Action Collection. Contemporary Jewelry from the Collection of Art Gallery in Legnica

Artist list

Jordi Aparicio, Kristen Bak, David Bielander, Alexander Blank, Marcin Bogusław, Andrzej Boss, Ignasi Cavaller, Sungho Cho, Bastard Collection, Patrícia Domingues, Sławomir Fijałkowski, Sara Gackowska, Stephanie Hensle, Herman Hermsen, Stefan Heuser, Marta Hryc, Timothy Information Limited, Kyung Jin Kim, Paweł Kaczyński, Malgorzata Kalinska, Vered Kaminski, Sooyeon Kim, Akiko Kurihara, Otto Künzli, Ria Lins, Aneta Lis-Marcinkiewicz, Janjaap Luijt, Jorge Manilla, Susanne Matsché, Judy McCaig, Daniel Michel, Claudia Milić, Ted Noten, Ossi Oswald, Michalina Owczarek, Sanghee Park, Tabea Reulecke, Julia Reymann, Alain Roggeman, Kacper Schiffers, Andrzej Szadkowski, Mirei Takeuchi, Rudee Tancharoen, Nelli Tanner, Islay Taylor, Sława Tchórzewska, Jarosław Westermark, Arek Wolski, Cai-Xuan Wu, Michał Wysocki, Wen Miao Yeh, Sonquing Zhao, Zofia i Witold Kozubscy, Felieke van der Leest

The exhibition presents works from the Collection selected by Prof. Sławomir Fijałkowski (Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk), who for many years played the role of the Festival’s general consultant, having a direct influence on the character and development of the event.

Work towards the development of a permanent jewelry collection began at the Gallery of Art in 2004. The majority of the works were acquired in the years 2013-2016 thanks to the subsidies from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. At present, the Collection comprises about half a thousand works, which makes it one of Europe’s largest international collections of contemporary art jewelry. It consists of objects representing the latest art, the majority of which were created already in the 21st century. These are both works awarded and honored during the International Jewellery Competition - the main event of Legnica Silver Festival – and presented at accompanying exhibitions.

The Legnica Collection evidences the wealth of contexts, techniques, materials, and ways of thinking about jewelry - from speculation on the traditional understanding of ornamentation, through the medium used to manifest the artist's views, to the work of conceptual art, where the physical object serves only to embody an idea. The International Collection of Contemporary Jewellery exemplifies and documents the possibility of using a piece of jewelry to convey an artistic message. Its purely decorative aspect being effaced, it becomes an independent work of contemporary art. In the Legnica Collection, there are works of leading representatives of this kind of thinking – jewelry makers, artists, and designers from almost all over the world.

Opening Hours:
Thursday to Saturday, 2 pm - 6 pm.
Sunday, 12 pm - 6 pm.

The exhibition is being virtually presented in @action_collection_legnica.

The project Action Collection is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund.