Orsolya Karman - Austria
Orsolya Karman
Designer biography:
Orsolya Karman is a Vienna-based contemporary jewelry artist and founder of Karman Jewelry. She holds a Master’s degree in Visual Communication from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME). Her practice is rooted in graphic thinking, translating two-dimensional systems into precise, body-related forms. Her background in visual storytelling informs a distinctive approach defined by precision, structural clarity, and innovation. She develops work that navigates between design and art. Her work has been presented internationally and recognized with awards, including the INHORGENTA Award at Romanian Jewelry Week 2025.
Collection concept:
Phenomena is a series of jewelry pieces investigating optical perception through layered graphic structures. Situated within contemporary discourses on perception-based and spatial jewellery, the work emerges from a practice grounded in visual communication and graphic systems. It translates two-dimensional structures into body-related forms that create a sense of spatiality, unfolding in relation to movement, light, and viewpoint. Through the interplay of transparency, layering, and precise construction, the pieces produce shifting phenomena that resist fixed perception. Rather than functioning as static ornaments, they operate as perceptual devices - activated by the movement of the body, translating interference patterns into wearable spatial constructions in constant transformation, engaging perception and embodied experience simultaneously.
