MJW Paper

Welcome to Munich Jewellery Week Paper 2025: 10-year anniversary edition! Featuring guest editors Zoe Black (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine, Pākehā) and Victoria McAdam.

The MJW Paper is your printed window into the world of jewellery. Not just a guide to the festival but a documentation of contemporary jewellery far beyond Munich – capturing conversations, ideas, and movements from across the globe.

In this issue our guest editors chose kohā as an articulation of the exchange and collaboration that underpins their contemporary jewellery community.

We visit Piha beach, where works by Neke Moa and Stevei Houkāmau get some sea and sun. Shot by Edith Amituanai with art direction by Sofia Tekela-Smith, this collaborative shoot radiates the magic of friendship.

Writer and maker lambert composes a letter to Fa’afetai, a piece by Rowan Panther, describing the relationships between cultural adornment, their makers and their wearers.

Catching up ahead of the launch of Warwick Freeman’s retrospective exhibition at Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Freeman and curator Kim Paton discuss the narrative of making and making narratives in a long-form interview.

We return to the west coast with Current Obsession’s Marina Elenskaya and photographer Sam Hartnett to visit Aotearoa jewellery kaumātua (elder) Alan Preston at his home and workshop perched in the bush.

Finally, we meet Sofia Tekela-Smith’s Brown Eyes Blue portraits – in equal parts poetic and powerful.