iCoexistências: Jewellery and the World's Beauty
Core show of the 3rd Lisbon Contemporary Jewellery Biennial: international jewellery exploring ecology, AI and coexistence between humans and other life.
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Inside a transparent bag by Ted Noten, the jeweller known for his gun bag, seahorses are mating. A few shelves along, Sigurd Bronger has made a ring with water inside it, and Irma Földényi a necklace of sand about an artificial beach in Belgium.
This is the core show of the 3rd Lisbon Contemporary Jewellery Biennial: 156 pieces by 70 artists, built around how we might live alongside nature and non-human intelligence. Miguel Vieira Baptista has turned the room terracotta and lined it with shelves like an Enlightenment cabinet of curiosities, so you walk the run of them sorting each piece up close. Curator Marta Costa Reis calls it an optimistic show.
The catch: the museum's text leans on big questions (ecology, AI, indigenous knowledge), so expect to read as well as look. It's on floor 2 beside the Tereza Seabra collection; the €11 temporary-exhibition ticket covers both, €15 with the long-term show. Open until 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays. Runs to 31 January 2027.
Editor's pick
Ted Noten's transparent bag holds mating seahorses; Sigurd Bronger's ring holds water. The core show of the Lisbon Contemporary Jewellery Biennial sets 156 pieces on terracotta shelves, like a cabinet of curiosities. Expect sand, rice and buoys rather than gold.
Look for
Ted Noten's seahorse bag
A transparent bag with seahorses mating inside it, from the jeweller best known for his gun bag.
Sigurd Bronger's water ring
Look inside the ring: what it holds is water.
Martha Mattson's painted scarabs
A series of painted beetles the jeweller made to confront a pathological dread of her own.
Irma Földényi's sand necklace
An ephemeral necklace made of sand, a comment on an artificial beach in Belgium.
Rice, stones and buoys
Grains of rice asking how hunger survives in a world of plenty, stones worked into remote controls, and shells made from flotation buoys.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
Skip if
You want gold and gemstones: much of this is made from sand, rice, water and buoys.
With kids
Children up to 12 get in free, and 13 to 25s pay half price.
Also at MUDE – Museu do Design
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Image credits
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- Coexistências: Jewellery and the World's BeautyCourtesy of MUDE – Museu do Design
- They Were Afraid, Yet They WentCourtesy of Museu do Aljube – Resistência e Liberdade
- Tragedy and Farce: Júlio Pomar and Gabriel AbrantesCourtesy of Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar
- Sara Sadik. KhtobtogoneCourtesy of Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM)
- MUDE – Museu do DesignDiogoBaptista / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Museu do Aljube – Resistência e LiberdadeHipersyl / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- MNAC – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do ChiadoHipersyl / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Museu do FadoTxemari (Navarra), Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Atelier-Museu Júlio PomarGualdimG / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0