JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery & Objects Fair 2019

The Event In this eleven years, JOYA Barcelona has become a platform that served as a space for interaction, debate and meeting point of art jewellery sector in Spain, for more than 1,818 artists represented individually or by schools, galleries, collectives and institutions.   The fair is aimed for professionals of the sector, as well as the general public, gathering more than 22,000 people at the fair artists and galleries, private collectors and cultural elite, with a complete program of events, exhibitions, conferences and with the support of important publications and media on and off line.   It is important for JOYA to be aware of socio-cultural movements, in its 11th edition will be focused on the communicative and diplomatic meaning of the art jewellery and objects in nowadays.
Talking about the power of jewelry is potentially inexhaustible and fascinating. It implies returning to the beginning of humanity, not only as an adornment for the body but as the ideological expression of culture, and even more importantly, POLITICS.
 
“Before long, and without intending it, I found that jewelry had become part of my personal diplomatic arsenal. Former president George H. W. Bush had been known for saying "Read my lips." I began urging colleagues and reporters to "Read my pins."
 / Madeleine Albright – Ex-secretary of state of U.S.A


SCHEDULE:

Thursday 10th
10.00h – 11.00h Conference Pravu Mazumdar.
11.00h Opening.
11.00h -19.00h Fair.
18.00h DTerra Award – Ambar Magazine Award – Arte y Joya Award.
 
Friday 11th
10.00h – 11.00h Conference Alba Cappellieri.
11.00h – 19.00h Fair.
18.00h Autor Award – Athens Jewellery Week Award.
19.00 h Book presentation Ramón Puig Cuyàs.
 
Saturday 12th
11.00h – 19.00h Fair.
18.00h DOR Museum Award – JOYA Worth Award.
20.00h – Enjoia’t Award.
 
*Free entrance for the fair and conferences


>> Go to JOYA GUIDE 2019: All events (Fair + Off Events) located at Map & List


Selection
A jury according to the following criteria selects the participating artists in JOYA: originality and innovation of designs, concept, material use, craftsmanship and coherence under a theme or research line. The selection of the artists who will be participating to JOYA 2019 will be officially divulgated by e-mail on May 20th, 2019

Jury Members 2019 Edition


Pravu Mazumdar



Pravu Mazumdar, Philosopher and specialist in Contemporary Jewellery, India.
Pravu Mazumdar studied physics in New Delhi and Munich and has a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Stuttgart. He writes in German and English, and his books, which use themes like migration and consumerism to formulate a diagnosis of modernity, are closely connected to the works of thinkers like Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin. He has written extensively on contemporary jewellery, which he treats as a material articulation of modernity.
Born and brought up in the eastern provinces of India and living between three continents and several languages, Pravu Mazumdar leads a typically contemporary interstitial existence. An essential category of such a mode of living is the idea of hybridity, to which Mazumdar has devoted several writings. Selected publications: Das Niemandsland der Kulturen (Berlin: 2011); Gold und Geist: Prolegomena zu einer Philosophie des Schmucks (Berlin: 2015); „Against Criticism“ (Parts I and II) in AJF (Criticality series 6 and 7).


Melissa Cameron



Melissa Cameron, Jewellery Artist, Australia.
Melissa Cameron is a jeweller and artist, who makes socially conscious work. She holds a BA in Interior Architecture and a Postgraduate Diploma in Jewellery Production from Curtin University. She received her MFA in Jewellery and Metalsmithing from Monash University in 2009. She lived in Seattle, in the US, from 2012 until late 2018, when she returned to Perth. She has exhibited extensively, with solo exhibitions in Australia, Japan and the USA. Her works are in public collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, the University of Iowa Museum of Art and Cheongju City Collection in South Korea. She has participated in residencies in the UK, Germany and the US received a Fellowship Award from Artist Trust in Seattle, and grants from the Australia Council for the Arts. She has presented papers at conferences and symposia in Australia, Europe and North America, her writing appears on Art Jewelry Forum, and she is the former chair of Metalsmith Magazine’s Editorial Advisory Committee.


Gabriela Izquierdo



Gabriela Izquierdo, Fashion and design manager at AITEX, Venezuela.
Gabriela Izquierdo. Fashion Project Manager. Born and raised in Venezuela. Fashion designer specialized in High Couture with a master's degree in Textile Engineering. Graduated in 2016 from IED MADRID. She considers herself as a technology geek that is the reason why she is focusing her career on creating a connection between fashion and technology.


Alba Cappellieri



Alba Cappellieri, Director of the Jewellery Museum in Vicenza, Italy.
Alba Cappellieri is Full Professor of Design of Jewellery and Fashion Accessory at the Politecnico di Milano, where she is the Director of the International Master in Fashion Accessory Design, of the Master on  Brand and Product Management at the Milano Fashion Institute (consortium of Bocconi, Politecnico and Cattolica universities). She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Ecole Van Cleef & Arpels in Paris and of the Fondazione Cologni in Milan. From 2013 to 2016 she taught Design-Driven Innovation at the Stanford University. In 2017 she was appointed Ambassador of the Italian Design in Osaka and in 2018 in Sydney. From 2014 she is the Director of the Jewellery Museum in Vicenza. She curated several International jewellery exhibitions and her last publications include "Jewels of the twentieth century, from Art Nouveau to 3d Printing." (Skira, 2018), “Chains, jewellery in history, function and ornament” (Silvana 2018), “Brilliant” (Corraini 2016), “Jewellery a la Mode" (Corraini 2016), “Sentimental jewellery” (Marsilio 2014), “Italian design meets jewellery”(with M. Romanelli, Marsilio 2013).


Sara Barbanti



Sara Barbanti, JOYA 2018 Award winner, Italy.
Sara is the winner of JOYA Barcelona 2018, and special guest of this edition. After gaining a bachelor in interior design at Politecnico di Milano in 2013, her studies continued at Le Arti Orafe Jewellery School & Academy in Florence until 2016. In this same year she returned to Modena and began the attendance at Gigi Mariani’s goldsmithing workshop.


Piotr Rybaczek



Piotr Rybaczek, Founder and owner of La Basílica Galería, Poland.
Piotr Rybaczek is the owner and funder of La Basílica Gallery since 2007. The gallery established in the centre of Barcelona, gathers the work of more than 150 jewellery designers and takes us to a dreamlike place where sculptures inspired by organic forms are mixed with antique glass cabinets that show the most creative jewellery pieces in the contemporary jewellery world.


Paulo Ribeiro



Paulo Ribeiro, Director JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery & Objects, Brazil.
Paulo Ribeiro was born in Brazil and lives in Barcelona. He is the Director of the creative agency Le Département Interiors SL and the founder and director of JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery & Objects. He has trained as an architect specialized in fashion spaces and interiors.


OFF JOYA
As every year, JOYA extends the range of artistic jewellery to the public. For this reason, it has created a jewelry exhibition circuit in the best galleries and cultural spaces of the city of Barcelona.


JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery & Objects is organized by:
LE DÉPARTEMENT
Carrer Camprodón 19, bajos 1, 08012 Barcelona
T: +34 931 271 032
www.joyabarcelona.com

For more information, please contact:
Director Paulo Ribeiro paulo@le-departement.com
Communication Manager María J. Vásconez showroom@le-departement.com
Project Manager Patryk Walczak patrick@le-departement.com