Evgenia Elanic first started creating jewelry at the age of 14. She received a BoS degree in Technologies of Jewelry Manufacturing and a MoA in Design in Moscow and moved to Georgia after the Russian invasion in Ukraine in 2022. She now works in Tbilisi and participates in international exhibitions and events like Brussels JW or Venice DW.

"I focus on digging into humanity's relationship with itself and the universe, fascinated by peculiar concepts that emerge in human mind, how they are shaped by environment and shape it back. In my work, I often use lightweight openwork structures and contrast of natural and architectural forms, fighting each other or perfectly merging — a depiction of humanity's everlasting urge to understand, organize and conquer the chaos it is a part of."

Member's website: elanic.gallery

Tatevik was born in Yerevan, at the age of 15 she moved to Moscow, where she studied Design at Moscow State Pedagogical University. Since 2012, she has been creating jewelry from former dishes and engaged in upcycling education. She is a participant of international exhibitions and biennials of applied art. Now she lives in Tashkent and works with traditional ceramic artisans.

"I work with a rather unusual material — with fragments of dishes. There are many different sides of this to me: "creating from what’s broken", philosophy, technical inventions, searching for "treasures" at flea markets and, of course, an eco-message. I am fascinated by the thrill, excitement and "goosebumps" that a person experiences when they find their jewelry artifact. Sometimes it’s a small piece of a "grandmother's porcelain cup." Sometimes it is a fragment reminiscent of a journey, sometimes it is animated patterns-traces from Usto’s brush."

Member’s website: instagram.com/tatevik_upcycling

Victoria Kataeva is a jewelry artist from St. Petersburg. Graduated from Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design where she studied as graphic artist, and later in 2016 she became a jeweller. One of her main specializations is miniatures on hot enamel. In 2018−2022 curated an online gallery INAČE and an exhibition INAČE.Brooches in St. Petersburg in 2021.

"My work can be described as a combination of traditional and futuristic elements in a laconic composition. The plant motifs represent the traditional part and are the main subject of my jewelry, as well as Japanese arts and crafts. And my love for science fiction and non-existent worlds gives a futuristic twist to these traditional components. I like to reduce plant forms to geometry, giving them a somewhat man-made appearance."

Member's website: niyajewelry.com

Daria Khoreva has been making jewelry since 2009, first starting with tin (olovo) and then self-learning other jewelry techniques. She participated in several contemporary jewelry exhibitions, particularly those curated by 9march project. After the Russian invasion in Ukraine in 2022 she moved to Tbilisi where she co-founded a jewelry studio and store Free Form Space.

"Overall I would characterize my style as minimalism with a natural touch. I often see myself as a medium for the beauty of gemstones or other materials and I intuitively create the shapes they dictate. At the same time I use my art to reflect on current events in the world and society, having created artworks about the COVID pandemic, gender stereotypes and women's rights."

Member's website: olovojewellery.com

Ekaterina Korzh is originally from Saint Petersburg, Russia. Her first education was in Socio-Economic Geography. Just later she received her training in jewelry and metalsmithing. The first jewelry class she took was in Bogotá, Colombia, where she conducted her geographical research. Currently, she is located in Lawrence, Kansas where she obtained her latest MFA in Metalsmithing/Jewelry and is planning where she will go next.

"At the age of 24, I crossed the Atlantic for the first time, and ever since then, I kept moving between Russia, the USA, and Colombia. The exploration of the struggle and growth on this adventure is where my research is going. I blend traditional embroidery techniques with metalwork and found objects in jewelry to illustrate my respect for historical Russian craft practices and the conventional crafts I discovered through international travels. I explore homesickness versus travel, tradition versus contemporary, politics versus individuality, and the tensions between these ideas."

Member’s website: instagram.com/korzhstudio

Ira Latkina is an arts and crafts artist and illustrator currently living in Sweden. In 2010, she completed courses in jewelry making in Nizhny Tagil, after which she studied contemporary jewelry design for three years at the "Image and Form" design center in St. Petersburg. Then Ira began her career as an independent artist. She participates in many exhibitions and competitions worldwide.

"These days I am actively turning to traditional arts and crafts. For me, creating jewelry is an opportunity to connect fairytale, imaginary images with the ancient world and the present time, and in the most playful manner possible. The element of play in my works is very important to me; it strengthens the connection between the viewer and the owner with their jewelry, making, for example, wearing a ring not only aesthetically pleasing, but also therapeutic."

Member’s website: instagram.com/liv_jewellery

Agnia Likratowa is a chainmaille artist born in Siberia. Early on her professional journey she started to build the first Russian-speaking online community of chainmaille artists and popularize this kind of craft. She now is the most widely known chainmalle artist in Russia and founder of a unique style of artistic chainmaille, having mastered over 300 weaves. Since 2022 she lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia.

"Chainmaille is associated with protection, this meaning is inherent as chainmaille grows from traditions of armor making. But I like to play with paradoxes and make not dense sheets but openwork, airy structures rich in decor. I make my chainmaille seem not only menacing and strong but, as a complex architectural construction, light and unthreatening. Armor, not physical but symbolic, can be graceful."

Member's website: instagram.com/likratowa_eng

Alexei Maximov is a miniature wood sculpturist from Moscow of Jewish descent. He comes from a family of a nuclear physicist who is also an icon painter and a French-Russian translator. Since 2017, Alexei is a member of the Russian Union of Artists of Decorative and Applied Arts. In 2024 Alexei left Russia and now lives a nomadic way of life.

"I studied to become a biology teacher, and it gave me a great admiration for all forms and manifestations of life, making it the main motive of what I do. I love finding rhymes between nature and events in my own life and in the world. Often I deliberately leave an unfinished detail so that the work seems to have an open ending. I am keenly interested in non-obvious contrasts of forms that give rise to dynamics, which applies to life in general."

Member's website: instagram.com/budnibaobaba

Into Niilo is an artist and jeweler from Moscow. Having studied fashion (Accessories Design at Kosygin Moscow State Technical University and Fashion Footwear at London College of Fashion), Into opened his own accessories brand into|into in Moscow, but soon discovered contemporary jewelry. In 2021, he went to Belgium for a second master's degree in this field and has not returned to Russia since.

“In my works, I often turn to natural sciences, philosophy, psychology, use a surreal twist and dark humor. After February 2022, the subjects of my works became more social and politicized and they often sound about propaganda, newspeak, political prisoners, hidden protest and fear.”

Member's website: instagram.com/in2into

Vera Popova is a lampwork artist from Moscow. She graduated from the Faculty of Glass Art of the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry and later founded her own studio. She has been frequently participating in applied arts exhibitions in Russia and Europe.

"When developing a concept, the starting point for me is my feelings and sensations. I try to detangle them, make a palette of images or worded thoughts. And then I can move on to giving it a body from either combining pre-existing items or working from scratch. Though I am a lampworker primarily, I don't work with glass only: I use wood, paper, metal and whatever can provide me with a simple, clear solution and a clean shape."

Member's website: likeaglass.com

Maria has been working with enamels since 2014. She also completed a master's degree in Glass Art. She has been conducting exhibition activities as a multidisciplinary artist since 2020, in Russia, Georgia and other countries.

"I add the warmth of northern traditions to the fragile nature of glass showing the local cultural identity. For the last few years, I have been studying the architecture and art of the North`s region since my family comes from the North. My self-identification as a person from the North has influenced my choice of the issues that I reflect in my art. They relate to the continuity of generations and the cultural code over the world."

Member's website: instagram.com/oh__masha

Katia Rabey was born in Moscow, studied jewelry design in Shenkar college in Ramat Gan (Israel), then worked in Moscow as a curator, educator, columnist — and a jewelry designer, creating wearable pieces for clients, exhibitions and even motion pictures. After Russia invaded Ukraine she moved to Israel again, where she currently works as a 3D-modelist in a jewelry brand and creates art in her free time.

"For my first degree I studied literature, and later I took a short course in illustration, both of those came back to me as I was exploring my personal language in jewelry. I realized that even when making wearable objects I prefer to tell stories, often using graphic language, with clear shapes and bright colors. My tools of choice are CAD and a sense of humor, but I also like to work manually both with precious and not-so-precious materials."

Member's website: rabeyka.com

Ilya Roschke has been making jewelry for over 25 years under the brands "Ilya Roschke" and "Spanda Jewelry". He graduated from Fabergé College in Moscow where he studied jewelry craftsmanship and also received a degree as a costume accessories stylist in Moscow State Textile University. In 2022 he moved to Tbilisi, where he co-founded a jewelry studio and store Free Form Space.

Masha Starikova was born on the Kola Peninsula, received an education in graphic design at NRU of Electronic Technology, and later received a diploma in jewelry crafting at the School of Jewelry Crafts in Saint. Petersburg. Participant in the Moscow Biennale of Young Art in Moscow (2008) and exhibitions of conceptual jewelry art in Russia, China, Finland, and Australia. Co-curator of the exhibition project of conceptual jewelry art "9March".

"In 2021, I wrote in a text for an exhibition: "In artistic practice, I explore my national identity and try to find and feel a connection with the country in which I live, which is not always easy in modern Russia for many reasons." After February 2022, I have no confidence that this search will ever be successful."

Eira is an embroidery artist born in a tiny old town in a Finno-Ugric part of Russia in a family of engineers, artists and linguists. While studying engineering and biology in St. Petersburg she simultaneoulsy started her artist's journey as creator and teacher, and became a trendsetter in international embroidery community. Now she's a nomad somewhere between Asia and Europe.

"Even while being deeply involved into a process, I mostly feel like an observer, not a participant. My art became a way to communicate with the environment, transforming my hidden inner feelings into visible external objects. That naturally resulted in extreme perfectionism together with constant experimenting, in a bid to make reality as close to the idea as possible. The most important concepts I reflect on are decay and rebirth."

Member's website:instagram.com/eira_teufel

Andrey was born in Krasnodar and has built a career in teaching jewelry craft, having trained over a hundred students, including another DVIZH member Toni Orien. He also worked as an enameller for Elena Okutova, a well-known Russian jewelry designer. Since the Russian invasion in Ukraine in 2022, he continues to work and teach in Tbilisi.

"An alchemist and historian at heart, a chemical engineer and technologist in life, I constantly explore the properties of jewelry materials and the techniques, whether modern and high-tech, or ancient and nearly lost. In my creations, I seek to reconcile antiquity with modernity, tradition with progress, guided by my grandmother's wisdom: without the memory of past successes and mistakes, we cannot have a happy future."

Member's website: instagram.com/voznesensky_art