Munich exhibitions Talente and Schmuck 2010 by Mária Nepšinská

Talente is an exhibition for the young applied art artists and designers up to 30 years of age. The exhibition is held annually, at the beginning of March, during the Arts and crafts fair in Munich, together with popular event Schmuck, the largest jewellery art event. The organisers of Talente collaborated with the world arts-and-crafts institutions, academies and universities which recommend the best young national artists for the exhibition from 1979. 99 artists from 24 countries registered for the exhibition. The artists mostly selected the topic which referred to the traditional techniques referring to the location in which they live. Peter Ďuriš with the set of glass vases represented Slovakia at the exhibition.
Like last year, the majority of competitors registered in the jewellery category. The generation of young Slovak jewellery makers attended international exhibition Dormitory_Bauleitung_Laboratorio (Sylvia Jokelová, Hany H. Kašičková, Bety K. Majerníková, Mária Nepšinská) and compared their work with other European projects. Original project of the students at the AFAD in Bratislava Die Slowakishe Schmuckmannschaft was organised at the same time. Project´s author Pavol Prekop initiated an interactive installation. Many countries, projects and individual artists presented their work at 30+ exhibitions organised around the city.

Further articles in the magazine Craft, Art, Design 02/2010:

• Research and documentation in the ÚĽUV by Zora Valentová
• To create for beauty and use by Nora Čechmánková
• Embroidery-making cooperative in Skalica by Mária Zajíčková
• Helena Šišková and the pictures that speak by Nora Čechmánková
• Ladislav Stromko by Peter Laučík
• Following the track of a copybook by Alena Rybáriková
• You cannot find Sloverige in vocabularies by Eva Riečanská
• Lost in time opens to the world by Silvia Rajčanová
• Roads... by Adriena Pekárová
• Toy variations by Peter Šugár
• Cal Lane: Welding-made lace by Jacqueline Ruyak
• Munich exhibitions Talente and Schmuck 2010 by Mária Nepšinská
• At the moment – The 6th ceramic biennial in the town of Kapfenberg by Štefan Oriško
• The Slovak tinkers in the Czech visual art by Monika Váleková