RAMON PUIG CUYàS
Ramon Puig Cuyàs Mataró, Barcelona, 1953) is one of the leading figures in contemporary art jewellery and among the field's most internationally recognised artists. With a career spanning more than four decades, his work has played a significant role in defining contemporary jewellery as an artistic language within the wider context of contemporary visual arts.
He studied Jewellery at Escola Massana in Barcelona between 1969 and 1974. From 1977 to 2016, he taught jewellery design and projects at the same institution, where his pedagogical work contributed significantly to establishing the international reputation of Escola Massana's Jewellery Department.
A teacher, lecturer and exhibition curator, Puig Cuyàs has been one of the foremost advocates for contemporary jewellery as an artistic discipline. He has been invited to lecture and teach at schools and universities in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Italy and Portugal.
Since 1974, his work has been exhibited continuously in museums, galleries and institutions worldwide and is represented in major public and private collections across Europe, the United States, Canada and other countries.
Among his many distinctions are the Fundació General Mediterrània Graduation Award (Barcelona, 1975), the prestigious Herbert Hofmann Prize, awarded in Munich in 1981, 1984 and 1995, and the Special Mention of the Design Jury at the Barcelona City Awards (2001).
Ramon on his work:
My work arises from the need to structure form through a rigorous compositional syntax capable of creating a kind of visual polyphony. I am interested in building each piece as a composition of interconnected elements that establish relationships of harmony and contrast, creating spaces rather than solid volumes. I seek works that are not fully revealed at first glance, but instead invite the eye to move slowly through them, discovering their rhythms, silences and visual pathways.
Creating is a way of searching for what I do not yet know about myself. It means moving beyond certainty, allowing intuition to precede thought. Understanding almost always emerges through making, in the ongoing dialogue between materials and forms. For me, making becomes a way of thinking.
This dialogue with matter is also a form of belonging. The gesture of the hand transforming, touching and questioning the material connects me with those who came before me and those who will follow. Within this shared gesture, I recognise a deeply human continuity.
Ultimately, each work is an attempt to preserve a moment of life. Like a small reliquary, it seeks to hold an experience and project it into the future, gently resisting the passing of time and oblivion.
He studied Jewellery at Escola Massana in Barcelona between 1969 and 1974. From 1977 to 2016, he taught jewellery design and projects at the same institution, where his pedagogical work contributed significantly to establishing the international reputation of Escola Massana's Jewellery Department.
A teacher, lecturer and exhibition curator, Puig Cuyàs has been one of the foremost advocates for contemporary jewellery as an artistic discipline. He has been invited to lecture and teach at schools and universities in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Italy and Portugal.
Since 1974, his work has been exhibited continuously in museums, galleries and institutions worldwide and is represented in major public and private collections across Europe, the United States, Canada and other countries.
Among his many distinctions are the Fundació General Mediterrània Graduation Award (Barcelona, 1975), the prestigious Herbert Hofmann Prize, awarded in Munich in 1981, 1984 and 1995, and the Special Mention of the Design Jury at the Barcelona City Awards (2001).
Ramon on his work:
My work arises from the need to structure form through a rigorous compositional syntax capable of creating a kind of visual polyphony. I am interested in building each piece as a composition of interconnected elements that establish relationships of harmony and contrast, creating spaces rather than solid volumes. I seek works that are not fully revealed at first glance, but instead invite the eye to move slowly through them, discovering their rhythms, silences and visual pathways.
Creating is a way of searching for what I do not yet know about myself. It means moving beyond certainty, allowing intuition to precede thought. Understanding almost always emerges through making, in the ongoing dialogue between materials and forms. For me, making becomes a way of thinking.
This dialogue with matter is also a form of belonging. The gesture of the hand transforming, touching and questioning the material connects me with those who came before me and those who will follow. Within this shared gesture, I recognise a deeply human continuity.
Ultimately, each work is an attempt to preserve a moment of life. Like a small reliquary, it seeks to hold an experience and project it into the future, gently resisting the passing of time and oblivion.
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Public collections:
Schmuckmuseum im Reuchlinhaus, Pforzheim, Germany. Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany.Die Neue Sammlung. Staatliches Museum für angewandte Kunst. Design in der Pinakothek der Moderne. Munich. On permanent loan from the Danner Foundation, Munich. Germany. Kolumba. Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums, Köln, Germany. Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen, Denmark. Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimusset, Tronheim, Norway. The Royal College of Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum. London, England. National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland. Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Gdańska, Gdańsk, Poland. Fonds permanent du Bijou Contemporain, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France. Muzeum Českého ráje v Turnově, Turnov, Czechia. Museo d’Arte Medioevale e Moderna, Padova, Italy. Swiss National Museum, Collection Alice and Louis Koch. Zürich, Switzerland. Museu del Disseny, Barcelona, Spain. Copoteca FAD, Foment de las Arts Decoratives, Barcelona. Spain. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, Canada.Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. MAD, Museum of Arts and Design, New York. U.S.A. Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Helen W.Drutt Collection, Houston. U.S.A. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York, U.S.A. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. New York, U.S.A. The Dorothy and George Saxe Collection, Menlo Park, California, U.S.A. Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, U.S.A. LACMA, Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.A. Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Edward W. and Deedie Potter Rose, formerly Inge Asenbaum Collection. Texas, U.S.A. The National Gallery of Australia and Canberra, Australia. MUDE Museo do Design e da Moda. Lisboa, Portugal.
Awards:
1975 Prize "Fi de Carrera" of the Fundació General Mediterránea, Barcelona, Catalonia.
1981 Prize "Herbert Hofmann", International Schmuckschow, München, Germany.
1984 Stipendium from Catalonia Goverment, Barcelona, Catalonia.
1984 Prize "Herbert Hofmann", Schmuck und Gerät, München, Germany.
1985 Stipendium from Catalonia Government, to produce an experimental videotape, Barcelona, Catalonia.
1994 Prize "Herbert Hofmann", Schmuckszene 94, München, Germany.
2002 Premi Ciutat de Barcelona de Disseny. Menció Especial del Jurat, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Catalonia.
2002 Danish Crafts Bogpris 2002, for his contribution in the book Reliquium, of Carolina Vallejo, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Selected exhibitions:
2026 "Form Across Scales by Ramon Puig Cuyàs. From Jewellery to Sculpture", Hannah Gallery, Barcelona, Catalonia.
2022 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs: Escultures portàtils?”, Art Enllà espai d’art. Barcelona, Catalonia.
2020 Ramon Puig Cuyàs. Hilde Leiss Galerie, Hambur, Germany.
2019 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs: La Magnitude de la petite dimension. Bijoux et oevres raphiques 1985 – 2019”, Galerie La Joaillerie par Mazlo, Paris, France.
2019 “Catalonia Colours; Ramon Puig Cuyàs & Silvia Walz - “ Retrospective exhibition. Noel Guyomarch’s Gallery. Montreal, Canada.
2019 “Tone der Erde: Ramon Puig Cuyàs & Silvia Walz”, Galerie Slavik, Viena, Austria.
2018 “Maps to get lost in the Forest” Ramon Puig Cuyàs, Galerie Spektrum. I.H.M. Munich, Germany.
2018 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs, Joies 1985 – 2018”. Museu del Disseny, Barcelona, Catalonia.
2018 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs”, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
2016 "Brooches: Ramon Puig Cuyàs”, Loewe Galery, London. U.K.
2016 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs, Silvia Walz and Kim Buck“ The Most Secret Gallery, Copenhagen. Denmark.
2015 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs, Broches”, Sala Loewe, Madrid. Spain.
2015 “Ramon Puig Cuyas: Stille in Bewegung””, Hilde Leiss Gallery, Hamburg, Germany.
2014 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs”,. Villa de Bondt Contemporary Jewelry, Gent, Belgium.
2013 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs: Crossing Points, works 1997 – 2013 ». Galerie, Spectrum. Munich, Germany.
2013 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs: Travesies, joies 1997 – 2012”. Amaranto Joies, Barcelona, Catalonia.
2012 “Ramon Puig Cuyas. 1981 - 2011”. Corporación Cultural Las Condes, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
2012 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs: Net-Work Series”Galerie Biró, Munich, Germany.
2011 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs” , Jewelers Werk, Georgetown, Washington. U.S.A.
2011 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs Symbolic Exchanges”, The Gallery of Art in Legnica, Legnica, Poland.
2009 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs – Utopos”, Galerie Biró, Munich. Germany.
2009 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs – Utopos”, Marzze Gallery, Nigmehen, Netherlands.
2009 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs & Silvia Walz” Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, Montreal, Canada.
2008 “Ramon Puig Cuyas”, Galerie Pilartz, Köln, Germany.
2007 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs; Imago Mundi“, Hipotesis, Barcelona, Catalonia.
2007 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs; Imago Mundi“, Al 65, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, Catalonia.
2007 “New Jewelry, Ramon Puig Cuyas and Silvia Walz“. Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, USA.
2006 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs,- Umschlossene Gaerten – Imago Mundi“, Galerie Biró, Munich, Germany.
2006 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs, Walled Gardens”, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
2005 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs, Walled Gardens”, Galleri Hnoss , Gothenburg, Sweden.
2005 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs, Walled Gardens”, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK.
2004 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs, 1996-2004”, Hipòtesi Galeria, Barcelona. Catalonia.
2004 “Ramon Puig Cuyás, Sieraden” Galerie Beeld & Aambeld, Enschede, Netherlands.
2003 “Cuaderno de Viagem, Joias de Ramon PUIG CUYAS”, Galeria Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, Portugal.
2002 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs - Himmelsrichtungen”,Galerie Biró, Munich, Germany.
2001 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs”, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
2000 “Ramon Puig Cuyás”, Hellen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
1999 “Puig Cuyás", Aurum Galerie, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1988 "Archipelago"Puig Cuyás," Galeríe Sofie Lachaert, Antwerpen, Belgium.
Schmuckmuseum im Reuchlinhaus, Pforzheim, Germany. Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany.Die Neue Sammlung. Staatliches Museum für angewandte Kunst. Design in der Pinakothek der Moderne. Munich. On permanent loan from the Danner Foundation, Munich. Germany. Kolumba. Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums, Köln, Germany. Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen, Denmark. Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimusset, Tronheim, Norway. The Royal College of Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum. London, England. National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland. Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Gdańska, Gdańsk, Poland. Fonds permanent du Bijou Contemporain, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France. Muzeum Českého ráje v Turnově, Turnov, Czechia. Museo d’Arte Medioevale e Moderna, Padova, Italy. Swiss National Museum, Collection Alice and Louis Koch. Zürich, Switzerland. Museu del Disseny, Barcelona, Spain. Copoteca FAD, Foment de las Arts Decoratives, Barcelona. Spain. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, Canada.Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. MAD, Museum of Arts and Design, New York. U.S.A. Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Helen W.Drutt Collection, Houston. U.S.A. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York, U.S.A. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. New York, U.S.A. The Dorothy and George Saxe Collection, Menlo Park, California, U.S.A. Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, U.S.A. LACMA, Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.A. Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Edward W. and Deedie Potter Rose, formerly Inge Asenbaum Collection. Texas, U.S.A. The National Gallery of Australia and Canberra, Australia. MUDE Museo do Design e da Moda. Lisboa, Portugal.
Awards:
1975 Prize "Fi de Carrera" of the Fundació General Mediterránea, Barcelona, Catalonia.
1981 Prize "Herbert Hofmann", International Schmuckschow, München, Germany.
1984 Stipendium from Catalonia Goverment, Barcelona, Catalonia.
1984 Prize "Herbert Hofmann", Schmuck und Gerät, München, Germany.
1985 Stipendium from Catalonia Government, to produce an experimental videotape, Barcelona, Catalonia.
1994 Prize "Herbert Hofmann", Schmuckszene 94, München, Germany.
2002 Premi Ciutat de Barcelona de Disseny. Menció Especial del Jurat, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Catalonia.
2002 Danish Crafts Bogpris 2002, for his contribution in the book Reliquium, of Carolina Vallejo, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Selected exhibitions:
2026 "Form Across Scales by Ramon Puig Cuyàs. From Jewellery to Sculpture", Hannah Gallery, Barcelona, Catalonia.
2022 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs: Escultures portàtils?”, Art Enllà espai d’art. Barcelona, Catalonia.
2020 Ramon Puig Cuyàs. Hilde Leiss Galerie, Hambur, Germany.
2019 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs: La Magnitude de la petite dimension. Bijoux et oevres raphiques 1985 – 2019”, Galerie La Joaillerie par Mazlo, Paris, France.
2019 “Catalonia Colours; Ramon Puig Cuyàs & Silvia Walz - “ Retrospective exhibition. Noel Guyomarch’s Gallery. Montreal, Canada.
2019 “Tone der Erde: Ramon Puig Cuyàs & Silvia Walz”, Galerie Slavik, Viena, Austria.
2018 “Maps to get lost in the Forest” Ramon Puig Cuyàs, Galerie Spektrum. I.H.M. Munich, Germany.
2018 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs, Joies 1985 – 2018”. Museu del Disseny, Barcelona, Catalonia.
2018 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs”, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
2016 "Brooches: Ramon Puig Cuyàs”, Loewe Galery, London. U.K.
2016 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs, Silvia Walz and Kim Buck“ The Most Secret Gallery, Copenhagen. Denmark.
2015 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs, Broches”, Sala Loewe, Madrid. Spain.
2015 “Ramon Puig Cuyas: Stille in Bewegung””, Hilde Leiss Gallery, Hamburg, Germany.
2014 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs”,. Villa de Bondt Contemporary Jewelry, Gent, Belgium.
2013 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs: Crossing Points, works 1997 – 2013 ». Galerie, Spectrum. Munich, Germany.
2013 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs: Travesies, joies 1997 – 2012”. Amaranto Joies, Barcelona, Catalonia.
2012 “Ramon Puig Cuyas. 1981 - 2011”. Corporación Cultural Las Condes, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
2012 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs: Net-Work Series”Galerie Biró, Munich, Germany.
2011 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs” , Jewelers Werk, Georgetown, Washington. U.S.A.
2011 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs Symbolic Exchanges”, The Gallery of Art in Legnica, Legnica, Poland.
2009 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs – Utopos”, Galerie Biró, Munich. Germany.
2009 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs – Utopos”, Marzze Gallery, Nigmehen, Netherlands.
2009 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs & Silvia Walz” Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, Montreal, Canada.
2008 “Ramon Puig Cuyas”, Galerie Pilartz, Köln, Germany.
2007 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs; Imago Mundi“, Hipotesis, Barcelona, Catalonia.
2007 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs; Imago Mundi“, Al 65, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, Catalonia.
2007 “New Jewelry, Ramon Puig Cuyas and Silvia Walz“. Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, USA.
2006 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs,- Umschlossene Gaerten – Imago Mundi“, Galerie Biró, Munich, Germany.
2006 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs, Walled Gardens”, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
2005 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs, Walled Gardens”, Galleri Hnoss , Gothenburg, Sweden.
2005 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs, Walled Gardens”, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK.
2004 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs, 1996-2004”, Hipòtesi Galeria, Barcelona. Catalonia.
2004 “Ramon Puig Cuyás, Sieraden” Galerie Beeld & Aambeld, Enschede, Netherlands.
2003 “Cuaderno de Viagem, Joias de Ramon PUIG CUYAS”, Galeria Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, Portugal.
2002 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs - Himmelsrichtungen”,Galerie Biró, Munich, Germany.
2001 “Ramon Puig Cuyàs”, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
2000 “Ramon Puig Cuyás”, Hellen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
1999 “Puig Cuyás", Aurum Galerie, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1988 "Archipelago"Puig Cuyás," Galeríe Sofie Lachaert, Antwerpen, Belgium.
JEWELS by RAMON PUIG CUYàS
Ramon Puig Cuyàs.
Brooch: Nº 1375, 2010.
Oxidised alpaca, steel.
5 x 8 x 2 cm.
From series: Net-Works
Unique piece.
Price: 1100 €.
Brooch: Nº 1375, 2010.
Oxidised alpaca, steel.
5 x 8 x 2 cm.
From series: Net-Works
Unique piece.
Price: 1100 €.
Ramon Puig Cuyàs.
Brooch: Nº 1455, 2012.
Oxidised alpaca, steel.
7 x 13 x 2 cm..
From series: Net-Works
Unique piece.
Price: 1560 €.
Brooch: Nº 1455, 2012.
Oxidised alpaca, steel.
7 x 13 x 2 cm..
From series: Net-Works
Unique piece.
Price: 1560 €.
Ramon Puig Cuyàs.
Brooch: Nº 1494, 2013.
Oxidised alpaca, steel, alabaster, reconstructed stone.
8 x 9 x 1.2 cm.
From series: Net-Works
Unique piece.
Price: 1515 €.
Brooch: Nº 1494, 2013.
Oxidised alpaca, steel, alabaster, reconstructed stone.
8 x 9 x 1.2 cm.
From series: Net-Works
Unique piece.
Price: 1515 €.
Ramon Puig Cuyàs.
Brooch: Nº 1432, 2011.
Oxidised alpaca, steel.
7 x 7.5 x 1.5 cm.
From series: Net-Works
Unique piece.
Price: 1515 €.
Brooch: Nº 1432, 2011.
Oxidised alpaca, steel.
7 x 7.5 x 1.5 cm.
From series: Net-Works
Unique piece.
Price: 1515 €.
Ramon Puig Cuyàs.
Brooch: Nº 1391, 2011.
Oxidised alpaca, steel.
7 x 7 x 2 cm.
From series: Net-Works
Unique piece.
Price: 1250 €.
Brooch: Nº 1391, 2011.
Oxidised alpaca, steel.
7 x 7 x 2 cm.
From series: Net-Works
Unique piece.
Price: 1250 €.
Ramon Puig Cuyàs.
Object: Nº 1958, 2022.
Oxidised alpaca.
7 x 5.5 x 12 cm
Unique piece.
Price: 1600 €.
Object/Sculpture.
Workshop model.
Object: Nº 1958, 2022.
Oxidised alpaca.
7 x 5.5 x 12 cm
Unique piece.
Price: 1600 €.
Object/Sculpture.
Workshop model.
Ramon Puig Cuyàs.
Object: Nº 1956, 2022.
Oxidised alpaca.
15 x 7 x 11.5 cm
Unique piece.
Price: 1600 €.
Object/Sculpture.
Workshop model.
Object: Nº 1956, 2022.
Oxidised alpaca.
15 x 7 x 11.5 cm
Unique piece.
Price: 1600 €.
Object/Sculpture.
Workshop model.
Ramon Puig Cuyàs.
Object: Nº 1952, 2022.
Oxidised alpaca.
21 x 10 x 5 cm
Unique piece.
Price: 1600 €.
Object/Sculpture.
Workshop model.
Object: Nº 1952, 2022.
Oxidised alpaca.
21 x 10 x 5 cm
Unique piece.
Price: 1600 €.
Object/Sculpture.
Workshop model.
Ramon Puig Cuyàs.
Object: Nº 1953, 2022.
Oxidised alpaca..
10 x 9 x 4 cm
Unique piece.
Price: 1600 €.
Object/Sculpture.
Workshop model.
Object: Nº 1953, 2022.
Oxidised alpaca..
10 x 9 x 4 cm
Unique piece.
Price: 1600 €.
Object/Sculpture.
Workshop model.
Ramon Puig Cuyàs.
Object: Nº 1955, 2022.
Oxidised alpaca.
15 x 7 x 10.5 cm
Unique piece.
Price: 1600 €.
Object/Sculpture.
Workshop model.
Object: Nº 1955, 2022.
Oxidised alpaca.
15 x 7 x 10.5 cm
Unique piece.
Price: 1600 €.
Object/Sculpture.
Workshop model.
