Gallery of Art in Legnica
Gallery
Published: 15.10.2024
- Website Gallery of Art in Legnica
- Website Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER
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- Mail:
- silver
galeria.legnica.eu
- Management:
- Justyna Teodorczyk
The Gallery of Art is the organizer of Legnica Jewellery SILVER Festival – one of the largest events in Europe presenting contemporary jewellery, whose tradition in the presentation of goldsmithing goes back over 40 years. Each year, the Art Gallery Team works on the preparation of exhibitions and events. The Silver activities of the Gallery are supported by KGHM Polska Miedź, the City of Legnica, as well as by our Partners and a Team of Volunteers. For 20 years, the event's general consultant has been prof. Sławomir Fijałkowski (Faculty of Architecture and Design, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk).
The International Jewellery Competition is the most important event of the Festival in which every year gathers several hundred works by artists from all over the world. The distribution of awards and the qualification of works for the exhibition is decided by an international jury consisting of renowned artists, professors, critics, experts, and jewellery collectors. Each year the competition is held under a different title referring to important, universal problems and issues from the spheres of broadly understood art, culture, sociology, or media.
The Festival also features numerous individual and collective exhibitions. Within the exhibition series About the Artists, Silver Schools and Debuts, we present both well-known artists with a rich artistic output and students of academies of art studying jewellery design and creation. Among the artists who presented their works in Legnica are Karol Weisslechner, Jarosław Westermark, Norman Cherry, Ramón Puig Cuyàs, Georg Dobler, Herman Hermsen, Ruudt Peters, Tabea Reulecke, Paweł Kaczyński, Jorge Manilla, Felieke van der Leest, Mari Ishikawa, Philip Sajet, Małgorzata Kalińska, Sława Tchórzewska or Sara Gackowska. Each edition of SILVER is accompanied by numerous publications documenting the development and most important phenomena in the field of artistic jewellery.
Every year in May – during the culmination of Legnica SILVER Festival – numerous meetings with artists, vernissages, and a theoretical seminar entitled The Boundaries of Global Art take place, exploring the currently presented exhibitions and touching upon issues related to contemporary jewellery, art, and design.
In 2004, after 25 years of Silver shows, the Gallery of Art in Legnica decided to organize its achievements in the field of promotion of contemporary jewelry and started building a permanent collection. Currently, the collection consists of about half a thousand works, which makes it one of the largest international collections of contemporary art jewelry in Europe.
About the location
Legnica is a historic town of almost 100,000 people, located in the Lower Silesia region in south-western Poland. This location is unique as Polish, Czech, and German traditions meet here. For centuries the region has been famous for its natural resources, especially gold, silver, and copper deposits. Today, mines and smelters are still thriving here, producing copper and silver in the quantities relevant on the world’s scale. The artistic trace of this activity is Legnica SILVER Festival.
The International Jewellery Competition is the most important event of the Festival in which every year gathers several hundred works by artists from all over the world. The distribution of awards and the qualification of works for the exhibition is decided by an international jury consisting of renowned artists, professors, critics, experts, and jewellery collectors. Each year the competition is held under a different title referring to important, universal problems and issues from the spheres of broadly understood art, culture, sociology, or media.
The Festival also features numerous individual and collective exhibitions. Within the exhibition series About the Artists, Silver Schools and Debuts, we present both well-known artists with a rich artistic output and students of academies of art studying jewellery design and creation. Among the artists who presented their works in Legnica are Karol Weisslechner, Jarosław Westermark, Norman Cherry, Ramón Puig Cuyàs, Georg Dobler, Herman Hermsen, Ruudt Peters, Tabea Reulecke, Paweł Kaczyński, Jorge Manilla, Felieke van der Leest, Mari Ishikawa, Philip Sajet, Małgorzata Kalińska, Sława Tchórzewska or Sara Gackowska. Each edition of SILVER is accompanied by numerous publications documenting the development and most important phenomena in the field of artistic jewellery.
Every year in May – during the culmination of Legnica SILVER Festival – numerous meetings with artists, vernissages, and a theoretical seminar entitled The Boundaries of Global Art take place, exploring the currently presented exhibitions and touching upon issues related to contemporary jewellery, art, and design.
In 2004, after 25 years of Silver shows, the Gallery of Art in Legnica decided to organize its achievements in the field of promotion of contemporary jewelry and started building a permanent collection. Currently, the collection consists of about half a thousand works, which makes it one of the largest international collections of contemporary art jewelry in Europe.
About the location
Legnica is a historic town of almost 100,000 people, located in the Lower Silesia region in south-western Poland. This location is unique as Polish, Czech, and German traditions meet here. For centuries the region has been famous for its natural resources, especially gold, silver, and copper deposits. Today, mines and smelters are still thriving here, producing copper and silver in the quantities relevant on the world’s scale. The artistic trace of this activity is Legnica SILVER Festival.
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- Website Gallery of Art in Legnica
- Website Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER
- Facebook Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER
- Instagram Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER
- Mail:
- silvergaleria.legnica.eu
- Management:
- Justyna Teodorczyk
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