28.06.-13.07.2025

Exhibition “Designers in Residence 2025”

The exhibition “Designers in Residence 2025” at EMMA – Kreativzentrum Pforzheim shows the design projects of Jacob Marks from Great Britain, Lotte Schoots from the Netherlands and Zhipeng Wang from China, who were guests in Pforzheim for three months as part of the “Designers in Residence” scholarship program.

In Pforzheim, Chinese jewelry artist Zhipeng Wang studied a traditional technique of handcrafted jewelry production: “Guilloché, a semi-machine engraving technique, used to be used to design the surfaces of jewelry or watches, for example. During his scholarship, Zhipeng Wang worked with the guilloché machine to engrave mother-of-pearl and Chinese jade and thus explore new possibilities for this traditional technique. In the exhibition, he provides an insight into this process and shows the pieces of jewelry that were created as a result.

Dutch product designer Lotte Schoots was also inspired by the city’s jewelry tradition for her project – however, she is not concerned with the jewelry itself, but with its packaging: with “Boxed in. The jewelry box rethought”, she presents new forms of jewelry boxes. Lotte Schoots playfully explores the possibilities of jewelry boxes, whereby not only color and material, but also the mechanisms play an important role in the presentation of the jewelry boxes. These boxes no longer only serve to protect the jewelry during transport or storage, but also to show it off.

London-based designer and maker Jacob Marks is committed to reviving a sustainable material that has been replaced by plastic over time: “Remembering, Forgetting” is a continuation of Marks’ ongoing exploration of pine resin. Jacob Marks experimented with the combination of resin with different materials, in particular textiles, and shows objects created from this in the exhibition, such as lamps, handles and vessels.

When: 28.06.-13.07.2025
Opening hours: Thu-Sat 2pm-7pm, Sun 11am-7pm
Where: EMMA – Kreativzentrum Pforzheim, Emma-Jaeger-Straße 20, 75175 Pforzheim
free entry