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We are bringing you photos from yesterday’s AFAR Talk with Liesbeth Bik, Jos van der Pol (NL), and Leila Topić (HR): Speechless, as part of the European project Artists for Artists Residency Network (AFAR), aimed at improving the mobility of contemporary visual artists and curators, thus creating greater opportunities for women in the arts. This project takes place in four European partner countries – Romania, Germany, Croatia, and Austria. The Talk took place in collaboration with the discursive program of the doctoral study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.
In conversation with Leila Topić from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Bik Van der Pol attempted to address the most important themes that have characterized their artistic practice so far, presenting their two artistic works and discussing the process of creating works, experimenting, and dealing with failures.
Through their practice, they strive to articulate and understand how art can create space for speculation and imagination within the public sphere. This includes forms of mediation through which the public not only defines but also creates itself. By establishing conditions for encounter, Bik Van der Pol’s working process enables the continuous reconfiguration of place, history, and publicness. Their practice is site-specific and collaborative, involving publishing, writing, and curating. They view dialogue as a mode of transmission, where the element of “passing through” is crucial, as it is temporal and implies action and the development of new forms of discourse. Their practice is both an initiator and a result of this approach. Bik Van der Pol explore ways in which human activity in the globalized age directly affects (ecological) systems.
Within the project:
Project partners:
Co-funded by:
Co-funded by the European Union – CREA-CULT-2022-COOP. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them. [Project number: 101100309 ]
Project is co-financed by the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.
The views expressed in this announcement are the sole responsibility of HDLU and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.
02 May 2024
Talk between: Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol (NL) with Leila Topić (HR)
in cooperation with the discursive program of the doctoral study of Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb
May 7, 2024 u 7:30 pm
Putolovac Gallery
Putolovac Gallery
Ilica 112
In conversation with Leila Topić from MSU Zagreb, Bik Van der Pol will try to touch on the most important topics that have marked their artistic practice so far. Through their practice, they strive to articulate and understand how art can create space for speculation and imagination within the public space. This includes forms of mediation through which the public is not only defined, but also created. By establishing the conditions for the encounter, Bik Van der Pol’s work process enables the continuous reconfiguration of place, history and public. Their practice is site-specific and collaborative and includes publishing, writing and curating. They consider dialogue as a mode of transmission, where the element of “passing through” is vital, because it is temporal and implies action and the development of new forms of discourse. Their practice is both the initiator and the result of this approach. Bik Van der Pol investigate the ways in which human activity in the globalized age has a direct impact on (ecological) systems. They are interested in the potential of the choir in the present. It is important to note that the Greek chorus was not composed of actors – instead, (male) citizens were chosen to represent the city. Their role was to speak on behalf of past and future generations of the city; “When they spoke about what the public already recognized, they were grandfathers. When they expressed what the public felt but could not articulate, they were unborn.”
Artists Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol (NL) work together as Bik Van der Pol since 1995, they have been working. They live and work in Rotterdam, Netherlands (www.bikvanderpol.net). Through their practice Bik Van der Pol aim to articulate and understand how art can produce a public sphere and space for speculation and imagination. This includes forms of mediation through which publicness is not only defined but also created. Their work follows from research of how to activate situations to create a platform for exchange and experience of different knowledges. Bik Van der Pol’s mode of working consists of setting up the conditions for encounter, where they develop a process of working that allows for continuous reconfigurations of places, histories, and publics. Their practice is site-specific and collaborative, with dialogue as a mode of transfer; a “passing through”, understood in its etymological meaning of “a speech across or between two or more people, out of which may emerge new understandings”. In fact, they consider the element of “passing through” as vital. It is temporal and implies action and the development of new forms of discourse. Their practice is both instigator and result of this method. They have exhibited their work at numerous venues, as well as participated in biennials such as Gwangju, Istanbul, Jakarta, and Sao Paulo Biennale. Recent and current projects include Paad Bienal 2024 Abi Dabhi (UAE), a research residency project at School of Casablanca (2021–23), Casablanca (Marocco), a project in collaboration with Volt, Bergen (Norway), Take Part (2018–20), at SFMOMA and Public Libraries, San Francisco (USA), and Far Too Many Stories To Fit Into So Small A Box, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (Poland) (2019-20). Bik Van der Pol were co-initiators of artist-run space Duende existing from 1984-2013, where they organised many activities such as artist in residence programs, talks, screenings and exhibition projects, they were course directors of The School of Missing Studies – a temporary masters programme at Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam (2013–15), and they are advisors at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Liesbeth is a core-tutor at Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam), and a member, and currently chair, of the Akademie van Kunsten/Academy of Arts, that is part of the Dutch Royal Academy of Science (KNAW).
Leila Topić is professor of art history and comparative studies and senior curator at Zagreb MSU. She realized numerous solo and group exhibitions during her work as a freelance curator and as an employee of MSU since 2006 (57th Zagreb Salon „Stvari drugačije“, „Krivo srastanje“, „5,5 na Richterovoj ljestvici“, „Unutar strukture- dijalog s Ivanom Piceljom“, „Kradljivci vremena“ (with Jasminka Babić), 60th Poreč Annales, and numerous solo exhibitions such as those of Zlatan Vehabović, Renata Poljak, Damir Žižić and Kristijan Kožul, Olivier Menanteau, Žarko Vijatović, Bojan Gagić, Ana Opalić , Roger Ballen, Sofija Silvija, Javier Arce, Oliver Kosack, Loren Živković Kuljiš, Vida Meić or Željko Kipke.) She initiated the multi-year multimedia exhibition project “Cinematography of Resistance” in collaboration with the Subversive Film Festival and film programmer Dina Pokrajac. Among the more organizationally demanding exhibitions, she curated and presented the group problem exhibition “Lighting out for the territories” in the Vienna Kunsthalle and the Budapest Contemporary Art Center “Trafo”. She also organized and co-curated the group exhibition “L’amour d’risque”, as well as the media-demanding and complex solo exhibitions of Dalibor Martinis (awarded with the Nazor Prize) and Zlatko Kopljar at MSU. She won the V. Nazor Award in 2017 for Dalibor Martinis’ solo exhibition “Data Recovery” at MSU. In addition to editing and writing texts for exhibition publications, Leila Topić edited the translations of Nicolas Bouriaud’s “Relational Aesthetics” and Donald Kuspit’s “The End of Art” in the MSU library “Refleksije”. She is the co-author of the publication “60 Years of Gallery SC” in collaboration with Darko Glavan. She trained as a scholarship holder of the Goethe Institute in Berlin, in the Vienna Museum Quarter on a curatorial scholarship, and at numerous other international curatorial workshops (workshop on mediation in contemporary art “Fall of the Ivory Tower”, Vilnius, Lithuania, workshop “Contemporary phenomena in museums” Bordoaux/ Paris, France, two-month scholarship for cultural management Paris, France, Curators’ network in Madrid, Spain.) She has been an active member and lecturer at the Center for Women’s Studies since 2002. She is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Media and Communication in Belgrade. She lives and works in Zagreb.
The Artists for Artists Residency Network, a two-year project (2023-2024), aims to improve the mobility of contemporary visual artists and curators, while creating greater opportunities for women in the arts. The project takes place in four European partner countries – Romania, Germany, Croatia and Austria. The project focuses on the development of new international exchanges and transcultural dialogue and provides a number of new opportunities for art practitioners of all ages, in different artistic media, with a special emphasis on women in art and gender equality. The result of the project will be increased awareness of the importance of cultural mobility at local legislative levels, but also in the general public, especially in the current (post)crisis European context, strengthening EU affiliation and connection with contemporary visual art.
The project includes: 12 artist residencies in Zagreb (HR), Mulhouse (FR), Bucharest (RO) and in Săcel, Maramureș (RO), 4 curatorial residencies in Zagreb and Bucharest, 12 conferences in Zagreb, Bucharest and Vienna and 1 traveling international exhibition, which will first be shown to the public in Zagreb (HR), and then in Vienna (AT) and Bucharest (RO).
Within the project:
Project partners:
Co-funded by:
Co-funded by the European Union – CREA-CULT-2022-COOP. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them. [Project number: 101100309 ]
Project is co-financed by the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.
The views expressed in this announcement are the sole responsibility of HDLU and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.
30 April 2024
ANDREA KNEZOVIĆ
TRANSMISSION
7.-28.5.
KARAS GALLERY
On Tuesday, 7.5.2024. Andrea Knezović opens her solo exhibition entitled Transmission, at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).
In her foreword, Katarina Podobnik emphasizes:
With the art installation “Transmission” as a speculative design, Knezović creates a world in which artificial intelligence imposes itself as a pseudo-divine entity, and the place of worship becomes (or remains) both materialised and digital – an AI altar. Alongside the physical presence of characteristic liturgical ornaments, the artistic ambience consists of three central components – three monitors symbolising the united Holy Trinity. Each of the latter shows a video based on generative language models and a text-to-speech system, replicating traditional ritual elements within the framework of the new – “AI religion”.
Biography:
Andrea Knezović is a multimedia artist born in 1992 in Slavonski Brod. In 2014, she completed her undergraduate studies, and in 2017, her graduate studies in multimedia at the Academy of Arts in Osijek under the mentorship of Vladimir Frelih.
So far, she has had six solo exhibitions and participated in dozens of group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists – HDLU Istok. She lives and works in Rijeka.
Andrea’s earlier works explore the relationship between mass media society and fetishism and ritual, where the artist, through the portrayal of her own body, plays with traditional representations of female identity. In her recent works, Andrea explores the impact of technology and media on society and individuals using experimental research practices.
The exhibition will be open during the period from 7. to 28.5.2024.
Working hours of Gallery Karas
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 4pm – 8pm
Tuesday, Saturday 10am – 1pm
On Sundays and Mondays closed.
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Organizer: HDLU
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb
23 April 2024
CreArtivci
Exhibition of elementary and high school pupils
April 30-May 2, 2024
Karas Gallery
On Tuesday, April 30, at 6pm exhibition of elementary and high school pupils CreArtivci will be opened at the Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58). The exhibition is a result of the Educational programme of the European project Creart 3.0.
The CreArt Educational Programme is part of the European project CreArt 3.0 and aims to improve cooperation between local schools, cultural institutions, non-governmental organizations and independent workers and companies in the cultural and creative sector. The program builds and strengthens intergenerational ties, creates a network for the exchange of education in culture, and encourages the future participation of school children in the cultural life of the city. Over the course of 3 years, the program will include 76 schools in the project’s partner cities, more than 4,500 students and teachers, and 47 artists.
HDLU connected this year’s educational program with the 7th Biennial of Painting, which for the 14th year has been positioned as the only national art manifestation dedicated to presenting the scene and developments in the medium of painting. In the first edition, 6 schools will participate (Ivan Merz Elementary School, Matko Laginja Elementary School, Marije Jurić Zagorka Elementary School, XVth Gymnasium, XVIth Gymnasium, Classical Gymnasium) with more than 120 students and 6 professors and teachers. The program consists of guided tour through the Biennial of Painting with an educational booklet with tasks and workshops that are held in schools under the mentorship of artists from the 7th Biennial of Painting, namely: Natalia Borčić Peuc, Monika Meglić, Valentina Supanz Marinić, Iva Zagoda, Marko Zeman and Marta Živčnjak.
Mia Matijević Akrap designed the educational booklet under the supervision of the Teaching Department of the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, prof. Sonja Vuk. Duje Medić designed it, and at the beginning of January the booklets were ready for use, after which all guided tours with educational booklets were carried out for elementary and high school pupils.
XVIth Gymnasium guided tour (photo: XVIth Gymnasium)
After guided tours, there were 6 workshops with artists carried out, the result of which are student works that will be exhibited at the exhibition in the Karas gallery.
Workshop led by Mihaela Rašica at the Classical Gymnasium
Workshop led by Marta Živičnjak in the dr. Ivan Merz elementary school
Workshop led by Marko Zeman in the XVI. gymnasium
PARTICIPANTS:
Schools: Matko Laginja elementary school, dr. Ivan Merz elementary school, Marija Jurić Zagorka elementary school, Classical Gymnasium, XV. Gymnasium, XVI. Gymnasium
Artists: Natalia Borčić Peuc, Monika Meglić, Mihaela Rašica, Valentina Supanz Marinić, Marko Zeman, Marta Živičnjak
Professors: Sanja Černko Delerue, Tamara Galović, Anamarija Jukić-Ivandić, Zoran Kakša, Maja Marović, Lahorka Rožić
Pupils: Ante Alerić, Gabrijela Antonić, Marta Arnaut, Marija Bakmaz, Katja Barbarosa, Silvija Bašić, Jakov Beloša, Teuta Biškup, Luka Bokolić, Lucija Brajković, Domenica Brkić, Katarina Brkić, Ema Brzica, Matko Brzica, Ana Buneta, Marta Buntak , Dov Cvetković, Alan Čaldarović, Andrija Deković, Klara Dodić, Lara Đureš, Filip Felja, Julija Ferenčak, Ema Gazić, Lori Giljević, Duje Gligora, Nicol Gogić, Svebor Graonić, Lorena Grgat, Nikola Gvozdenović, Laura Hajduk, Dina Halužan, Helena Han, Lana Hižar, Ana Husak, Jakov Ivanda, Pavla Ivšinović, Iva Jakopović, Mihaela Jambrešić, Tina Jelaković, Luči Jogušt, Nicole Jozić, Ana Jukić, Ana Jurić, Franceska Jurmić, Ivan Jakov Jurović, Roza Kajs, Marko Keser Slavković, Lara Kette, Andrej Kević Janković, Lucija Kanižaj, Jakov Kitarović, Franka Kokot, Hana Kos, Maja Kresonja Jembrih, Robertina Krupa, Ivona Kučiš, Domagoj Kuliš, Ivan Leko, Iva Lovrić, Ema Lujo, Luka Marenić, Stella Margetić, Maro Maričević, Lovro Marić, Dominik Marunić, Mihael Marušić, Juraj Matek, Tin Matešin, Melani Matić, Petra Mazarević, Dora Meštrović, Ana Mihoci, Tina Mimica, Marta Mlinar, Noa Nadali, Juraj Najdek, Franka Nikolaci, Lovro Panović, Marko Pažin, Alan Peštalić, Maša Pećarina, Antonia Periček, Katarina Petrović-Poljak, Paula Pilić, David Petar Pleština, Elena Plušćec, Ivor Prelogović, Luka Primorac, Kan Priselac Novačić, Ema Rašić, Mila Ravlić, Hana Sabljić, Zola Sarnavka, Marina Slaviček, Karla Smolić Ročak, Klara Stambolija, Max Šenjug, Ela Šiklić, Enola Špoljar, Mark Štritof, Margita Šurina, Iva Šušak, Nikša Šutej, Mia Tabaković, Maksimilijan Tanšek, Sofija Taraba, Mirko Tišljar, Dora Tomić Babić, Dejan Torbica, Nikša Tunguz, Anja Vačevski, Teo Valčić, Laava Magdalena Vatsel, Mia Vernik, Karla Vrdoljak, Paula Vučković, Iris Vuković, Vito Zadro, Maša Žilavčić, Mark Živković, Nina Živković
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CreArt is a network of 13 medium-sized European cities with the aim of exchanging experiences and good practices for the promotion of contemporary art, through a permanent transnational mobility program for emerging artists, curators and cultural workers, in order to maximize the economic, social and cultural contribution that creativity can make to local communities (#stringing_together). At the same time, CreArt 3.0 is pushing the boundaries (#pushboundaries) beyond the visual arts, empowering other artistic practices such as performing arts or music, and new collaborations with an NGO based in Lviv have also been initiated to support Ukrainian artists. Participating cities are: Kaunas, Liepaja, Skopje, Aveiro, Valladolid, Lublin, Venice, Clermont-Ferrand, Rouen, České Budějovice, Oulu and Regensburg. The project includes 45 residency programs in 15 European cities, more than 39 public events to celebrate the European Month of Creativity in 13 cities from the network, 13 educational programs to strengthen creativity and knowledge about contemporary art, 18 Street Art festivals, 10 annual festivals in galleries in 9 cities and 6 European conferences and study visits.
Organizer:
Within the project:
Partners:
Co-funded by:
Co-funded by the European Union – CREA-CULT-2023-COOP. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them. [Project number: 101128499]
Project is co-financed by the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.
The views expressed in this announcement are the sole responsibility of HDLU and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.
Exhibition is opened from April 30 til May 2, 2024
Exhibition working hours:
Opening: April 30, 2024, 6pm
May 1: closed
May 2: 11am-7pm
Since March 4, 2024, Larisa Crunțeanu (RO) – performer, video artist, and sound collector, has gathered numerous research findings in the city of Zagreb, visiting cultural sites, venues, and public sculptures. She met with several artists and curators, visiting studios and alternative art spaces. She participated in exhibition openings, performances, and events at universities and artistic organizations.
The result of the residency is her new artistic work, tentatively titled ‘Paresthesia Greeting the Unknown,’ which will be exhibited at shows in Vienna, Zagreb, and Bucharest.
She also participated in a weaving workshop by Croatian artist Nikolina Knežević Hrgović. Additionally, on March 12, 2024, at 7:30 PM, she held a lecture and discussion with Nevena Škrbić Alempijević from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, in collaboration with the discursive program of the doctoral study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (AFAR Talk), at the Putolovac gallery.
My residency in Zagreb started with a short period of learning about the neighbourhood and research into the plants from the garden, as initially I went down the path of creating an artwork using pigments from the flowers, leaves and rocks from the garden. Soon, I abandoned this path due to the early spring calendar (not so many leaves and flowers bloomed) and the sudden change of temperatures, which meant it was harder to be outside for longer. Instead, I have decided to work with cyano and textiles, in an attempt to capture not the time of the year, but the time of the day, literally, through stillness and movement of my body. Between sessions that depended largely on experiments with textiles and how sunny it was outside, I would visit local exhibition spaces, museums and artists, some of which educated me greatly (a notable mention would be MSU’s exhibition on political performance in the 90s) or have inspired me in the way I understand collaboration and commonality as not just a method but also a result of artistic practices (for which I am very thankful to have been introduced to the Women for Women collective by WHW curator Ana Kovačić). Besides working on cyanos, I have had the pleasure of giving a short introduction to some of my works and the logic and contexts behind them in a live discussion titled Topographies of Love, together with prof. Nevena Škrbić Alempijević. Her questions and reflections were a great add to the conversation and offered me the chance to make some points more visible in the work, which otherwise would easily be missed by a foreign audience that encounters my work for the very first time. Towards the end of the residency I have also had the chance to learn more traditional techniques of working with textile, thanks to the workshop held by Nikolina Knežević Hrgović in her studio, which I think will be very useful in the further development of my journey through textile art.
Within the project:
Project partners:
Co-funded by:
Co-funded by the European Union – CREA-CULT-2022-COOP. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them. [Project number: 101100309 ]
Project is co-financed by the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.
The views expressed in this announcement are the sole responsibility of HDLU and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.
ZDENKO MIKŠA
HOLD MY BEER/PEOPLE PLEASER
26.-28.4.2024.
KARAS GALLERY
On Friday, 26.4.2024. Zdenko Mikša opens his solo exhibition entitled Hold My Beer/People Pleaser, at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).
In her foreword, Marta Radman emphasizes:
Thirteen minutes before the application deadline for the exhibition at Karas Gallery, I learned a bit more about Zdenko’s new pop-up performance. At first glance, “Hold my Beer/People Pleaser” seems like a charming and somewhat self-indulgent jest. A used bathtub filled with water, ice and cans of Zden-Cola and Mikšićko beer, and the artist, Zdenko Mikša, in red swimming shorts and a bathrobe boldly immersing himself in the cold water. Yet beneath the surface lies a deeper exploration of artistic intention. (…)
Zdenko decided to condense the holy triad of art openings, the adoration of art, hedonistic socializing and drinking, into a unique performative act. At the same time, he has encouraged those gathered to reflect on the primary motives that drive them to attend art events.
Biography:
Zdenko Mikša was born in Zagreb in 1995, where he obtained a Master’s degree in Art Education from the Art Education Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in 2021, under the guidance of Professor Igor Čabraja. He works as an art teacher/art therapist and a leader of art workshops, muralist and illustrator. He has exhibited in four solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. He has been a member of the Croatian Society of Writers for Children and Youth since 2020, and a member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists since 2021. He lives and works in Zagreb.
The exhibition will be open during the period from 26. to 28.4.2024.
Working hours of Gallery Karas
Saturday-Sunday 10am – 1pm
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Organizer: HDLU
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb
15 April 2024
The upcoming residents within the European project AFAR are artists Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol (NL). Since 1995, they have been working together as Bik Van der Pol. They live and work in Rotterdam, Netherlands (www.bikvanderpol.net). Through their practice Bik Van der Pol aim to articulate and understand how art can produce a public sphere and space for speculation and imagination. This includes forms of mediation through which publicness is not only defined but also created. Their work follows from research of how to activate situations to create a platform for exchange and experience of different knowledges. Bik Van der Pol’s mode of working consists of setting up the conditions for encounter, where they develop a process of working that allows for continuous reconfigurations of places, histories, and publics. Their practice is site-specific and collaborative, with dialogue as a mode of transfer; a “passing through”, understood in its etymological meaning of “a speech across or between two or more people, out of which may emerge new understandings”. In fact, they consider the element of “passing through” as vital. It is temporal and implies action and the development of new forms of discourse. Their practice is both instigator and result of this method. They have exhibited their work at numerous venues, as well as participated in biennials such as Gwangju, Istanbul, Jakarta, and Sao Paulo Biennale. Recent and current projects include Paad Bienal 2024 Abi Dabhi (UAE), a research residency project at School of Casablanca (2021–23), Casablanca (Marocco), a project in collaboration with Volt, Bergen (Norway), Take Part (2018–20), at SFMOMA and Public Libraries, San Francisco (USA), and Far Too Many Stories To Fit Into So Small A Box, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (Poland) (2019-20). Bik Van der Pol were co-initiators of artist-run space Duende existing from 1984-2013, where they organised many activities such as artist in residence programs, talks, screenings and exhibition projects, they were course directors of The School of Missing Studies – a temporary masters programme at Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam (2013–15), and they are advisors at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Liesbeth is a core-tutor at Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam), and a member, and currently chair, of the Akademie van Kunsten/Academy of Arts, that is part of the Dutch Royal Academy of Science (KNAW).
As part of the residency, Bik Van der Pol will familiarize themselves with the local art scene through visits to studios and exhibitions and will create a new artistic work related to the main themes of the project: ecology, sustainability, heritage, and textile arts. This work will be exhibited at the final exhibitions in Zagreb, Vienna, and Bucharest. In addition to the artistic work, they will also give a lecture at the Putolovac Gallery on May 7th at 7:30 PM, followed by a discussion with Leila Topić, the curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (AFAR Talk).
The Artists for Artists Residency Network, a two-year project (2023-2024), aims to improve the mobility of contemporary visual artists and curators, while creating greater opportunities for women in the arts. The project takes place in four European partner countries – Romania, Germany, Croatia and Austria. The project focuses on the development of new international exchanges and transcultural dialogue and provides a number of new opportunities for art practitioners of all ages, in different artistic media, with a special emphasis on women in art and gender equality. The result of the project will be increased awareness of the importance of cultural mobility at local legislative levels, but also in the general public, especially in the current (post)crisis European context, strengthening EU affiliation and connection with contemporary visual art.
The project includes: 12 artist residencies in Zagreb (HR), Mulhouse (FR), Bucharest (RO) and in Săcel, Maramureș (RO), 4 curatorial residencies in Zagreb and Bucharest, 12 conferences in Zagreb, Bucharest and Vienna and 1 traveling international exhibition, which will first be shown to the public in Zagreb (HR), and then in Vienna (AT) and Bucharest (RO).
Within the project:
Project partners:
Co-funded by:
Co-funded by the European Union – CREA-CULT-2022-COOP. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them. [Project number: 101100309 ]
Project is co-financed by the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.
The views expressed in this announcement are the sole responsibility of HDLU and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.
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