KANKAN – KIRAKIRA – DOKIDOKI

In the organizer's words:

KanKan - KiraKira - DokiDoki, in Japanese onomatopoeia, means the sound of the hammer when making jewelry, looking at jewelry and the feeling of wearing jewelry. Onomatopoeia is a broad term. It attempts to capture emotions and sounds, situations and actions in one word, one expression. It is completely irrelevant whether the feelings, sounds or situations are created by people or objects.

In Japan, onomatopoeia is a very popular form and an integral part of communication - there are 4500 onomatopoeic words in the Japanese vocabulary alone. These terms arose from the desire to better share feelings with others. In recent years, the expressions have increasingly found their way into Japanese manga culture and animated cartoons - in fact, they have become characteristic of manga. While manga and animated films used to be considered a subculture not only in Japan, they are now an integral part of recent Japanese culture and are also very popular outside Japan.

Contemporary jewelry can perhaps take on a very similar function to mangas and animated films - this is the idea behind the exhibition by the teachers of the jewelry class at the Design University. After all, jewelry and manga have in common that they make feelings visible (or audible). People who wear jewelry are aware of their will to communicate and their strength. The onomatopoeia terms chosen for each individual piece of jewelry attempt to convey the emotions of the young artists and make them legible for the viewer. This is linked to the hope that modern Japanese jewelry will increasingly find its way into the international jewelry world.

On display are works by students and graduates of the jewelry class at the University of Design in Kobe, selected by their professors Fumiki Taguchi, Itto Mishima, Takashi Kojima and Mari Ishikawa.

Students and graduates:
Chihiro Hanayama, Kako Shimoonoda,
Kazunori Kodani, Rio Yamamoto, Nagisa Yamada, Natsuki Takeuchi, Kenta Kanetsuki, Momoe Taguchi, Jingyuan Chen, Hayate Miyazaki, Yoshiki Yamada,
Kim Jeeyun, Mona Kanda, Moe Kinugawa,
Daiki Nakagawara, Amane Nagase, Wang Dan, Haruna Shiki, Mizuki Fujimoto, Hong Ma, Nan Jin, Ema Yamazoe, Shi Ruining, Sakura Nagaya

Price information:

10 euros | reduced 7 euros | Sunday admission 1 euro | day ticket 12 euros