public & press

my work is represented by the following galleries

Rademakers Gallery

Amsterdam (NL)
paintings, objects
rademakersgallery.com

Gallery Rob Koudijs

Amsterdam (NL)
jewellery
galerierobkoudijs.nl/nl

Galeria Reverso

Lisbon (PT)
jewellery
galeriareverso.com

Hannah Gallery

Barcelona (SP)
jewellery
hannahgallerybarcelona.net

Taste Contemporary

Geneva (CH)
paintings, objects, jewellery
tastecontemporary.com

Atta Gallery

Bangkok (TH)
objects
attagallery.com

Platina

Stockholm (SE)
jewellery
platina.se

JewelersWerkgallery

Washington (USA)
jewellery
jewelerswerk.com

my work can be seen in the following collections

Museum of Arts and Design

New York (US)
jewellery - object

Stedelijk Museum

Amsterdam (NL)
jewellery

Centraal Museum

Utrecht (NL)
collar

Textielmuseum

Tilburg (NL)
jewellery, paintings, interior fabrics

Kunstmuseum Den Haag

Den Haag (NL)
jewellery

Museum Belvedère

Heerenveen (NL)
paintings

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam (NL)
jewellery

Kunstindustrimuseum

Trondheim (NO)
jewellery

Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst

Vienna (AT)
jewellery

V & A Museum

Londen (UK)
artist books

Dallas Museum of Arts

Texas (US)
jewellery

Cooper Hewitt

New York (US)
brooch

Museum voor Moderne Kunst

Arnhem (NL)
jewellery

Coda Museum

Apeldoorn (NL)
jewellery

Stedelijk Museum

Schiedam (NL)
painting

Rijksdienst voor het cultureel Erfgoed (NL)

jewellery, interior fabric, painting

Schmuckmuseum

Pforzheim (DE)
jewellery

Museée des Arts Decoratifs

Montreal (CA)
jewellery

Röhsska Museet

Göteborg (SE)

Musée de l’Horlogerie

Genève (CH)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston (US)
jewellery

Museum of Fine Arts

Houston (US)
jewellery

Rian Designmuseum

Falkenberg (S)
jewellery

books & publications

2019

a time of seeing, 366 works / days, calendar book, limited edition 500

2016

on the way / onderweg artist book, jewelry by Beppe Kessler from 2010 t/m 2016, limited edition, 500

2010

beppe kessler / paintings  numbered edition, 400
kessler beppe / jewelry  numbered edition, 600

gioilli pitturi  publication GR20, Padua (IT)

2008

ocean of time Galerie Louise Smit, Amsterdam

2005

in storm and shine Galerie Aurum, Frankfurt (DE)

2003

de omkering  catalogue, numbered edition, 500

1996

beppe kessler numbered edition, 500 (sold out)

1992

zinnespelen numbered edition, 500 (sold out)

CATALOGUES & ARTICLES

holy shit
article NRC
march 20 2024

Of Wind, Time and Warmth:
Interview by Jennifer Altmann
2022

Creating Jewellery in Wood
By Sarah King / Fox Chapel Publishing / 2019

Lentesneeuw
leaflet
april 2019 – march 2020

Draagbaar weer
Metereologica (magazine)
december 2016

Fibre
Contemporary Art Jewelry
2016

Body Jewels – Monika Auch
Art jewelry forum
2015

Whispering Pieces
interview
2014

hofmann price
2009

Jewellery Compendium
2008

zee van tijd / ocean of time 
Galerie Louise Smit
2008

Landschaft Schmuck
2007

Kim Jin Ju
Korea

in storm and shine
Galerie Aurum, Frankfurt
2005

Artikel Trouw
2003

Zero in het kwadraat
Brabants Daglad
12.02.2015

television

2004

Klokhuis (NL)

2003

Avro Kunstblik (NL)

online

2019

project lentesneeuw / spring snow
mogelijk gemaakt door Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst

AT5/ de straten van Amsterdam / Windroosplein
15 may 2019
(17min 50sec)

Pareltjes in de stad
1 april 2019
(14min 45sec)

Pareltjes in de stad
6 may 2019
(13min 32sec)

2011

Interview for Textielmuseum (NL)
watch movie

commissions

2012

Object for Strack van Schijndel Prize  (NL)

2010

two paintings, Eye Hospital, Rotterdam (NL)

2005

155 Objects, business gifts, NS Vastgoed, Utrecht (NL)

2002

12 carpets, ING Bank Head Office  Amsterdam (NL)

1999

5 objects, Veldzicht Prison  Balkbrug (NL)

1998-2001

Golden Carpet, De Lairessezaal, Binnenhof, The Hague  (NL)

1994

Installation, seven Objects, Provinciehuis, Lelystad (NL)

1993

9 objects, Dutch Central Bank, Amsterdam (NL)

for ever

What if you suddenly hear that you are ill…
What do you do afterwards, when you are totally ok again, what do you want to say and make, how to start?
Come back.

What do you do with all those half things that lie in drawers, stored in boxes: damaged, broken, kept, worthless and of value.

Jewelry that you no longer wear, made of gold or silver, worn links, broken clasps. There are memories…. A medallion of horn, inlaid with silver and mother-of-pearl, worn daily as a teenager in their heyday, the 1960s, just like the gold link bracelet.
A precious coral brooch you never wore, too much of a jewel, too fine.
Cufflinks, received as a keepsake.

But also a damaged Japanese lacquer box, an ebony violin key.
A milk tooth, no idea whose.
A jat that you don’t know how you got it.
Shells and pieces of coral collected by your mother in Indonesia in the late 1940s.
Tin figures.
The charm chain full of silver creatures, people, things, objects around your neck, each with their meaning. Ringing worn and cherished.

I’m putting them all back in the spotlight. I prefer to immortalize them forever.
I isolate or disassemble them, I combine them and give them a second life in a composition with pearls and rabbit droppings sprinkled in between. Together they grow into new, tiny stories in the form of a brooch. New life.

© Beppe Kessler