Rosana Lukauskaitė
The exhibition “LandJewelry”of the International Symposium of Contemporary Jewelryfrom Sweden will open at the Klaipėda Gallery of the KlaipėdaDepartment of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association(Bažnyčių St. 6) on May 12 at 5:30 pm.
LandJewelry is a project thattook place on the island of Öland, Sweden, in the last days ofAugust 2021. Eight jewelry artists from four different countries ofthe Baltic region met on the island to create art or, as theorganizers call it, land jewelry. The artists worked with materialsat hand in the surrounding landscape to create temporary works ofart, reflecting on the challenges facing ecosystem that is of theBaltic Sea.
These include for exampleeutrophication, marine litter and declining biodiversity. Ninecountries surround the Baltic Sea, with around 15 million peopleliving on its shores. It is an intensively used ecosystem and one ofthe aims of this project is to communicate its ecological situationthrough the language of land art and through the lens of modernjewelry.
During the five days working onthe coast of Segerstad in southeast Öland, the team created almost30 “Land Jewels”, most of which were sculptural installations.The exhibition at the Klaipėda Gallery presents photographs of theseworks and a video of the pieces on site. In addition, in theexhibition you can also get acquainted with the previous jewelry workof each artist.
All the works in the symposiumwere left where they were created, with the exception of somenon-biodegradable materials that the artists removed. Sooner orlater, this land jewelry will decay and the materials from which itwas created will once again become part of the surrounding nature.Traces of artist’s intervention will disappear. Last but not leastthese pieces are also simply an homage to this – our beautifulBaltic Sea.
The project was initiated andorganized by Maja Breife (Sweden) and Wiebke Pandikow (Finland).Further participants: Aino-Astrid Gaedtke (Germany), Elli Hukka(Finland), Ingrid Berg (Sweden), Kajsa Wikström (Sweden) andLithuanian artists Karina Kazlauskaitė and Lauryna Kiškytė.
Artists MajaBreife and Wiebke Pandikow will inviteKlaipeda residents to take part in a landjewelry workshopat TheDutchman’s Cap on Saturday, May 14, at 12 noon– the body itself and the objects aroundus will become tools and materials in thecreation of small pieces of artin the environment.Pre-registration by email is required: klaipeda.lds@gmail.com.
Sponsors:
KlaipedaCity Municipality
LithuanianCouncil for Culture
Curator– Neringa Poškutė-Jukumienė
Coordinator– Rosana Lukauskaitė
Ourworking hours: II–V – 10:00–18:00,VI – 11:00–16:00
Theexhibition will run until June 4.
