Janne K Hansen is a danish jewelry maker living and working in Copenhagen.
Educated as a goldsmith and after that as a designer. She is co-owner and designer at Goldfingers a place she has with Karl Ejnar Nybo in inner city of Copenhagen.
Beside that, she has curated many exhibitions, done many collaborative work with various talented friends, and invited artist and designers to exhibit in Goldfingers regularly through out the last 15 years.
MOD ER MÆRKERPerformance by Lene Harbo and Janne K Hansen / Filmed by: Jörg Koopmann+ Film editing: Lene Harbo2019
A fleeting thought
Charlotte Jul - Master of arts — design curator, writer & editor
A fleeting thought, a poem, a texture. Janne K. Hansen is inspired by the immediate and the abstract. By poetry embodied as a picture. By darkness as a story, and by the aesthetic of the slow and grim. She transforms the vague and dystopic into fine art jewelry with great ease. And that is Janne K. Hansen's signature and strength. That she can break her own artistic narrative and channel it through the competent and perfectionist hands of the goldsmith. She is both artist and artisan. Nebulous and concrete. As the artist, she flies in the slipstream of vision, as the artisan, she remains grounded in technique, functionality, and aesthetic.
Art Projects are Janne K. Hansens laboratorium. A space where the goldsmith and artist can enter, and disappear in an agenda only she is privy to. Until she emerges, having mobilized words, images, and ideas to become poetic, dystopic, or hybrid art jewelry, in metal, fabric and gems. “Art Projects is a medium. A channel through which I can express myself in a language without words. My art is the embodiment of complexity. It's images, feelings, moods – and material narratives that have to more to impart than the prevailing associations to jewelry.”
Janne K. Hansen is one of Denmark's most distinguished art jewelry designers. Since becoming a goldsmith in 1998, and graduating from the Institute of Precious Metals in 2004, she has worked both as jeweler and teacher for goldsmith apprentices until becoming an independent designer, jewelry artist, and gallerist in 2009.
As a jewelry artist, Janne K. Hansen has exhibited all over the globe, lauded several times over with grants and prizes for forging new ways within the trade.
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My jewellery art often refers to the personal space between the remembered and the suppressed, depicting events that might have taken place or a kind of warning of things to come. My works are without solid facts, but point to the memories that shape us and to the complexity of the moment, captured in a physical form, full of the attached complexities and feelings, and with a clear aesthetic of their own.
Janne K. Hansen
Laboratorium
I’m always working on several things at once.
Sometimes I practice or try to invent new techniques. Other times I make hardcore oldschool design process to make new designs with a twist to Goldfingers, And then again other times im trying to materialized thoughts and observations into jewelry, a place where I let all the learned rules of design and goldsmith technique flow.
Everything enriches each other and I could not do without one of the processes. One working method enriches on the other. -That's how I work:)
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