The Journey

1 Idea – 4 Continents - 47 Milestones – 3650 Days – 200 Designers & Brands
400 Creative Collaborators –  9 Annual Designers’ Meetings 

2013: the idea was established. 2014: Technopolis, Athens - Grand Resort Lagonissi. 2015: Technopolis, Athens - Dubai - Poseidonion Grand Hotel, Spetses - European Parliament, Brussels. 2016: Athens International Airport - Technopolis, Athens - New Ashgate Gallery, United Kingdom - Oia Treasures Art Gallery, Santorini - Poseidonion Grand Hotel, Spetses - Petasos Beach Resort & Spa, Mykonos - Municipal Art Gallery, Mykonos - Apia, Costa Navarino - AJMIG Multicultural Center, Spetses - Plaza Resort, Anavyssos. 2017: Zappeion Megaron, Athens - Oia Treasures Art Gallery, Santorini - AJMIG Multicultural Center, Spetses - Plaza Resort, Anavyssos - Petasos Beach Resort & Spa, Mykonos - “Celestyal Olympia” cruise-ship - Museum of Arts & Design (MAD), New York - Divani Apollon Palace & Thalasso, Vouliagmeni. 2018: Zappeion Megaron, Athens - Oia Treasures Art Gallery, Santorini - AJMIG Multicultural Center, Spetses - Plaza Resort, Anavyssos - Petasos Beach Resort & Spa, Mykonos - “Celestyal Olympia” cruise-ship - JCK - LUXURY, Las Vegas - Museum of Arts & Design (MAD), New York. 2019: Zappeion Megaron, Athens - Who's Next, Paris - JCK - LUXURY, Las Vegas - Museum of Arts & Design (MAD), New York - CIIE 2019, Shanghai - Hellas House, Shanghai. 2020: Zappeion Megaron, Athens - Who's next, Paris - Museum of Arts & Design (MAD), New York - VoD, Dubai - Athens International Airport - Oia Treasures Art Gallery, Santorini - Petasos Beach Resort & Spa, Mykonos. 2021: Grand Resort, Lagonissi - Petasos Beach Resort & Spa, Mykonos - Oia Treasures Art Gallery, Santorini - Posidonio, Spetses. 2022: Zappeion Megaron, Athens - Grand Resort, Lagonissi - Petasos Beach Resort & Spa, Mykonos - Oia Treasures Art Gallery, Santorini - Posidonio, Spetses

The Idea:

A Jewel Made in Greece as a multidimensional and elegant platform that presents designers and jewelers of
Contemporary Art Jewelry, while developing a creative dialogue between the culture of Contemporary Art and the long
history of Greek Jewelry.

The Goal:

To present and promote the image of Modern Greek Contemporary Jewelry to the world, while establishing the ‘’A
Jewel Made in Greece’’ as a point of reference for Greek creativity, high aesthetics, and outward-looking strategy.

The Implementation:

In 2013, following a personal pursuit of Mary Samoli, an ambitious idea came up. The implementation started by
inaugurating the idea in early 2014 in Technopolis, the cultural center of the Municipality of Athens, with the first
Exhibition of Contemporary Creative Jewelry in Athens. An event highly honored to be held under the auspices of the
Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Development, Enterprise Greece, the National Archaeological Museum, the Numismatic
Museum & Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum. Respectively proud and excited for the honorable participation of the
Byzantine and Christian Museum, the Museum Alex Mylona-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, and the
Museum of Greek Folk Art, which participated in the exhibition by presenting replicas of the ancient collections’
jewelry.

The Vision:

The team of the ‘’A Jewel Made in Greece’’, in which more than 75 inspired designers participate annually, supports
and highlights the uniqueness of each artist by showing respect to each one’s personal character of art. Besides,
jewelry, like any work of art, refers to the meeting between people and the world. “Jewel”, which means alignment in
harmony, is the human need to place in order what is happening around us.

The “Soul” of AJMIG:

The Greek contemporary artists and designers participate by exhibiting their jewelry both via AJMIG’s digital platform
and via their participation in the various venues of AJMIG. Designers’ truly inspired creations promote and convey the
message: Greek Jewelry is timeless, competitive, inexhaustible, and strongly desirable in Greece and abroad.

Mary Samoli

Founder of AJMIG