Autor 2018

The designers who will show their creations at AUTOR 2018 have been selected by an international jury of experts:
Sofia Björkman, Artist and Founder of Platina Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.
Ruudt Peters, Artist and Professor, The Netherlands.
Felix Flury, Artist, Professor and Director of Gallery S O – Solothurn, Switzerland and London, UK.
Dan Pierșinaru, Visual artist, Director and founder of AUTOR, Bucharest, Romania.

In the selection process the jury focused on a series of aspects that differentiate these works: the designers’ capacity to propose an original and at the same time very personal vision, to surprise, to challenge contexts and ideas, distilling all of these into jewelry executed with exceptional and innovative techniques.


Selected Artists and Collectives:
Agapi Smpokou (Greece), Alice Visin (Italy), Alis Lalu (Romania), Ana Marchetanu (Romania), Ana Maria Drăghici (Germany), Andra Lupu (Romania), Andreia G. Popescu (Romania), Atelier Nomanda (Romania / Australia), Brândușa Ungurașu (Romania), Brigitte Wang (China), Cedric Chevalley (Switzerland), Charlize Nhung (Canada), Chen Shuming (China / UK), Xinyi Chen (China), Cleopatra Cosuleț (Romania), Corrina Goutos (SUA / Germany), Dalius Ilginis (Lithuania), Daniela Boni (Italy / UK), Daniella Saraya (Israel), Anayd Blu (Romania), Diana Vasile-Temper (Romania), Lanqi_Fu (China), Hemfard (Romania), Gili Doliner (Israel / Germany), Giulia Boccafogli (Italy), 1:20.000 by Giulia Savino (Italy), Hiyu Hamasaki (Japan), Ioana Ardelean (Romania), SI Sabato Isabel (Argentina / Switzerland), Isabela Groza (Romania), Iulia Ivan (Romania), Iza Visoianu (Romania), Jil Koehn (Germany), Jiyoon Hyun (South Korea), Konstantinos Georgopoulos (Greece), Leonor Silva (Portugal), Liat Ginzburg (Israel), Lucienne (Republic of Moldova), Mario Albrecht (Germany), Meșteshukar ButiQ (Romania), Mihaela Speranța Cherciu (Romania), Mihaela Coman (Romania), Miki Asai (Japan), Mona Velciov (Romania), Monica Iacovenco (Romania), Monique Leocuna (Argentina), Neža Žehelj (Slovenia), OlgaMaria Jewel Inspirations (Greece), PÿR (France), Raluca Buzura (Romania), Rimisen’s (Pakistan), Roxana Hodorog (Romania), Sabina Drăgușanu (Romania / UK), Sanna Brantestad - Making by Hands (Sweden), Sara Chyan Jewellery (Hong Kong / UK), Sara Shahak (Israel), Sarah Tari (Frace), Seonyong Lee (South Korea), Shahpari Sohaei (Iran), Sharon Vaizer (Israel), Xiaotong Si (China), Simeon Shomov Jewelry Design (Bulgaria), Tami Eshed (Israel), Teodor Siminic (Romania), Tere Chad (Chile), Wanshu Li (China / UK), What If I Fly (Romania), Xue Liang (China / Germany), Yaoyu Fu (China).
 
Collectives: Next Steps by Assamblage (Romania), COLLECTIVA I Jewellery Design (Portugal), H6 I Contemporary Jewellery Group (Hungary), JEWELRIC RONDO Collective (South Korea), Krama Collective (Greece), OBLIK - Collective (Macedonia), Percept Collective (UK), Syn-thesis Collective (Greece), WUNDERKAMMER I Collective Works By Womencraft Jewelry (Italy / Costa Rica).

Cleopatra Cosulet, one of the most talented Romanian contemporary jewelry artists will be the focus designer at the 2018 edition of AUTOR international fair. Her collection titled ““The World Inside” speaks about a dynamic and heterogeneous inner universe, with varied emotions and experiences, which reveals itself to the viewer with honesty and invite to reflection and interaction.
 
It is my fifth participation to AUTOR and every time I feel the emotion of meeting a special audience, with whom I can share personal feelings, born out of my relationship with the world and carried into the jewelry I create. It is a great joy to see them going into the hands of those who will choose and wear them, giving them a new life, making them part of their own journey
says Cleopatra Coșulet.
 
AUTOR platform created contexts. The international contemporary and art jewelry fair is the most important one, for the participating designers as well as for the public who has access to such a selection only once a year in Bucharest. We hope that for both, 5 and 6 May will be two days of delight and joy. Contemporary jewelry becomes alive when it is worn. See you at AUTOR! said Dan Pierșinaru, Director and founder of AUTOR - International Contemporary Jewelry Fair.




AUTOR Magazine, an independent publication printed on special paper and with creative graphics, which has reached its fifth issue, will also be launched in the wake of the fair. AUTOR Magazine #5 hosts a series of features dedicated to contemporary and art jewelry projects, created and developed by the designers themselves, thus making it an artistic initiative in itself. The magazine launch will take place at the AUTOR Magazine #5 Party on 25 April starting with 19:00, at HIII, a new space dedicated to creative projects and events, at 82 Popa Nan Street, Bucharest.


Established in 2009, AUTOR positioned itself as an innovative fair for young and talented professionals and is currently the most important contemporary and art jewelry event in South-East Europe. It has a nine-year history of creating a dynamic environment with high selection standards. The designers who participate in AUTOR have access to an educated and passionate audience. Beyond the actual event, AUTOR is an active platform that encourages and fuels the dialogue between artists and the various categories of public.