joya.

“I have always been a pioneer. As a tech executive I usually worked on innovative products or projects. My jewellery transmits this legacy. My pieces are either transformable, interactive and I often use processes I applied in my tech career. .
“Light, light show” was inspired by the work of Dan Flavin. The sculptural neckpiece consists of fluorescent rods which create the illusion of a light show and immersing the wearer in a luminous glow.”

— Marie Wolf

“This piece evolved into “light, light show, continued”, a series of neckpieces and rings based on a collaboration with AI. The neckpieces can be worn as arm or shoulder pieces and the rings can be transformed into ear or arm pieces.
“Gems” are pieces shaped by the dance between practical and experimental factors. For the first series in resin, I applied a technology process - rapid innovation loops – where casting is fluid and reiterative. No piece was the same, the process was evolutionary. Sketch, experiment, accept, chuck out, restart…”Gems in silver” show a more finite approach. At first I used lost wax technique to design a ring based on my first series, then it was constructed in 3d. The series in silver are limited to just a few pieces per design. ”

— Marie Wolf