About
Naoko Ogawa is a Japanese-born Berlin-based jewelry artist.
What can be jewelry? Based on personal experience rather than contemporary values, Ogawa carefully studies what makes people feel joy and beauty, and creates jewelry as a device to experience that uplifting feeling.
Ogawa considers jewellery to be one of the art mediums that, due to its strong physical and psychological properties, can give the wearer a more intimate sense of personal experience. They invite the wearer to become aware of changes in their body, behaviour and mood, and to confront themselves with themselves.
All of work is designed to allow the wearer to create their own style with the jewelry and complete the beauty of the piece. Ogawa believes that the wearer's confidence comes from knowing that it is they themselves who create this beauty.
"drawing" is a diffusion jewelry line that allows you to enjoy those concept more closely by applying the format of common jewelry items such as necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings.
Naoko Ogawa
born in Kanagawa, Japan, 1979.
working in Berlin, Germany & Tokyo, Japan.
Solo Exhibitions
2022: "Reflection" (gallery deux poissons, Tokyo, Japan)
2014: "Luminous / Sparkle" (gallery deux poissons, Tokyo, Japan)
2013: " JEWELRY HUNTING -DIE JAGD NACH DEM SCHMUCKBILD-" (in cooperation with Schmuck2, HOCHsitz Atelier, Retschow, Germany)
2013: "Naoko Ogawa Jewelry Presentation" (KONK, Berlin, Germany)
2011: "Luminous" (Galerie Biro, Munich, Germany)
Group Exhibitions
2023: "BEZEL Contemporary Jewelry” (BankART KAIKO, Yokohama, Japan)
2019: "8 JEWELRY DESIGNS" (Living Motif, Tokyo, Japan)
2016: "你好 台灣 by CIY" (Washida HOME STORE, Taichung City, Taiwan)
2015: "HOUSE OF NAIVE meets Japanese Design" (House of Naive, Vilnius, Lithuania)
2015: "MADE IN JAPAN JAPAN-BALTIC DESIGN WEEK 2015" (Vilnius, Lithuania)
2015: "PLAY JEWELLERY - wearing, making, thinking" (Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan)
2015: "After Wearing: A History of Gestures, Actions, and Jewelry" participation with SCHMUCK2 (Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA)
2013: "IDÉE SUMMER JEWELRY 2013 BY SIX ARTISTS" (IDÉE SHOP Jiyugaoka, Tokyo, Japan)
2013: "NEW DIRECTION IN JEWELRY" (the Design Gallery 1953 in MATSUYA GINZA, Tokyo. Japan)
2013: "Che`re maman “rouge et perles pour maman" (gallery deux poissons, Tokyo, Japan)
2013: "Spring Color Jewelry vol.2" (CLASKA Gallery & Shop "DO" in Hikarie Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan)
2013: "3.14 pour femme ← la St-valentin" (gallery deux poissons, Tokyo, Japan)
2011: "network + __________" (Social Kitchen, Kyoto, Japan)
2011: "EUNIQUE 2011, International Trade Fair for Applied Arts and Design" with Gallery Biró (Exhibition Center Karlsruhe, Rheinstetten, Germany)
2011: "Schmuck Berlin" by Glänzen (Garage, Kobe, Japan)
2011: "A POSSIBLE DIMENSION" by SCHMUCK2 (PANTALOON, Osaka, Japan)
2009: "Made in Berlin" (Gallery Square, Isetan Sagamihara, Japan)
2009: "A Light Night" (staalplaat, Berlin, Germany)
2009: "Sharp Chic – Über die Anziehungskraft des Kristallinen" (Freiraum/quartier21, Museums Quartier, Wienna, Austria)
2009: Showroom during the Berlin Fashion Week (Projekt GALERIE, Berlin, Germany)
2008: "Materialwert" (Fernwärme Wien Kultur-Point Spittelau, Wienna, Austria)
2007: "Glitzern" by SCHMUCK2 (Roter Pavillon, Bad Doberan, Germany)
2005: "Metal Craft Artists" (Gallery You-you-an, Harajuku, Tokyo)
2004: "The X'mas Presents from the Artists" (Gallery SATU, Kudanshita, Tokyo)
2004: "Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music Graduation Works" (the University Museum, Ueno, Tokyo)
2002: "Tama Art University Graduation Works/ Product, Interior, Craft Design” (Spiral Garden, Aoyama, Tokyo)
Prizes
2011: ITAMI International Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition 2011 theme "Jewellery", selected (Hyogo, Japan)
2002: The Japan Crafts Exhibition 2002, selected as a participant (Tokyo, Japan)
2001: The Best Artwork of the Year/ Tama Art University Graduation Works 2001 (Tokyo, Japan)
Publications
2023: Radical Fashion Exercises -A Workbook of Modes and Methods- (Publisher: Valiz)
2012: A Girl's Best Friends: Creative Jewelry Design (Publisher: gestalten)
2009: Tangible - High Touch Visuals (Publisher: gestalten)
2009: Glanz & Verderben (Publisher: Folio)
Lectures
2007: Guest Lecturer at the Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Educations
2006: Internship at BLESS, Berlin, Germany
2002 – 2004: Tokyo National University of Fine arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan, Master of Arts in Crafts, Metal Carving
2001 – 2002: Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan, Research student of Arts in Metal Craft
1997 – 2001: Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan, Bachelor of Arts in Metal Craft