NEW: INITIATION_AIR_Jewlery Artists_Athens_JUL-DEC 2018

After the successful completion of our first Athens AIR+Workshops series for Jewellery Artists/Designers (2015-2018), we announce a new series of intensive one-week-long Artist Residencies including curated visits in major art and jewellery collections, as well as creativity boosting “Story Telling+Performance” workshops. The programme addresses international jewellery artists and designers who wish to understand the very […]

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 […]

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 […]

Everyhing you need to know about MJW, but you do not know whom to ask!

Munich Jewellery Week 2018 is approaching. We will present our 4th international group show inspired by Greek spirituality: “Initiation 2018 // Kalichoron” at Florian Trampler Gallery. The new project in Munich follows an Artist Residency in Athens, where participants were introduced into the Greek world view and art; we also had the opportunity, during the […]

Initiation 2018 // Kallichoron_MunichJWeek2018: A Jewellery, Narrative & Performance show to reflect the night of the sacred orgies.

Photo: The mystical rose of Eleusina. Credit: Christoph Ziegler The project INITIATION 2018 // KALLICHORON focuses on „Body – Ritual – Narrative“ as a means to bridge jewellery with the sacred context of its origins and to find meaning in its future development. For 2.000 years Eleusina, a farmers’ community close to Athens, was the […]

Q&A_s: INITIATION 2018 – Munich Jewlery Week

Here are some of the questions artists/designers/makers interested in our project “Initiation 2018 – Kallichoron at Munich Jewellery Week” ask us: Who is loukiarichards@gmx.de I have to send my questions to? Loukia Richards is an artist and curator. She was a nominee for the Herbert Hofmann Prize in „Schmuck 2017“. Richards has lectured for Zimmerhof […]

INITIATION@MUNICH JEWLERY WEEK 2018 (via Athena)/Only 1 place available!

This is the Open Call for international artists working in the field of jewellery who want to participate in our group show at Munich Jewellery Week (8-11 March 2018). INITIATION 2018 – KALLICHORON addresses international artists working in the field of jewellery regardless of their knowledge of or connection to Greece or/and Greek culture. INITIATION […]