Karen Vanmol
Belgium
Education
2009-2010
- 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 September, Sabine 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
- Tweex3, Vander A Gallery, La Vénerie, Watermaal- Bosvoorde, Belgium
- Schmuck 2015, 67th 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