Faust Cardinali I The Treasures of Queen Elizabeth I 16 October- 14 November 2025

Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is pleased to present The Treasures of Queen Elizabeth, a new collection by Italian French multidisciplinary artist Faust Cardinali. Composed of thirteen one-of-a-kind jewels, this sculptural body of work will be unveiled through a live performance on 16 October 2025 at 6:30 pm, during Frieze week in London. The exhibition will remain on view until 14 November 2025. The Treasure of Queen Elizabeth is both a performance and a collection, shaped around the theme of transformation. Each of the thirteen works stands as an autonomous jewel, while collectively they form a single poetic body: an imagined entity that comes alive through movement, gesture, and wearability. The project invites the audience into a world where jewellery transcends adornment to become a medium of storytelling and change. “This project is based on the idea of a ‘hypothetical body’,” explains Faust Cardinali. By this, the artist refers to a symbolic body assembled from jewels, one not defined by anatomy but by metaphor. Together, these works suggest a body that embodies meaning rather than form. Highlights of the collection include the Crown of Queen Elizabeth; The Queen’s Skeleton, a necklace in silver and 18k gold incorporating charred bread and resin; The […]

Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery presents Hotel 87 & Other Relics Curated by Melanie Grant, celebrated Luxury Writer and Curator 23-27 September 2025 To celebrate the publication of The Jewelry Book (Phaidon), Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery and Melanie Grant host anew exhibition highlighting 20 artists and design houses in London. This September 24th, Phaidon will publish The Jewelry Book (£59.95 GBP / €69.95 EUR) edited by Melanie Grant, author of Phaidon’s bestselling Coveted (2020), a stunning and authoritative A-to-Z guide to 300 of jewelry’s greatest names spanning more than 200 years. From Chanel pearls and iron jewels at Hemmerle set with flawless diamonds to the Notorious B.I.G. and Greta Garbo, this book offers indispensable insight into the artists, creative houses, and style icons who have defined jewelry. Eminent creatives such as Wallace Chan, Elsa Schiaparelli, Suzanne Belperron, and Bhagat appear alongside such lesser-known trailblazers such as Maōri jade carver Joel Marsters and Winifred Mason Chenet, apioneering metalsmith and designer. And, of course, no book on jewelry would be complete without pieces from the great heritage houses: Cartier, Tiffany & Co., Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari, Chaumet, Harry Winston, and Chopard. In conjunction with the book’s launch, Melanie Grant will curate two exhibitions: one […]

Signs, Painting series (round), 2025; 18kt yellow gold, niello earrings; L 7,2 cm; Unique within a series Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is excited to announce Marks of Time, Gigi Mariani’s first solo exhibition in the UK, opening on Tuesday, 10th June 2025. The show is dedicated to the evocative and transformative artistry of the renowned contemporary jewellery artist and will run until 4th July 2025. Gigi Mariani is part of EC LAB, the gallery’s initiative supporting emerging and established contemporary jewellery artists who challenge the boundaries of jewellery through innovation and unique vision.This highly anticipated show will present 38 unique pieces of jewellery, including rings, earrings, necklaces, and bracelets, created specifically for this exhibition. Marks of Time reflects a dialogue between tradition and experimentation—a cornerstone of Mariani’s practice.Trained in Modena and working as a goldsmith since 1985, Gigi Mariani bridges the ancient and the contemporary. His pieces integrate age-old techniques such as niello, an ancient method using sulphur, silver, and copper to create darkened reliefs, with modern processes such as laser etching and surface manipulation by hammering. The result is jewellery that embodies texture, rawness, and emotion—where fractures, oxidation, and corrosion are not flaws, but defining elements. Marks of Time will […]

Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is excited to continue its ongoing collaboration with acclaimed American artist Liliane Lijn, unveiling a stunning new collection of art jewellery. Lijn’s artistic approach is deeply rooted in natural forms and elements, drawing inspiration from raw materials—volcanic magma, meteorites, clods of earth, and lunar rocks. These forces are translated into wearable sculptures, crafted from pure electroformed silver in Italy, embodying an organic, almost primordial aesthetic. Each piece reflects humanity’s connection with nature and the cosmos, serving as conceptual explorations of our relationship with the planet. Lijn presents a mesmerising new collection of pendants, and a cuff inspired by the ancient landscapes of Pompeii and the movement of lava. The collection explores fluidity, nature, and the powerful bond between humanity and the natural world. Her visit to Vesuvius and Pompeii ignited a creative vision. “These pieces evoke volcanic or lunar landscapes and even our inner selves. They combine ancient luxury with raw landscapes and cliffs,” she explains. Crafted both in silver with hues of blue pigmentation and in gold, the pieces evoke the textures of cliffs and crevices found in volcanic terrains. On the silver pendants intricate details are highlighted that contrast with the smoother, gilded surfaces of […]

EC: It’s an honour to work with you. Your art jewellery project is incredible! Would you like to share with us your idea behind this new collection? MOD: First of all, thank you for your kind words. I’m delighted my work fits your vision of small sculpture as wearable art.The Winter Branches are an ongoing stream feeding the flow of Doner Studio. As I walk the forests as well as urban streets my eyes follow the wonderful branching patterns of trees. For years I have picked up small twigs, their dynamic patterns mostly flattened underfoot. They became an unplanned collection detailing the genius of variety, growth, and form in nature.The jump to jewellery was spontaneous as well. I left the cast bronze twigs dark as the wood they once were, and old cut diamonds both brought them light and replicated the sense of dew, or a touch of frost, a nod to their life in different seasons. EC: I find that your art has this special connection with underground energies. How would you describe the relationship between your large-scale works and art jewellery? Does the latter engage with the same energies as the former? MOD: Both the jewellery and large […]

Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is thrilled to announce a unique collaboration with acclaimed American artist Michele Oka Doner, resulting in an extraordinary art jewellery collection. The collection is an homage to “The Botanic Age”—a time long before the Stone Age, when plants and trees were central to human development and creativity. Dr. Dean Falk’s research at Florida State University positions this era as the true cradle of civilisation, where botanic inventions like woven baskets shaped our cognitive and cultural evolution long before we wielded stone tools. Drawn from Oka Doner’s profound connection to the natural world and human history, her designs serve as spiritual meditations of this era, reflecting a time when humans were stewards of the earth rather than its masters. Her message resonates powerfully in today’s world as we face the consequences of “Plant Blindness,” a term recently coined to describe how the Industrial Revolution has distanced humanity from the natural world. The collection is a call to action for a New Botanic Age. Oka Doner’s work is distinguished not only by her evocative vocabulary of natural forms but also by her ability to transform these forms into talismanic objects that resonate with elemental energies. Her creations are not […]

Salon Art + Design Booth B6 7-11 November 2024 Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is delighted to announce its first participation in the 13th edition of Salon Art + Design 2024, New York. With an eclectic selection of wearable artworks, the gallery is proud to present jewels by world-famous visual artists, as well as experimental creations by exceptional jewellery designers. It will be a unique opportunity for collectors and art enthusiasts to immerse themselves in the fascinating world of wearable art – from classic masterpieces to bold experimentations. Among the twenty artists on display, we are thrilled to launch an exclusive collaboration with incredible American artist Michele Oka Doner. The collection comprises five one-of-a-kind Winter Branch brooches, a bronze Talisman pendant, a sculptural necklace, Nightflight, adorned with huit-huit old cut diamonds, and a treasure box, Mitosis, in limited edition. The pieces reverberate with the talismanic elemental energy that distinguishes Oka Doner’s practice and places it among the most magnetic and evocative works in contemporary art. Meticulously crafted in bronze, old-cut diamonds, 18kt gold, silver, and electroformed bark – a beautiful piece of wood that she retrieved from the Hudson River upstate many years ago –, each piece serves not only as an […]

Gold and Lines: The Design of Giampaolo Babetto “Each time I make a jewel it’s a new challenge because I know that what I create is meant to be worn and cohabit with the body.” – Giampaolo Babetto Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is thrilled to present an unprecedented selection of jewels by Giampaolo Babetto. Gold and Lines: The Design of Giampaolo Babetto, will open at the gallery on the 10th of October and run until the 18th of October. Collectors, friends, and art jewellery enthusiasts are invited to our opening on the 10th of October from 5 to 8 pm. As one of the most influential exponents of the Padua goldsmith school and avant-garde jewellery since the 1960s, Babetto has redefined the concept of art jewellery worldwide. The exhibition features thirteen unique works conceived from the 1970s to the present. The works include rings, earrings, necklaces, brooches, and a bracelet – gold corporeal architectures that come alive through the incorporation of ethereal and vibrant materials such as colourful glass, niello, ebony, and velvet-like pigments of luminous primary colours. The pieces are geometrical kaleidoscopic compositions that possess their own life and create a symbiotic and unique aesthetic relationship with the wearer’s body. […]

After showing alongside the Venice Biennale in April, London jewelry gallerist Elisabetta Cipriani’s latest exhibition on home soil opens today; Constellazioni, a solo show of the work of Italian artist Giorgio Vigna charts a creative career spanning four decades. by Kate Matthams, Senior Contributor at Forbes Read

“My work and research are situated on a boundary, a margin, between reality and imagination. Throughout my exploration, this boundary expands and creates a suspended space-time where time is subjective and space is imaginary. It is within this suspension that new “natural states” of matter and form can emerge and manifest. The micro and the macrocosm intertwine – the large and the small, the light and the heavy, the solid and the liquid, the cold and the hot. They interchange positions and generate artworks that ask us to suspend our biases and preconceptions.”  Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery is thrilled to announce its major exhibition of Giorgio Vigna’s ever-evolving work – Costellazioni, 29 May – 5 July 2024.   Celebrating fifteen years of exciting collaborations between Giorgio Vigna and the gallery, the exhibition will feature 50 pieces, including wearable artworks, sculptures, and works on paper made from the 1980s to the present.   Costellazioni is not a retrospective; it is a storytelling of over four decades of Vigna’s transformative material poetry, resulting in stunning pieces that achieve the perfect balance between materials, forms, and concepts.   The works are a statement of Vigna’s experimental and metamorphic artistic research. At the forefront are his wearable sculptures, alongside Cosmografie (Cosmographies), the works on […]