Events 2024
Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER – Accompanying events
Performance by students of the Institute of Jewellery at the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts Łódź
10th May
Main Square, Legnica
A performance prepared and executed by students of the Institute of Jewellery of the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts Łódź, which educates in the field of jewellery design, will take place in the urban space during the Grand Opening of this year's edition of the Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER.
Silver Evening
10th May, 9:30 pm
Art Cafe Modjeska, 23 Main Square, Legnica
The Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER isn't only about jewellery. After an intense first day of the Grand Opening, full of vernissages and meetings we invite you to a relaxing evening at Art Cafe Modjeska. zdjęcie 9>We will end the meetings on the sidelines during a concert in a cosy cafe.
Symposium "Boundaries of Global Art"
11 maja, godz. 11 am, 4:00 pm
Hotel Qubus, ul. Skarbowa 2, Legnica
Conference Room F
During the culmination of the Festival in May, we meet to listen to the artists presenting their works at the exhibitions, and to discuss the condition of contemporary goldsmithing and design. The Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER could not exist without the traditional popular science session "Boundaries of Global Art", which brings together the world of science, design and culture. The topics of presentations will, as always, be diverse. Still, they will be connected by a common thread - jewellery and the theme of this year's International Jewellery Competition - EMPATHY.
The Speakers:
Lest we forget in the National Museum in Zurych
Felicity Peters – Empathy. Public Art and inspiration from the history of Polish Jews
Australian Jeweller Felicity Peters first visited Poland in 2009, when she was able to travel around the country with the help of several people. Her five visits since then have all influenced her work strongly. The public art at Ghetto Heroes Square in Krakow, the Polin Museum of Jewish History, Majdanek concentration camp and the small town Kazimierz Dolny have all been instrumental in making important works by Felicity.
Felicity Peters lives and works in Perth, Western Australia. As an established and award winning jeweller has her artworks in public collections in Australia and overseas. She has been selected into many overseas and national exhibitions and her work is featured in a number of international and national publications.
Charon Kransen
Times have changed especially since Covid and social media has taken over, not all bad but also problematic. Challenging for both artists and galleries. The old model might not work anymore......
Charon Kransen – Born in Holland, living in New York City for years. He received his training at the Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts (Jerusalem, Israel), Hochschule fuer Gestaltung (Pforzheim, Germany), and at Juhls (Kautokeino, Norway). Professor at the University of Utrecht (Holland), Head of the Jewelry and Enamel department at the Arts College Amersfoort (Holland), President of the VES (Dutch Jewelry Designers Organization). For the past 20 years, he has lectured on contemporary jewelry and gives master-classes to students and professionals in the North-America, Europe, Australia and South America, and Asia. Curator, gallerist and agent for over 150 international contemporary jewelers (mostly non-Americans) from various countries. The jury member of the 32. IJC EMPATHY
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Mariko Kusumoto - born in Kumamoto, Japan, currently lives in Massachusetts (USA). The artist specializes in works combining sculpture and jewelry, using fabric. She also collaborates with recognizable designers, fashion houses and brands - in 2019, her works appeared on the Jean Paul Gaultier catwalk during Paris Haute Couture Week. The artist's works are in the collections of museums in many countries.
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Sławomir Fijałkowski – professor of fine arts, curator and designer.
Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Łódź (Poland) – Jewellery Design. He has worked in many private and public academies, currently leading the Experimental Design Studio at the
Faculty of Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. He deals with product and jewellery commercial design and author’s design. Participant, organizer and curator of many jewellery and design exhibitions, author of texts and educational programs in the field of contemporary jewellery. For over 20 years a curator of the International Jewellery Competition.
Mari Ishikawa
Mari Ishikawa - a graduate of the Nara University of Education in Japan and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Visiting Professor at the Kobe Design University in Japan. She participated in more than one hundred exhibitions (e.g. in Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Sweden, USA). Winner of many prestigious awards, including award in the 22nd International Jewellery Competition REVOLT, Legnica (2013). Her works have been included in several jewellery collections, among others: Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Great Britain; MAD – The Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, USA.
The jury member of the 32. IJC EMPATHY.
Live for pain
Peter Machata will present a selection of his works, where he will explain his ideological, material and technological strategies of his work. He will focus primarily on his newer work, where he applies digital technologies as an important tool for materializing ideas.
He will present not only the processes and materials that allow him to create spatial compositions or optical illusions, but also starting points of his ideas.
Peter Machata (ur. 1971 r.) – Slovak artist, creator of unique author's jewellery. He studied at the School of Applied Arts in Bratislava (1985-1991), Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (1991-1997) and Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel (1995-1996). Participant of nearly 60 exhibitions (more than 20 of which he co-organized with artist Jana Machatová) in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, France, Hungary, Austria, Italy and the United States. Six times qualified for the prestigious Schmuck exhibition in Munich.
Reliquary of st. Bartos
Computer & Jewellery - Kateřina Nora Nováková
Museum for Glass and Jewellery in Jablonec nad Nisou has prepared an exhibition of contemporary jewellery - Computer&Jewellery, as part of the International Triennial of Glass and Jewellery Jablonec 2023. The featured 36 artists respond to the impact of computer technology on our society, both in a positive and negative sense.
Kateřina Nora Nováková has been working in the field of contemporary jewellery since 1995. Since then, she has been curator of the jewellery collection at the North Bohemian Museum in Liberec and for the last four years she has been working as a curator at the Museum of Glass and Costume Jewellery in Jablonec nad Nisou. She has also lectured on jewellery theory at the Technical University in Liberec and has written dozens of articles, several books and prepared many exhibitions, especially on contemporary Czech and Slovak jewellery.
SMCK ON REEL is a project by SMCK Magazine. The video festival was founded by Loukia Richards and Christoph Ziegler in 2022.
Video works by more than a hundred jewelry artists have already been screened in crafts and jewelry international meetings such as Grassimesse in Leipzig, Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein, Galerie Handwerk, Galerie Weltraum in Munich, Metalofonas Biennial in Vilnius, Faktor Art Space in Hamburg, ROJW in Bucharest / Timisoara / Chisinau, and the Museum of History of Ukraine in bombarded Kiev.
Hamburgische Stiftung, one of Germany's major cultural foundation, as well as The City of Munich have sponsored some of the video screenings.
Reels offer the art-loving public insight into the maker’s narrative, enable low-budget international networking and promotion, and enrich the viewer’s appreciation of applied art and design.
The Institute of Jewellery at the Wł. Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts is the only one with this specialisation among higher art education institutions in Poland. Its roots go back to the late 1950s, when the artist and educator Lena Kowalewicz-Wegner established the first metal-related studio at the State Higher School of Fine Arts. Her didactic and artistic principles are a valuable legacy continued by all educators of AoFA.
Jewellery design has been present in Łódź for 65 years. The long-term result of this legacy is the Institute educating students in many areas closely related to the goldsmithing field. The educational cycle is implemented in a system of full-time undergraduate and postgraduate studies. It educates designers of jewellery and goldsmith forms. Students design and make: unique and industrial jewellery, table objects, metal accessories, medals, statuettes, etc.
Work with students is mainly geared towards developing individual artistic aptitude, imagination, creativity and manual skills. Parallel learning in the design and workshop studios provides students with optimum specialised preparation both as industrial designers and independent artists, allowing graduates to make an individualised career choice.
The Golden Spring
Golden Spring - Award of the Institute of Jewellery of the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts Łódź for an outstanding personality of the goldsmith community in Poland.
The Golden Spring is a distinction awarded to an outstanding personality whose actions drive the goldsmith community. They stand out for their artistic achievements and take an active part in the development of Polish goldsmithing. They are visible, inspiring and motivating others to act. The Golden Spring is awarded by a jury composed of teachers and representatives of students of the Institute of Jewellery, who want to highlight the role played by the selected person.
The originator of the award is prof. Andrzej Boss, who made and designed a unique trophy in the form of a spring, intended to emphasize the springing impact of the distinguished person on the goldsmithing community.
Jury members:
Educators:
M. Owczarek–Siwak, A. Boss, O.Podfilipska–Krysińska, S. Kuchczynski, M. Nowak, J. Kolec, I. Kędzior
students:
M. Matras, T. Olszak, J. Anioł, J. Ciołkowska, K. Dyczko, W. Łuckiewicz
Silver Party
May 11, at 20:00
Ratuszowa Restaurant, Rynek 39
Silver Party is an event at the end of the festival for festival guests. A social meeting for exhibition participants and co-organizers will summarize this year's festival opening and will be an opportunity to integrate the international community of goldsmith artists.
Attendance with the invitation.
