Karen Vanmol

Belgium

 

Education

 

2009-201
- Master fine arts, Jewellery design, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium

2006-2009 
- Bachelor fine arts, Jewellery Design, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium

2012-2017
- Jewellery Techniques, TNA Antwerp, Belgium

2012
- Intensive Erasmus, Creative & Aesthetic Learning Processes, DKiT, Dundalk, Ireland

2010-2012
-Teacher Studies Fine Arts, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium

2008-2009
- Engraving, TNA Antwerp, Belgium

2008-2009
- Cross-over, Etching, Fine Art Printmaking, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium

2004-2006
- Jewellery Design, HA St-Truiden, Belgium

 

Exhibitions

 

2021

- Isabelle Azais invite Pont & Plas, Design September, Brussels, Belgium

-EXPOse25, Jopan, Tienen, Belgium

- Connected, Obsessed-Jewellery Festival, Current Obsession, Royal
Academy Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium

2020

In/Out, BeCraft & Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

Walking Treasures 4, ESH Gallery, Milan, Italy

2019

- Multiple Solo II Karen Vanmol, Multiple, Hasselt, Belgium

- Boucles D'oreilles, Galerie Bettina Flament, Lille, France

- Aline in Wonderland, Galerie Pont en Plas, Gent, Belgium

- Straight from Technicolor Garden, Noon, Berlin, Germany

- European Prize for Applied Arts, Kilkenny Castle & National Design Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland

- Material Revolution, Pistachios SNAG, Chicago, USA

- What If...Polyphonous, Munich, Germany

- Schmuck 2019, 71th International Handwerkmesse, Munich, Germany

2018

- SOFA, represented by Pistachios Jewelry, Navy Pier, Chicago, USA

- European Prize for Applied Arts, BeCraft, Ancien Abbatoirs, Mons, Belgium

- Vitrine Cadeau, BeCraft, Ancien Abbatoirs, Mons, Belgium

- Talents @ Tendence, Form @ Tendence, Frankfurt, Germany

- Sign of the times, Galerie Mazlo, Paris, France

- Colourfull Play, Galerij Beyond, Antwerp, Belgium

- Belgium Art & Design Fair, @Flanders DC, Gent, Belgium

2017

- Vitrine, Anciens Abbatoirs, Mons, Belgium

- Exhibition in Print: Repair and Renewal, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, USA

- Gentster: Karen Vanmol Jewellery, Paarl,  Gent, Belgium

- Smitten, Berchem, Belgium

- KunstRai Art Fair @Galerie Beyond, Amsterdam, Netherlands

- Kick-off event Vienna Jewellery Days, MAK  Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art

Vienna, Austria

- Design SeptemberSabine Herman, Brussels, Belgium

- Lines & Surfaces, Galerie Beyond, Antwerp, Belgium

- Swedes and Belgian Blues, Galerie Beyond, Antwerp, Belgium

2016

- Tree of life, De Mijlpaal, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium

- Special selection, Ickx Contemporary Jewellery, Brussels, Belgium

- Et si on exposait des Belges, une fois?!, Ickx Contemporary Jewelry, Brussels, Belgium

- Forget Them, Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, USA

- Multiple Solo: Karen Vanmol, Multiple, Hasselt, Belgium

- Young and Mad-Young: No-Rules, JoyaBrussels, Brussels, Belgium

- Swedes and Belgian Blues, Four Galery, Goteborg, Sweden

- 6D Artfair, a Kristy Bujanic Project, Tongeren, Belgium

- Talente, 68th International Handwerkmesse, Munich, Germany

- White, Ickx Contemporary Jewelry, Brussels, Belgium

2015

- Fifteen Years of Jewellery, Beyond Fashion, Antwerp, Belgium

- European Prize for Applied Arts, WCC- BF, Ancien Abbatoirs, Mons, Belgium

- Groeiringen-Full Color, HA-Beeld DKO, St-Truiden, Belgium

- Impressions- The Permanent, Alliages, Lille, France

- Monster, One Armed Man, Oude beurs (Old Stock Exchange) Antwerp, Belgium

- België Belgique Belgien Belgium, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany

- Schmuck 2015, ZIBA, Prague, Czech Republic

- Cultivate- Solo expo, Beyond Fashion, Antwerp, Belgium

- Wearables for the home, Beyond Fashion, Antwerp, Belgium

- Tweex3Vander A GalleryLa Vénerie, Watermaal- Bosvoorde, Belgium

- Schmuck 201567th International Handwerkmesse, Munich, Germany

2014

- The Parallel Worlds, Alliages, Lille, France

- 2014 European Triennial for Contemporary Jewellery, Anciens Abbatoirs, Mons, Belgium

- Shanghai International Metalsmithing & Jewelry Art Exhibition, Shanghai Exhibition Center, China

- MineralArt, Between Layers, German Gemstone, Museum, Idar-Oberstein, Germany

- Cominelli Foundation Award, Cisano di San Felice del Benaco, Italy

- Invited International Exhibition of KCDA 2014, Gallery Iang, Seoul, Korea

- Home, Courtney Kemp & Karen Vanmol, Heidi Lowe Gallery, Delaware, USA

- De nieuwe oogst (The new harvest), Design Vlaanderen Galerie, Brussels, Belgium

- Earrings Galore, Heidi Lowe Gallery, Delaware, USA

- Evolving Habitat, Solo exhibition, Lasso, Leuven, Belgium

- Earrings Galore Pop-Up, Heidi Lowe Gallery, SNAG Minneapolis Conference, USA

- Mineral Art14, Between Layers, State Collection of Antiques, Munich, Germany

- Hout, het nieuwe goud (Wood, the new gold), Design Vlaanderen Galerie, Brussels, Belgium

- Schmuck 2014, 66th Internationale Handwerkmesse, Munich, Germany

- Invited International Exhibition 2014, Korea Craft Designer Association, Virginia, USA

- Suspend.ed in Pink, V&V Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2013

- Sieraad Art Fair, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Netherlands

- Embrasser/Ambras, Designcenter De Winkelhaak, Antwerp, Belgium

- Suspend.ed in pink, Circuits Bijoux 2013, Viaduc des Arts, Paris France

- Jewelry- Identity, Beijing International Art Biennal, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, China

- Play for display, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gallery Four, Gothenburg, Sweden

- Cominelli Foundation 2013 Award, Fondazione Cominelli, Cisano di San Felice del Benaco, Italy

- Evolving Habitat N°2, Solo exhibition, by Beyond Fashion at Creme de la Crema, Roeselare, Belgium

- Suspend.ed in pink, Heidi Lowe Gallery, Delaware, USA

- 3 Koninklijke Meesters vd Antwerpse Academie (3 Royal Masters of the Antwerp Academy) Wo-Men in Fine Art Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

- Siamese Connection, Brooklyn Metal Works, New York, USA

- Sex, Drugs & Rock'n Roll.....vices or lifestyle? Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany

- Earrings Galore, Heidi Lowe Gallery, Delaware, USA

- New York School of Visual Arts Special Invited International Design  - Exhibition 2013, Hosted by Korea Design Council, New York, USA

- Earrings Galore Pop-Up, Gallery Heidi Lowe, SNAG, Toronto, USA

- Design for Coexistence, Invited Exhibition 2013, KDDC, Tongmyong University, Busan, Korea

- Launching Embrasser/ Ambras project, former Etnographic Museum, Antwerp Belgium

- Chain, A Casa, Museum of Brazilian Object, Sao Paulo, Brazil

- Suspend.ed in pink, Gabi Green Studio, Munich, Germany

- Schmuck-Show 2013 (opening event Schmuck 2013) Goldbergstudios, Munich, Germany

- Evolving Habitat, Solo exhibition, Beyond Fashion, Antwerp, Belgium

- Suspend.ed in pink, The Atrium- School of Jewellery, Birmingham, United Kingdom

2012

- Jewelbook 2012,Les Anciens Abbatoirs, Mons, Belgium

- Sex, Drugs & Rock'n Roll.....vices or lifestyle? Galeria42, Modena, Italy

- Chain, online exhibition, crafthaus.ning.com

- Sex, Drugs & Rock'n Roll.....vices or lifestyle?, Werkschau. Simone Winkler, Kempten, Germany

- Hot Under the Collar, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Arizona, USA

2011

- Fading Landscape, Designcentrum De Winkelhaak, Antwerp, Belgium

- Staying long enough-leaving on time, Museum M, Leuven, Belgium

- Mediterrean, Museum of Natural History of the Mediterranean, Livorno, Italy

- True Colours, New Traditional Jewellery, Museum for Modern Art, Arnhem, Netherlands

2010

- True Colours, New Traditional Jewellery, Sieraad, Amsterdam, Netherlands

- Entrée<exit, Antwerp, Belgium

- True Colours, New Traditional Jewellery, Villa Bengel, Idar-Oberstein, Germany

- Zilvertalenten, Silver museum Sterckshof, Antwerp, Belgium

- Masterproject/'10, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium

- Landschap, FLACC, Genk, Belgium

- Tablemanners, Silke & The Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

2009

- Rings For The Lords, Designcentrum De Winkelhaak, Antwerp, Belgium