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Tota reciclados (Valeria Hasse + Marcela Muñiz) is a team of jewelers based in Buenos Aires working together since 2002. We collect and group found items in order to refabricate objects into something new. "Precarious" versus "precious": the tension created between these two concepts is always present in our work. We try to find new connections when we construct a new piece: the found objects start to talk to each other. For us, this process of recombining and recontextualizing objects, images and ideas is a metaphor for the way in which meaning is constructed nowadays.

Valeria Hasse
1963, Argentina
1984-1987 Graphic Designer - School of Design and Architecture, University of Buenos Aires
1998-2000 Postgraduate in Design, Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht
2004/2005 AIR, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2013 AIR at Studio Rian de Jong, Stichting Françoise van den Bosch, NL
2023 AIR CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, NL

Marcela Muñiz
1959, Argentina
1978-1983 Architect - School of Design and Architecture, University of Buenos Aires
2005 AIR, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2013 AIR at Studio Rian de Jong, Stichting Françoise van den Bosch, NL
2023 AIR CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, NL

Solo exhibitions: 2023 Restrospective, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, NL
2022 Buenos Aires Trash Treasures. Gallery V&V, Viena
2018 From scrap to jewel, Hommage to Mary Tapia. Museo Nacional del Traje (National Costume Museum), Buenos Aires.
2015 Broken memories, precarious links. Faculty of Fine Arts, Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Imatra.
2014/15 Broken memories, precarious links. CODA Museum, Apeldoorn.
2007 Tota Reciclados Vitrine - Gallery V&V - Vienna.
2005 Found in a box (solo exhibition) - Akademie Schloss Solitude - Stuttgart.
2004 Urban garden (solo exhibition) - Akademie Schloss Solitude - Stuttgart.

Group exhibitions (selection):
2023 Shared Stories. A selection from CODA's jewellery collection made by Chequita Nahar. CODA Museum, Apeldoorn.
2021 Cauces. Moda, diseño y arte contra la corriente. Centro Cultural Parque de España, Rosario, AR. Curator: María Laura Carrascal.
2020 Schmuck 2020, Munich (cancelled, only online). Selection: Chequita Nahar.
2018 SIERADEN, makers & dragers - Museum Volkenkund, Leiden, NL.
2018 Close to you: Slow fashion - CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, NL.
2017 Vinte e três - Joalharia contemporânea na Ibero-América, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon.
2014 Beyond textile - Textile jewelry from Argentina. Help U Zelven Gallery, Holanda. Gallery CEBRA, Dusseldorf.
2012/2013 Unexpected Pleasures - art and design in contemporary jewellery. Design Museum, London & National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Curator: Susan Cohn.
2012 Needlework. Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany.
2011/2012 Jewelry exhibition Lagd i verden (Made in the world). The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.
2011 Brooch. Sterling Gallery. Budapest.
2011 Del textil a la joya. Villa Victoria, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
2011 Del textil a la joya II. Casa de la Cultura. Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2011 Crossing the borders. VI International Biennale of Contemporary Textile Art. WTA. Mexico City.
2010 Del textil a la joya. Museo de Artesanías José Hernández, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2010 Heterogeneidad en el Río de la Plata, Metalistería Gallery in Area Gris, Hotel Virreyes, Mexico, DF.
2009 Alternatives in Textile Jewelry - X Gallery - Bratislava - Slovakia.
2009 Schmuck 2009. International Trade Fair Exhibition, Munich. Selected by Marjan Ungers.
2006/2007 Challenging the Chatelaine. Design Museum, Helsinki. Curators: Helen Drutt, Marianne Aav.

Artwork in Public and Private Collections:
- CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.
- The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.
- Stichting Françoise van den Bosch, NL.
- Collection Helen Drutt English, USA.
- Collection Gerard and Marjan Unger, NL.
- Collection Miecke Oosterman, NL.
- Collection Sara Visbeek and Jeroen Redel, NL.
- Collection Carin Reinders, NL.
- Collection Claartje Kuurs, NL.