EVA REMENYI – Time travel to your roots
EVA REMENYI, founded in 2012 by Éva and Gerzson, is a contemporary goldsmith studio in Víziváros. Every piece is handcrafted with care, adhering to sustainability, ethical manufacturing, and environmentally conscious practices. The designs draw inspiration from nature's imperfect beauty, ancient motifs, and classical goldsmithing, creating organic-shaped jewels that serve as contemporary talismans, speaking instinctively to their wearers.
THEIR ORIGIN COLLECTION, FOR INSTANCE, IS A PERSONAL JOURNEY TO ONE'S ROOTS, REFLECTING CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF THE COUNTRYSIDE, EARTHY SCENTS, PEASANT FURNITURE TEXTURES, AND HUNGARIAN FOLK DANCE MOVEMENTS...
The collection's central motif, the spiral, an ancient symbol, aims to help wearers find their way back to themselves and rediscover inner strength.
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Fruzsi Fekete Jewelry – Natural meets artificial
Fekete Fruzsi's contemporary jewellery is born from personal stories and meditative concepts. Her 2019 Budapest Jewelry Week series used the candle flame to symbolise life's cycle, while the 2023 Lycoperdon collection explored silver's natural ageing, transforming decay into sculptural forms.
In Mushrooms are never alone, she uses classic feminine techniques like cotton and embroidery to create mushroom gill-like elements. The meditative, circular patterns form a ‘fairy ring,' symbolising femininity, nature, and community. Her popular Leaves collection showcases fragile femininity with hand-formed, petal-like pieces, conveying timeless elegance. Continuing this, Fekete Fruzsi's Greenery (2024) series places irregular, organic wax forms within angular, artificial frames.
INSPIRED BY GLASSHOUSES AND HUMAN-MADE NATURAL SPACES, WHERE NATURE MEETS THE ARTIFICIAL HARMONIOUSLY,
the brooches and necklaces contrast silver's rustic, fingerprint-textured surface with geometric frames. They elegantly convey the delicate balance between natural and human creation.
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GERA NOÉMI Jewellery – A space for channelling emotions
For Gera Noémi, jewellery creation is a space for channelling emotional surplus, where systematisation and intuitive playfulness can freely unfold, and where she expresses the contrast between masculine and feminine energies through materials like metal, fur, and satin ribbon, as well as formal language. Her meditative process, using wires, knots, and perforations, aims for balance between formal tensions, emotion, and function.
Her newer collections include the 2024 Szerelemszálak (Love Threads) ring, inspired by Indonesian volcanoes, which tells a soul story of intimacy and trust, using cone shapes to represent emotional balance and wire threads as imprints of inner monologues. Her latest, 2025 Belső erő (Inner Strength) ring reflects life's cycle and changeability through a dialogue between silver and wire, with its swirling structure emphasising movement and evoking emotional fluctuations.
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KDR objects – Edgy and artistic
KDR objects, led by Dóra Rea Kövér for five years, elevates jewellery to art objects, focusing on personalisation. Dóra aims to vividly translate client stories and desired symbolism into finished pieces. She exclusively designs and creates bespoke engagement and wedding rings, along with other unique jewellery.
Describing her creations as ‘bold, open, confident, but sensitive and a bit edgy,' Dóra primarily works with gold in all shades and precious stones. What's truly exciting is her frequent experimentation with overturning traditional forms using these materials. An important bonus: her 'commissioning' process is LGBTQ-friendly. KDR objects can be viewed at Pavilon Studio by prior arrangement.
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Király Fanni Contemporary Jewellery – Forest imprints on the body
Fanni Király's jewellery transcends mere adornment, serving as embodied expressions of deep gratitude and intimate connection with nature. Her Forest parchment jewellery collection vividly evokes forest ecosystems: filtering light, birds in flight, mushroom colours, and the tartness of blackthorn and rosehip.
Fanni describes feeling overwhelmed with gratitude in spring, surrounded by tender green buds and birdsong, like walking under an ‘emerald-scattered silk scarf.' Summer brings shimmering green twilight relief, while autumn delights with its vibrant colours and tastes. The pieces themselves are special parchment jewellery made from untanned goatskin, transforming into wearable sculptures with unique colours and forms. These contemporary, collectible creations act as lyrical tools for remembering and reinterpreting the natural world – simultaneously art objects and personal talismans.
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Ooh my Deer – Jewellery created with whispered narration
Fanni Sarkadi infuses her jewellery with a moving central message of whispered narration, drawing inspiration from life's searches, connections, letting go, and bittersweet experiences. Traces of her travels, natural phenomena, and cultural adventures permeate her delicate, bold, and feminine work, reflecting her deep love of life.
Her 925 sterling silver and 14-carat gold pieces feature precious stone settings—diamonds, sapphires, tourmalines, and other minerals—as narrative elements. She uniquely communicates through works carved from wax, setting diamonds and sapphires into her lost-wax casting jewellery while still in wax form. This transformative process, rooted in centuries of history, resonates with our era's renewal and resilience. Her pieces like Tesoro, Sol, Raw Star, Pond, Sora, Moonchild, and Mooncrown are all created using this method.
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PLANTETHICS – Connecting through jewellery
Behind the PLANTETHICS brand stands goldsmith Barbara Dénes, who founded her ethical, sustainable, and vegan jewellery brand ten years ago in 2015. The jewellery's organic formal language is determined by nature, whilst execution is guided by environmental and social responsibility: every piece is handmade from recycled precious metals, wood, glass, or real plants.
Barbara GREW UP BESIDE A FOREST AND WANTS THE NEXT GENERATIONS TO ALSO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT WITH NATURE.
Organic forms dominate her jewellery, largely created using the ancient lost-wax casting technique. Barbara is also an active community builder, holding workshops at Budapest's MUMU Workshop Museum where participants can craft their own pieces, even from old family heirlooms, thus giving new life to beautiful old memories.
Bespoke commissions, statement pieces, narrative jewellery, and exhibition works represent her freest creative expression, highlighting communication between creator, wearer, and observer. Her RE.lax – have a tea 'utility jewellery' collection uniquely blends jewellery with the tea ritual, featuring a rock sugar ring, lime tea necklace, and a cup-brooch, reinterpreting jewellery as utility objects and promoting mindfulness. Her PLANTETHICS pieces are simultaneously earthy and profound, offering not just wearable art but an experience.
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Réka Lőrincz – Talismans of body, soul, and space
Réka Lőrincz's creations are simultaneously fine art objects, personal talismans, and energetic imprints. Her unique work within contemporary jewellery functions as symbols and imprints of a holistic, healing perspective. Her pieces explore physical-spiritual balance, inner order, and universal connection, serving as wearable energy-transmitting tools.
SHE FREQUENTLY USES PRECIOUS METALS ALONGSIDE BEADS, TOY LORRIES, SPONGES, MONEY, OR EMBROIDERY, WHERE SYMBOLISM IS ALWAYS PROMINENT.
These unique pieces are not made in series but often emerge from installations, drawings, therapeutic practice, and personal stories. In 2025, three of her jewellery pieces joined prestigious American museum collections: the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas), the Mint Museum (Charlotte), and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. These include How Deep Is Your Love Honey, Tape Brooch, and On the Way Back Home, all extravagant and intimately energetic creations that uniquely intersect beauty, symbolism, and healing power.
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SAPI Jewelry – Fine art meets body-tailored object culture
SAPI Jewelry's founding designer, Sapi Szilágyi, also maintains an independent artistic practice, creating contemporary jewellery that blurs the line between fine art and body-tailored objects. These are not trendy pieces, but miniature installations that materialise stories and emotions, with a unique work process.
Each piece begins with an inner experience – a memory, emotion, or social reflection – which takes identifiable form. Sapi brings these to life using enamel's vibrant, painterly surfaces and sculptural precious metals. The result is a radical departure from the brand's usual clean aesthetic, allowing for limitless experimentation in the same workshop.
These collection-transcending pieces engage in dialogue with the wearer and environment, acting as intimate and honest microscopic storytellers. The Light Within (2024) collection, for example, is an inner journey materialised, speaking of
DAILY STRUGGLES, DOUBTS, HOPELESSNESS, AND THE INNER STRENGTH THAT PERSISTENTLY SHINES THROUGH.
The enamel's cracks and damage suggest dark layers eventually fade, allowing inner light to break through. Follow her work on a separate Instagram page.
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Vadjutka – Processing transgenerational trauma and loss
Vadjutka, by jewellery designer Judit Révész, creates pieces that are far more than fashion; each object is an imprint of personal or collective stories, emotions, or experiences. Her work explores processing the past, transforming grief, and reinterpreting inherited strengths or burdens, often as condensations of generational experiences.
The Aranyhegy (Golden Hill) (2023) collection, inspired by the Goldberger family story, symbolises willpower, perseverance, and new beginnings. These clean yet characterful jewels are not just decoration, but tell of the wearer's inner strength. Conversely, the latest Hiány (Absence) mini-collection explores loss and grief in a deeply personal tone, starting with a ring made after Judit lost her father, then growing from the process of remembrance.
THIS PIECE REMINDS US THAT EVEN IN OUR DARKEST TIMES, AN INNER LIGHT CAN BREAK THROUGH HOPELESSNESS.
These jewels powerfully convey building from absence, giving new form to pain. The Third Generation piece, for instance, is a tangible manifesto addressing transgenerational trauma, embodying a desire for liberation from suppressed anxieties. Vadjutka jewellery is thus deeply human, using emotional layering and motifs of remembrance and healing to create true contemporary art objects.
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VIVIEN LEHOTAI – Jewellery inspired by haute couture
Vivien Lehotai founded her brand almost three years ago, a sharp turn from her previous career, inspired to become a goldsmith. She uses the ancient lost-wax casting technique, continuously experimenting with waxes to refine her craft and break free from conventional jewellery concepts.
Her designs draw heavily from Roman art and Mediterranean landscapes. Uniquely, Vivien is fascinated by translating the intricate patterns of haute couture garments into hand-formed jewels. For her, soul and intuition are foundational to self-expression in her pieces, creating an emotional connection with wearers. She primarily works with silver, often gold-plated, and increasingly incorporates precious stones into bespoke gold creations. And if that wasn't enough, she also crafts contemporary jewellery with powerful social meanings where wearability is secondary; these striking pieces are available here.
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Eszter Zámori Jewelry – Performative gestures and messages
Eszter Zámori radically reinterprets jewellery, creating wearable artworks that function as performative gestures and direct messages. Her pieces often use
PROGRESSIVE ALTERNATIVE OR EXPERIMENTAL MATERIALS LIKE PORCELAIN, PERSPEX, AND SEA SPONGE, EMPLOYING MIXED TECHNIQUES FROM TRADITIONAL GOLDSMITHING TO TEXTILE ART, EVEN DIGITAL METHODS.
The method always serves the message she aims to convey. Eszter's attraction to painting and other fine art manifests in her sketching, colour studies, and storyboards. Some of her jewellery even incorporates moving images and viewer-involving, performative elements.
Her pieces are marked by dynamic compositions, strong visual narrative, and genre boundary-crossing. Their uniqueness lies in their forms and how they leave the museum, engaging viewers in civilian spaces like ‘guerrilla actions.' For Eszter, jewellery is an intense communication tool on personal, social, and aesthetic levels. Found on her fine artist website, these collectible, exhibition-intended pieces enrich the contemporary jewellery art genre as truly unique works.
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(Cover photo: Réka Lőrincz – How deep is your love, Honey?)
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