When two bankers meet, they talk about art.

Sales experts of luxury goods (such as jewellery) call the new indispensable marketing tool: Story Telling. Art and craft market professionals in London and Berlin do agree that a good story behind your work is what gives the customer the final incentive or „kick“ to buy it. In our new interdisciplinary project “They call me […]

ΛΗΞΗ ΑΙΤΗΣΕΩΝ: 30 ΑΠΡΙΛΙΟΥ_“Το ονομα μου είναι Κανενας” – Προσκληση για εκδηλωση ενδιαφεροντος σε προγραμμα AIR Αθηνα και Performance στο Αμβουργο.

“ΤΟ ΟΝΟΜΑ ΜΟΥ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΚΑΝΕΝΑΣ” ΠΡΟΣΚΛΗΣΗ ΓΙΑ ΕΚΔΗΛΩΣΗ ΕΝΔΙΑΦΕΡΟΝΤΟΣ ΣΥΜΜΕΤΟΧΗΣ σε πρόγραμμα AIR Αθήνα και Performance στο Αμβούργο. Η πρόσκληση για εκδήλωση ενδιαφέροντος συμμετοχής στο διπλό πρόγραμμα: Artist Residency/Εξειδικευμένων εργαστηρίων στην Αθήνα και πραγματοποίησης περφόρμανς στον χώρο τέχνης 2025 στο Αμβούργο απευθύνεται σε εικαστικούς που εργάζονται τον τομέα των εικαστικών, της περφόρμανς, της τέχνης του […]

Apply by 30 April_ “THEY CALL ME NOBODY”_ AIR+Workshops+Performance Programme Athens +PERFORMANCE at 2025 Hamburg

“THEY CALL ME NOBODY” AIR & Workshops Programme Athens + PERFORMANCE at 2025 Hamburg 2018 Application DEADLINE: Monday 30 April Write to loukiarichards@gmx.de 1. INTRODUCTION: “They call me Nobody” is the answer Odysseus gave to the one eyed, man-eating monster Cyclop before blinding him. Odysseus is the mythical king of Ithaca whose adventures Greek poet […]

Munich Jewellery Week’s future challenges

Now the MJW 2018 is over, romantics recall nice memories and post their selfies in the social media, while sceptics think about challenges to be addressed soon, if a sustainable, innovative, independent and extrovert MJW is to be wished – a MJW comprising of appr. 100 venues in metropolitan Munich. The following account of basic […]

Don’t shoot the curator!

Picture: The Curator_Christoph Ziegler_2015. Credit: Christoph Ziegler A fellow curator received the following text messages sent by an artist participating in the group show she curated. The messages have been forwarded to us and we publish them to highlight an issue occuring – more often than we may wish to admit – in the jewellery […]

Intellectual property+its violation.

Artists often think that intellectual property refers only to the works they make. Intellectual property is a broader term applying also to ideas and concepts. EU laws protect intellectual property even if there is no specific mention on the issue in the written agreement. However, we – Christoph Ziegler and Loukia Richards alias ZLR Betriebsimperium- […]

Jewellery as a means to reflect on the essence of all things surrounding us!

By ZLR Betriebsimperium* The following text has been published in the November 2017 issue of Findings – the UK Association for Contemporary Jewellery magazine. Photo: Three women, 2017. Loukia Richards for ZLR Bteriebsimperium. Jewellery inspired by Gestapo prisoners’ graffitis at the Greek Resistance Memorial in Athens. Contemporary art has the mission to interfere actively in […]