Contrasting materials, touching points, moments of tension.
Creating a possible connotation and meaning that tell a story.
A thought, a feeling. How we refer to our surrounding world.
Precious fractures of garbage, the meaning of recycling.
Can I mend and fix every wound? Is this jewelry or maybe metal splints?
Dania Chelminsky CV
1961 Mexico. Living and working in Israel.
1988-2000 "Dania", studio & shop, 19 Shenkin st. Tel-Aviv
2001-2025 Jewelry design and mixed media, studio, Tel-Aviv
Training
2017-2018 Masters Degree in Integrated Design (M. Design), HIT, Israel, Deans List
2001-2002 Design for the Performing Arts, Shenkar Institute, Ramat-Gan,Israel
1991 Gemology, The Gemological Institute, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Jewelry - Antique Techniques, Kulick Institute, New-York, USA
1989 Jewelry Design, The Gemological Institute of America, California, USA
Casting and Wax Carving, The Gemological Institute of America, CA, USA
1986-87 Metalsmith studies, Omanit Jewelry and Design School, Tel-Aviv, Israel
1982-85 B.Sc. in Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Competitions & Publications
2021 Ring Redux, The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, by Ursula Ilse- Newman
2019 Metalsmith, vol.39 ,Stirring voices from an Ancient Land, Ursula Ilse-Newman
Current Obsession, AWD
Legacy Award,The Definitive Edition, Alliages, Lille
ZLR Jewellery awards, Munich, Third price
2018 II Latin American Cont. Jewelry Biennial, First mention
2016 Calcalist, Ruth Barnea
Porfolio,Yuval Saar
Dezignzoom, Sigal Namir
2014 "Showcase 1000 Beads", Lark Books"
I LOVE YOU Design Jewelry and Accesories
2013 Exhibition of Korea Craft Designer association
JEWELBOOK Int.annualof contemporary jewel art, stichtingkunstboek
2012 "Showcase 500 Beaded Jewelry" , Lark Books
2009 "Atmosphere" Magazine, Article
2009 "500 PLASTIC JEWELRY DESIGNS", A Groundbreaking Survey of A Modern Material, Lark Books
2008 "Shamenet" Magazine, Article
2007 Alix De Rothchild competition – " Reflections " – First prize
Collections
Eretz Israel Museum
SCAD, Art museum, Georgia, USA
Espace Solidor, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
Susan Grant Lewin collection
Solo Exhibitions
2025 What Remains, Installation, ZUZU, Israel
2020 NOPALI, Athens Jewelry Week, Benaki Museum
Nopali, Periscope Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 IN PROCESS 2, Vitrina Gallery, HIT, Israel
Museo Lazaro Galdiano,Madrid, Spain
2016 IN PROCESS, Periscope Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 Mended 240, Periscope Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Group Exhibitions
2025 Not on the Inhale but on the Slope of the Exhale, ZUZU, Israel​
2024 Heart-Wisdom alone will repair, Yaffa Museum, Israel
From Erosion To Hope, Flags project, Merhav 3426, Tel Aviv, Israel
Political Jewelry, video screening during Legnica SILVER, Poland
Magic SMCK on REEL, Political Jewelry video, Schmuck, Munich, Germany
Declaration of Sentiments, JELO6, Zappeion Megaron, Athens, Greece
Take A Seat, The Center for accessible culture, Tel Aviv, Israel
2023 300 Plates, 300 creators, one Democracy, Beit Benyamini, Tel Aviv, Israel
Declaration of Sentiments:a new Dialogue, Uni. Versus ArtRoom
Design and Craft Biennial, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
2022 Sereality, Hamigdal Art gallery, Tivon, Israel
Gioelli en Fermento, Contemporary Jewelry, Bologna, Italy
Until Death do us part, Alliages gallery, SHMUCK, Munich
Sea Creatures, Geological Museum,Ramat Hasharon,Israel
Until Death do us part, Alliages, Lille, France
2021 Between a Break and A Breakdown, Tower of David, Jerusalem, Israel
Double Yellow Line, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
HO!HO!HO!, Friends of Carlotta, Zurich, Switzerland
Local Boundaries, Handshake Israel, Geological Museum, Israel
III Bienal Latinoamericana de joyeria contemp., Buenos Aires, Argentina
Wood + Body: Expressions of Contemporary Jewelry – The Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia
Gioelli en Fermento, Contemporary Jewelry award 20/21, Italy
TLV Biennial, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Temporary Fracture, Artura, Rupin, Israel
2020 Broken Beauty with Alliages gallery, SHMUCK, Munich
Broken Beauty, Alliages, Lille, France
2019 Jewelry Making:Past & Present, Islamic Art Museum, Jerusalem
The Alliages collection,Museum Espace Solidor, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
Art + Jewelry: Intersecting Spaces, Benaki Museum, AJW, Greece
Heart Failure, with Alliages gallery, AJW
Heart Failure, with Alliages gallery, SHMUCK, Munich
III Jewelry Exhibition, Museo de Artes Decorativas, Madrid, Spain
2018 Heart Failure, Alliages, Lille, France
Shibush, Vitrina Gallery, HIT, Israel
Saison France Israel 2018, Benedikt Aichele Atellier, Paris, France
II Latin American Cont. Jewelry Biennial,Museo Jose Hernandez, Argentine
Les Recontres Bijoux France-Israel, Inst. de bijouterie de Saumur, France
Intersecting Spaces, Athens Jewelry week, Benaki Museum, Greece
Chaos,Alliages at Melting Point, Valencia, Spain
Israel 70 years of Craft & Design,MINGEI Museum, San Diego, USA
Chaos,Alliages at SHMUCK, Werkstatt Gallery, Munich,Germany
Yearning,Geological Museum,Ramat Hasharon,Israel
Chaos,Alliages, Lille, France
2017 In Between,20 years of local Design,Periscope Gallery,Tel Aviv,Israel
On the Edge, Israeli Paper, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Black Diamond, The NB School of Design and Education, Haifa, Israel
2015 Sieraadartfair, Medical Pavillion, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Israeli jewelry 7, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Jewelry", ITAMI International Exhibition, Itami, Japan
Telling Proverbs, Narratives in Contemporary Metal and Jewelry Art, Israel
Layers, Contemporary Jewelry, Yafo Museum, Yafo, Israel
Blossoms from the Land of God, Shanghai, China
2014 HO!HO!HO!, Friends of Carlotta, Zurich, Switzerland
BIJOUX = ART, The Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Crossing Borders, The NB School of Design and Education, Haifa, Israel
The Secret Life of Jewelry, Art Center Sarasota, Florida,USA
BIJOUX, Norton Museum of Art, Florida,USA
Telling Tales, Narratives in Contemporary Metal and Jewelry Art, Israel
2013 LOOT 2013, Museum of Art And Design, New York, USA
Paper Bienalle, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ceramics Biennale, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Fresh Design, Tel Aviv, Israel
Werkspace, contemporary jewelry, Interalia, Tel Aviv, Herzlia, Jerusalem
Design for Coexistence, Tongmyong univ. Busan, Korea
BIJOUX, Norton Museum of Art, Florida,USA
2012 Premio Fondazione Cominelli per il Gioiello Contemporaneo
Paper exhibition, Negev Museum, Israel2011
Designed in Israel 4, The Design Museum, Holon, Israel
In Between Int. Paper Art exhibition, The Wilfrid Israel Museum, Israel
Mediterraneo, Int.l exposition of Contemporary Jewelry, Livorno, Italy
2010 Sequences; Identities, Israeli jewelry 5, Eretz Israel Museum
Designed in Israel 3, The port of Tel Aviv
2009 Jewelry, ITAMI International Craft Exhibition, Itami, Japan
Paper Time, The Artists House, Haifa, Israel
Flowerpot, The Ecological Interdisciplinary Arts Gallery, Holon, Israel