DETAILS
During the first four days of the programme, each member of the collective will lead the group work with specific exercises, sharing their own creative tools, rhythms and perspectives with participants. This will be a chance to experience four different approaches, moods and focuses providing plenty of opportunities to explore various paths of self-expression, creative practice, and self-reflection. In the final day participants will be sharing with the group their individual reflections and reactions to the previous four days with the aim to create a space for connections, to deepen the single and the collective experiences, and to formulate new personal creative directions.
The goal of the workshop is not to create finished objects or products, but to explore a kind of inner space in which we can observe and reflect on ourselves, each other and our environment in order to trigger a deeper creative process within us.
These are some (but not all) of the questions that the tasks will raise:
– How can our questions be used as tools for creative thinking?
– How can conscious control and randomness be balanced?
– What does spontaneity mean in the creative process?
– How can we find a slower rhythm and transform our attention into a more conscious, sensitive presence?
– How can different materials, patterns, and forms be interpreted?
– How do we connect with objects and how do we transform them?
– How can feelings be put into form?
– What techniques are familiar to us and how can we combine them into our own method?
– What role does the presence of others play in inspiration?
– How can we connect with others based on our own experiences?
– How can we build individual perspectives into more collective thinking?
WHO IS IT FOR?
This workshop is for anyone who:
- is open to stepping outside their comfort zone to gain new insights about themselves and opportunities to develop new perspectives;
- is interested in the role of spontaneity in the creative process and would like to discover how conscious, directed creation can be harmonized with randomly-found solutions;
- is curious about how to frame questions in such a way that they become creative tools;
- is mindful of the presence and perspectives of others and curious about how community and collectivity can become a source of inspiration.
No prior training or technical knowledge is required—the emphasis is on experience, experimentation, and shared discovery. With four tutors always present, there will be plenty of time for individual guidance and support.
TIMETABLE
Wednesday 15 October – Sunday 19 October 2025:
9am-6pm, with a one-hour lunch break 1pm-2pm
LANGUAGE
The workshop will be held in Hungarian and English. One of the international tutors will lead her day in English. We will provide all the help we can to ensure a smooth experience and assist with mutual translation.
Vica Gábor earned her Master’s degree in Curatorial Practice from the University of Glasgow in 2024. She previously studied Silversmithing and Jewellery Design at The Glasgow School of Art. She currently lives and works in Glasgow as a member of The House Art Collective studio.
Her jewellery practice centres around questions of self-understanding, and as part of her research methods, she incorporates photography, painting, and collage. Vica is a founding member of Kontrapunkt Collective, an international art group that exhibits in cities such as Budapest, Valencia, Amsterdam, Munich, and Tallinn. Their next happening event exhibition will take place in Budapest at KuglerArt Gallery. She has participated in group exhibitions at several international venues, with her work shown in various cities across Scotland, as well as in Porto, Rome, and New York.
In addition to making jewellery, Vica also works as a curator, specialising in contemporary jewellery. Her curatorial approach questions traditional methodologies, aiming to create immersive exhibitions that shift the viewer from a passive observer to an active participant.
Born in Budapest, Vica has lived in Scotland with her family since 2014.
Lieta Marziali was born in Italy and moved to England at the age of 20, where she has been studying, living and practising since 1994. She initially earned her Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Roehampton Institute (University of Surrey, UK) and, after working in fields as diverse as publishing, hospitality and archaeology, she earned a second Bachelor’s degree in Three-Dimensional Design and Craft from Colchester School of Art (University of Essex, UK) and finally a Master’s degree by Research from the John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design in London.
Lieta’s work navigates freely across making and writing, researching and curating, and mentoring and teaching. These are for her just different and equal manifestations of an art practice that is, as Italian writer Italo Calvino referred to literature, "an existential function, ... a search for knowledge". Or, to use philosopher Peter Sloterdijk’s words, "wisdom as practice": a tangle of non-linear, slow and mindful projects of thinking-as-doing and doing-as thinking. Over the last 15 years she has been regularly exhibiting, curating and lecturing at an international level, and her writings have been published in many international publications.
More recently, her research has been driven by studies in anthropology and phenomenology, resulting in a belief in art as a social verb, and in the role of the artist as a questioning agent. A founder member of Kontrapunkt Collective, even in her personal practice her latest work has been turning towards projects driven by a spirit of shared, collaborative and participatory engagement.
Rita Besnyői originally graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and then worked as an architectural designer and project manager for nearly ten years. Initially, her jewelry also combined technical solutions with personal experiences. Later, she obtained a goldsmith qualification at the Buda Drawing School and then at the Práter Street Vocational School and completed the MOME Education through Art course, specialising in art pedagogy.
She is the founder of Kredenc CoWorkshop, a community goldsmith studio in the heart of Budapest where beginners, advanced and professional goldsmiths also can challenge themselves. In addition to traditional techniques and specialist courses, the studio also organises exhibitions and roundtable discussions related to contemporary jewellery, also connecting with international jewelry designers, making it a meeting point for the goldsmithing community.
In her work, Rita finds a way to document her personal development and questioning. Her objects grow out of the most personal intuitions, but often take on a playful yet thought-provoking or dramatic form. Her works have been presented in many cities across Europe, and her jewellery can also be found in Hungarian public collections. For her, creation is an inherent part of development, existence and change, a platform that can turn a joke into something serious, or drama into euphoria in an instant. Both her own work and her pedagogical activities are an adventure of self-discovery woven through art therapy tools.
Luca Sági's practice is balanced between fine art, applied art, design, and craftsmanship, and has a strong conceptual background. She strives to convey her message through the most suitable combination of classical and experimental techniques and materials. For her, contemporary jewelry is a means of self-expression, relationship building, and community creation, a kind of communication channel.
She earned her Master's degree in Jewelry Design from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and her Bachelor’s degree in Object Design and Metalworking from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions at national and international venues and events including Budapest Jewelry Week and the Hungarian National Museum; Galerie Marzee and Sieraad Art Fair in the Netherlands; Galerie Beyond, DIVA Museum and Brussels Jewellery Week in Belgium; Melting Point Valencia in Spain and Munich Jewellery Week in Germany.
