ABOUT
 

Inês Nunes [1979] Artist - Portuguese, lives and works in Lisbon. 

 

Holds a degree in Psychological Sciences at ISPA - University Institute (2008) and completed the Professional Training Course in Psychology of Aesthetics and Artistic Development (2020). Teacher in the application of the Aesthetics and Artistic Education Programme - ProgestArt v1(2015) and v2 (2021). 

 

Completed the Advanced Course in Fine Arts at Ar.Co (2001-2003) and while still a student received scholarships from Segafredo and Dewalt. Studied Jewellery at Ar.Co - Center of Art and Visual Communication, Drawing at SNBA - National Society of Fine Arts (1997-2001), and Textile Arts and Design at António Arroio Art & Design School (1995-1997).

 

After completing her studies, she became a teacher at Ar.Co (2009-2016), an intern advisor and aptitude test examiner at António Arroio Art & Design School and an intern advisor at ESAD - Matosinhos School of Art and Design. She was also a teacher at António Arroio Art & Design School (2022-2024), and she is a certified professional educator with a CPP certificate.

 

Her areas of interest are art, design, psychology of art and fashion, focusing on the exploration of the relationships between body, object, and space. With an approach that is engaged and collaborative, she undertakes projects that combine creation, consultancy, production management, and creative direction, standing out for her innovative ideas and commitment to strategic and creative partnerships.

 

Since 1998, has participated in exhibitions at galleries and museums, both nationally and internationally, and other projects, being a constant presence in initiatives that redraw the artistic map. Her ongoing projects foster interdisciplinary dialogues and experimentation, challenging boundaries and inspiring new possibilities in contemporary creation.

 

Her work has been featured in articles and critique in publications such as Art Jewelry Forum and Klimt02; books - Contemporary Jewellery in Portugal by Cristina Filipe, 500 Bracelets (Lark books) and Hunt by Kadri Mälk; and the following magazines, among others - Umbigo, Beaux Arts, Vogue, Prima, Máxima, Edit, Parq, Numéro, Style and L´Officiel. Has collaborated with Umbigo international art magazine as an artistic consultant since 2007. 

 

She is also Vice President of PIN - Portuguese Association of Contemporary Jewellery (2010-2014). 

 

Her artwork is part of the collections of MUDE - Design Museum and Ar.Co - Center of Art and Visual Communication, as well as in national and international private collections.

 

STATEMENT

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Contemporary jewellery is a broad, multidisciplinary field and part of the global panorama of the arts.

It is a means of communication that fosters contact, affirms relationships and stimulates thought in a space open to creativity and innovation.

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My main motivation is to bring something new to the field, which should react with, involve and satisfy the needs of those who create it, those who use it and those who see it. The value lies in the idea, the concept, the creative process and the relationship between body, object and space.

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It is this quest for knowledge and reflection that I seek to understand and respond to, in my need to innovate, thus contributing to the field´s constantly evolving research and artistic development.

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SELECTED WORKS

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​2024

• Exhibition Para que servem as coisas? at MUDE - Design Museum, Lisbon

• Exhibition and book Mundo lusófono: a pronúncia da mulher no design de produto curated by Daniel Vieira and Bernardo Providência, Guimarães

• Curator of Afinidades na Joalharia Contemporânea, a partnership between the Soares dos Reis National Museum (MNSR) and Quarteirão Criativo. The exhibition showcases the results of the participants from the Bombarda - Firmino open call by Soares dos Reis at the MNSR, Porto.

  Featured in the Contemporary Jewellery Auction at Veritas Art Auctioneers, Lisbon. Curated by Cristina Filipe

• Publications/articles/critique - work featured: Bande à Part by Elena Karpilova at Klimt02.Tiaras and Tributes to Women Fighting for Democracy by Caroline Palmer at Art Jewelry Forum. And an Inaugural Auction in catalogue Veritas Art Auctioneers by Cristina Filipe and Klimt02

• Selected for exhibitions: Jewellery for Democracy and Contemporary Tiaras at the Royal Treasury Museum, Lisbon - 2nd Lisbon Biennial of Contemporary Jewellery 

• Teacher at António Arroio Art & Design School, Lisbon (2022-2024)

• Collaboration with Strawberry Studio Keyrings, Lisbon

• ModaLisboa Fashion Week, Lisbon

 

2023

• Exhibition commemorating 25 years Reverso Gallery, Lisbon

• Participation in Mundo Lusófono - a pronúncia da mulher no design de produto curated by Daniel Vieira, Portugal

• Publications/articles/critique - book: Portuguese design through a plurality of objects by Daniel Vieira & Bernardo Providência and the exhibition: Portuguese design through a plurality of objects at Minho University, Portugal

• Interview - Prima magazine, Lisbon

• Teacher at António Arroio Arte & Design school, Lisbon

• Collaboration with Strawberry Studio Keyrings, Lisbon

• ModaLisboa Fashion Week, Lisbon

 

2022

• Exhibition Memory of Place at Biennial METALLOphone6, Lithuania

• Work featured - book: Cold Sweat, Portugal

• Teacher at António Arroio Art & Design School, Lisbon

• Aptitude test examiner, jewellery course - António Arroio Art & Design School, Lisbon

• Collaboration with Strawberry Studio Keyrings, Lisbon

• Interview - Saber Viver magazine

• ModaLisboa Fashion Week, Lisbon

 

2021

• Exhibition: Cold Sweat at Pharmacy Museum - 1st Lisbon Contemporary Jewellery Biennal, Lisbon

• Presentation of own body of work at 9ª Luxury, Art & Design Weekend at Martinhal X O Apartamento, Algarve

• Collaboration with Umbigo magazine #77 D. Maria II art project by Inês Nunes

• Teacher of the Aesthetics and Art Education Programme in Almada

• ​At Padaria 24 (2014-2021)

• Collaboration with Strawberry Studio Keyrings, Lisbon

• ModaLisboa Fashion Week, Lisbon

 

2020

• Online exhibition Jewels and Protective Objects for the 21st century - PIN x MUDE, Lisbon

• Quarantine project - Renovar com Inês Nunes

• Collaboration with artist Bela Silva Sardinha - Ao Mar for Bordallo Pinheiro, Portugal

• Collaboration with Strawberry Studio Keyrings, Lisbon

• Work featured - book Hunt by Kadri Mälk, Estonia

• Exhibition at Romanian Jewelry week with PIN, Romania

• Exhibition at Espaço Real Gallery, Lisbon

• ModaLisboa Fashion Week, Lisbon

 

2019

• The map of São Paulo belongs to MUDE - Museum of Design and Fashion collection, Lisbon

• Featured in the book Contemporary Jewelry in Portugal by Cristina Filipe, Lisbon

• Exhibition Up Till Here at Reverso Gallery, Lisbon

• International Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Jewelry at Portalegre's Tapestry Museum, Portalegre, Portugal

• Exhibition Summer Guests: Contemporary Jewelry in Portugal in dialogue with some of the works from the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum Modern Collection, Lisbon

• Curator of Diogo Ramalho's exhibition Trouble in Paradise at Espaço Real Gallery, Lisbon

• Exhibition Ella Bauer and Inês Nunes at Reverso Gallery, Lisbon

• Collaboration with Strawberry Studio Keyrings, Lisbon

• Exhibition / Opening at Espaço Real Gallery, Lisbon

• Exhibition TIARA (40 years Jewelry Department) at Ar.Co, Lisbon

• ModaLisboa Fashion Week, Lisbon

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2018

• Gallery O, Seoul, South Korea

• Golas descartáveis belong to the MUDE - Museum of Design and Fashion collection, Lisbon

• Aptitude test examiner, jewellery course - Artistic school António Arroio, Lisbon

• Collaboration with Strawberry Studio Keyrings, Lisbon

• Exhibition Just Now / Now with Ar.Co at Museum of Decorative Arts Czech Republic, Prague, 

• Exhibition How do we pronounce Design in Portuguese?  MUDE- Museum of Design and Fashion (Month of Portugal in Boston) at Sol Koffler Gallery in - RISD in Providence, Rhode Island USA

• Exhibition Tanto Mar - Design Transatlantic Flows, MUDE - Museum of Design and Fashion at Calheta Palace, Lisbon

• ModaLisboa Fashion Week, Lisbon

 

2017​

• Exhibition PINAPARIS  Bijoux Contemporains - Parcours Bijoux 2017, 

• Exhibition Twenty - Three Contemporary Jewellery in Ibero-America / Lisbon Ibero American Capital of Culture 2017, Portugal

• Work featured article by Ana Campos at Umbigo magazine, Lisbon

• Aptitude test examiner at jewellery course - António Arroio Art & Design School, Lisbon

• ModaLisboa Fashion Week, Lisbon​

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2016

• ModaLisboa Fashion Week, Lisbon

• Swarovski - Gem Vision Trend Direction 2018 published two works of her own drop by drop earrings and double pearls

• Medal design of the Order of Sacred Hope / Ordem Sagrada Esperança in partnership with Catarina Dias to Archeofactu for António Agostinho Neto Foundation, Angola

• Collaboration jewellery by Inês Nunes presented in the collection Morecco at ModaLisboa

• Teacher of Project and Technics, Jewellery Classes, levels 1, 2 and 3, at Ar.Co, Lisbon (2009-2016)

• Exhibition Felicitas at Alice Floriano Gallery in Porto Alegre, Brazil

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2015

• Obellery Studio in Hong Kong – China

• Exhibition in Ickx at gallery in Brussels, Belgium 

• Collaboration art jewellery objects Bold box of dreams by Inês Nunes, for the Dreamers fashion collection by Inês Duvale at Sangue Novo -  ModaLisboa

• Collaboration in the PhD Project, Aesthetic Development and Art Education, for the PhD Thesis by Teresa Almeida Rocha, ISPA University Institute of Psychology, Social and Life Sciences. Having been applied by a programme of Aesthetic Education in children aged 7 to 8 years in a private college , for the semester

 

2014

• Jury member for Jovens Criadores, Lisbon

• Exhibition PIN10 years at National Society of Fine Arts, Lisbon

• Collaboration art jewellery objects F or F - Stop by Inês Nunes presented in the collection Karma fashion by Inês Duvale at Sangue Novo - ModaLisboa, Lisbon

 

2013

• Exhibition Abc, 40 years at Ar.Co, Chiado Museum Ar.Co, Lisbon

• Exhibition Até as árvores são sonhos at Reverso  Gallery, Lisbon

• Exhibition 40 Jóias at Tereza Seabra Gallery, Lisbon

• Presentation of collective LUSITANIA´s work, SWAB Contemporary art fair in Barcelona, Spain

• PIN Celebration exhibition at Galeria Tereza Seabra, Lisbon

• Exhibition LUSITANIA at F X 32 Dreimühlenstrasse in Muschelkalk, Schmuck, Munich, Germany

 

2012

• Triennale du bijoux Contemporain in Mons, Belgium

 

2011

• Golas descartáveis donated to the Ar.Co  collection, Lisbon

• Collaboration Inês Nunes for V!TOR at Modalisboa, Lisbon

• Group exhibition Border City in Tallin, Estonia

• Group exhibition PIN ANONIMUM EXD´11/LISBOA

• Aptitude test examiner, jewellery course - António Arroio Art & Design School, Lisbon

 

2010

• Braceletes Mede-te and indispensables belong to the MUDE - Museum of Design and Fashion collection Lisbon

• Aptitude test examiner, jewellery course - Artistic school António Arroio, Lisbon

• Vice President of PIN - Portuguese Association of Contemporary Jewellery (2010-2014).

• BOOMSHIRT EstorilFashionArtFestival at ModaLisboa, Cascais

• Intern artistic advisor - António Arroio Art & Design School, Lisbon and ESAD - Matosinhos School of Art and Design, Porto

 

2009

• Exhibition On the Other Hand at Reverso gallery, Lisbon

• Collaboration with La Roche Posay, Lisbon

• Teacher of Project and Techniques, Jewellery Classes, levels 1, 2 and 3, at Ar.Co, Lisbon

• Invited by Roche Posay to participate in a press conference, Lisbon

• Intern artistic advisor - Artistic school António Arroio, Lisbon; and ESAD - Matosinhos School of Art and Design in Porto

 

2008

• Intern artistic advisor - António Arroio Art & Design School, Lisbon and ESAD - Matosinhos School of Art and Design in Porto

 

2007

• Exhibition Impressions on Portuguese Contemporary Jewellery in Nuremberg, Germany

• Collaboration with Umbigo magazine as artistic consultant, Lisbon

• Intern artistic advisor - António Arroio Art & Design School, Lisbon

 

2006

• Exhibition 4 pontos de contacto between Lisbon and Rome

• Intern artistic advisor - António Arroio Art & Design School, Lisbon

 

2005

• Participation in Lark Books publication, book 500 Bracelets with two projects

• Conception and design of prestigious pieces for the company Citigroup 

• Participation in the 10º international symposium and jewellery exhibition Arts Ornata europeana, Portugal

• Intern artistic advisor at António Arroio Art & Design School, Lisbon

 

2004

• Participation an Art auction organized by Ar.Co at Palace Galveias, Lisbon

• Intern artistic advisor at António Arroio Art & Design School, Lisbon

 

2003

• Intern artistic advisor at António Arroio Art & Design School, Lisbon and ESAD - Matosinhos School of Art and Design, Porto

 

2003 - 2005 

• Teaching experience in a jewellery workshop at  Cascais, Portugal

 

2002 - 2008

• BA in Psychological Sciences from ISPA - University Institute of Psychology, Social and Life Sciences, Lisbon

 

2002

• Participation as a student from Ar.Co L’ornament est-il toujours un crime? - Haute École d’Arts Appliqués, Geneva

• Exhibition "Scholarship Students & Finalists from Ar.Co at CCB, Lisbon

 

2001 - 2003

• Advanced Course in Fine Arts at Ar.Co

 

2001 - 2002 

• Scholarships from Dewalt, Segafredo and the Cervantes Institute in Lisbon

 

2001

• Participation in TALENT in Internationale Handwerksmesse, Munich

• Jewellery Exhibition - AURUM Gallery, Copenhagen

• Jewellery Exhibition at Diferença Gallery, Lisbon

 

2000

• Exhibition Portugal: Memória do Futuro, Cultura, Moda de um Povo at ABC Serrano in Madrid

• Project participation Microart  - EXPO 2000, Hannover

• Workshop The Chain of Lissabon, Ted Noten in Lisbon

 

1999

• Conception and Design Jóia Identitária by Inês Nunes for Joseph's, London

• Exhibition Pot Pourri Luso International Symposium of Contemporary Jewellery (Ars ornata Europeana), Barcelona 

• Exhibition Isto é uma Jóia at Ricardo Espírito Santo Foundation in Lisbon

 

1998 - 2001 

• Exhibitions at Tereza Seabra Gallery in Lisbon 

 

1997 - 2001

• Jewellery Course at Ar.Co, Lisbon

• Exhibition students work at Ar.Co in Almada

• Workshop Enhancing the Jewel and Mr. Vacanti with Christoph Zellweger, Lisbon.