The Portuguese jewellery artist returned to Idar-Oberstein three years after graduating from the Gemstone and Jewellery Campus as part of the Artist…

Every summer, students of geosciences at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have the opportunity to get to know the material stone from a completely…

Once again, students from Idar-Oberstein took part in the iron casting workshop organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts. Together with international…

The joint Artist-in-Residence programme between the Jakob Bengel Foundation and the Gemstone and Jewellery Campus offers residencies for up to three…

We are delighted to welcome Tamia Dellinger as Artist in Residence at the Campus for Gemstone and Jewellery.

The jewellery artist based in Munich visited Idar-Oberstein from May to July 2025 as Artist in Residence.

The Munich-based jewellery artist will be a guest in Idar-Oberstein from May to July 2025 and will work in the workshops of the university and the…

On 3 April 2025, the Gemstone and Jewellery Campus in Idar-Oberstein once again opened its doors for the nationwide Boy's Day - and gave five boys…

Experience the magic of gemstones and be enchanted by Idar-Oberstein! At the "Long Night of Gemstones", you can expect sparkling pieces of jewellery,…

Interview with Prof Theo Smeets, head of degree programme jemstones and jewellery in the current SMCK Magazine

Jewelry artist Helena Renner, a graduate of the Gemstone and Jewelry program at Trier University of Applied Sciences' Idar-Oberstein campus, was…

Julia Obermaier was awarded the Gold Prize, second place, at the 14th Cheongju International Craft Competition 2025 with her series of works…

We would like to congratulate our Master's graduates Chun Chang and Chidimma Omeke, who have been awarded the prestigious Marzee Graduate Prize 2025.

The German Design Graduates (GDG) initiative offers graduates from German design universities a valuable platform to present their final projects to a…

Her exchange semester at the Gemstone and Jewellery Campus at Trier University of Applied Sciences had a decisive influence on her artistic work with…

Iris Hummer and Stephie Morawetz - two outstanding graduates of the Gemstone and Jewellery Campus are among the nine nominees for the Eligius Prize…

Natascha Frechen, Julia Obermaier and Stephie Morawetz have been nominated for the prestigious Amberif Design Award 2025. The international…

Campus Gemstone and Jewellery graduate Helena Renner impresses with her expressive body jewellery and is awarded the prestigious BKV prize for her…

Great joy for the Gemstone and Jewellery Campus: two former students were awarded top-class jewellery prizes at the International Crafts Fair (IHM) in…

Yiftah Avraham [aka 'Dot Melanin'] (MFA 2016), Nikita Kavryzhkin (MFA 2021) and Julia Obermaier (BFA 2016) were selected for the special show SCHMUCK…

Dua Fatima (MFA 2024), Natascha Frechen (MFA 2023), Gina Nadine Müller (MFA 2024) and Miriam Strake (BFA 2024) have been nominated for the TALENTE…

The European Prize for Applied Arts, launched in 2009, honours contemporary creations in the field of applied arts and handcrafted design.

A major…

Sharareh Aghaei received the Grassi Prize of the Carl and Anneliese Goerdeler Foundation, endowed with €3000, and Helena Renner the Grassi Prize of…

The graduate of the Idar-Oberstein campus was selected for the €10,000 prize by the Young Ambassadors, who worked at the exhibition for five weeks. A…

Felicia Mülbaier, master graduate of the Idar-Oberstein Campus, has been taking part in solo and duo exhibitions since 2014. She has received the…

Once a year, the Marzee Gallery in Nijmegen awards the Marzee Graduate Prize "to some of the most promising graduates in recognition of their…

The graduate of the Idar-Oberstein campus was awarded the main prize of €5,000 at the 73rd art exhibition for her work "Du bist dran". The exhibition…

The international jewelry competition on the theme of "Empathy" took place as part of the Legnica Silver Festival for the 32nd time this year.

In 2024, TALENTE - Masters of the Future will present the work of 92 young designers from 27 countries in 12 different fields. Ngaching Ko (MFA 2021)…

The 9th edition of Klimt02's New Talents Award aims to recognise the work of graduates in our field and promote their careers in the professional…

The Danner Foundation and the museums of the city of Landshut present the work of 42 outstanding craftspeople in the exhibition "Danner Prize 2023.…

The €3,000 prize goes to the artist Jiun-You Ou (MFA 2018), who comes from Taiwan and lives in Vienna, for her works in inkstone.

The main prize of this year's edition of the Romanian Jewellery Week went to Sharareh Aghaei (MFA 2017)

For their semester project "ENCOUNTER I", Helena Renner and Miriam Strake, both students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts Gemstone and Jewellery, received…

Iris Hummer (stud. MFA) is awarded the II Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage as well as an Honorable Mention of the Maydaybyday…

Exhibited from 25 April - 02 July in Legnica

with Sharareh Aghaei (MFA 2017), Vendula Fabian (MFA 2020), Iris Hummer (stud. MFA) and Mira Kim (MFA 2019)

Congratulations to Nikita Kavryzhkin (MFA 2022), Jiun-You Ou (MFA 2018), Sonia Pibernat (MFA 2018) and Edu Tarin (MFA 2015), finalists of the renowned…

Congratulations to the selected finalists Sihui Li (BFA 2022), Julia Obermaier (BFA 2016 ) and Jasmin Schlesiger (MFA).

Congratulations to Susie Heuberger (BFA 2021)! The TALENTE Award is presented annually at Handwerk und Design in Munich to young talents from the…

Congratulations to Felicia Mülbaier, whose work "eine Betrachtung" was selected from over 600 entries for the special show SCHMUCK at the IHM…

Susie Heuberger (BFA 2022), Nikita Kavryzhkin (MFA 2022) and Sihui Li (BFA 2022) are nominated for the prestigious TALENTE Award 2023. Their work will…

Jiun-You Ou (MFA 2018) received this year's Justus Brinckmann Förderpreis at the opening of the MK&G messe 2022 at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe…

Since 1965, the Gesellschaft für Goldschmiedekunst e.V. and the Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus Hanau have organised the Silbertriennale International to…

Congratulations to Sihui Li, who won this year's prize "Art Jewellery by Young Talents at the Museum" of the International Society of Friends of the…

Once a year Galerie Marzee awards the Marzee Graduate Prize "to a number of the most promising graduates in recognition of their outstanding work. The…

Nominated for "Art Jewellery by Young Talents at the Museum" are Tamia Dellinger (MFA 2022), Sihui Li (BFA 2022) and Valérie Wagner (MFA 2020). The…

Felicia Mülbaier wins a Bavarian State Prize for her brooches "Physis" (brooch | lapis lazuli, gold | 2019) and "Faltenwurf" ( brooch | lapis lazuli,…

THE YOUNG DESIGNER SCENE

A jury of experts selected the works of 96 young designers from 30 countries from around 600 applications to present them at…

The Craft Prize jury met in Seoul for deliberations and agreed to award two special commendations in addition to the awards. One goes to "Verborgen"…

Jewellery by Nikita Kavryzhkin (MFA 2021), Edu Tarin (MFA 2015) and Patricia Domingues (MA 2013) were selected for the prestigious jewellery show in…

Our graduates Jiun-You Ou (MFA 2019) and Luisa Werner (BFA 2021) are among the winners of this year's RLP State Prize and Promotional Award.

Adriana Almeida Meza (MFA 2018) wins Red Dot Award for her design "Lippy Chain"

Edu Tarin (MFA 2015) wins European Prize for Applied Arts 2021.

The 30 finalists were chosen from over 3100 applications from 116 countries.

During this year's MK&G fair at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Gina Nadine Müller is awarded the Förderpreis der Justus Brinckmann…

Two students from Idar-Oberstein are among this year's prize winners: Nazanin Jabbarian (BFA) receives a commendation for the German Jewellery and…

Mana Jahangard Mahboub (MFA) wins several awards for her video work and photography.

On Sunday 29th of August at 16:00 the winners of the prestigious MARZEE GRADUATE AWARD 2021 were announced in Nijmegen, NL. From the Idar-Oberstein…

Master's graduate Silvia Bellia wins the prize of the International Amber Association.

Vanessa Zöller receives third prize for her work "Erbstück". Among the finalists are other alumni and former exchange students of the Department…

Dterra Gallery is much more than a gallery and a space for courses, it is a place to share experiences. Our goal has always been to bring our work to…

Eduardo Tarin, our graduate, is one of the finalists of this year's LOEWE CRAFT PRIZE. Congrats! To be nominated for this is a distinction! Now thumbs…

Marzee International Graduate Show 2019 with new graduates: Barbora Opátová (MFA 2019), Kika Rufino (MFA 2018), Felicia Mülbaier (MFA 2019), Gina…

The results of the competition FORM – Form from Crafts and Industry present selected products from the diverse consumer goods on display at Tendence.…

Kun Zhang (MFA 2017) was awarded with the third prize for her extraordinary technical skills and her poetic language.

We are very happy and proud that 8 of our alumni and students have been selected as finalists: Edu Tarín (MFA 2015, Preis des Handwerks), Natascha…

The winners of the 23rd edition of the Amberif Design Award are announced. While the three main prizes go to jewellers among Europe, two graduates…

A total of 762 goldsmiths from 58 different countries around the globe have applied to take part in the coveted special Schmuck 2019, organized into…

We are pleased to invite you to the vernissage of the exhibition "The First, the Worst, the Best & the Rest" by the international artist group…

From 18 October to 18 November 2025, B-Design Hub at OCT-LOFT Shenzhen presents ZigZag, curated by Youzhi Bi and co-curated by Kun Zhang and Ye Wang.

Starting in the winter semester 2025/26, the Campus Gemstones and Jewellery in Idar-Oberstein will launch its first interdisciplinary lecture series:…

From 4 September to 12 October 2025, the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne (MAKK) will be showing the annual exhibition of German Design Graduates under…

To celebrate the 29th anniversary of Amsterdam Pride, The WearHouse in Amsterdam presents the provocative jewellery exhibition COCKS & CUNTS - an…

We are delighted to invite you to the opening of the exhibition "Von der Sprache der Steine" as part of the Idar-Oberstein schmückt sich exhibition…

A journey between cultures, identity and sustainable jewellery design - Sharareh Aghaei provides insights into her personal and artistic development…

In "A Gift or a Theft", artists Poras Dhakan, Julia Obermaier and Anvita Jain shed light on colonial entanglements and the problem of stolen cultural…

With SOFT BODIES HARD FEELINGS, Helena Renner (BFA 2024) presents her first solo exhibition, a body-political journey through five years of artistic…

'A stone is not given. It is made. Some were formed in the core of a star. Others in a microwave. Both will endure — but each remembers something…

With Yàn, the artist Ou Jiun-You presents a series of works at the Format Gallery in Oslo that transforms the traditional inkstone into a poetic…

Edu Tarin (MFA 2015) presents the results of his two-year artistic research project at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in his solo exhibition -…

The Gemstone and Jewellery Campus at Trier University of Applied Sciences will be showcasing the creative diversity of contemporary jewellery art from…

We are delighted to invite you to the vernissage of the duo exhibition by Nioosha Vaezzadeh and Chidimma Omeke as part of the "Idar-Oberstein schmückt…

From 12 to 16 March 2025, the Gemstone and Jewellery Campus of Trier University of Applied Sciences will once again be represented at the…

Project work from the "Bling It!" workshop at the Gemstone and Jewellery Campus and research results from Sofie Boons' doctoral thesis (UWE Bristol)…

"Aha!" - That's the moment we all have in mind, when everything just falls into place.

The Idar-Oberstein Campus and the Jakob Bengel Foundation invite you to a joint New Year's reception at Villa Bengel.

The students and the team of the Idar-Oberstein campus cordially invite you to our Open Day.

Our graduate Gina Nadine Müller is exhibiting together with Daniel Kruger and Lifu Zhou in Stuttgart this coming weekend!

We are pleased to invite you to the vernissage of the exhibition »geronnen« by Danni Schwaag as part of the exhibition programme "Idar-Oberstein…

Every summer, the Idar-OberSTEIN campus opens its workshops to jewellery designers and students from all over the world. In fourteen different…

Contemporary brooches by 12 alumni of Campus Idar-Oberstein and their historical counterparts are on display at Villa Bengel until October 11th

Students and graduates from Idar-Oberstein are taking part in the LISBON JEWELLERY BIENNALE with their own exhibition.

We are pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition »The Gemstone Apothecary« by Sondra Sherman, part of the Idar-Oberstein exhibition…

The graduate collective Dar Дар will be exhibiting at Brussels Jewellery Week from April 25 to 28, 2024.

We would like to cordially invite you to the finissage with jewellery sale as part of the Idar-Oberstein schmückt sich exhibition programme: 11 April…

The theme of this year's EXEMPLA special show, which takes place annually at the International Crafts Fair Munich under the theme of Craft & Design,…

The Potato collective consists of 6 graduates of the gemstone and jewellery course from Idar-Oberstein. Pieces from each member's graduation…

Let's rock! On 18.11.2023, the curtain will rise on the ROCKSTARS of the Gemstone and Jewellery course from Idar-Oberstein at BeCraft in Mons,…

12 graduates from Trier University of Applied Sciences, specialising in gemstones and jewellery in Idar-Oberstein were invited to enter into a…

"Jung und ausgezeichnet – Edelstein- und Schmuckdesign" will broadcast on television on 29 October at 5:30 pm CEST in SWR (SWR Kultur)

We are delighted to invite you to the opening of the exhibition "Playtime" by Typhaine Le Monnier as part of the Idar-Oberstein schmückt sich…

30. September, 12:30 pm - 1pm, Intergem in Idar-Oberstein

INTERGEM — International Trade Fair for Gems, Jewellery and Gemstone Objects in Idar-Oberstein

29 September - 1 October 2023

Visit the Campus of Gemstones and Jewellery in Idar-Oberstein on the Long Night of Gemstones!

7 July - 8 October 2023

Visit the new location of the Department of Gemstones and Jewellery in Idar-Oberstein

Our graduates present their graduation! Save the dates: Inhorgenta Munich 24.02.2023 - 27.02.2023 - Booth: C2.254 & IHM Munich 08.03.2023- 12.03.2023…

Join us for the Vernissage at Villa Bengel on 26 January 2023 at 6:30 pm CEST and via Instagram live @jakobbengel.

Our students are selling jewellery at the following Christmas Markets this year:

Schloss Oberstein: 26 November, 1pm - 8pm and 27 November, 11 am -…

Our graduate group Catch 22 show their works during the Idar-Oberstein trade fair for jewellery and gemstones Intergem 2022 from September 23 - 25.

Five BFA students have designed a jewellery collection in cooperation with the Jakob Bengel Foundation. They present their work with an exhibition and…

Every summer, the Gemstone Cutters' and Goldsmiths' Market takes place in Oberstein's main promenade. Our students will be there again this year, the…

CATCH 22 - CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE

"Whatever you know or ever imagined about student life: forget it. This year‘s graduating class of…

24 June - 6 October 2022 at Villa Bengel

Our AiR in June and July Brice Garrett gives insights into his artistic practice

Isaline Arnoldi presents the B2B online shop GEMHYPE.COM, which the young entrepreneur founded together with her brother Carl-Philip Arnoldi in 2019.

Artist lecture by Belgian visual artist Karen Vermeren at Campus Idar-Oberstein

a different kind of exhibition of the Gemstones and Jewelry Department

Florian Milker is Artist in Residence of the Idar-Oberstein Campus and the Jakob Bengel Foundation in April and May. He will give a lecture on his…

With the online event "DigiGem 01", the gemstone and jewellery department takes part in the nationwide Digital Day 2020.

On Monday, December 9, 2019 at 5:00 pm in the assembly hall of the Campus Idar-Oberstein, Vollmersbachstraße 53a, 55743 Idar-Oberstein