FLORA VAGI Born 1978, Budapest, Hungary Education 2006-2008 Royal College of Art,London, UK MA degree in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Jewellery and Metalwork 2002-2005Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School Florence, Italy 2000-2001Universidad NacionalAutonoma de Mexico, Taxco, Mexico 1998-2000Polytechnics of Crafts Budapest, Hungary Lectures/work
2011 Quaternitas Tutor, Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School, Florence, IT 2009-10 Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria Assistant of course leaderprof. Manuel Vilhena Intensive course: Jewellery and other stories 2010Design Week Budapest JewellerySense, Curator of exhibiton, Hungary 2010Lecture at the Budai Design School, Budapest, Hungary 2009 Making Sense exhibition, Co-CuratorLondon, UK 2009 Lecture at the Oslo Academy of Applied Arts, Norway 2004-05 Alchimia Contemporary Jewellery School, Italy Teacher of intensive courses in jewellery design and making Awards 2008 BakriYehia Memorial Award, Royal College of Art, UK 2008 Waddesdon Manor, National Trust commission prize, UK 2004 Talente 1 st Prize for Design, International Craft Fair, Munich, Germany Marzee Prize, Marzee Graduation Show, Nijmegen Netherlands
Publications 2011 Noovo Editions, Barcelona, Spain 21 st Century Jewellery, 500 series, Lark Books, USA Ultramarine catalogue, Tallin, Estonia Paper Jewellery, London, UK 2010 The Room magazine, Hungary/UK SCHMUCK catalogue, IHM, Germany 2009 Jewellery Compendium, Darling Publications OCTOGON, Architecture & Design magazine, Hungary 2008 Value Magazine, Hungary Alchimia X Catalogue 2006 500 Necklaces, Lark Books, USA Twilight - jewellery and installation, Estonia 2005 500 Bracelets, Lark Books, USA SCHMUCK Catalogue, IHM 2004 TALENTE Catalogue, IHM Public Collections CODA Apeldoorn Museum, Netherlands Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany Marzee collection, Nijmegen, Netherland Exhibitions
2012 Out on a Limb,Racine Art Museum, USA 2011 Ontketend/ Jewellery Unleashed, CODA museum,nl Forma vsmateria 3, Cristiani Gallery, Italy Galerie Louise Smit 25 th Anniversary Exhibtion Amsterdam, NL WHAT S THIS! Raday Gallery, Hungary On Repeat Flow Gallery, London, UK ULTRAMARINE Tallin, Estonia SODAmore SODA Gallery, Istambul, Turkey Ishikawa_Maljojoki_Steinau-von Steinruck_Vagi Jewellery exhibition during SCHMUCK 2011, Munich WOODBOOST, GalerieSofieLachaert, Belgium Wood and Paper Jewellery, GalerieSlavik, Vienna, A COLLECT with GalerieSofieLachaert, at Saatchi Gallery, London, UK ELECTRUM Gallery 40 th AnniversaryExhibiton, In Tandem, London, UK 2010 COLLECT at Saatchi Gallery, /GalerieSofieLachaert/ London, UK JewellerySense, Gallery G13, Budapest, HU SCHMUCK InternazionaleHandwerksMesse, Munich, Germany The (Jewellery) Box Kunstburoreillplast,Munich, Germany 2009 What s New GalerieSofieLachaert, Belgium COLLECT Contemporary Craft Fair - Saatchi Gallery /GalerieSofieLachaert/, London, UK Making Sense Jewelley, Object, Site, London, UK Beautifully Crafted - National Glass Centre, UK Schmuck Extreme, Munich,Germany SOFA New York, /Charon Kransen Arts/, New York, USA 2008 Electrum Gallery, London, UK RCA SHOW Royal College of Art, London, UK Time to make a mark - Firenze, Italy SOFA New York, /CKA/, USA Gallery Noel Guyomarc h, Canada 2007SOFA Chicago, /CKA/, USA 2006 COLLECT - /Galllery Alternatives/, London, UK Creative Currency -Bank of America, London, UK SOFA New York, /CKA/, USA
SOFA Chicago, /CKA/, USA 2005Women in Jewellery Gallery Alternatives, Italy Winterreise - GalerieSlavik, Austria SCHMUCK exhibition, IHM, Munich, Germany Twilight -Tallin, Estonia Alchimia Gallery Ileana Tounta, Athens, Greece "Espressioni..." Palazzo Medici Riccardi di Firenze, Italy "Trittico"- Palazzo civico di Spoleto, Italy 2004 Marzee Graduation Show, Nijmegen, NL TALENTEexhibition, IHM, Munich, Germany Pommegranate- jewellery and installation, Karinzia, Austria Gallery Mangold Leipzig, Germany