Under the ARTISTIC direction of Kika Prette, CREATIVE Director of APM Monaco, the collection brings together two worlds that naturally echo one another: JEWELRY AND ART. From this vision comes a unique family collaboration with painter Karine Prette, Kika Prette’s sister-in-law.

“I wanted to create a dialogue between our jewelry and Karine’s deeply sensitive universe. I admire her work and her instinctive ability to bring light, movement and emotion to life through matter.

Together, we developed a concept connected to this new collection: exclusive paintings that reinterpret its contrasts and the codes of our universe — deep blacks, flashes of white and a mysterious atmosphere."

— Kika Prette, Creative Director of APM Monaco

Through this encounter, APM Monaco creations and Karine Prette’s artworks tell one shared story: that of light emerging from shadow. The meteorites, stars and precious reflections of the jewelry find an echo in the artist’s abstract gestures, materials and painterly vibrations. This union of art and jewelry gives rise to a deeply personal project, proudly carried by the Prette family and unveiled through a dedicated exhibition in Paris.

The creations engage in a shared dialogue of light and shadow, where the precision of jewelry meets the freedom of the painterly gesture. The campaign unveils this world through a series of black-and-white portraits with cinematic elegance. APM Monaco ambassadors embody different expressions of glamour: a powerful allure, subtle sensuality, a free -spirited attitude and a naturally magnetic presence.

Photographed in contrasting light, they wear the creations as contemporary talismans. Against a black dress, an evening suit or a minimalist silhouette, the jewelry becomes the point of light that captures the eye. Each image celebrates character, individuality and the art of shining on one’s own terms.

Born in Marseille in 1966, Karine Prette has lived and worked in Brussels for more than twenty years, dividing her time between her Belgian studio, Spain and artist residencies that deepen her connection with nature. A graduate of the École des Arts d’Uccle, she has further developed her practice through the study of art history at Brussels’ Royal Institute for the History of Art.

Her work is rooted in an instinctive dialogue with material, the spontaneity of gesture and the emotions evoked by abstraction. Through lyrical abstraction infused with vital energy, its tensions and contradictions, as well as powerful portraits created with sand and acrylic, she does not seek to impose an image; instead, she allows the canvas to reveal its own language through movement, texture and contrast.

During her annual artist residencies in Andalusia, Karine Prette also discovered wood as a material of revelation. Rather than sculpting it, she follows its forms, marks and memory, transforming each piece into a symbol of resilience, strength and organic beauty.

For the artist, “abstraction is a dialogue with the canvas, in which I observe more than I paint. It is a search through gestures, as though they were words, each appearance calling for a response. I work with all kinds of palettes, palette knives and brushes. It is the canvas that guides me and draws me in.”

Through her collaboration with APM Monaco, her work brings a new resonance to the world of the collection: while jewelry captures light with precision, her paintings seek it, disturb it and bring it for the from shadow, within the same mysterious, star- filled atmosphere.