SMCK ON REEL 2023 -ROJW Special Editions:

Timisoara/ European Capital of Culture, 30 June – 2 July

Romania – Chisinau, Moldova Republic,17 – 31 August

Bucharest – 4 – 8 October 2023

This year SMCK ON REEL, the first video festival inspired by jewelry and applied art.is titled „Civilization Rebooted“. Participants are requested to elaborate their thoughts and create images based on the following question:

If our civilization perishes, or dies in a nuclear accident or war, how will it reemerge?

SMCK ON REEL 2023 – Civilization Rebooted invites artists, designers, crafters, curators, educators, gallerists and art professionals, working in the field of jewellery, object, wearable art, fashion, textile, and other forms of applied arts and crafts, to use the medium video to address topics, such as climate change, environmental catastrophe, war, fear, death, renaissance, democracy and totalitarianism, censorship and propaganda, recycling, new values and new aesthetics.

SMCK ON REEL…

Christoph Ziegler and Loukia Richards aka ZLR Betriebsimperium are honored and happy to participate in the group exhibition OCEAN TREASURES at WAGNER PREZIOSEN, 28-30 April 2023, during Gallery Weekend Berlin.

To download the amazingly beautiful catalogue featuring contemporary jewellery artists and antique treasures inspired by sea creatures and coral stories, press: https://www.zlr-betriebsimperium.com/Ocean_Treasures_WagnerPreziosen.pdf

Photo credit: Sigurd Bronger.

Contemporary jewelry as a genre or art discipline must open up to the broader public. This is a task for individual artists, but it also requires a collective effort. Before professionals join forces, they should be aware that the lack of communication between the different agents and sectors of the contemporary jewelry field inhibit the discipline’s growth.

EXPERTS TALK visualizesSMCK Magazine’s efforts to overcome the sector’s segmentation, and suggest solutions for sustainable growth.

EXPERTS TALK is also SMCK Magazine’s gift to the international jewelry community on the occasion of Schmuck 2023.

The 22 minute long video features Europe’s leading professionals and international VIPs sharing their insight, andanalyzing major contemporary jewelry challenges with honesty and precision.

SMCK ON REEL 2023 // Civilization Rebooted presents a video program consisting of three parts – CIVILIZATION REBOOTED / EXPERTS TALK / ART IN THE LAND OF WAR – answering the question:

How will the future of jewelrylook like?

Videos shot by jewelry artists focus on topics, such as environmental catastrophe, war, fear, death, new values and new aesthetics; a filmmaker capturesUkrainiancrafters’ daily routine in the war zone; and a “coaching” video features art and design experts and VIPs analyzing complex contemporary jewelry challenges.

SMCK ON REEL 2023 // Civilization Rebootedis curated by SMCK Magazine, and will be screened:

8 -18 March 2023 – 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein e. V.

Pacellistr. 6-8

80333 München

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12 March 2023 – 3.30 – 5.30 PM

Schmuck Infopoint

Marienplatz 8

80331 Munich

More information:

www.smck.org

www.schmuck-infopoint.de

www.bayerischer-kunstgewerbeverein.de

SMCK Magazine No.8

Rejected / Approved 

Capitalism is the economic system dominating Western societies for the last four centuries. It has shown remarkable resilience, though not necessarily fairness. Nevertheless, this school of thought produces wealth. Being ‘anti-capitalist’ as a jewelry artist – the latest trend – is like shooting yourself in the foot.

The explosion in crafts was triggered by increased demand for comfort and luxury by the financially robust class of merchants, freelancers, intellectuals, bankers: thebourgeoisiethat made its breakthrough in 17th-century Europe and imposed its taste as it changed the rules of the game.

The new art-loving class, the middle class, ordered, bought, and paid – in cash.

Today contemporary jewelry’s most loyal customers are under attack: inflation, high taxation, high interest rates, looming unemployment even in highly sophisticated sectors, lockdown-related bankruptcies of small and medium enterprises, international instability due to the war in Ukraine, and…

The very word rejection spreads dread through the art world. Rejection looms over every step the artist takes on their journey; every application for exposure, funding, or support sows the seed of potential rejection. Every inch forward toward success and fame is paved with tears and – not rarely – self-doubt about one’s merit and talent.

However, being unsuccessful in gaining recognition may trigger the determination to walk a road less traveled – and probably more alluring. Rejection forces us to reflect on our true potential and question what our mission in life really is.

SMCK Magazine’s issue #8 titled „Rejected/Approved“ is too important to miss. This is why we invite SMCK readers to download a digital copy free of charge during the jewelry industry’s major meeting Schmuck 2023, the jewelry week of Munich (6 to 12 March 2023).

The SMCK Magazine’s highlights include:

“I’ve been rejected and I bounced…