Initiation 2018

Venue

Florian Trampler Gallery, Oskar von Miller Ring 29, 22222 Munich

When

Audience

Open to the Public

Initiation 2018 // Kallichoron Munich Jewellery Week 2018

A Jewellery, Narrative & Performance show to reflect the night of the sacred orgies.
The project INITIATION 2018 // KALLICHORON focuses on „Body – Ritual - Narrative“ as a means to bridge jewellery with the sacred context of its origins and to find meaning in its future development.

For 2.000 years Eleusina, a farmers' community close to Athens, was the spiritual capital of the Greek-Roman world. The cult of Demeter and Persephone - Mother and Daughter – also know as "orgies" (work) celebrated the establishment of human settlements and agriculture, the cycle of nature and life, the preparation and sharing of food, the creation and abolishment of hierarchical classes and the metaphysical explanation for the soul's destiny after death.
The Eleusinian cult or Eleusinian Mysteries, as it is widely known, is a milestone in the history of human civilization.

“Kallichoron”- „The Well of Fair Dances“ - still to be seen at the very entrance of the sacred site of Eleusina, alludes to the ecstatic dances the initiates performed around it to honor the goddess Demeter, Mother Earth, before the revelation of the secret of bliss through objects, narrative and performance. Kallichoron was the boundary between life and death, conscious and unconscious, upper world and Hades, the initiates had to cross to reach eternal truth.

At the show opening, jewellery artists present performances they developped during their Artist Residency in Athens, to reflect the common denominator between wearable ornament and movement: the body.

The installation of the show's Honored Guest Daniel von Weinberger is an incisive comment on the end of civilization.

Many elements of the Eleusinian cult - its sacred architecture, objects, performances, doctrine – were absorbed by Christianity after the decline of the ancient faith, thus becoming a vital part of Europe's spiritual heritage and cultural language.

Dates & Venue

The group show opening on

Munich Jewellery Week, 8 - 11 March 2018

at Florian Trampler Gallery, Oskar von Miller Ring 29, 22222 Munich

is curated by ZLR Betriebsimperium alias Christoph Ziegler and Loukia Richards.

The opening hours of the exhibition are:
Thursday, 8 March: Show opening: 18.00 – 22.00
Friday, 9 March: 11.00 – 19.00
Saturday, 10 March: 11.00 – 19.00
Sunday, 11 March: 11.00 – 17.00

Participants