irishummer.com

Steinbauergasse 36/20/2
1120 Vienna (AT)

irishummer.com
Instagram: @i.hummer_

Vienna (AT)

Iris Hummer is an Austrian jewellery artist who is currently based in Vienna. Her work explores themes such as movement and transformation, and the traces these processes leave behind.
Jewellery serves as a performative medium, enabling interactive experiences for viewers. She creates objects that function as ‘tools’, broadening the scope of action and prompting viewers to reflect on their experiences, memories and values. Fascinated by processes and ambiguities, she seeks to make them visible in order to explore why things are the way they are.
EDUCATION
June 2025

Master‘s degree,
University of Applied Sciences
for Fine Arts and Jewellery,
Idar-Oberstein (Germany)

2022 – 2023

Erasmus,
ar.co – Centro de Arte
e Comunicação Visual
Lisbon (Portugal)

2021 – 2025

Master,
University of Applied Arts and Design,
Idar-Oberstein (Germany)

2019 – 2021

College of Art,
Fashion and Jewellery Design
Herbststraße,
Vienna (Austria)

2008 – 2013

Master of Art Education,
University of Applied Arts,
Vienna (Austria)

AWARDS & TALKS
2025

Artist Talk and Performance
A Century of Austrian Jewellery,
Austrian Cultural Forum New York,
New York (America) 

Artist Talk
36. Schmuckstammtisch
Campus Gemstones and Jewellery,
VinziRast-Lokal, Vienna (Austria)

Artist Talk
Silver Triennial International 21st Silver Triennial,
DIVA Museum, Antwerp (Belgium)

Artist Talk
Aha Action – Collaboration,
Legnica Silver Festival,
Gallery Sztuki w Legnicy, Legnica (Poland)

Nominee
Eligius Prize 2025 – Jewellery Art in Austria,
Vienna (Austria)

2023

2nd Prize
31st Legnica Silver Festival Competition 2023,
Legnica (Poland) 

PUBLICATIONS

2025

Catalogue “Lückenfüller n. GAP filler – 30 Austrian Jewellery Artist fill the void”,
New York (America) 

Catalogue “ZiG ZAG”, B-Design Hub, Shenzhen (China),
Publisher: Imagram Design

Catalogue “Silver Triennial International 21st Silver Triennial”,
Goldsmiths’ House, Hanau (Germany),
Publisher: Arnoldsche 

Catalogue “Rockstars LIVE in Legnica”,
Legnica Silver Festival, Gallery Satryrykon,
Legnica (Poland)

Catalogue “Aha Action – Collaboration”,
Legnica Silver Festival,
Gallery Sztuki w Legnicy, Legnica (Poland) 

Eligius Prize 2025

Newspaper article Eligius Prize,
PM Nahezeitung No. 124, May 30, 2025

Galeria Tereza Seabra 

2024

A Taste of Lisbon’s Contemporary Jewelry Biennial

Jewels for Democracy”, Royal Treasure Museum,
Pin. Lisbon and Porto (Portugal)

Pin. – Associação Portuguesa de Joalharia Contemporânea, Marta Costa Reis

Art Jewelry Forum “What Hope Could Be –
A Taste of Lisbon’s Contemporary Jewelry Biennial” by Elena Karpilova

Catalogue “Legnica Silver Festival: Winners of the Competition ‘Quality’”

2023

Klimt02: Camera Obscura / How do you adorn yourself with words? / Rückgrat – Port fraise 

Catalogue “Quality”, 31st Competition of the
Legnica Silver Festival, Legnica (Poland)

Catalogue “Dieser Schmuck kostet 100 RMB”
Vonmoo Gallery, Peking (China)

“Jewellery and Travel”, Tinkalab, Porto (Portugal),
Madrid (Spain), Rome (Italy), Athens (Greece)

Catalogue “Was weißt du?”,
Platform for Jewelry Art, Graz (Austria)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025

“Lückenfüller n. GAP filler – 30 Austrian Jewellery Artist fill the void”, Group exhibition, Pratt Institute, New York (America)

“ZiG ZAG”, B-Design Hub, Shenzhen (China)

“Silver Triennial International 21st Silver Triennial”, DIVA Museum, Antwerp (Belgium) 

“Eligius Prize 2025. Contemporary Jewellery in Austria” MAK – Museum of Applied Arts,
Vienna / Salzburg (Austria) 

“Rings of Saturn – Exhibition Cycle HALO”,
Galeria Tereza Seabra, Lisbon (Portugal)

“Rockstars LIVE in Legnica”, Legnica Silver Festival, Gallery Satryrykon, Legnica (Poland)

“Aha Action – Collaboration”, Legnica Silver Festival, Gallery Sztuki w Legnicy, Legnica (Poland) 

2024

“Silver Triennial International 21st Silver Triennial”, Goldsmiths’ House, Hanau (Germany)

“Lückenfüller”, Group exhibition,
Studio Ela Nord, Vienna (Austria) 

“Alter Solis – The Other Sun”, Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Velas, Lisbon Biennial (Portugal)

“Jewels for Democracy”, Royal Treasury Museum, Pin. Lisbon and Porto (Portugal)

“Jewellery and Travel”, Tinkalab, Porto (Portugal), Madrid (Spain), Rome (Italy), Athens (Greece)

“Quality”, Legnica Silver Festival / Romanian Jewellery Week, Chișinău (Moldova) 

2023

“Jewellery and Travel”, Tinkalab, Porto (Portugal), Madrid (Spain), Rome (Italy), Athens (Greece)

“What know?”, Platform Jewellery Art,
Graz (Austria)

“This jewellery is 100 RMB”
Vonmoo Gallery, Beijing (China)

“Ritual” ar.co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual, Convento dos Capuchos, Almada (Portugal)

“Quality” 31st Legnica Silver Festival Competition,
Legnica (Poland)