Klara Brynge is a Swedish jewelry artist whose work moves between abstraction and figuration, between two-dimensional drawing and three-dimensional sculpture. At the heart of her artistic practice is the exploration of form as a poetic material language, inspired by contours, connections, and surfaces in nature and landscape.
Using a hammer and punches, Klara transfers drawn lines directly onto silver sheet metal, creating reliefs that function both as wearable jewelry and as independent sculptural objects. Repetition creates surfaces and shapes that reveal the material qualities of silver - both hard and malleable, raw and organic. Her works are snapshots of movement, torn from a larger whole, and explore the relationship between form, body, and space.
Klara Brynge, born in Lindesberg in 1980, lives and works in Gothenburg. She studied at the HDK School of Design and Craft at the University of Gothenburg, where she completed her master's degree in jewelry art in 2009. Her work is exhibited internationally and is represented in major galleries, including Galerie Door (Netherlands/Germany), and Platina (Stockholm). She has participated in important exhibitions, including at the Museum of Applied and Fine Arts (Vilnius), the Röhsska Museum (Gothenburg), Galerie Handwerk (Munich), Charon Kransen Arts (New York), and the renowned SCHMUCK exhibition in Munich.
Silversmithing techniques play a central role in Klara's artistic practice: she uses hammering and punching as direct, almost graphic gestures to give the material form and expression. This creates surfaces that oscillate between two-dimensionality and spatial plasticity. Scale, contour, and balance are decisive factors in how her works find their place on the body and in space.
Here you can find more info about Klara Brynge, the AiR programme and the Jakob Bengel Industrial Monument.
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