Spread Happiness with finely crafted, contemporary jewelry: The Berlin-based jewelry brand Hey Happiness offers high quality, delicate pieces for everyday wear. As a memento of your inner growth journey, the jewelry is designed to evoke the inner strength within you and accompany the wearer on the journey to becoming a better you. Inspired by the universal current of life, Hey Happiness has mastered the art of layering jewelry, making each addition a delight.

Hey Happiness stands for the little treasures in life. The Berlin-based jewelry brand delivers delicate pieces that add a touch of sophistication to your everyday ensemble. Inspired by the universal current of life, Hey Happiness has mastered the art of layering jewelry, making each addition a delight.

Collections of delicate necklaces, earrings, bracelets and gemstone rings are available for every budget. The joy extends around the globe as Hey Happiness is deeply committed to giving back through partnerships with Trees for the Future and Kiva, where they lend to small business entrepreneurs in disadvantaged areas of the world.

My Happiness Keepsake

The My Happiness Keepsake collection is a testament to the brand's dedication to personalization and meaning. In just a few simple steps, you can create your very own keepsake of happiness:

Step 1: Select a Happiness Wishes charm from the suggested options. Each gemstone charm symbolizes a wish or goal you want to achieve in life.

Step 2: Select a Happiness Feelings charm from the suggested options. This charm represents a state or feeling you would like to experience more often in your life.

Step 3: Personalize your piece with a Uniquely Mine charm from the letter collection. This is a symbol that is meaningful to you.

Step 4: Choose your favorite necklace from Hey Happiness's best-selling delicate necklaces, available in either silver (925 sterling silver) or gold (18k gold-plated 925 sterling silver), to complete your meaningful charm collection.

You'll receive a reminder card with each pendant, each designed to help you focus on the things that matter most:

Happiness wishes: An affirmation and visualization card.
Happiness feelings: A card about being and feeling.
Uniquely mine: A card about self-love and strengthening your connection to yourself.

Jewelry has always been personal, but it can also be powerful. Yan Liang, the founder of Hey Happiness, has always been a passionate advocate of personal growth and self-empowerment through spreading joy. 10 years ago, she made the decision to trade in her corporate career and combine her extensive business development experience with her love of personal growth. As she built Hey Happiness, Yan Liang's journey took her on a path of slow travel that spanned over 70 countries and immersed her in hundreds of personal development books. Her biggest inspiration comes from Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist.

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Hey Happiness' My Happiness Keepsake collection empowers the wearer to create their own piece of jewelry that embodies their wishes, feelings and individuality.

Yan Liang: “Hey Happiness is a source of keepsakes that remind us of our own "hero's journey" to become who we want to be. As we embark on this journey, the jewelry you choose should serve as a reminder to stay true to our original aspirations and never forget why we started out, as well as a vehicle to spread positive messages.”

The My Happiness Keepsake collection is a great way to start layering your personal happiness jewelry.

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O Gallery in Tehran enjoys a well-earned reputation as an avant-garde and central forum for contemporary Iranian art. Under the direction of the passionate and art-minded gallerist Orkideh Daroodi, this institution has had a significant impact on the development and progress of the art scene in Iran and beyond.

This summer, the O Gallery in Tehran presented the first survey exhibition of 40 years of work by Ali Nassir (born 1951 in Tehran, lives in Berlin).

Ali Nassir: A Life in Context Orkideh Daroodi: The Curator of Ascension

Orkideh Daroodi, born in 1982, is the founder and gallerist of O Gallery in Tehran. She graduated from UC Davis in California in 2004 with a degree in English Literature before returning to the Iranian art scene to realize her vision of an influential contemporary art gallery. Indeed, with O Gallery, Daroodi has created a platform that provides space for emerging and established Iranian artists alike to flourish, whether they live in Iran proper or in the diaspora.

Since its founding ten years ago, O Gallery has undergone an impressive development under Daroodi's direction. A converted three-story building from the 1960s houses the gallery and serves as a versatile exhibition space. The gallery's portfolio now includes thirty artists, from emerging talents to established greats.

The O Gallery's commitment to promoting young artists is remarkable, with around 50 of them having had their first solo exhibitions here. Some of them have since celebrated great success in the art world. In addition, the gallery has actively collaborated with major museums to support the careers of its artists. For example, the British Museum acquired works by Shideh Tami, while Zahra Imani was exhibited at the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane. O Gallery is also active internationally and strives to include Iranian artists living abroad in its program. In 2020, for example, the gallery organized a solo exhibition by Abdolreza Aminlari in collaboration with Situations Gallery in New York.

Through her work, Daroodi is instrumental in bringing the diverse and dynamic world of Iranian art to a wider international audience.

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Donya Aalipour is represented in the solo exhibition 'Faces' at O Gallery, Tehran.

'Faces' is the Tehran-born, Vienna-based artist's first solo exhibition, following a series of local and international contemporary Iranian artists represented by Tehran's women-owned O Gallery.

As in a dreamscape, fields of color unfold on the canvas and at times create a blurred structure that is reminiscent of an infinite and unbounded space. It almost seems as if floating on a cloud. This feeling of weightlessness is in turn counteracted by strong brushstrokes. The moving color fields in their strong luminosity consisting of bright red, green, yellow, orange and blue interrupt the transparency and settle opaquely on the canvas. Layer by layer, a spatiality generated by colors emerges, vibrating between opacity and transparency and oscillating between contemplation and restlessness. Finally, figurations emerge from these chromatic spheres, some of which are indicated by simple lines, others clearly and distinctly worked out. Sometimes grimaces, sometimes mourning, sometimes frightened figures, whose inner attitude becomes clearly perceptible through the play of colors and lines.
 
In which world do we live? What determines our reality, what our fears and worries? Yet how free are we? An undefined mass of judges seems to accompany us, to question our actions. But who are these agents of criticism, of judgement? They remain identityless and yet discerning. They follow us at every turn and their presence is ubiquitous. The recurring tangled color fields of yellow, orange, blue, green and violet become the embodiment of their figure and the manifestation space of their facial expressions. This audience is not solely an observer, but limits the space of freedom. Whether these critics represent an external mass formed by society, or whether they have manifested themselves in our minds, become our inner critic, which we constantly reproduce ourselves and keep alive, remains open.
 
With great curiosity and passion, Donya Aalipour dedicates her pictorial worlds to the relationship between the individual and the society and examines the structure of the inner, personal world of thought and the outer, social regulations. She creates spaces of contemplation that trigger sensual effects in their mode of representation and, in addition to their visual presence, almost create an audible structure. Silence and outcry, appeal and resignation, inner struggle and external pressure become antagonists in the paintings.  In doing so, Aalipour combines reality and fiction and explores the link between individual and society. Social-psychologically and relationally, the painter addresses the social pressure that becomes an incorporated element of our own realities and at the same time questions the status of our agency.
 
In her paintings, Aalipour depicts human relationships, peace and fear, happiness and sorrow, attachment and detachment. Standing on their own yet embedded in a structure, her paintings create a world whose narratives can be joined together. Each painting becomes the basis for the elaboration of another. Aalipour's painting is characterized by the ability to perform the dance of luminous and saturated color fields with the powerful and unruly lines and to juxtapose this abstract structure with figurative narratives. In this way, the pictorial worlds become spaces of communication that can be experienced not only figuratively but also sensually. They form sites for mind wandering and for self-questioning, of the artist herself, but also of the viewer. Aalipour's source of inspiration is the flood of images in social media, but also art historical models she encounters in museums and galleries, as well as the human psyche, which she gets to the bottom of through reading and self-awareness.
 
Donya Aalipour currently lives in Vienna. She studied painting at the Tehran School of Fine Arts and moved to Austria to study piano. After two years, her strong interest in painting and creative work led her to drop out of the conservatory and enrol instead at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where she studies under the guidance of Daniel Richter. Aalipour's first collaboration with O Gallery was a group exhibition titled "Dialogue with the Other" curated by Ali Nassir in Spring 2022, which was her first solo exhibition in Tehran.
 
-Dr. Anita Hosseini

Faces at O Gallery August 25 - September 11, 2023
More about Donya Aalipour at O Gallery

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