We want the exhibition to be a space for young designers. The exhibition itself, as its name suggests, is meant to predict what may happen in design in the near future – says Zuzanna Franczak, the exhibition curator.
In this year’s edition, half of the exhibition consists of diploma projects – one bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees. The remaining works were also created in the studio, which consciously emphasizes experimentation and the search for new solutions.
We strive to present selected and concrete projects so that it is in no way a „jewelry exhibition”; rather, it is a proper exhibition of design – emphasizes Franczak. – This is still young, and therefore – and this is a good thing – idealistic, open to newness and change. A bit impudent in its innovation and proposing a different perspective on the world around us.
This approach fits well with the location of the exhibition. The Amber Museum in Gdańsk is a space strongly associated with local material and jewelry tradition. „Spoiler Alert” does not intend to simply repeat these associations, however.
The exhibition takes place at the Amber Museum in Gdańsk – a place and city so strongly associated with amber and jewelry making. At the same time, unfortunately, we too often encounter very commercial and repetitive elements here, sometimes overly simplified and diluted, which through over-saturation has less and less to do with contemporary design and design – says the curator.
Therefore, there will be little amber in this edition.
Perhaps in a somewhat perverse way, in this edition we are not presenting many works with this local theme – and important for us as well – which is amber. This combination of grittiness and contrast is intended to create tension.
It is a conscious approach. The exhibition at the Amber Museum, which does not primarily aim to be an exhibition about amber, aims to make the viewer associate it with something different. Instead, it proposes design and artistic objects that fall within the broader definition of jewelry.
We go beyond the first associations that arise when we hear „a jewelry exhibition at the Amber Museum”. Our brain immediately suggests what we might expect. And that’s when the dissonance appears – the exhibition turns out to be completely different.
In this sense, „Spoiler Alert” is not just a showcase for young designers. It is also an attempt to test how widely jewelry can be thought about today – and whether its future really has to look the way our first associations suggest.
Exhibition „Spoiler Alert 2027”
Amber Museum in Gdansk
Opening: October 2, 2026
Curator: Zuzanna Franczak