2025

Exploration

INTERNATIONAL MEDALLIC PROJECT 2025

Exploration INTERNATIONAL MEDALLIC PROJECT 2025

The organizer of the 17th project is the Faculty of Fine Arts, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.

“Exploration”, the 17th edition of the international medal project is a continuation of previous projects titled:

“ Structure”(2024), “Cosmos” (2023),, “Symbiosis” (2022), “Transformation”(2021), “Future for nature” (2020), “Borders”(2019), “Faith” (2018), “Identity”(2017), “Civilization” (2016), “Heritage” (2015), “Bonds”(2014), “Freedom” (2013), “Signs of the time”(2012), “Home”(2011), “Time”(2010) and “Dialogue”(2009). They were addressed to fine arts universities and colleges all over the world, where the contemporary medal art is being taught and which were interested in taking part in the project. The whole project shows the vast diversity in perceiving tendencies and development of contemporary medal art, from formal perspective and widely understood creation in usage of different materials.

We would like to invite your studio and students to join our medal project, which aim is to propagate medal art and exchange our ideas about the contemporary medal art. If you are interested in participating in this year’s project, enclosed you will find the rules for the year 2025.

The aim of this project is to propagate medal art, to familiarize students with it and to get known other medal centres in the world. Furthermore, to exchange own experience in this matter, opinions about contemporary medal art and developing further cooperation between foreign universities.

The project is directed to all artistic universities in the world, which teach the medal art and are interested in taking part in medallic projects . The task lasts one academic term and its results are presented at common exhibition.

Here is link to last year’s project: https://kawir.umk.pl/projekt-medalierski/structure-international-medallic-project-2024/

The project coordinator is Professor Sebastian Mikołajczak from Faculty of Fine Arts, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.

Rules of the project for year 2025

The subject for this year is “Exploration”. The main question is: how do you see the

exploration?

Conditions:

All participants will complete the same subject, which is held during one academic semester. Participants can use any type of materials and techniques they want to accomplish the project. Finally participants prepare photographic documentation of their works, which is sent to the project coordinator.

Please send photos of your works via email [photos format: 300 dpi] on following email address s.p.mikolajczak@gmail.com Also please send a photograph of each participant [signed with his/her name and surname], as well as one joint photograph of all participants and their leading professor [with detailed name of the university and faculty].

Photographic documentation of all works will be presented on websites of each particular studio/academy as well as on professional medal websites. Moreover, one common poster with all works will be produced and sent to participants of the project. Participants may prepare exhibitions in their own academies with posters showing the results of the project (optional).

Deadline:

Project starts on the 10th of November 2024

Deadline to send photos is the 15th of May 2025

Presentation (on-line) of the project starts on the 24th of June 2025