Andrzej Adamski has been engaged in designing and creating jewelry and small goldwork forms for 50 years. He began his professional career in 1977. He graduated from the Gdańsk School of Jewelry and Goldsmithery, and for many years worked at the Gdańsk Cooperative for the Handcrafts of Artistic Production „Bursztyny”; since 1998, he has run his own A2 jewelry workshop in Braniewo. Bursztyn has accompanied his work from the very beginning.
The anniversary served as an opportunity to prepare an exhibition that is not a retrospective of the artist’s five decades of activity. „Musical Inspirations” focuses on his latest works and the relationship that Adamski has been building between music and the goldsmith’s craft over the years. The exhibition includes, among other things, original batons, brooches, necklaces, and objects made of Baltic amber and precious metals.
One of the works refers to John Cage’s „4’33’’” – a piece whose performance is based on silence and the sounds of the surroundings. „The Palace of Juraty” draws its inspiration from an opera. The legend of the Baltic Sea Felix Nowowiejski. Among the inspirations was the history of the VIII Symphony by Jean Sibelius. The composer worked on it for years, but ultimately did not complete it. Adamski’s work „VIII / ∞” refers precisely to this nonexistent work.
A separate group consists of batuts. The artist has treated the objects associated with the work of a conductor as independent objects. Music thus becomes the starting point for working on form, but at the same time Adamski’s characteristic interest in amber and the possibilities offered by this material do not disappear.
The natural inclusions, color, and shape of individual specimens are an important part of the work. Amber does not only serve a decorative function in these works – its properties influence the final appearance of the designs.
„Musical Inspirations” is Andrzej Adamski’s second exhibition at the Amber Museum. The first, „Amber in a Classical Setting?”, could be seen in Gdańsk in 2018.
Exhibition „Musical Inspirations. Andrzej Adamski: 50 Years of Creative Work”
June 27 – September 27, 2026
Amber Museum in Gdansk