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Your Actions Are Pointless If No One Notices

Your Actions Are Pointless If No One NoticesOnline Press workshop for artists, curators and gallerists Jenny Holzer’s famous quote from her art series Truisms (1988) sounds cynical. However, many artists, designers, curators and gallerists work hard, but cannot reach the broader public. Unfortunately, good work (only) does not guarantee exposure, recognizability, fame, customers. A press […]

3 places available_ Metamorphoses _Schmuck 2022_MUNICH

JEWELLERY / OBJECT / PERFORMANCE / VIDEO The group exhibition Metamorphoses will be shown from 24 February – 2 April 2022 at Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein Gallery in Munich during Schmuck 2022, accompanied by a LIVE online presentation. The group show follows an intensive e-Residency including online workshops, individual coaching and group meetings during Autumn/Winter 2021/2022. Metamorphoses […]

e-Residency: HELEN OF SPARTA

Intensive 4-day virtual residency + workshop + public presentation for visual, multimedia and interdisciplinary artists, jewellery and fashion designers. Helen, the mythical queen of Sparta, falls in love with the enemy and causes a merciless war. The Helen of Sparta eResidency aims at inspiring eight artists/writers/performers to develop their own updated version of the […]

35.000 reads in three weeks!

Dear readers, Thank you for honoring our work. Support our enthusiastic team by buying the eBook or the Print-On-Demand version of SM*CK Magazine for Independent Artists or by placing an ad in the #rebel issue – coming out in October 2020!! http://www.smck.org

Covid-19, the economy and the arts

Visual notes by Loukia Richards on the consequences of Covid-19 on the economy, the arts and the arts&crafts market. Photo credit: Chistoph Ziegler. Order a print version of SM*CK Magazine and get the visual note for free! http://www.smck.org

Helen’s Dress_e-Residency_A Wrap Up

The e-Residency program “Helen’s Dress” was an innovative answer to COVID-19 travel restrictions. The e-Residency replaced the scheduled, same name, „physical residency“ in Vamvakou (Greece) which had to be canceled. Both the AIR and e-Residency program was designed and curated by visual artists Christoph Ziegler and Loukía Richards aka ZLR Betriebsimperium after a duo’s original idea […]

Jewellery+e-commerce: It’s not what you think!

E-commerce caveat What did we learn from e-dealing with vintage jewellery and objects over the years By ZLR Betriebsimperium Selling online is an additional step to promote your work. However, before you plunge into the e-commerce-euphoria, you should consider the following: 1. Customs. The war on global trade includes controls and fees which may influence […]

At home and enlighted

Stay Home, Read-Reflect, Be Merry: Upcycled Lamps by Christoph Ziegler made of 100% processed Greek trash and vintage parts. For stock/price catalogue, please contact: favelab.info@gmail.com Photo credit: Christoph Ziegler

WAR_Comics+Jewlery: St.Barbara

Photo credit: Christoph Ziegler. Ελληνικό κειμενο μετά το αγγλικό. WAR_ΠΟΛΕΜΟΣ group show – originally scheduled for Schmuck 2020/Jewellery Week of Munich 2020 – will take place on 5-8 November 2020 at Weltraum Gallery, Munich. In the meanwhile, participants decided to present their work, concepts and thoughts through a different art medium: comics! Comics is often […]