Marco Panconesi grew up wanting to be an archaeologist. He studied Latin and Greek, read about ancient myths, and spent years inside the intellectual tradition of Florence, a city that has always known how to make the past feel urgent. That formation never left him. When he founded his jewelry label in Paris in 2018, after years designing accessories for Givenchy, Balenciaga, Fendi, and Cartier, the objects he made looked like things recently pulled from the ground: stones set in industrial silver, forms that accumulate and layer, pieces that move with the body rather than sitting still on it.
On Wednesday, May 27, Panconesi and Frontrose bring that sensibility to Rosegarden, the Berlin space on Potsdamer Strasse that has become a quiet argument for what a cultural venue can be. The exhibition places Panconesi's jewelry in conversation with a live performance by Finn Ronsdorf, the Berlin-based singer-songwriter whose piano ballads sit somewhere between Billie Holiday and contemporary queer confession, melancholy and precise, never sentimental. Raised in the Black Forest, formed by Berlin, Ronsdorf writes songs that question what love asks of a person and what a person gives back.
Two practices, two cities, one room. The logic is not obvious, which is exactly the point. Panconesi's stones and Ronsdorf's songs share a common preoccupation: the weight of feeling given material form. Come between six and nine.
Exhibition and live performance from Finn Ronsdorf.
Wednesday, May 27
Rosegarden, Berlin