Espace Borax / Vevey, Switzerland
May 30 - June 7, 2026
Solo exhibition.
Robin Deriaz
I am a contemporary artist-jeweller based in Switzerland. I graduated with a BA in Design from HEAD-Geneva, and I approach creation as a deeply experimental process. My practice is sculptural, grounded in material research, and values precious and common materials equally.
My visual language is inspired by nature, industrial structures, and the small, often overlooked details of everyday life. Through these, I explore, amongst other aspects, the meaning of forms related to protection, constraint, and containment. This reasoning is concretely translated into my interest in strata, the ones that make up the ground, mark facades, or cover our bodies. To materialise these concepts, I create a dialogue between metal and raw or organic elements such as plaster, brick, amber, and various patinas. I work primarily through traditional hand-fabrication, selectively integrating contemporary tools like 3D printing and virtual reality drawing to serve the concept. By combining these methods, my work constantly seeks the tension between brutality and refinement.
I want my jewellery to be a narrative experience, intimate and sometimes slightly unsettling, designed to challenge and question our relationship with our surroundings. Jewellery allows me to bring these reflections down to the intimate scale of the body, creating a direct connection with ourselves. More than just an ornament, I see it as a medium where memory, the message of the work, and its value can be worn.
Exhibition Archive
Espace Borax / Vevey, Switzerland
May 30 - June 7, 2026
Solo exhibition.
Center Rog / Ljubljana, Slovenia
March 27 - April 18, 2026
Selected among 55 international creators to explore "the evolving relationship between the material and the digital."
Amber Museum / Gdansk, Poland
March 27, 2026
Chosen as 1 of 44 artists globally to reflect on "silence as experience, tension, absence, and presence."
Barbara Mobel / Munich, Germany
March 4-7, 2026
Group exhibition with the Precious Collective investigating "the voice of materiality through acts of making."
Espace Borax / Vevey, Switzerland
December 6-14, 2025
Group show exploring the disappearance of physical money and the role of jewelry as an emergency reserve.
HEAD - Geneve / Geneva, Switzerland
May 16, 2024
Creative workshop in partnership with Piaget, applying "arty concepts" to watchmaking and jewelry forms.
Espace Borax / Vevey, Switzerland
2024
Collective exhibition reinterpreting the traditional concept of votive offerings.
Espace Borax / Vevey, Switzerland
December 2-10, 2023
Contemporary jewelry show featuring Karl Fritsch and Ruudt Peters.
Espace Borax / Vevey, Switzerland
December 10-19, 2022
Showcase of contemporary creators from Suisse-Romande.