Constellations: Contemporary Jewelry at the Dallas Museum of Art
9 Nov 2025 – 3 May 2026
This landmark exhibition of contemporary jewellery showcases more than 350 wearable works of art, surveying nearly a century of creativity. Many pieces, spanning from the 1940s to the present day and drawn from the esteemed Asenbaum and Deedie Rose collections, are on view for the first time.
The exhibition features a special commission by London-based artist jeweller Ute Decker: a fully traceable Fairtrade Gold statement hand sculpture from her Calligraphy series, which covers the entire length of the hand. This wearable sculpture is the first fully traceable Fairtrade gold piece in the DMA jewellery collection, and it finds expression both on the hand and as a neck pendant, embodying one of Decker’s core concepts of inviting the wearer’s creative participation.
The exhibition includes celebrated masters of studio jewellery such as Hermann Jünger, William Harper, Giovanni Corvaja, Karl Fritsch, Wendy Ramshaw, Francesco Pavan, and Bruno Martinazzi. The richly illustrated accompanying publication, authored by curator Sarah Schleuning, provides an engaging documentation of this essential contemporary jewellery survey.
Photography Xavier Young
