Talente is a showcase and competition for newcomers under thirty-three who work in design and technology. It takes place as a special show during the International Trade Fair for the Skilled Trades in Munich each year in March. The exhibition gives young artists the chance to show their new and innovative ideas to the public.
Deadline: 5.10.2020
Read more:
https://www.hwk-muenchen.de/talente
Application:
https://www.hwk-expo.de
Schmuck is a special show of the International Trade Fair for the Skilled Trades taking place in Munich in March each year since 1959. Jewellery art reflects its day and age. Artists may refer to a political or social background, they may be rooted in fashion or arts. The high standards and stunning inventiveness of its participants turn the international special show Schmuck into a renowned show case for trends in jewellery art world wide.
Deadline: 5.10.2020
Read more:
https://www.hwk-muenchen.de/schmuck
Application:
https://www.hwk-expo.de
The call has been re-opened in order to make a double edition in Spring 2021 possible.
To give emphasis to this anomalous period, we decided to record this transition between what “was” until the explosion of the pandemic, the dangers of contagion, the paralysis of all activities and confinement – called the PRE – and what gives that moment onwards involved rethinking our lives, our reactions, our roles – called the POST.
New deadline: 31.1.2021
Read more:
https://gioiellinfermento.com/regolamento/guidelines/
”A
holographic Whitney Houston is just setting off on a European tour, and
she is not the first pop idol resurrected to perform “live” again…
You can plan a holiday in space because in two years’ time a hotel on
orbit will be available for an exorbitant price of nearly $ 800,000 per
day!
A brave new world? Is it really for us?”
We invite you to take up the challenge presented by this topic and we
look forward to see your ideas. We are counting on your inspiring and
creative voice in the discussion and we are waiting for your entries until 15 March 2020.
Soon the Terms & Regulations with the development of the
competition theme will be published on our website. At the same time we
would like to inform you that the culmination of next year’s Festival,
to which we are already inviting you, will take place on 8-9 May 2020.
Deadline: 15.3.2020
All information and application:
http://silver.legnica.eu/en/
The Japan Jewellery Design Competition is a biennial event, that has been held since 1965. It is the biggest and the most historic Jewellery Design Competition in Japan. It has been seeking epoch-making jewellery and asking what is the value of jewellery that will lead to nextgeneration. We have held this event internationally several times in the past, and those were good opportunities to discover and assess Japanese jewellery in the global stage. Through out these activities, this competition has been highly acclaimed by both the cultural and the design fields domestically and internationally. We are pleased to announce that it is again open for applicants from all over the world this year. We are aiming at bringing the jewellery to even higher level by searching for innovative jewellery design together, and introduce them to the world.
Japan Jewellery Designers Designers Association (JJDA) is always furthering the development of the biennial jewellery design competitions that have been held since their establishment in 1964 to promote even higher standards of jewellery design. JJDA views jewellery as a form of art design, and value much more than its material value. Based on this concept, JJDA widely calls for entries for finished work and also design drawings. JJDA’s final goal is to establish a firm position within the jewellery world and to cultivate human resources for the next generation by improving standards of Japanese jewellery design by awarding prizewinners.
Deadline: 6.3.2020
All information and application:
http://jjda.or.jp/en/compe/index.html
Open call for established and emerging artists and designers, to present a work of experimental jewellery, still unreleased.
Theme of the competition:
Fermento!
AGING and EVOLUTION
Affinamento ed evoluzione
For 10 years, the main focus of the competition has been inspired by the chemical phenomenon of fermentation as the metaphor underlining the evolutionary aspect of contemporary experimental jewellery, which represents a crossroads between individual research paths and international collective atmospheres. A piece of jewellery is the result of a pure fermenting process.
The
general context of the project Gioielli in Fermento, as it to say about
the term fermentation, ideally refers to a suitably “transformed”
result, an art jewellery piece, which constitutes the outcome of the
research itself, linked to phases of preparation, experimentation,
quality determination.
Apart from the chemical phenomenon, which has a precise role in the
world of wine, over the years we have tried to investigate this concept
more and more by putting it in relation with the world of contemporary
body ornaments.
At the turn of the X Edition, the theme, from fermentation, leads to Aging and Evolution with the purpose of communicating something even more accomplished and beyond the inherent state of maturation.
The winning work will express a singular creative energy, that original individuality of research studio jewellery that represents the idea of contemporary fermento (restlessness, excitement, trepidation, upheaval …) through the maturity of the path, experienced by its author.
Deadline: 23.2.2020
All information and application:
https://gioiellinfermento.com/open-call-2020/
An art project for jewelry artists living in countries surrounding the Baltic Sea
With project Land Jewelry we invite jewelry artists living by the Baltic Sea to create landart. The project consists of several phases, the main event of which will be a week creating landart on Öland, Sweden, in the summer of 2020. We are hereby calling for participants.
Altogether ten artists (including the two of us organizing the event) will interact with the Baltic Sea environment on the eastern shore of the Swedish island Öland and create ‘jewelry for the land’ using only found materials of the area around them – natural or human-made. Therefore an important point is to challenge yourself and your practice as a jewelry artist in creating something possibly very different from what you usually do.
Deadline: 15.3.2020
All information and application:
http://wpandikow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/OPEN-CALL-Land-Jewelry-2020.pdf
Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia Conference 2020, 11.-13.9.2020
The conference committee invite expressions of interest to chair sessions of the conference that address one or more of the following themes:
All formats are invited including but not limited to opinion, critique,
discussion, report, performance and video. The duration of sessions is
also flexible from 20 minutes to 60 minutes. You may draft a provocation
and call for abstracts in response to your provocation. Those could be
presented as a series of short format talks within the conference and
you may consider assembling the resources to publish those after
proceedings. Alternatively, you might facilitate a panel discussion or
deliver a short lecture or artist talk.
The following list provides general suggestions and we encourage alternate ideas:
Deadline: 7.2.2020
More information and submission of content:
https://jmga2020.com.au/
Ultimate Beauty
Beauty is also for the eyes, but first of all it creates and stabilises our identity. We perceive others as beautiful if they are charismatic, just as we welcome things as beautiful if they carry a story. Our striving for beauty is actually a striving for life. Therefore, we appreciate a kind of beauty that lasts longer than a moment and which seduces us to live. Amber radiates this special kind of beauty. With its wide spectrum of natural colours, it highlights the wearer’s beauty and identity. Its natural inclusions and small cracks speak of life beyond perfection. In Amberif Design Award, we seek jewellery with amber as a commentary on ultimate beauty.
Barbara Schmidt – curator of the contest
Deadline: 12.2.
Terms and conditions, more information and registration: https://amberif20.exposupport.pl/en-us/amberif/award
Kotkan Meripäivät ja Merikeskus Vellamo järjestävät yhteistyössä Suomen Kultaseppien liiton, Taiteen edistämiskeskuksen ja Suomen Kellomuseon kanssa meripihka-aiheisen korukilpailun.
Tarkoituksena on syventyä perinteiseen koruraaka-aineeseen meripihkaan ja löytää sille uudenlaista, nykyaikaan soveltuvaa käyttöä korumuotoilun ja korutaiteen keinoin.
Kilpailu on kaksiosainen.
Ensimmäisessä vaiheessa eli suunnitteluvaiheessa osallistujat esittelevät suunnitelmansa kuvina.
Toiseen vaiheeseen eli finaalivaiheeseen valitut 10 finalistia toteuttavat omakustanteisesti suunnitelmansa valmiiksi koruiksi.
Kilpailutöistä järjestetään näyttely Merikeskus Vellamon galleriassa Kotkan Meripäivien aikana 23.-26.7.2020, jatkuen 13.8.2020 asti. Näyttelyssä on esillä sekä finalistien valmistamat korut että muut kilpailuehdotukset, jotka esitellään audiovisuaalisin keinoin. Tavoite on, että kilpailutyöt ovat esillä myös muissa näyttelyissä Suomessa ja Baltian maissa vuosien 2020-21 aikana.
Arvostelussa kiinnitetään huomiota ehdotusten uniikkiuteen, taiteellisuuteen, toteutustapaan sekä siihen kuinka meripihka on nähty korukontekstissa uudenlaisesti.
Kilpailu on yleinen, kaikille avoin korusuunnittelukilpailu. Kilpailua markkinoidaan Suomen lisäksi erityisesti Kotkan ystävyyskaupungeissa Liettuassa, Puolassa sekä Virossa. Kilpailun kielinä ovat suomi ja englanti.
Kilpailun säännöt ja osallistuminen: https://www.meripaivat.com/ajankohtaista/aqua-ambra-aquila-kotkan-kansainvalinen-korukilpailu-kilpailukutsu/