Photos from the Slovenian exhibition

Date: 2024 April
Location: Layer House, Kranj, Slovenia
Photo credit: Jan Trstenjak and Maša Pirc

Selection of artworks from the workshops

Zofia (Devon) Nieznalska and Zuzanna Dajer, Poland

Mikołaj Gruszkiewicz and Jadwigą Możdzer, Poland

Aleksandra Sobiło and Magdalena Arłukiewicz (Poland)

Natalia Cieślak, Anastasia Misztal, Ola Sobiło, Amelia Górska. Poland

Neja Brodar and Tinkara Jesenko Žitnik, Slovenia

call for artists

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call for artists 〰️

We would like to invite young artists -under 30 years- to participate in a traveling exhibition and contest. We are waiting for such works of contemporary design and applied artworks which creatively reflect or rethink the European traditional craft technics and methods. The exhibition is open to artists working in all media. Selected artists will have their work exhibited in five location in 2024: Kranj (Slovenia), Salfold (Hungary), Budapest (Hungary), Gdansk (Poland), Tbilisi (Georgia). Moreover, based on the selection of the European Jury the three best artworks will be awarded: I. prize: 1000 €, II. prize: 500 €, and III. prize: 250 €. The deadline for submission is the 30th of November 2023. For more information please download the ‘Call’ and the ‘Entry Form’ documents below.

CALL

ENTRY FORM

Workshop in Hungary

Starting date: 19/09/2023
Location: Kisképző Art School (Budapest, Hungary)
Foreign teacher: Malkhaz Shvelidze ceramic artist (Georgia)
Hungarian teachers: Haber Szilvia, Móra Ágota, Győri Anita

The title of the workshop was “Neoarchaic“ - traditional Georgian sculptures in modern transformation. At the beginning the young participants learnt about Georgia’s history and culture, after about the ancient Georgian ceramic arts and traditional techniques. They newly made artworks were inspired by the traditional Georgian wine jug called “Qvevri”. The students used red clay without glade and finished their works in wood-fired kilns.

Workshop in Turkey

Starting date: 11/09/2023
Location: Kadir Has University Cibali Campus, Istanbul, Turkey
Foreign teacher: Réka Farkas (Hungary)
Local teacher: Dr. Ayşe E. Coşkun

Participants were industrial design students from 6 different design schools in istanbul. Hungarian mentor, workshop leader Réka Farkas has expertise in leather production techniques. Local mentor, workshop coordinator Dr. Ayşe E. Coşkun has expertise in crafts and innovation studies, crafts rooted industries and strategic design management. The title of the workshop was: “Family tree”- discover the tradition through your family. The aim of the workshop is to preserve the cultural tradition, handicrafts and motifs. Find new solutions that bring it closer to the urban population of the 21st century.

Workshop in Georgia

Starting date: 28/06/2023
Location: Art East Studio
Foreign teacher: Aleksandra Went ceramic artist (Poland)
Local teachers: Ketevan Asatiani, Tea Gotsiridze, Malkhaz Shvelidze (consultant)

The main concept was to create wall-mounted, open-work mosaic, consisting of individual elements created by workshop participants, inspired by historical decorative motifs of old architecture. These historical artifacts were a starting point, a call-word that was interpreted, filtering them through the minds of contemporary thinkers, giving them a new contemporary form by the hands of workshop participants. During the workshop the teachers with the students created a ceramic collage from the Georgian architectural styles taken, for example, ornament motifs. Each student worked on his own motif - a fragment, but eventually these individual elements created a common work. The participating students came from the State Academy of Arts, Ilia State University, American Academy, Art East Studio and Gory Municipality High Schools.

The workshop is also taking place in Slovenia

Starting date: the 21st of June 2023
Location: Layer House, Kranj, Slovenia
Guest teacher: Ayşe E. Coşkun (Turkey)
Local teachers: Nejc Stupan, Karmen Klobasa

The first fase of the workshop was that Ayşe E. Coşkun (guest teacher from Turkey) prepared a lecture about herself, her professional development as a designer and wanted to motivate pupils to find a story in their lifes which they want to incarnate. Direction: reinvention of the materials, connecting heritage and contemporary design. Slavic bands, engravery, patterns etc. - how to incorporate them in the new designed product, which will tell a personal story of each one. After the young workshop participants started designing prototypes. With a lot of feedbacks and discussing, they plot possible final products: jewelry, accessories, hair bands, products from craft related industries - traditionally rooted objects, hybrid objects for everyday use, etc. The idea which Ayse wanted to give the participants is how to find a new language of the products, how can you transferring the memory in wearables objects.

The Polish workshop is already in full swing

Starting date: 21/06/2023
Location: National Museum in Gdańsk, Poland
Artist and educator Tanja Devetak (guest teacher from Slovenia) inspired the pupils to creatively use natural elements - branches as well as leftover materials and various yarns - to create spatial elements that are fragments of costumes and costume pieces. The workshop was attended by students from the Jacek Mydlarski Secondary School of Fine Arts in Gdansk under the supervision of lecturers Magdalena Arłukiewicz and Jadwiga Możdżer (Poland).

Kick-off Meeting

The first project meeting was held in Budapest on January 17-18, 2023. At the event, we mainly discussed the work session and the administrative tasks of the project with our partners.