Open Call SIJW 2026

Slovenian Jewelry Week (SIJW) is an internationally recognized central platform for presenting contemporary jewelry design in Slovenia. It serves as a space for expressing creativity, innovation, and professional expertise, as well as a bridge connecting the past, present, and future. SIJW celebrates art, dedication, and the passion for design, presenting contemporary jewelry as a reflection of the creators’ thoughts, ideas, and personalities. At the same time, it offers visitors the opportunity to experience the designers’ creative vision.

Participate in the main exhibition, which will be on view at Center Rog from March 26 to April 18, 2026. The theme of this year’s exhibition is MATTER / TRANSFORMATION. It will explore questions such as: What is matter? What is the essence of matter? Where does its transformation begin?

We invite all contemporary jewelry creators to explore and reflect on matter and its transformation. How do we perceive matter today? Where is its essence, and how do we experience it in a world where digitalization, artificial intelligence, and virtual realities are reshaping our connection with material?

We are looking for works that raise questions about the relationship between the material and the spiritual, the physical and the virtual, form and essence, tradition and modern technologies. Matter is not only tangible substance; it is a field of vibrations, a carrier of stories, a space for dialogue between different realities, with the designer serving as the intermediary. At this point, we ask whether an artist’s perception of matter is becoming a silent form of resistance – resistance as a return to essence, nature, and perception; to slowness; to the search for authenticity in a world of replication and imitation. Resistance against the loss of human inherent skills such as sensory-experiential bodily intelligence, imagination, and intuition.

We invite designers to explore their own experiences, perceptions, and relationships both with the technological and highly intuitive world, and to consider how these two worlds differ and where they meet. Can they coexist, or perhaps even unite and collaborate?

Applications for the SIJW 2026 jewelry exhibition are open from September 10, 2025, to December 10, 2025. Apply HERE.

A professional jury will decide on the selection of designers, who will be notified of the results by January 10, 2026. Selected designers must submit their works by February 10, 2026. The jury will only consider correctly completed and complete applications.

The fee for the return and insurance of works while in our care is 70 €, to be paid by the creator after notification of selection.

Each application may include up to three (3) individual pieces of jewelry or a collection, related to the exhibition theme MATTER / TRANSFORMATION. Applicants authorize the use of photographic and written materials for the promotion of the project. Applications must include photographs of the works, a photograph of the creator, and a statement of authorship for the presented works.