Koru 5 Open Call

Finnish Jewellery Art Association announces an open call for juried international jewellery exhibition called KORU 5. The exhibition is aimed to all professional artists or artist groups who are working as jewellery artist and artist from other fields, who concentrate to create new ideologies and aesthetic views in the sense of contemporary jewellery.

KORU5 is an international contemporary jewellery triennial organized now for the fifth time. Information from previous event, KORU 4, can be found here: www.saimia.fi/koru4. The main purpose of the event is to present widely international contemporary jewellery and bring together the artists, lecturers, researchers and people with interest in contemporary jewellery to take part in exhibition, seminar and workshops. The start of the event will take place in Imatra, Finland, autumn 2015.

The event is organized by Finnish Jewellery Art Association. The jewellery art association was founded in Lappeenranta, Finland, in 2005. The association aims to promote contemporary jewellery in Finland and to improve its recognition as an art and design form. Another goal of the association is to increase awareness about Finnish jewellery internationally. As means towards those ends, the association organizes exhibitions, presentations and discussion panels, and distributes information about events.