Opula 1

PLA (bio-plastic), second hand mother of pearl, imitation pearl, recycled silver

10.5 x 7.3 x 2.0 cm

Carina Shoshtary’s work centres on the alchemy of material transformation. As a contemporary jewellery and mask artist, she navigates the space between the organic and the urban, crafting pieces that evoke otherworldly beauty. Her intuitive process blends bio-plastic, found, and vintage materials into forms that transcend their origins, suggesting artifacts from past civilisations or speculative futures. Nature serves as both muse and collaborator, inspiring fluid, organic shapes that blur the boundaries between the natural and synthetic. Shoshtary’s jewellery transforms not only the materials, but also the wearer, adorning and inspiring confidence and beauty in those who wear them. She invites viewers to imagine hidden tales of myth and magic, while offering wearers the transformative power of adornment.

Artist bio:
Carina Shoshtary was born in 1979 in Augsburg, Germany, and is of German and Iranian descent. She trained as a goldsmith in Neugablonz, Germany, from 2001 to 2004 and studied jewellery under Professor Otto Künzli at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, from 2006 to 2012. Her work was exhibited internationally in galleries and museums including the Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt, Germany, the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, the Ruthin Craft Centre, Ruthin, England, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, USA, Ra Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Atta Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand. Her work is in the public collections of the Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden, the International Design Museum, Munich, Germany, the V&A, London, England, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA. In 2012 she was awarded the Bavarian State Prize for Emerging Designers and the Upper Bavarian Prize for Applied Arts. In 2017 she won the project grant for fine arts of Munich.