Declaration of accessibility

The Gallery of Art undertakes to ensure the accessibility of its website in accordance with the Act of 4 April 2019 on digital accessibility of websites and mobile applications of public entities. The declaration of accessibility applies to the BIP (Bulletin of Public Information) website of the Gallery.

Date of the website publication: 2020-12-01. Date of the latest significant update: 2020-12-01.

The website is partially compliant with the Act of 4 April 2019 on Digital Accessibility of Websites and mobile applications of public entities due to the inconsistencies or exclusions listed below:

- films are not subtitled for deaf people,

- some files are not digitally accessible,

- the absence of an adequate article headline structure,

Exemptions:

- maps are exempt from the obligation to ensure accessibility,

- the films were published before the Digital Accessibility Act came into force

The declaration was made on: [ 2020-11-18 ]. The declaration is based on a self-assessment by the public entity.

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Architectural accessibility

1. The entrance to the Gallery is located at the side of the Town Square.
2. It is possible to use corridors and stairs in the Gallery.
3. The Gallery has no parking spaces designated for the disabled.
4. It is allowed to enter the Gallery in the company of an assisting dog.
5. The Gallery offers no sign language translation – neither on site nor online.

The International Collection of Contemporary Jewellery

After 25 years of "silver" shows, presented mainly as part of Legnica SILVER Festival, the Gallery of Art in Legnica decided to organize its achievements in the field of promotion of contemporary, avant-garde jewellery and in 2004 started building a permanent collection. Most of the works were obtained in the years 2013-2016 thanks to funding from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Currently, the Collection consists of about half a thousand works, which makes it one of the largest international collections of contemporary artistic jewelry in Europe.

It consists of objects of the latest art, their vast majority of created in the 21st century. To a large extent, these are works that have been awarded in the Legnica International Jewellery Competition – the main event of Legnica SILVER Festival – as well as objects presented at accompanying exhibitions. The Collection includes works by artists from various parts of the world, showing a wide range of possibilities of using body decoration to create a work of art. The collection consists of examples of contemporary, unique jewellery as well as design objects and installations with the function of jewellery by the best Polish and foreign designers.

Legnica Collection bears witness to the wealth of contexts, techniques, materials and ways of thinking about jewellery – from speculation on the traditional understanding of ornamentation, through the medium of content, used to manifest the artist's views, to the work of conceptual art, in which the physical object serves only the function of conveying an idea. The Collection shows therefore the evolution of the concept of jewellery: from pure ornamentation to the medium of specific content and value of social importance. It is organized according to two systems: chronological and problematic.

Legnica's shows have been repeatedly devoted to current social or philosophical and aesthetic problems, generating surprisingly original, fresh, up-to-date and innovative works. In this respect, the Collection and the way it is organized may turn out to be an original and unique set of this kind.

In frame of Action Collection project we present contemporary jewellery from our collection on Instagram. You can find more informations about this activity HERE. Project is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund.

Where did the SILVER come from in Legnica?

Legnica is a historic town of almost 100,000 people, located in Lower Silesia region in south-western Poland. This location is unique as Polish, Czech and German traditions meet here. For centuries the region has been famous for its natural resources, especially gold, silver and copper deposits. Today, mines and smelters are still thriving here, producing copper and silver in the quantities relevant on the world’s scale. The artistic trace of this activity is Legnica SILVER Festival.

For over forty years, the Gallery of Art in Legnica has specialised internationally in the presentation and promotion of contemporary jewellery and artistic objects made mainly of silver. It organises individual and group exhibitions of Polish and foreign artists, publishes exhibition catalogues, organises popular science seminars, jewellery and fashion shows, competitions and jewellery workshops. The most important jewellery-related event organised by the institution is SILVER Legnica Festival held in May.

More than 40 years have passed since the first official silver jewellery show was organised in Legnica by Marek Nowaczyk. His idea fell on fertile ground – many artists and lovers of jewellery art got involved in the event very quickly. Marek Nowaczyk was commissioner of almost all the reviews until 1998. The first shows of artistic jewellery were organised jointly by the BWA Gallery – the Black Gallery – as the Gallery of Art was called then, Desa and the District Copper Museum. Soon, the Gallery itself took the event under its wing and continues this mission to this day – in the form of Legnica SILVER Festival. At the turn of the century, the position of the main consultant of the event and the international competition was entrusted to Professor Sławomir Fijałkowski, who for the next 20 years had a direct influence on the development of Legnica SILVER Festival, changing its scope from national to European and then worldwide. Over the 40 years of Festival history, the event has undergone a considerable evolution, changing its programme to achieve today's form and international prominence.

Who are we?

Legnica SILVER Festival is one of the largest events in Europe presenting contemporary artistic jewellery. The most important event of the Festival is the International Jewellery Competition which every year gathers several hundred works by artists from all over the world. The distribution of awards and the qualification of works for the exhibition is decided by an international jury consisting of renowned artists, professors, critics, experts and jewellery collectors. Each year the competition is held under a different title referring to important, universal problems and issues from the spheres of broadly understood art, culture, sociology or media.

The Festival also features numerous individual and collective exhibitions. Within the exhibition series About the Artists, Silver Schools and Debuts, we present both well-known artists with a rich artistic output and students of art colleges studying jewellery design and creation. Among the artists who presented their works in Legnica are Karol Weisslechner, Jarosław Westermark, Norman Cherry, Ramón Puig Cuyàs, Georg Dobler, Herman Hermsen, Ruudt Peters, Tabea Reulecke, Paweł Kaczyński, Jorge Manilla, Felieke van der Leest, Mari Ishikawa, Philip Sajet, Herman Hermsen, Małgorzata Kalińska, Sława Tchórzewska or Sara Gackowska. Each edition of SILVER is accompanied by numerous publications documenting the development and most important phenomena in the field of artistic jewellery.

Every year in May – during the culmination of Legnica SILVER Festival – numerous meetings with artists, vernissages and a theoretical seminar entitled "The Boundaries of Global Art" take place, exploring the currently presented exhibitions and touching upon issues related to contemporary jewellery, art and design.

The event is organised by the Gallery of Art in Legnica, which has specialised in the presentation of contemporary jewellery for almost 50 years. Each year, the Gallery Team works on the preparation of exhibitions and events. The “silver” activities of the Gallery are supported by KGHM Polska Miedź, the City of Legnica, as well as by our Partners and a Team of Volunteers. For 20 years the event's general consultant has been prof. Sławomir Fijałkowski (Faculty of Architecture and Design, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk).

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The Gallery of Art in Legnica, pl. Katedralny 1

4 May – 31 August, 2021

Opening hours:

Tuesday-Sunday: 12:00-6:00 p.m.

ABOUT THE COMPETITION:
The cyclical International Jewellery Competition is the leading event of Legnica SILVER Festival, organised by the Gallery of Art in Legnica since 1979. The competition is of a purely artistic nature, favouring the artist's idea and statement on a given theme. The interpretation of the theme and the artistic value of the statement are the basic criteria for qualifying works for the exhibition. The theme of the 29th edition of the competition was: Still Human? Out of 357 works submitted by 186 artists from 35 countries, the jury selected 44 artists for the exhibition.

The catalogue of the post-competition exhibition is available for download HERE.

IDEA:
A holographic Whitney Houston is just setting off on a European tour, and she is not the first pop idol resurrected to perform “live” again... You can plan a holiday in space because in 2027 a hotel on orbit will be available for an exorbitant price of nearly $ 800,000 per day!

A brave new world? Is it really for us?

We, humans, are drowning in depression - in ten years’ time depression will be the most common disease of mankind, although even today only 5% of the population are considered thoroughly healthy. Obesity kills three times as many people as famine, while death from exhaustion happens every second in the world, with half the food produced globally being wasted. In our civilized world, wars, attacks, assaults and massacres still pay off, and two out of five murdered women in the world are killed at home by their partner.

“Today – as the philosopher writes ominously – we can only fear ourselves”¹.

Even theocentrism and the Copernican Revolution have not cured us from selfishness, nor have they taught us humility in the face of nature’s greatness and the power of its elements. Living in a post-human reality shared with humanoid mutants, clones, cyborgs and hybrids, we still refuse to accept the crisis of anthropocentrism.

In an era when machines are smarter than people and it is with them that we spend most of the day, when we irreversibly overgrow with plastic (it is deposited in our bodies and at the bottom of the oceans), when we are able to examine, produce and sell everything, we continue to argue about the humanity of the zygote, the primitive tribes, the coloured races, or finally the urban existence that isolates us from nature and the natural rhythm of day and night, replacing the bonds of neighbourhood with media-communities. We still need bodies, but aesthetic medicine and medical nanotechnologies, body art with Orlan and Stelarc at the forefront, body hacking and virtual reality evidence the fact that we are just crossing this immemorial border. We haven’t got rid of the reptile’s brain, but we have gained a „smartphone thumb”, we haven’t freed ourselves from animal instincts, but we get cybersex and adrenaline... in the cinema chair.

Would the first cloned sheep Dolly or Alba (the fluorescent rabbit by Eduardo Kac) forgive us? And the lions, elephants and whales killed mindlessly on a whim, or dolphins, whom we defined as non-human persons in 2013, but still imprison, abuse and kill? Choosing the concrete jungle, the virtual world, swallowing synthetic dietary supplements, drinking nutritional drinks - are we as human as our ancestors? Turning away from other people and towards ourselves in a selfie gesture – are we still human? Have we conquered the world or have we destroyed it?

Behind all this there are human beings... But are they still human?

Justyna Teodorczyk, 2020

1) Jolanta Brach-Czaina, Błony umysłu, Warsaw, Sic! Publishing House, 2003, p. 123.

JURY OF THE COMPETITION:

Caroline Broadhead – visual artist and designer of utility objects, currently Professor Emerita at BA Jewellery Design, Central Saint Martins, London (UK). Winner of many awards and prizes, including: Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts: Textiles in 1997, Textiles International Open in 2004 and The Goldsmiths Craft & Design Council Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.

Maria Magdalena Kwiatkiewicz – co-founder and co-owner of the YES Jewellery company, founder of the YES Gallery presenting the artistic activities of independent Polish designers and jewellery-makers. In 2019 she published the book Artist Jewellers. Conversations About Polish Jewellery. She owns the largest private collection of contemporary Polish jewellery.

Georg Dobler – artist-goldsmith, from 2002 to 2019 professor at the HAWK School of Applied Arts and Sciences in Hildesheim, Germany, where he has been holding the honorary position of Professor Erimitus since 2019. He began his goldsmithing education at the Berufsfachschule für Goldschmiedekunst, then, together with the goldsmith Winfried Krüger, founded a contemporary jewellery studio.

Darijus Gerlikas – artist-goldsmith, graduate of the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts (Lithuania). Co-founder and member of the Vilnius Association of Arts and Crafts and member of the Lithuanian Association of Artists. Founder and owner of VILNENSIS gallery. Founder and director of VILNENSIS Jewellery School, associate professor at the Faculty of Design, Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts.

Sławomir Fijałkowski – designer of utility objects, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (Experimental Design Studio), curator of Amberif - the Amber and Jewellery Fair, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Jewellery Design and postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für künstlerische und industrielle Gestaltung in Linz, Austria.

PARTICIPANTS OF THE EXHIBITION:
Silvia Bellia (Italy), Rita Besnyői (Hungary), Annarita Bianco (Italy), Alexander Blank (Germany), Andrzej Boss (Poland), Laurent Brune (France), Renata Campisani (Italy), Carla Castiajo (Portugal), Anna and Witold Chudzik (Poland), Jacek Franasik (Poland), Mariana Bilbao Gonzalez-Dueñas (Spain), Julia Groos (Germany), Marta Havličková (Czech Republic), Esther Heite (Germany), Tuija Hietanen (Finland), Romualdas Inčirauskas (Lithuania) , Tadeusz Jaśkowiak (Poland), Rasa Jundulaité - Lithuania), Małgorzata Kalińska (Poland), Dovillé Kazakevičiené (Lithuania), Izabela Kędzior (Poland), Ji Young Kim (Republic of Korea), Renata Korpas-Sutowicz (Poland), Zofia and Witold Kozubscy (Poland), Felieke van der Leest (Netherlands), Peter Machata (Slovakia), Dot Melanin (Germany), Wu Meng-Ju (Taiwan), Mireia Calaf Mensa (Spain), Michalina Owczarek-Siwak (Poland), Sham Patwardhan -Joshi (Germany), Ruudt Peters (Netherlands), Kirsten Plank (Germany), Hana Polivková (Czech Republic), Paulius Rukas (Lithuania), Tieke Scheerlinck (Belgium), Kristýna Španihelová (Czech Republic), Sława Tchórzewska (Poland), Miroslava Veselá (Czech Republic), Heike Walk (Germany), Karol Weisslechner (Slovakia), Liu Yiqing (China), Olga Zielińska (Poland), Katarzyna Żuczkowska (Poland)

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL:
Legnica SILVER Festival is the most important event periodically organized by the Gallery of Art in Legnica. Every year, as part of it, over a dozen solo and collective exhibitions are presented, including: the International Jewellery Competition, About the Authors (a series of presentations of outstanding individualities of Polish and international goldsmithing), Silver Schools (a series of exhibitions showing the artistic achievements of European goldsmith and design schools, their professors, graduates and students), Debuts (a series promoting young Polish artists who are just entering the Polish and European goldsmithing scene. For many years now, the Festival has also included a series of popular-science seminars devoted to the latest art, goldsmithing and design entitled the Boundaries of Global Art as well as happenings and concerts. Every year the event is held under the patronage of the Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport, the Marshal of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship and the Mayor of the City of Legnica.

WINNERS OF THE COMPETITION:

EXHIBITIONS ONLINE

We would like to present the main personalities of the 41st edition of the Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER - designers, artists, goldsmiths, professors and students, whose works can be seen during this year's exhibitions in Legnica. We invite you to listen to unique stories and statements, and to get an insight into the artistic achievements of the presented artists.

The online tours of exhibitions are a unique form of meetings with the creators and curators of the exhibitions, which is a response to the restrictions associated with the organisation of traditional openings, which every year in May attracted lovers of contemporary art jewellery in Legnica.

Promotional video:

Extranalities 6: Mechanorganic

Handmade 2. Polish silver art 1979-1999:

Delphine Perrache, Confrontations:

Andrzej Szadkowski, The rhythm of creative work 1968-2021:

Marion Delarue, Strangeness matters:

29th Legnica International Jewellery Competition "Still human?":

Debuts:

Silver Schools:

EXHIBITION CATALOGS

As every year, the exhibitions of the Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER are accompanied by the catalogues. Publications give a closer look at presented pieces.

The following catalogues, presenting the exhibitions organized in frame of the Festival in 2021, can be downloaded below:

29th Legnica International Jewellery Competition Still human?

About the Artists: Marion Delarue, Strangeness matter

About the Artists: Delphine Perrache, Confrontations

Silver Schools: Jewellery and Metal Studio, Academy of Fine Arts (Shanghai University, China) and Metal and Jewel Studio, Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava (Slovakia)

Debuts: Justyna Kowalska

Debuts: Luiza Mężyńska

Extranalities 6: Mechanorganic

SILVER SCREEN

We invite you to the Silver Screen show, a synthesis of posters submitted and qualified for the 29th International Jewellery Competition "Still Human?" subjectively combined with selected quotations accompanying jewellery works qualified for this year's edition of the competition and a short story about civilization and social changes, inspiring to deeper reflection on the world around us.

An attempt to reflect on the condition of mankind, its place in the world and in the universe, but also on human achievements - on the one hand incredible and inspiring, on the other - terrifying due to the scale of human expansion and the price that the planet, we ourselves and our world pay for the ongoing race with ourselves.

The show is an answer to the question "Are we really still human?", it is a combination of the artists' reflections on such an up-to-date issue.

PHOTO SESSION

Diamonds are no longer girls' best friends! Ladies throw off their jewels. They put on artists' jewellery, enriched by the context and the story of the creator.

See the effects of a photo session with the works presented at the exhibitions of the Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER 2021.

Video from the photo session available HERE.

Eva Hudecová – Slovakia
brooches Identity

Eva Hudecová – Slovakia
brooches Identity

Eva Hudecová – Slovakia
brooches Identity

Eva Hudecová – Slovakia
brooches Identity

Eva Hudecová – Slovakia
brooches Identity

Dot Melanin – Germany
necklace Body

Dot Melanin – Germany
necklace Body

Andrzej Szadkowski – Poland
brooch from the Art Systems series

Andrzej Szadkowski – Poland
brooch from the Art Systems series

Andrzej Szadkowski – Poland
two-element necklace Peacock

Andrzej Szadkowski – Poland
two-element necklace Peacock

Andrzej Szadkowski – Poland
two-element necklace Peacock

Marion Delarue – France
bracelets Monsters for company

Marion Delarue – France
bracelets Monsters for company

Renata Korpas-Sutowicz – Poland
object Mirror

Renata Korpas-Sutowicz – Poland
object Mirror

Delphine Perrache – France
brooch Peep-show

Delphine Perrache – France
brooch Peep-show

Delphine Perrache – France
ring Cutting-edge
earrings Pegasus

Delphine Perrache – France
ring Cutting-edge

Delphine Perrache – France
necklace Borealis

Justyna Kowalska – Poland
ring from the collection Symmetry

Delphine Perrache – France
necklace Borealis

Justyna Kowalska – Poland
ring from the collection Symmetry

Mariana Bilbao Gonzalez-Dueñas – Spain
brooch Forget your name

Mariana Bilbao Gonzalez-Dueñas – Spain
brooch Forget your name

Justyna Kowalska – Poland
rings from the collection Symmetry

Justyna Kowalska – Poland
rings from the collection Symmetry

Luiza Mężyńska – Poland
pendant from the collection Beauty

Luiza Mężyńska – Poland
pendant from the collection Beauty

Sara Gackowska – Poland
brooch Loop

Sara Gackowska – Poland
brooch Loop

Vladimíra Labudová – Slovakia
ring Micro-Macro

Vladimíra Labudová – Slovakia
ring Micro-Macro

Marion Delarue – France
brooch Parrot devotees

Marion Delarue – France
brooch Parrot devotees

Shifa Hu – China
necklace Nostalgia

Shifa Hu – China
necklace Nostalgia

Delphine Perrache – France
pendant Dalliance

Delphine Perrache – France
pendant Dalliance

Models: Marta Ławniczek, Lidia / Agnieszka - SPP Models (Facebook, Instagram)

Place: Royal hall, Legnica Art Centre

Realization: Maciej Korbas, Łukasz Parlicki, Karolina Rojek

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