2026
Pattern
INTERNATIONAL MEDALLIC PROJECT 2026
Pattern
INTERNATIONAL MEDALLIC PROJECT 2026
The organizer of the 18th project is the Faculty of Fine Arts, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
“ Pattern ”, the 18th edition of the international medal project is a continuation of previous projects titled:
“Exploration”(2025), “ 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 2026.
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/exploration/
The project coordinator of is Professor Sebastian Mikołajczak from Faculty of Fine Arts, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Project coordinator
Professor Sebastian Mikołajczak
s.p.mikolajczak@gmail.com
