International contemporary jewellery triennal
KORU7 is an international contemporary jewellery triennal organized for the seventh time. The main purpose of the event is to present widely international contemporary jewellery and bring together the artists, lecturers, researchers and people with interest in contemporary jewellery to take part in exhibition, seminar and workshops!
International contemporary jewellery exhibition
The exhibition KORU7 will open at the South Karelia Museum on the 29th of October 2021.
We are proud to present the artists selected for the KORU7 exhibition:
Ulla Ahola FI
Sofia Björkman SE
Caroline Broadhead UK
Klara Brynge SE
Victoria Bulgakova UA/US
Valentina Caprini IT
Isabelle Carpentier BE
Carla Castiajo PT
Åsa Christensson SE
Macarena Correa CL
Iris Eichenberg DE/US
Rebekah Frank US
Joohee Han KR/DE
Tuija Hietanen FI
Nils Hint EE
Elise Hoebeke BE
Tzu-Yun Hung TW/DE
Ming-Miao Ko TW/BE
matt lambert US/SE
Einat Leader IL
Yojae Lee KR
Helena Lehtinen FI
Rikke Lunnemann DK
Urmas Lüüs EE
Marília Maria Mira PT
Eija Mustonen FI
Janne Peltokangas FI
Sarah Powell UK
Hanna Ryynänen FI
Anna-Maria Saar EE/SE
Danni Schwaag DE
Jenni Sokura FI
Masha Starikova RU
Yao Tan CN/FR
Nelli Tanner FI
Ketli Tiitsar EE
Vivi Touloumidi GR/DE/BE
Lee Haya Vladislavsky IL
Ye Wang CN/DE
Meng-Ju Wu TW
Tamara Zecevic RS
International contemporary jewellery workshops
Daniela Malev: Two sides – one story
Anna Rikkinen: Attire
KORU workshops have always been wonderful places to get fascinated, to learn and to meet people. International teachers have guided beginners and professionals alike through intensive workshop days with different themes. 3 jewellery related workshops will be organized between 26th–28th October 2021.
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NOTE! You can participate in one workshop only. The workshops will be held in English. The maximum number of participants is 12.
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PLACE:
LAB University of Applied Sciences, Fine Art department, Lappeenranta.
THE PRICE OF THE WORKSHOPS:
350 € / person
200 € / person (for students and members of the Finnish Jewellery Art Association)
The price includes the participation in one 3-day workshop and evening program.
The price does NOT include:
- meals
- materials
- travel
- accommodation
HOW TO REGISTER
Contact: korutaideyhdistys(at)gmail.com
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There are a few seats left at Anna's and Daniela's workshop. Register now!
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Lin Cheung: Pinch Me, I must be dreaming.
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Stone is real and unreal at the same time; the impossibility of its formation is laid bare in front of us, explained through physics and seen in the geology of the land. Yet its otherworldly textures and colours is suggestive and evocative of many things, prompting us to make sense of stone in our own individual worlds.
Participants will explore a moment of realisation - somewhere between dreaming and waking - through making in a material that is notoriously slow, hard and stubbornly unique. Join me on a small journey attempting to negotiate what and how we make catch up with the lightening speed of our thoughts.
Lin Cheung: "Pinned", brooch, 2019, rock crystal, 18ct gold and pearl pin
Lin Cheung is a jewellery artist from London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery. She is Reader in Jewellery at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
Underpinned by a detailed knowledge of materials and processes, Lin’s distinctive approach to making offers a witty and poignant response to the human condition.
She has won several awards for her work including the The Arts Foundation Award for Jewellery in 2001 and The Herbert Hofmann Prize in 2018. She was a finalist for the BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour Craft Prize 2017 and is the 2018 recipient of The Françoise van den Bosch Award.
More about Lin: cargocollective.com/lincheung
Daniela Malev: Two sides – one story.
Pin mechanisms and brooch back design
In the field of contemporary jewellery the brooch is a very common and also much discussed form of jewellery.
One of the special challenges of making a good brooch is to find an adequate solution for the pin which connects the piece securely to the body but goes beyond being a mere functional and invisible part of the backside. It should be an essential part of the brooch in terms of content and aesthetics.
Mechanism and attachment of a brooch hold a tremendous potential for the design of a brooch in its entirety and need to be developed with equal importance.This workshop will initiate and encourage a conscious approach to the design of the brooch back and its mechanisms. The participants are introduced to a variety of pin mechanisms and learn how to realize them technically. They will be guided through exercises on different needle techniques and ways of thinking about what a needle can be and how it can be solved. But moreover the participant will learn and understand the integration of the brooch back and the pin mechanism into the whole creative process of making a brooch.
The workshop teaches technical skills but moreover a new way of thinking: a holistic approach to the brooch.
Daniela Malev: Brooches
Daniela Malev is a jeweller and educator. Trained as a classical goldsmith in her hometown Dresden, Germany, she also holds a Master Craftman´s Certificate for Gold- and Silversmithing and a BA and MFA degree in Gemstone and Jewellery Design at the University of Applied Sciences Trier/Idar-Oberstein, Germany.
Her jewellery work is inspired by a deep sense of order behind all existence. She thinks of jewellery as a visual playground for asking questions or drawing connections between different things and subjects. Her work is shown in international exhibitions and presented by Charon Kransen Arts, New York.Daniela Malev has travelled a lot and likes to gather and exchange ideas and knowledge. She has lived, worked and studied abroad in the USA, Mexico and Italy and Spain.
One of her special fields of interest are brooch backs and pin mechanisms and their integration into the design of the whole brooch. She is convinced that mechanism and attachment of a brooch hold a tremendous potential for the design of a brooch in its entirety and need to be developed with equal importance. She gives lectures and workshops on this subject worldwide. Her workshops initiate and encourage a conscious approach to the design of the brooch back and its mechanisms. She is the author of the book “To The Point – pin mechanisms and brooch back design”.
More about Daniela: www.daniela-malev.de
Anna Rikkinen: Attire -
apparel, clobber [British slang], clothes, clothing, costumery, dress, duds, garments, gear, habiliment(s), habit [archaic], rags, raiment, rig, rigging, threads, toggery, togs, vestiary, vestments, vesture, wear, wearables, weeds
The first known use of attire was in the 13th century. Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French atirer to equip, prepare, attire, from a- (from Latin ad-) + tire order, rank, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English tīr glory, ornament.
Does jewellery need the body to exist? Do your need to wear it so that it can be called jewellery? When worn, how does it feel? Objects that are worn are things that accompany us and become part of our habitus. Emotions take place in the body and leave lasting effects on the body. In this workshop you discover, fine tune and connect with your body and the surrounding space. This workshop is about the expanded
field of contemporary jewellery. We will dwell in the world of body-related objects, historical clothing and other forms of decoration.
Anna Rikkinen. Portrait photo: Markus Henttonen
Raised in an aesthetical village milieu and educated in the decorative arts, Finnish jewellery artist Anna Rikkinen creates works that draw influence from sources including African apparel, 17th-18th century portraiture, historical fashion and interior ornaments. Creating body-related objects and installations., Anna Rikkinen plays with the language of volume and space to evoke the body by mixing jewelers techniques and versatile materials including, wood, glass, textile and ready made objects. Anna received her training at Lappeenranta Polytechnic and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, graduating in 2004. She currently lives and works in Lahti, Finland.
More about Anna: www.annarikkinen.com Instagram @annarikkinen
International seminar with jewellery related topics
The seminar program contains artist lectures and expert lectures in related fields.
Time: 29th-30th October 2021
Place: LAB University of Applied Sciences, Fine Art department, Lappeenranta.
KORU7 SEMINAR - timetable & prices - small changes are possible
A more detailed presentation of the lectures and lecturers here >>> (PDF)
TIMETABLE
Friday 29th Oct 2021
09:30-10:00 registration
10:00 Welcome words
10:10 ANNA RIKKINEN (FI), workshop leader, artist lecture
10:45 DANIELA MALEV (DE), workshop leader, artist lecture
11:15 ESSI PULLINEN (FI), director of the Finnish Museum of Horology and Jewellery
11:30 Lunch and lottery
13:00 HELI KAUHANEN (FI) Art Advisor, Art Promotion Centre Finland
13:15 JANNE PELTOKANGAS (FI), artist lecture
13:45 EINAT LEADER (IL), artist lecture
14:25 Coffee break
15:00 HANNA RYYNÄNEN (FI), artist lecture
15:15 URMAS LÜÜS (EE), artist lecture
15:45 Final words
KORU7 exhibition opening on Friday 29th Oct is 6-8 pm, South Karelia Museum, Lappeenranta
Saturday 30th Oct 2021
09:30-10:00 registration
10:00 Welcome words
10:05 LIN CHEUNG (UK), workshop leader, artist lecture
10:35 MATT LAMBERT (US/SE), artist lecture
11:05 SASKIA VAN ES (NL), art writer
11:50 NELLI TANNER (FI), artist lecture
12:05 Final words & farewell drinks
PRICES
2 days - 100 € / students 50 €
1 day - Friday 65 € / students 35 €
1 day Saturday 45 € / students 25 €
workshop participants - 2 days 60 € / students 40 €
Members of the Finnish Jewellery Art Association will get the student price.
REGISTRATION FORM >>>
Apply for KORU7 exhibition
OPEN CALL FOR EXHIBITION
The Finnish Jewellery Art Association hereby announces the open call for the juried exhibition at the seventh international jewellery triennial KORU7. The exhibition is aimed at all professional artists or artist groups who are working as jewellery artists, as well as artists from other fields, who concentrate to create new ideologies and aesthetic views in the sense of contemporary jewellery.
The main purpose of the event is to widely present international contemporary jewellery and bring together artists, lecturers, researchers and people with an interest in contemporary jewellery to take part in the exhibition, seminar and workshops. The event will take place in Lappeenranta, Finland in October 2021.
The exhibition will open on the 29th of October 2021 in the South Karelia Museum. As in previous years, the association aims to print an exhibition catalogue. Information about the workshops and the seminar program will be announced later.
The event is organized by the Finnish Jewellery Art Association. The association was founded in Lappeenranta in 2005. It aims to promote contemporary jewellery in Finland and to improve its recognition as an art and design form. Another goal of the association is to increase awareness about Finnish jewellery internationally. As means towards those ends the association organizes exhibitions, presentations and discussion panels and distributes information about events.
HOW TO APPLY
The jury for the KORU7 exhibition is composed of three members:
- Karin Roy Andersson (SE)
Jewellery artist and manager of the contemporary jewellery gallery Four - Krister Gråhn (FI)
sculptor - Tarja Tuupanen (FI)
Jewellery artist and chairwoman of Finnish Jewellery Art Association
More about jury here >>>
There is no overall theme for this call. The jury aims to compose an exhibition that shows contemporary jewellery in its many facets, with fresh perspectives and attitudes in today’s world, to draw together a selection of art pieces with interesting relations to each other.
Applications will be treated anonymously to make sure each applicant receives the same consideration. The jury will make their decision based on the jewellery pieces only. Each applicant can suggest 1–10 current pieces made no earlier than 2019. There are several months between the publication of the open call and the application deadline, which is meant to encourage the production of new pieces. Artists may apply with finished pieces that will be available as is for the exhibition in October. The form of an art piece is not limited, it can be wearable pieces, installation, video etc.
The participation is free of charge, but the selected artists will be responsible for sending the pieces to Finland, which includes possible insurance and postal costs as well as customs formalities and fees. The organizer will be responsible to insure the pieces during the exhibition, as well as for the costs of sending them back to the artist.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
The application should be one PDF file of max 5 MB, in landscape format and named with an alias, including all the following information:
- 1–10 artworks that will be available for the exhibition
- all the works should be current, with none produced before 2019
- one artwork per page with the following information: title of the artwork (if existing), type of jewellery/artwork, year, materials, size
- artist statement including the artist’s country of origin / country of residence and (voluntary) introduction of artworks, altogether max 2000 characters. (remember to exclude your name!)
- abridged CV of max 1 page A4 (remember to exclude your name!)
- if applying with a video, include a link for the jury to access the video on Youtube, Vimeo or a similar streaming platform
- when sending the application, please write your contact details in the email message only
- name the PDF file with an alias. The PDF should not contain your name anywhere in the file. The alias can be letters and/or numbers as long as you can not be recognised from it.
- send the application to: koruevent@gmail.com
Deadline: Saturday 1 May 2021
Note: the applications will not be printed, please respect the maximum size of the file. Selected artists will be asked for printable image files from the selected pieces later. An example for the application can be found at HERE >>>
For questions please contact koruevent@gmail.com
Sharing of this information is much appreciated!
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Karin Roy Andersson (SE)
Jewellery Artist and manager of the contemporary jewellery gallery Four
Karin Roy Andersson works with jewellery and with communication. The life of a piece starts with an idea or when experimenting with a material. When the finished piece meets an audience another process starts. Experiences, thoughts and associations are mixed and the objects develop. The intimate connection to a wearer and a body makes the relation to the recipient very special.
Since 2010 Karin Roy Andersson run the contemporary jewellery gallery Four in Göteborg. Four shows exhibitions with artists from all over the world and it is a platform for discussions about art, jewellery, work and inspiration. The aim is to communicate jewellery art to a broad audience. The gallery presents some of the highlights from the jewellery scene, showing both international and Swedish, well established and emerging artists. The ambition is to provide a diverse program interesting both for jewellery enthusiasts and visitors who are new to this art genre.
Karin Roy Andersson got her MFA at HDK – Academy of Design and Crafts, Gothenburg, Sweden in 2009 and since then she has prosecuted many different artistic projects and jewellery adventures; exhibitions, lectures and other jewellery related events.
Krister Gråhn (FI)
Sculptor
Krister Gråhn works with sculpting and installations. The techniques vary from different types on construction materials to paper and pen. Along with his own personal artistic practice he has been collaborating with other artists in the past few years. Working together in pairs brings different kind of challenge and creativity to the process. One has to combine differing aesthetic views and have an on-going dialogue of the meaning in order to achieve a satisfying result.
Krister Gråhn graduated from South Carelia Polytechnic, Imatra in 2001 and Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki in 2005. Gråhn has had solo exhibitions around Finland and he has participated in several group exhibitions, both curated and artist group based, since 2001.
Since the beginning of his career Gråhn has also been active in different areas of the art field. In Rajataide Art Association Tampere, he run a contemporary art gallery for young artists and was the chairman of the contemporary art magazine Puoli-lehti in 2008-2015. Gråhn has been cofounder in different artist groups and curated various exhibitions trying to develop new kinds of approaches to the audience.
Tarja Tuupanen (FI)
Jewellery artist and the chairwoman of Finnish Jewellery Art Association
Tarja Tuupanen has studied jewellery and stonework in Lappeenranta in South Carelia Polytechnic, Finland (BA 1999) and she graduated as MFA from Ädellab, Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, (SE) in 2013. Since 1997 she has taken part in exhibitions internationally. Teaching and promoting her own professional field have been important, along with working as an artist. Tuupanen was one of the founding members of the Finnish Jewellery Art Association and she acted as the chairwoman in 2005-2013, and second time from 2020 onward. She has been teaching in Finland and she has hosted several workshops abroad in different institutions, most recently in China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou. She is a member of Hibernate-group.
Tarja Tuupanen´s artistic practise is dominated with one material, stone. For over 20 years she has been working with raw blocks of different minerals, synthetic korundum, or lately used marble tableware objects. The relationship to stone is so thorough that it becomes more than just a material to begin with. The work results as three dimensional objects for the body or to its surroundings in the context of contemporary jewellery, craft and contemporary art.
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