Romanian Jewelry Week Timișoara Special Edition

30 June - 2 July

ISHO Timișoara

ROMANIAN JEWELRY WEEK TIMIȘOARA 2023

Romanian Jewelry Week presents a special edition between June 30 and July 2, 2023 in collaboration with ISHO Timișoara and with the support of Banca Transilvania, through an international exhibition with approximately 50 designers and invited collectives from Romania and around the world. The public in Timișoara will have the opportunity to participate in an extensive program of exhibitions, guided tours, conferences, screenings and workshops dedicated to the field of jewelry as a distinct art form. Romanian Jewelry Week Timișoara is a large-scale project intended for the Timișoara - European Capital of Culture 2023 program, with the potential of a recurring event in the future.

The Assamblage Association continues the promotion of national and international designer jewelry in the European capital of culture, opening the Romanian Jewelry Week Contemporary Jewelry Fair on Friday, June 30 at 4:00 p.m. at ISHO Timișoara - Take Ionescu Boulevard no. 46C. More than 500 pieces created by designers from Romania, Belgium, Greece, Ukraine, Germany, Italy, Hungary, South Korea, Iran, Canada and many others will be exhibited. Created by entrepreneur Ovidiu Şandor through Mulberry Development, ISHO was designed to become a landmark of tomorrow's Timisoara. A special emphasis is placed on the integral character of the complex, thought to include, apart from the homes and offices, quality public spaces, as well as services and facilities that will create the most modern and qualitative neighborhood of Timisoara.

Along with carefully curated jewelry, Assamblage pays tribute to the city of Timișoara through the exhibition "Detaliul Secession - Timișoara", which will present the series of facades and ornaments painted in watercolor that form the basis of the album of the same name, signed by Maria Poștea and Bogdan Gărgăriță, the founders Intaglio. Also, during the event, there will be a screening dedicated to the international film festival inspired by art jewelry - SMCK on Reel. Under the theme "Civilization Rebooted", the festival reflects on today's most pressing issues, such as climate change, environmental pollution, war, fear, censorship and propaganda on the one hand, and recycling, revival, social justice, new values ​​and the new aesthetics in art and design, on the other hand.

"Jewelry and the creative act are, more than ever, a communication vehicle for changing ideas, for messages addressed to a world in intercommunication and connection. The creative industry, this extraordinary invention, is actually the decision of those trained to express themselves creatively and not stop with their message at the border between the world and their own workshop. Leonardo da Vinci's idea of ​​the world seen as an extension of the artist's studio becomes more present than ever."

- David Sandu, Curator Romanian Jewelry Week

Schedule of Romanian Jewelry Week - Timișoara 2023

Friday, 30 June 2023 - Location - ISHO Timișoara - Bulevardul Take Ionescu nr. 46C

15:00 Guided tour held by Romanian Jewelry Week curator David Sandu

16.00 - 20.00 - Opening of the contemporary jewelry fair Romanian Jewelry Week

Saturday, 1 July 2023- Location - ISHO Timișoara - Bulevardul Take Ionescu nr. 46C

11.00 - 20.00 - Contemporary jewelry fair Romanian Jewelry Week

CASA ISHO - 14:00-16:00 - Conference on Assamblage Contemporary Jewelry School with David Sandu and Andreia Gabriela Popescu and demonstration workshop of polishing semi-precious stones.

Sunday, 2 July 2023 - Location - ISHO Timișoara - Bulevardul Take Ionescu nr. 46C

11.00 - 20.00 Contemporary jewelry fair Romanian Jewelry Week

CASA ISHO - 16:00 SMCK ON REEL FESTIVAL film screening - "Civilization Rebooted".

Event organized by Assamblage Association in partnership with ISHO Timișoara.

Official partner: Banca Transilvania

Exhibition design signed by Kaustik

Tickets - www.iabilet.ro.

Media partener: Radio Guerilla, Aici a Stat, Curatorialist, Curatorial.ro, Dreamingof.net, Designist.ro, ELLE, Empower Artists, Feeder.ro, Festivalier, Igloo, IQAds, Lost in Jewelry Magazine, Femeia, Modernism.ro, Revista Atelierul, Revista Golan, The Institute, Zeppelin, Zile și Nopți.

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Romanian Jewelry Week is an annual international project organized by Assamblage - the National Association for Contemporary Jewelry, which brings together in each edition over 190 designers and collectives from all over the world. It is currently the largest and most important event dedicated to contemporary jewelry in Romania. After 3 successful editions held in Bucharest, in cultural spaces such as the National Library of Romania, Arcub, the National History Museum of Romania, the Cotroceni National Museum, and many others, Romanian Jewelry Week will organize a first special edition in Timișoara and Chisinau in 2023, alongside the main edition in Bucharest that will take place between October 4-8, 2023.