JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery Fair 2014

JOYA 2014 (6th Edition)
Santa Monica Arts Centre
9.October – 11. October, 2014

>> Report of the 2014 edition, objectives, visitors and exhibitors

JOYA Barcelona Contemporary Jewellery Fair is the main international event in Spain that aims to present excellency in art jewellery from around the world. Furthermore, JOYA is preparing to become the most important outlet in Europe for Latin American and Mediterranean art jewellery.
Creativity, technique, design and professionalism in contemporary jewellery is what you will find in JOYA Barcelona, an event full of activities for professionals as well as the general public.

• JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery Fair is the main event of artistic jewellery in Spain.
• The most renowned international artists, the most important international galleries and the national and international schools will be in the same platform (showroom and boutique).
• This year, the event gathers 295 artists of more than 40 different countries.

Creativity, technique, material originality, design and professionalism are gathered in JOYA to offer the latest trends in art jewellery. It will be from the 9th to the 11th of October in the Arts Santa Mónica, La Rambla 7, where the artists will make public their creations next to other sector's professionals and to the general public.
The fair is a chance to get closer to the art jewellery world and where you will find the best pieces and the latest tendencies. In short, the fair shows the pieces of 62 individual artists, 52 artists in 7 collectives, 45 artists represented by 5 galleries, 75 artists in the OFF JOYA's parallel events and 37 students selected by 8 schools.

The entry is 5€ for the general public and free for the galleries and shops.

The artists
In its sixth edition, JOYA Barcelona, art jewellery fair, is one of the most international and prestigious sharing platform in the art jewellery field. As well as being the showcase of young authors, students, artists and designers. This year, the event gathers more than 295 artists from more than 40 different countries, all of them carefully selected by the jury, directed by Paulo Ribeiro and Anthony Chevallier - Directors of JOYA Barcelona, Wolfgang Loesche - Director of Schmuck, Marina Elenskaya - editor in chief of Current Obsession, Reinhold Ludwig - Director of the German magazine Art Aurea, Pilar Garrigosa - art collector, Piotr Rybazcek - owner of La Basílica Galería, and Yannick Mur - guest artist and responsible of the poster image of JOYA 2014.

It is an honour every year for JOYA Barcelona to count with such special collaborators as: Fondazione Cominelli, Gioielli in Fermento, Autor Bucarest, Legnica Silver Festival, La Basílica Galería, Alchimia and, especially the participation, for the first time, of the most important art jewellery award of the world: Schmuck.

Moreover, JOYA Barcelona is the entrance door and link of artists from different countries and even continents, which share and explore new tendencies. The majority of artists come from Mediterranean Europe (Italy and Greece) and Latin America (Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Argentina, México). Also, there will be present artists from Germany, Romania, Sweden, France, Czech Republic, Australia, Portugal, Canada, Poland, United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, South Korea, Thailand, Cyprus and Switzerland. Additionally, the participation of the Spanish artists Rocío Vega, María Ninot and José Marín, should be pointed out.

Galleries
In this edition, JOYA will have the presence of five galleries. Legnica from Poland, La Basílica from Barcelona, and Alchimia from Italy, which have already been present in older editions, and will share a selection of their most interesting artists. The new galleries this year will be AME: Artisan Contemporary Jewellery from Hong Kong, and Eleni Marneri from Greece.

Collectives
This year JOYA will have seven collectives. Alchimia Alumni Collective and AGC from Italy, Artist Collective Anima from Austria, AORP from Portugal and CORPO from Brasil.
For the first time, there will also be the collectives Bench 886 from Taiwan, formed by 6 talented artists, and the collective Joya Brava from Chile, with 10 artists on stage.

Schools
From the beginning in 2009, JOYA wanted to be a platform for the talent and the innovation that live in both, international and national jewellery schools. This way, this year 8 schools have been selected, with a total of 37 students, which show their new approaches in design, creativity and originality.

JOYA will show the work of seven national schools: Escola Massana: Centre d'Art i Disseny, Arsenal: Escola Municipal D'Art, Escola D'Art i Superior de Disseny Valencia, Escuela de Arte de Madrid, Llotja: Escola Superior de Disseny i Art, Escola d'Art i Disseny de Tarragona, Escola d'Art La Industrial and the prestigious school Rietveld Academy from the Netherlands as a guest school.

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Activities

Events organized at the 2014 edition at the fair and around the fair.

Awards
As every year we will count with the presence of winners of worldwide prestigious awards related to art jewellery. And we are now waiting to know who will be the new winners of this edition of JOYA BARCELONA.

The art school Alchimia will grant an intensive course of two weeks in their school in Florence to one of the young promises in the fair.

A FAD, the Artist and Artisans Associations of FAD, develops an important task of spreading and promoting the world of art and craftwork. Enjoia't, the awards for the elaboration of contemporary jewels, was created with that aim. The awards are granted to originality, technical quality, conceptual richness and the transgression in the field of the elaboration of jewels and to explore their own limits as professionals and as students. In the last edition the winners were Xiao Liu and Frederique Coomans, who will also be in the fair this year.

This year's awards will be granted on the 9th of October in the ENJOIA'T 14 Party, in the Fábrica Moritz of Barcelona.

JOYA Awards are the awards granted to the individual artist with higher jury punctuation of the fair, which will be then the poster's image and guest artist of 2015's edition. This year we will have the presence of last year's winner Yannick Mur.

The Grupo Duplex and their magazine Arte y Joya will grant an artist of the fair with a wide communication campaign in the group's magazines as well as various international promoting activities. The winner of this prestigious award in the last edition was Nicky Stylianou, who will also be in the fair this year.

Conferences
Working with our partners and special guests, JOYA presents a series of talks to complement its program. The conferences run during the 3 days of the fair and are open to the audience seeking to understand the history and current processes of art jewellery.

>> Thursday October 9th
14.00h
Babetto
Giampaolo Babetto (b.1947) is one of the lead contributors to the development of jewellery where precision and geometry became his signature. The Italian artist will talk to us about his career and guide us through the essence of his work.

>> Friday October 10th
14.00
Klimt02, Current Obsession and L´Aperitivo Illustrato
A round table discussion focusing on the situation of art jewellery in the media nowadays. The three media platforms dedicated to diffusion of art jewellery will give different opinions and perspectives towards the topic, allowing us to get a wide overview of how art jewellery is represented in different parts of the world. They will discuss topics such as: Does art jewellery get enough representation in the media; how it could become known to a wider audience, and whether or not in the recent years art jewellery has become more prominent in the media.

>> Saturday October 11th
14.00
Wolfgang Lösche (Schmuck Fair & Herbert Hofmann Award)
The world stops when Schmuck is on every spring. The city of Munich hosts countless exhibitions and the Herbert Hoffman award is disputed amongst some very interesting creations. Mr. Lösche, director of Schmuck, will share its evolution and vision for the future.
All conferences are 10 euro each, pay at the door. For early registration, please email victoria@le-departement.com


Off-Joya

>> Download here the complete program of exhibitions

For the second consecutive year, JOYA increases the art jewellery offer to the public. That is why the jewels exhibitions' route in the city of Barcelona has been expanded, so that it reaches out to more people.

3rd of October
The route will be made of 11 exhibitions and 1 reading. To inaugurate the exhibitions cycle we have the artist Amira Jalet, which will be presenting her work "Sibú", a collection inspired in the pre-Columbian art of Costa Rica, in the Galería Ring Ring.

6th of October
the Cypriot artist settled in London Liana Pattihis, will present her reading "Digging Deep" in Galería Dterra, the same day Fili Plaza Barcelona, inaugurates its collection "Calado", with a staging of real models next to their pieces.

7th of October
The Galería Dterra will present "Intercanvis Simultanis", the work of Ramón Puig Cuyás.
The same day Joya Brava, Chilean contemporary jewellery association, will present "Joyeros: erotismo, joyería y cuerpo" in the gallery "El Lavadero".

8th of October
Amaranto Joies will present "Plateus Jewellery Project" by Barbora Dzurakova, Patricia Correia Domingues, Katharina Dettar and Edu Tarín.

L'Escola d'Art del Treball, will present a sample of jewellery schools "Jo. Joia"

Klimt02 Gallery will inaugurate "Daily Delicious Feast of Today" by Gésine Hackenberg.

The gallery of Lluís Comín Joyeria Creativa will present "Ludus Gemmarum" a combined exhibition of Montserrat Lacomba with her work "Dels Paisatges" and Lluís Comín "Mosaic de la Memòria".

9th of October
"Joies minimes" is inaugurated, the proposal of 30 artist to represent the minimalism in Galería Context.

10th of October
La Basílica Galería will present "Anatomía de los Pensamientos" by Jorge Manilla.

In turn, Gioielli in Fermento will present the pieces of 60 selected artists and the winners of the prestigious award.

Contact

Le Département S.C.P
Avenida Diagonal 313, 3ºB
08009 Barcelona – ESPAÑA
Tel. +34 93 459 24 06 

Contacts:
Paulo Ribeiro paulo@le-departement.com
Anthony Chevallier anthony@le-departement.com
Victoria Sanchez victoria@le-departement.com
www.le-departement.com