Flora Vagi CV
FLORA VAGI
Born
1978, Budapest, Hungary
Education
2006.2008 Royal College of Art, London, UK
MA degree in Goldsmithing Silversmithing, Jewellery and Metalwork
2002-2005 Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School, Florence, Italy
2000-2001 Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Taxco, Mexico
Awards
2014 Premio Cominelli/Cominelli Awards – Special Mention, Saló, Italy
2012 World Craft Council – Young Talent Prize, Belgium
2008 Bakri Yehia Memorial Award, Royal College of Art
Waddesdon Manor, National Trust commission
Prize for postcard design
2004 Talente – 1st Prize for Design,
International Craft Fair, Munich, Germany
Marzee Prize, Marzee Graduation Show, NL
Lectures/work/teaching
2015 Lecturer at University of Applied Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
2014 Program co-organizer of Zimmerhof Schmucksymposium, Germany
2011-12 Quaternitas Tutor, Alchimia, Florence, Italy
2010 Lecture at ‘Sperk Stret’ Jewellery symposium, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009-10 Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria
Assistant of course leader Prof. Manuel Vilhena
2009 ‘Making Sense’ jewellery exhibition,
Co- Curator w/Leonie Philpot , London, UK
2009 Lecture at the Oslo Academy of Applied Arts, Norway
Public Collections
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany
Marzee collection, Nijmegen, Netherland
Exhibitions (selected)
2015 ‘NOT TOO PRECIOUS’, Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales, UK
‘ A Journey Through Time’, Mobilia Gallery, Boston, USA
‘Other delights’, exhibiton during Schmuck, Munich, Germany
2014 Cominelli Awards, Saló, Italy
2014 ‘Tales from the North’, The Scottish Gallery, UK
Collect 2014 – Sarah Myerscough Gallery, UK
‘Realm of Reversals’, Jewellery and photography, Munich
2013 ‘ PAPER ART’, CODA Museum, Appeldoorn, NL
‘ SCHMUCK YOU!’, Galerie Biro Junior, Munich, Gernany
‘ News from the Permian, Museum of Natural History Chemnitz, Germany
2012 ‘Out on a Limb’,Racine Art Museum, USA
‘ Jewellery Unleashed’, Museum Bellerive, Switzerland
‘Ishikawa_Maljojoki_Steinau-von Steinruck_Vagi’
‘ Schmuck Salon’, Kunstlerhaus Vien, Austria
‘Sweet, Sour, Bitter, Salty’, Sur Hornstull, Stockholm, Sweden
Barbara Paganin & Flora Vagi Jewellery, Galerie Orfeo, Luxembourg
‘ WOOD’, Velvet da Vinci Gallery, USA
Karola Torkos & Flora Vagi Jewellery, Gallery Marzee, NL
2011 ‘Ontketend/ Jewellery Unleashed’,CODA Museuem, NL
Galerie Louise Smit 25th Anniversary Exhibtion, Amsterdam, NL
‘On Repeat’ – Flow Gallery, London, UK