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Jewelry artists, leave your ivory tower asap!

This is ZLR Betriebsimperium’s jewellery art manifesto. Jewellery artists should leave their ivory tower and open up to the challenges of the real world. Working on your emotions and thematising it, as many jewellery artists do, is great and therapeutical, but after all, who cares about how you feel? Look around you and wonder: Why […]

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OPEN CALL 4 SMCK ON REEL 2023 – ROJW Special Editions 

SMCK ON REEL 2023 – ROJW Special Editions:  Timisoara/ European Capital of Culture, 30 June – 2 July Romania – Chisinau, Moldova Republic,17 – 31 August  Bucharest – 4 – 8 October 2023 This year SMCK ON REEL, the first video festival inspired by jewelry and applied art. is titled „Civilization Rebooted“.  Participants are requested to elaborate […]

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OCEAN TREASURES_WAGNER PREZIOSEN_GALLERY WEEKEND BERLIN

Christoph Ziegler and Loukia Richards aka ZLR Betriebsimperium are honored and happy to participate in the group exhibition OCEAN TREASURES at WAGNER PREZIOSEN, 28-30 April 2023, during Gallery Weekend Berlin. To download the amazingly beautiful catalogue featuring contemporary jewellery artists and antique treasures inspired by sea creatures and coral stories, press: https://www.zlr-betriebsimperium.com/Ocean_Treasures_WagnerPreziosen.pdf

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EXPERTS TALK

Photo credit: Sigurd Bronger. Contemporary jewelry as a genre or art discipline must open up to the broader public. This is a task for individual artists, but it also requires a collective effort. Before professionals join forces, they should be aware that the lack of communication between the different agents and sectors of the contemporary […]

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Rejected/Approved

SMCK Magazine No.8 Rejected / Approved  Capitalism is the economic system dominating Western societies for the last four centuries. It has shown remarkable resilience, though not necessarily fairness. Nevertheless, this school of thought produces wealth. Being ‘anti-capitalist’ as a jewelry artist – the latest trend – is like shooting yourself in the foot.  The explosion […]

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