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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 […]

SMCK ON REEL at ROJW

Apply by 18 June 2023! Information: https://myths2015munich.wordpress.com/2023/05/23/open-call-4-smck-on-reel-2023-rojw-special-editions/

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 […]

Artist residency Athens _ Special Offers_July+ August

Artist residency Athens _ Special Offers_July and August 2023 Prices start at 25,00 euro/day for down town studios between 52-200 sm / one person/ minimum stay 14 days. Artists groups or initiatives of 2-8 artists are also encouraged to apply. Deadline to apply is 1 June 2023. For information/reservation: favelab.info@gmail.com https://favelab.net/studios.html

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

ARTIST RESIDENCY ATHENS_Summer 2023_SPECIAL OFFERS

Fees for down town Athens studios with excellent light conditions in vivid and artistic neighborhoods start at 29,00 euro/ night for artists residencies during the period: 22 May to 18 June 2023 and 1 August to 10 September 2023. Minimum stay is two weeks. For more information, please contact: favelab.info@gmail.com

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 […]

SMCK ON REEL 2023 // Civilization Rebooted

SMCK ON REEL 2023 // Civilization Rebooted presents a video program consisting of three parts – CIVILIZATION REBOOTED / EXPERTS TALK / ART IN THE LAND OF WAR – answering the question: How will the future of jewelry look like? Videos shot by jewelry artists focus on topics, such as environmental catastrophe, war, fear, death, new values and new […]

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 […]

OPEN CALL_THE ROAD TO ELEFSINA_ARTIST RESIDENCY

For 2,000 years a farming community was the spiritual center of the ancient world. Pilgrims from all over came to Eleusis (modern-day Elefsina) to be initiated to mysteries befriending them with death. Men, women, free people, and slaves, Greeks and foreigners. It did not matter who you were. The rituals of initiation were kept secret […]

SMCK 8: Rejected APPROVED

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