Munich Jewellery Week 2024_Munich_Visions, Ventures & Valuables Group Exhibition

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Visions, Ventures & Valuables Group Exhibition

Co-created with images by 96 artists and a machine learning algorithm, Artificial Intelligems, Ornamisms, Project ongoing since 2023, Image from 2024.

Together with jewellery artists and dear colleagues an exhibition during Munich Jewellery Week!

Opening: 28.02.2024, 18:00-20:00
Event duration: 28.02-02.03.2024, Wed 18:00-20:00, Thu-Fri 10:00-18:00, Sat 10:00-16:00

Visions, Ventures & Valuables presents the artistic research of jewellery artists Liesbet Bussche, Maria Konschake and Anneleen Swillen, which they are developing as PhD or postdoctoral scholars. All three are affiliated with Hasselt University and PXL-MAD School of Arts Hasselt (Belgium) and members of the MANUFrACTURE research group within MAD-Research.

In the joint presentation, Liesbet Bussche, Maria Konschake and Anneleen Swillen share visions from their research process, ventures they initiate and challenges they encounter along the way. They show their artistic process and outcomes in which making and thinking, perceptions and reflections, physical valuables and metaphorical values alternate and influence each other. All three depart from jewellery – as discipline, discourse, object, practice, perspective – to unfold their artistic identities and, in doing so, shape their research and related questions.

Liesbet Bussche transforms ubiquitous and unnoticeable urban public objects through the implementation of ‘jewellery affordance’, exploring how the gaze of a jewellery designer can lead to a re-reading of an environment.
Maria Konschake explores whether memory-related deviations can be used as a methodology for creating art objects and how this method reflects the relationship between jewellery, identity and memory.
Through the interdisciplinary platform Artificial Intelligems, Anneleen Swillen explores more-than-human co-creation in a digital culture, speculating about futures adornment, phygital embodiment, and human-machine collaboration.

Liesbet Bussche’s (BOF20DOC01) and Maria Konschake’s (BOF21DOC04) research is funded by the Special Research Fund (Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds, BOF) of Hasselt University. Anneleen Swillen’s postdoctoral research is funded by Hasselt University and PXL-MAD School of Arts Hasselt, Belgium.

Evzo Jewellery

Evgenia Ζoidaki lives and works in Greece. In 2003 she graduated from the Mokume School of Higher Education in Athens, where she studied design and crafting of handmade and mass-produced jewellery.

Since 2015 she runs her own studio, Evzo, where she creates jewellery made of gold, silver, gemstones, enamel and synthetic materials.

Her creations are inspired by everything that surrounds and affects her, from ancient art to whatever captures the eye in modern cities where she travels. She has shown her work in group exhibitions and as an individual artist in Europe and the USA.

She has been a Silver- and Gold-smithery instructor for Handmade and Mass-Produced Jewellery since 2017.

The studio’s name, Εvzo, was formed using the first letters of her full name, Evgenia Zoidaki, and is a reference to the ancient Greek term εὖ ζῆν: εὖ means “well” and ζῆν denotes “survival”, ”life”. For ancient Greeks, εὖ ζῆν represented the ultimate good: the art of living well. It entails achieving physical and mental health and leads to the improvement of a person’s quality of life in all areas, allowing them to reach the state of happiness.

https://www.evzojewellery.com
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