Winners Announced - JOYA Awards Ceremony 2020

The JOYA awards ceremony, was held at “Artesanía Catalunya de la
Generalitat”, where it was awarded the best individual artists and students, who despite
the current circumstances have created collections with a high level of design.

Respecting the government's recommendations, the awards ceremony was online,
bringing together the artists and followers of JOYA worldwide, chaired by Paulo Ribeiro,
Director of the Fair and accompanied by the General Director of Commerce, Muntsa
Vilalta.

The winner of the 12th edition of JOYA has been the Korean artist, Namkyung Lee with her collection “Image Space”, a series of brooches turned into image containers, a personal collection of the past, the present and the future.

The artist will be the guest of the next edition, in addition she will take part of the circuit of fairs and events as a representative of JOYA Barcelona 2021.

Since last year the DOR Museum has rewarded an artist, acquiring one piece for the Museum's permanent collection. This year the winner was the Spanish artist Chama Navarro, who has already been the winner and representative of the Association of Contemporary Goldsmith and Jewelery Designers of Spain.

Her work is handmade, made with sustainable, ecological and environmentally friendly materials, she combines different materials, experimenting with organic shapes and textures.

The Italian gallery mydaybyday, awarded the Polish artist Malgosia Kalinska and her collection "Intentionality and non-intentionality". The artist studied the role of chance in the creative process and how the relationship between intuition and consciousness is translated into materiality and human spirituality.

The awards for the students were in charge of the International Amber Association, which this year chose Tseng Yu-Chen from "The National Taiwan University of Arts" for the brooch "On the road 2". The award consists of the provision of Ambar material to create a new collection to be exhibited at Ambar Gallery in Poland.

Dterra awarded Yaiza Rodriguez, student of the Escola Massana from Barcelona, for her collection "A tientas", a collection of pieces that emerge from the skin, that connect the shapes of the body, inviting us to explore them and create complex sensory experiences.

The JOYA Barcelona exhibition is open to the public until November 29, 2020 at Artesanía Catalunya.

More information:
www.joyabarcelona.com
www.klimt02.net
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