EXPO ‘New Masters’ – South Karelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta (Finland) – 26 Oct.-9 Dec. 2012

New Masters

Saimaa University of Applied Sciences presents nine new Masters of Culture and Art from fine art studies in the South Carelian Art Museum in Lappeenranta, Finland. The viewers of this MA-degree exhibition will experience new images, questions and encounters. What happens if jewellery is the human body? How are the chaos theory and order linked in shape of a stone chain? What are those old men doing in the art work of a young artist?
In the exhibition the discount percentages of shops are visible in the faceted stones and super shiny surfaces. Personal memories are shown as rough stone pendants. The starting point for an art work can begin from a tradition of herbarium or the identity of the artist in between two countries and cultures. Beside materialistic approaches, the exhibition shows contemporary jewellery with a twist of moving images and also a collection of hundred fairies with butterfly wings.
NEW MASTERS exhibition shows proposals and views to the nowadays fine art. The nine artists of this exhibition have in common not only the new degree, but they have been working as international artists and have previous education in fine art and design. 

Artists:  Ulla Ahola — Ami Avellán — Mari Keto — Sirja Knaapi — Marek Mrowinski — Outi Peippo — Nelli Tanner — Elo Uibokand — Ivary Vimm

Marek Mrowinski  Necklace: Going to pieces without falling apart 2012  Diabase (carved from one piece of stone)

Ami Avellán  Neckpiece: Roots #16 2012  Aluminium, hand made reindeer leather, jute, paper, silk, sewing thread, acrylic paint, pvc tube

Ulla Ahola 2012  Diabase, 23 kt gold, marker

Nelli Tanner -  Brooch: Light to Carry 2012 – Silver, cibatool

 Sirja Knaapi - « I’m not that old that I couldn’t bend » -   Wood, fabric 

South Karelia Art Museum
Kristiinankatu 8-10
- Lappeenranta
Finland
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EXPO ‘Ashes and Diamonds’ – Galleria Pihatto, Lappeenranta (Finland) – 31 Oct.-25 Nov. 2012

Ashes and Diamonds
Contemporary jewellery from Finland

Ashes and Diamonds is a curated contemporary jewellery exhibition, that’s part of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012- program. Contemporary jewellery, which is rarely showcased in Finland, is a marginal and groundbreaking form of art. 18 artists and 36 works in total were chosen for the exhibition, which is curated by Päivi Ruutiainen (who’s currently preparing her doctorate on contemporary jewellery)  in cooperation with HUMAK and The Jewellery Art Association in Finland.
The mission of the exhibition is to break both the preconceptions about jewellery as an art form as well as the limits of the art world. The project will also give an opportunity for finnish jewellery artists to showcase their art and increase public knowledge of contemporary jewellery.

After Platina, the exhibition can be seen at :
Lahti, Finland: Muotohuoltamo, 3.10.2012 – 24.10.2012
Lappeenranta, Finland: Pappilan Pihatto, 31.10.2012 – 25.11.2012

More information : www.tuhkaajatimantteja.fi

 

Artists :
Ulla Ahola — Eija Mustonen — Eero Lintusaari — Helena Lehtinen — Veera Metso — Terhi Tolvanen — Mia Maljojoki — Tarja Tuupanen — Kaisa Logren — Tiina Rajakallio — Elo Uibokand — Janna Syvänoja — Anna Rikkinen — Elli Hukka — Clarice Finell — Kati Nulpponen — Maria Nuutinen — Ari Pyörälä

Helena Lehtinen, from series Gardens

  Anna RikkinenTiina Rajakallio, necklace

Anna Rikkinen, pendant from series Varjojen huone (Shadow’s room)

 

 

GALLERIA PIHATTO
Valtakatu 80
53130 Lappeenranta
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EXPO ‘ASHES AND DIAMONDS’ – Platina Gallery, Stockholm (Sweden) – 31 Aout-22 Sept. 2012

ASHES AND DIAMONDS

Contemporary jewellery from Finland

contemporary jewellery exhibition created as part of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 program. The exhibition will tour in Finland and other Nordic countries in the fall of 2012 :

*Stockholm, Sweden: Galleria Platina 31.8.2012 – 22.9.2012
*Lahti, Finland: Muotohuoltamo, 3.10.2012 – 24.10.2012
*Lappeenranta, Finland: Pappilan Pihatto, 31.10.2012 – 25.11.2012

This project is done in cooperation with HUMAK University of Applied Sciences, Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, and The Jewellery Art Association, and is curated by Päivi Ruutiainen (AM)

 

Ashes and Diamonds is an exhibition that displays the works of 18 Finnish artists representing different areas of contemporary jewellery art and design.

The exhibition gives a comprehensive overview of the different techniques and materials used in contemporary jewellery design today, as well as offering insight into the meanings a piece of jewellery can carry. Besides the traditional materials of precious stones and metals, modern jewellery design also makes use of gypsum, coal, organic raw materials, recycled materials, and other materials traditionally considered to be plain.

The Ashes and Diamonds exhibition will be accompanied by workshops, pop-up shops and HomeShopping events, where invited guests get to hear the artists themselves talk about their works.

Ashes and Diamonds will run until 16 June at the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 Studio gallery.

Mia Maljojoki: Explosive Frozen Fireworks

Kaisa Logren: Flaneur / Et le Temps m’engloutit minute par minute, Comme la neige immense un corps pris de roideur (Baudelaire)

Kati Nulpponen: Petomaista rakkautta

Helena Lehtinen: Gardens, 2011

Helena Lehtinen, from series Gardens

Tiina Rajakallio, necklace from series UNHO

Tiina Rajakallio 2010

Tarja Tuupanen 2010

Helena Lehtinen 2009

Tiina Rajakallio, necklace

Anna Rikkinen, pendant from series Varjojen huone (Shadow’s room)

Elo Uibokand: Loss, 2011

COUP de ROUGE : Elo Uibokand

Elo Uibokand at Galeria ARTICULA

Elo Uibokand – Glass, silver and metal pins

Elo Uibokand – brooch

Elo Uibokand – Glass, silver and steel wire brooches

Elo Uibokand - Glass, silver and cotton thread earring

Elo Uibokand - Glass, cotton and steel wire brooch

Elo Uibokand -brooches

 

 

Galeria ARTICULA
Rua dos Remédios 102,
1100-450 Lisbon, Portugal
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EXPO ‘UltraMarine’ – Tallinn, Estonia – 7 Oct.-6 Nov. 2011

UltraMarine as a word derivates from Latin ultra + marinus and means ’over the sea’ or ’beyond the sea’.
Ultramarine is a fiery blue pigment extracted from lapis lazuli, one of the oldest precious stones used in jewellery for thousands of years. Lapis lazuli or lazurite was imported to Europe from Middle Asia by sea via Venice, hence the name ’beyond the sea’.
Ultramarine was a rare and valuable colorant, as expensive as gold leaf because of its remote origin and complex production process. Medieval masters often used that exotic pigment for the uppermost colour layer only. Sometimes just the robes of Virgin Mary and li’l Jesus were painted using the priceless blue.
UltraMarine is a solo sailor’s route across the sea, an artist’s dialogue with a material that takes place while she works at her desk. One can spy a knowing smile on the countenance of she who has arrived at her destination – for the joy of surpassing oneself is the greatest pleasure of all. A co-conspirator knows the feeling well. The sea unites; the land divides. UltraMarine is bluer than the sea.

(Sara Borgegård – necklace: ULTRAMARINE 2011 – Iron, embroidery thread, lapis lazuli, spraypaint)

 

There are works of 51 artists from Estonia, Europe, US, Australia and Asia, which will be seen in an exhibition space specially set up for the occasion in the Noblessner district. UltraMarine exhibition will be accompanied by an 80-page catalogue which will be published for the opening of the exhibition.
The exhibition is initiated by four fellow jewellery artist from Estonia: Merle Kasonen, Julia Maria Künnap, Maarja Niinemägi, Kertu Tuberg.

UltraMarine is part of the programme of the European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011 

 

Artists:
Dina Abargil — Linda al-Assi — Kätrin Beljaev — Marta Boan — Daniela Boieri — Sara Borgegård Älgå — Adam Grinovich — Ulvi Haagensen — Hanna Hedman — Sachiyo Higaki — Nils Hint — Pilleriin Jürisoo — Rainer Kaasik-Aaslav — Anni Kagovere — Merle Kasonen — Rallou Katsari — Annika Kedelauk — Mart Kekišev — Kristiina Kibe — Jenny Klemming — Katrin Kosenkranius — Lisa Kröber — Akiko Kurihara — Julia Maria Künnap — Teresa Lane — Beth Legg — Bruno Lillemets  — Liina Lõõbas — Veera Metso — Maria Militsi — Edgar Mosa — Maarja Niinemägi — Jaanika Pajuste — Tiina Rajakallio — Tabea Reulecke — Marzia Rossi — Deborah Rudolph — Ann Schmalwasser — Constanze Schreiber — Daniela Schwaag — Estella Saez Vilanova — Birgit Skolimowski — Adolfas Šaulys & Mari Relo-Šaulys — Nelli Tanner — Ketli Tiitsar — Kertu Tuberg — Elo Uibokand — Flóra Vági — Maria Valdma — Luzia Vogt

Tiina Rajakallio-  « Unho »  2011

Rallou Katsari – ‘WHISPERING LOUD’ – brooch gold, pigment 2007

 

Estella Saez - ‘BOYA’ brooch – oxidized silver, wool, paint 2008

 

Address: Noblessner Foundry, entrance at Tööstuse 48, Tallinn – Estonia
Website: www.ultramarine.ee
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Management: Merle Kasonen, Julia Maria Künnap, Maarja Niinemägi, Kertu Tuberg

EXPO ‘SAUN(A)’ – A-Galerii, Tallinn (Estonia) – 21 Juin-18 juill. 2011

You are the most welcome to the opening of SAUN(A) contemporary jewellery exhibition on June 21 at 17.00 in A-Galerii, Tallinn, Estonia.
The exhibition stays open till 18th of July.

Elo Uibokand and Veera Metso

Elo Uibokand and Veera Metso have both graduated from Saimaa University of Applied Sciences in Lappeenranta, Finland. They share interest in expressing themselves through art and jewellery and through the same kind of thematical subjects.

The theme for the exhibition is “SAUN(A)” as this is a common and uniting feature in Estonian and Finnish culture. Sauna is a healing place used for relaxing and washing oneself. For us sauna represents warm, intimate and almost sacred atmosphere where one is revealed from disguises. Sauna is a safe and a cosy place to be quiet and take some time off, it’ s a place where different generations meet and knowledge and caring is shared. At the same time a very intimate and public space. Sauna is something that sustains and changes at the same time.

The materials used in the jewellery are the same one may find traditionally in sauna: wood, textile, brick, metal.

Elo Uibokand is working with various materials depending on the concept of the works, although she prefers natural materials like wool, bone, metals, wool, linen, ceramics. For her, jewellery is a very intimate and personal medium to communicate with. Through her work she comments longing, home; the vulnerability of human being, where intimacy, passion, fear, pain and beauty intertwine.

Veera Metso mostly works with natural materials. Her work is mainly material based –she prefers to listen to the material and follow its essence over trying to make the material fit into some purpose. The material and surface structure is the purpose. In addition Veera often has personal ideas behind her work from which she derives her solutions and inspiration. These are much like Elo’s themes: intimacy, touching, fear and spirituality. Body and jewellery being a path to all of them –a place to communicate, a place in-between.

Veera Metso – « Reflection and Respiration », »You’re the another », 2010, necklace

Veera Metso – « Reflection and Respiration » – « Failure to see you », 2010, brooch

 

 

A-Galerii
Hobusepea2,
Tallinn, Estonia
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EXPO ‘Dark And Sweet’ – Galeria Articula, Lisboa, Portugal – 17 Juin-30 Juill. 2011

« Dark And Sweet »

You are warmly welcome to the opening of the contemporary jewellery exhibition  » DARK AND SWEET  » with the artists Elo Uibokand and Tiina Rajakallio, at the Gallery ARTICULA, Friday,
17 June , from 6 pm till 9 pm. The exhibition runs till 30 July.

 

Elo Uibokand is talented contemporary jewellery artist originally from Estonia. She studied jewellery and stone object design in Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Lappeenranta, Finland and graduated 2009. Tiina Rajakallio is a Finnish emerging jewellery artist. She got her master’s at Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden in 2008. They both are living and working in Lappeenranta, Finland. “Dark and Sweet” is their first collaboration together.
The dark side is often related to negative aspects of life. In this exhibition the darkness is necessary; it will highlight the light and sweet characteristics of our being. There are always two sides in every thing, together they’ll form a space where both is equally important and constantly in move, equally dependant on each other, so the harmony will be created.

Elo Uibokand has been exploring the theme by emphasizing the possibility for the encounter, femininity and tenderness in the subject by the brownish natural shades of copper and the oval-like shapes, referring to a human/woman. The cat has been obviously used as a symbol for the theme. Cats may be sweet and soft and purring…and at the next moment will bite your caressing hand. So there are oval shapes, smooth and easy to touch and handle and there are cats meticulously sawn out of the metal with sharp edges, as sharp as the bite of the cat. The cat images have been scratched to the surfaces of the metal, the drawings are subtle, even intimate – one has to come closer in order to see and recognize. Here, unlike in printmaking, the plate itself is the subject together with the earrings and necklaces sometimes sawn out from the same plate.

Elo Uibokand  The Power Cat Jewellery 2011

Tiina Rajakallio’s works are about forgetting as a part of remembering. Things get frighteningly lost and changed in our minds, there are empty spaces, black holes; moments we have no image about anymore. Rajakallio has been focusing on the aspect of catching the lost memory, using forms suggesting the handles, the vessels – abstract and concrete at the same time. The materials (mostly wood) have been treated in a different manner. Rough natural surfaces of the branches, slip surfaces carved and painted… You’ll be able to reach your memory… or it will slip away from your hands. The colour palette is delicately natural; except the deep dark ultramarine blue associated with the subconsciousness, the unknown and far away. There are necklaces and brooches to be found in Rajakallio’s series, somehow familiar and strange.

Tiina Rajakallio necklace – 2009

 

 

Galeria Articula
Rua dos Remédios 102
1100-450 Lisboa (Portugal)
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COUP de COEUR : Elo Uibokand

Elo Uibokand

2005- 2009 Saimaa University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Crafts,
Stone and Jewellery department, Lappeenranta, Finland
2007 exchange program in Ar.co, jewellery department, Lisboa, Portugal

Elo Uibokand- newly graduated jewellery artists at Norsu Gallery – oct 2009

Elo Uibokand – 2008 – (photo Francis Willemstijn)

Elo Uibokand ‘At Home I’ – brooch – silver, steel wire, ceramics sawn & carved, woolen cloth glued, soldered – 2009

Elo Uibokand- Glass, cotton and steel wire brooch

Elo Uibokand – Glass, silver and cotton thread earring (Galeria Articula, Lisbonne)

Helena Johansson  sur son blog nous montre les pièces sur lesquelles travaille Elo Uibokand (photo), et sur lesquelles j’ai craqué, mes pour lesquelles je ne trouve aucune photo !   des bijoux comme de la barbe-à-papa sous la rosée du matin …. à voir sur sa page Facebook !

Elo Uibokand « As The Flowers In The Morning.. tenderness…femininity….intimacy… wool combined with bioresin drops, gold, cold-plated copper, fimo » à voir sur sa page Facebook !