Seungeun Kim-Lilja

Contemporary Art Jewelry / Jewelry Designer


I am contemporary art jewelry designer and maker from Seoul, based in Berlin.

My works can be categorized into: Contemporary Art Jewelry and Fine Jewelry.
 
A contemporary art jewelry  is to show my aesthetic perspective through jewelry. I am obsessed with an abstract definition like time, movement, light, shadow, reflection, weight, lightness, hardness that is not only defined by itself but is appeared under certain circumstances or with other comparable situations. Those are easily changeable depends on what is given to them. My jewelry contains those unique moments and by wearing them, I hope you also encounter the moments that I intended.
 
 A fine crafted jewelry  is another way to show my aesthetics with precious metal and stones. More or less this is what most of people think as jewelry. Each pieces are designed and made by me in the studio in Berlin. With craftsmanship and delicate design I would like to present you a special moment.
 
 Art is not just you see from the museum through the frame. By wearing the art jewelry, you can bring a piece of art in your life and make your identity stronger.


EDUCATION
2017 
Working as a contemporary jewelry designer and goldsmith in Berlin, Germany
2015 - 16
Master of Accessory design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2009 - 15 
B.F.A, Metal Crafts and Design, Seoul National University, South Korea
2013 - 14
Guest Student, Jewelry and Object Design, Pforzheim School of Design, Germany
2012
Exchange Semester, University of Oslo, Norway
EXHIBITION
2020. 10
Grassimesse 2020, Grassimuseum für angewandte Kunst |Leipzig, Germany
2020. 09
"Ist das noch Kunsthandwerk?", Handwerkskammer Düsseldorf |Düsseldorf, Germany
2020. 07
BKV Jahresausstellung der Mitglieder, BKV Galerie|München, Germany
2020. 04
BKV Prize 2020, Gallery BKV |Munich, Germany
2020. 03
Sonderaustellung, Gallery Schmucke |Berlin, Germany
2020. 03-04
"Frei und Frau", Gallery Hermsen |Wiesbaden, Germany
2019. 10-11
SOFA 2019 by Pistachios |Chicago, USA
2019. 07-08
Sumer Exhibition 2019, Brigitte Berndt Gallery |Regensburg, Germany
2019. 06
Talents, Tendence Messefrankfurt |Frankfurt, Germany
2019. 04-05
BKV Prize, Gallery BKV |Munich, Germany
2019. 04-05
Spring Exhibition 2019, Gallery Schmucke|Berlin, Germany
2019. 03 
BKV Prize 2019, Internationale Handwerksmesse|Munich, Germany
2014. 12 
Bachelor degree graduate exhibition, Seoul National Univ.|Seoul, Korea
2014. 03
Pforzheim Revisited, Gallery Temur|Berlin, Germany
2014. 03
Virus Fashion Infiltration, Biblioteca della Moda|Milan, Italy 
AWARDS
‌2020
‌BKV Prize 2020 (Germany) I 1st Prize
2019
FORM 2019 (Germany)
2019
Hessischer Staatspreis (Germany) | Nominee
2019
BKV Prize 2019 (Germany) |Finalist