General Information

Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER

For thirty years, the Gallery of Art in Legnica has specialized in promoting contemporary jewellery and artistic objects made mainly of silver. We have been organising individual and group exhibitions of Polish and international artists, publishing exhibition catalogues, organising conferences and symposia, as well as fashion and jewellery shows, competitions and fairs. To date, we have presented several dozen original exhibition projects with accompanying catalogues and several hundred presentations in Poland and abroad, seen by hundreds of thousands of visitors. Our focus on silver art has been realised in several complementary venues and exhibition series.

Legnica International Jewellery Competition

(as a continuation of International Silver Art Review)

Legnica International Jewellery Compatition is the oldest, biggest and most important jewellery art event in Poland and one of the leading initiatives of this kind in Europe, which has been organized since 1979.

The Competition every year has another theme, has open charakter and is addressed to all artists, who have a task to submit works which are characterized by an original creative idea and high artistic and technical level. Idea, worth and sense of the artistic statement are prefered.

The history of these interesting and inspiring exhibitions includes:

Silver - the Art of the Object (1985)
She and He, Black and White (1986)
Silver and Textiles, Colour (1988)
Space (1992),
More than Silverware (1996)
States of Matter (1997)
Amulets (1998)
Self-portrait (2001)
the Circle (2003)
Short Message Silver (2004)
Deconstruction-Reconstruction (2005)
Scandal (2006)
Absolute Beauty (2007)
Exclusive (2008)
Decadence (2009)
Minimum (2010)

About the Artists

About the Artists is a cycle of retrospective presentations of distinguished personalities in jewellery art from Poland and abroad, including: A. Boss, J. Byczewski, A. Bandkowski, J. Bożek, S. Fijałkowski, P. Cieciura, F. Peters (Australia), J. Sokólski (Poland), H. O'Connor (USA), E. Knobel (Israel), W. Tasso-Mattar (Germany), P. Kaczyński, M. Petry (United Kingdom), V.K. Novák (Czech Republic).

Silver Schools

Silver Schools is a cycle presenting the artistic oeuvre of jewellery art schools, their professors, graduates, students from Poland and abroad. The schools presented to date include: the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Łódź; the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Prague (Czech Republic); the College of Art and Design in Łódź; ALCHIMIA Contemporary Jewellery School, Florence (Italy); Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, Tallinn (Estonia); and Escola Massana, Barcelona (Spain), State Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo (Norway), Le Arti Orafe, Florence (Italy), Akademie der Bildenden Kűnste, Munich (Germany), Zeichenakademie, Hanau (Germany), Instituto Statale D`Arte PIETRO SELVATICO, Padova (Italy), the Academy of Fine Arts, Vilnius (Lithuania), UCE Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham, (United Kingdom), Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm (Sweden), South Carelia Polytechnic from Lappeenranta (Finland) and Academy of Fine Arts and Design from Bratislava (Slovakia), the Academy of Fine Arts, Architecture and Design from Prague (Czech Republic), Fakultät für Gestaltung of Hochschule Pforzheim (Germany), Design Department of University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf (Germany) and ESAD, Art and Design Superior School from Matosinhos (Portugal). In continuing this cycle over successive years, we intend to present every European school.

Debuts

Debuts is a cycle presenting pieces of young artists, which just start their activity on design and artistic scene.

The Boundaries of Global Art

The Boundaries of Global Art is the cycle of science sessions devoted to newest art goldsmithery and design.

Since 1999, the exhibitions mentioned above, together with other accompanying events, have been taking place on a single date under the joint heading of the Legnica Silver Festival SILVER. Following its première in Legnica, the exhibitions go on tour for the entire year to the largest cities in Poland and sometimes also abroad, promoting artists, patrons and sponsors to an audience of thousands.

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