CREART 3.0: RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM IN LEIPZIG (DE/CONSTRUCTION OF PAINTING), OPEN STUDIO
On November 23 and 24, 2024, the Jochen Hempel Galerie’s Colorado Project (Leipzig, Germany) will host an exhibition/open studio of the second residency De/Construction of the Image, as part of the European project CreArt 3.0.
Exhibiting artists: Barbara Muhr (DE) and Petra Šabić (HR).
DE/CONSTRUCTION OF PAINTING CONCEPT:
The project De/construction of Painting encourages and addresses contemporary artistic practices within the context of the visual arts center of Eastern Germany, Leipzig, which has transformed into a global hub for the arts with a focus on the painting scene. The former industrial complex Spinnerei in the Plagwitz district spans 10 hectares and has been almost entirely renovated, now serving as the heart of the local and international art scene with 12 galleries, the non-profit art center Halle 14, and around a hundred resident artists. The residency program De/construction of Painting tries to answer the following questions:
- To what extent is the idea of an image/painting still a cultural construct within various dichotomies (Western-Eastern, industrial-post-industrial)?
- How does the media in which the painting is formed correspond to the concepts of representing different realities?
- What is individual in the image/painting and what is symbolic or universal?
Part of this year’s residency program takes place within the EU project CreART 3.0, a European network of medium-sized cities aimed at exchanging experiences and best practices to promote contemporary art through a continuous transnational mobility program for emerging artists, curators, and cultural workers, in order to maximize the economic, social, and cultural contributions that creativity can bring to local communities. As part of the EU project CreART 3.0, 4 residencies will take place in Leipzig in 2024, each lasting 5 weeks, including 2 Croatian and 2 foreign artists from the network of cities.
Project web page: https://residencyleipzig.hdlu.hr/
BROCHURE
Barbara Muhr works as a visual artist predominantly in large-scale figurative paintings as well as screenprints. Her colorful works combine realistic but mostly fictitious portraits with abstract surroundings and overlaps. She mixes acrylic and oil paint with crayon drawings and tapes to indicate different layers of physical and psychic states of people. Her motifs derive from classical art history and literature such as allegories and iconography of love and death, which are transferred into contemporary topics of coming-of-age and identity crises. Currently she works in her studio in Regensburg and exhibits in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic and was awarded several art prizes in Germany.
Petra Šabić completed primary school and high school in Bjelovar. She graduated in two fields from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb – first in 2019 with a degree in Fine Arts under mentorship of Professor Gordana Balić, and in 2021 with a degree in Painting under mentorship of Professor Ksenija Turčić. Petra Šabić, along with two colleagues, received the Rector’s Award for the project Cycle of Creative-Art Workshops “UMMA – umjetnička mama,” in collaboration with the Children’s Home Zagreb and the beneficiaries of the Mother’s Home Zagreb. Her first solo exhibition, “Zbiranja,” was held in 2018 at the “Petar Preradović” Public Library in Bjelovar. By the end of 2022, she had exhibited in ten solo and twenty-seven group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad (India, Vietnam, Serbia). She created illustrations for the publication of the international literary competition “Lapis Histriae 2020” and for the first version of the illustrated “Dictionary of Foreign Words” by Bratoljub Klaić. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists and a collaborator with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.
Within the project:
Partners:
Supported 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]
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.
CreArt 3.0: EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM – CREARTISTS COMPLETED
With the exhibition CreArtivci, held at the MSU školica from November 14 to November 17, 2024, the second in a series of educational programs within the European project Creart 3.0. was successfully completed.
The work of the students from the Središće Elementary school, created under the mentorship of the artist Ana Ratković Sobota
The CreArt Educational Program is part of the European project CreArt 3.0 and aims to improve collaboration between local schools, cultural institutions, non-governmental organizations, and independent professionals and companies in the cultural and creative sectors. The program builds and strengthens intergenerational connections, creates a network for cultural education exchange, and encourages future participation of school children in the cultural life of the city. Over the course of 3 years, the program will involve 76 schools in the partner cities of the project, more than 4,500 students and teachers, and 47 artists.
The work of the students from the Kustošija Elementary school, created under the mentorship of the artist Diana Trohar
The works of the students from the School of Applied Arts and Design, created under the mentorship of the artist Melinda Šefčić
HDLU has connected its second educational program of the year with the exhibition “Picelj and Friends,” which marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great Croatian artist, Ivan Picelj. The exhibition is organized by HDLU and MSU and will be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art from September 19, 2024 to February 2, 2025.
The work of the students from the Private Art Gymnasium with Public Accreditation, created under the mentorship of the artist Martina Miholić
In its second edition, six schools participated (Ivo Andrić Elementary School, Kustošija Elementary School, Središće Elementary School, I. Gymnasium, School of Applied Arts and Design, and Private Art Gymnasium) with over 120 students and six teachers. The program consisted of exhibition tours with an educational booklet of tasks and workshops conducted in schools under the mentorship of artists Duje Medić, Martina Miholić, Ana Ratković Sobota, Damir Sobota, Melinda Šefčić, and Diana Trohar.
Works of the students from the I. Gymnasium created under the mentorship of the artist Duje Medić (left, back), the works of the students from the Private Art Gymnasium with Public Accreditation, created under the mentorship of the artist Martina Miholić (left and right, front) and students from the Ivo Andrić Elementary school created under the mentorship of the artist Damir Sobota (right, back)
Lorena Šimić developed the educational booklet under the supervision of the Educational Department of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, designed by Duje Medić.
The final result, and the culmination of this year’s educational program, was the exhibition of student works created during the workshops.
PARTICIPANTS:
Schools: Ivo Andrić Elementary School, Kustošija Elementary School, Središće Elementary School, I. Gymnasium, School of Applied Arts and Design, and Private Art Gymnasium with Public Accreditation
Artists: Duje Medić, Martina Miholić, Ana Ratković Sobota, Damir Sobota, Melinda Šefčić, Diana Trohar
Professors: Anđela Zanki, Maja Ferček, Romina Makoter, Slaven Jurić, Lahorka Rožić, Marija Kladarin
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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:
Supported 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]
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.
CreArt 3.0: EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
The CreArt Educational Program is part of the European project CreArt 3.0, aiming to enhance collaboration between local schools, cultural institutions, non-governmental organizations, and independent professionals and companies in the cultural and creative sectors. The program builds and strengthens intergenerational connections, creates a network for educational exchange in culture, and encourages future participation of school children in the cultural life of the city. Over three years, the program will involve 76 schools in the project’s partner cities, more than 4,500 students and teachers, and 47 artists.
I. Gymnasium on guided tour
In its second edition, six schools will participate (Ivo Andrić Elementary School, Kustošija Elementary School, Središće Elementary School, I. Gymnasium, School of Applied Arts and Design, and Private Art Gymnasium) with over 120 students and six teachers. The program consists of exhibition tours with an educational booklet of tasks and workshops conducted in schools under the mentorship of artists Duje Medić, Martina Miholić, Ana Ratković Sobota, Damir Sobota, Melinda Šefčić, and Diana Trohar.
Ivo Andrić Elementary School on guided tour
The consortium, composed of Nika Šimičić (CreArt 3.0 project coordinator), Ivana Garmaz (volunteer), Lorena Šimić (educational program leader and author of the educational booklet), and professors Anđela Zanki (School of Applied Arts and Design), Maja Ferček (I. Gymnasium), Romina Makoter (Private Art Gymnasium), Slaven Jurić (Kustošija Elementary School), Lahorka Rožić (Ivo Andrić Elementary School), and Marija Kladarin (Središće Elementary School), designed an educational program based on the Picelj and Friends exhibition for 2024.
Lorena Šimić developed the educational booklet under the supervision of the Educational Department of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, designed by Duje Medić, and the booklets were ready for use at the beginning of September.
School of Applied Arts and Design on guided tour
All the exhibition tours with the educational booklet for all six schools have been conducted, and the workshops with artists have commenced.
The educational program will conclude with a joint exhibition of students’ works, created during the workshops, at the MSU School (Avenija Dubrovnik 17, Zagreb) on November 14, 2024.
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CreArt is a network of 13 mid-sized European cities aimed at sharing experiences and best practices to promote contemporary art through a permanent transnational mobility program for emerging artists, curators, and cultural professionals, maximizing the economic, social, and cultural contributions that creativity can bring to local communities (#stringing_together). At the same time, CreArt 3.0 pushes boundaries (#pushboundaries) beyond visual arts, empowering other artistic practices such as performing arts and music. Additionally, a new collaboration has started with an NGO based in Lviv to support Ukrainian artists. Participating cities include 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, over 39 public events celebrating European Creativity Month in 13 network cities, 13 educational programs to enhance creativity and knowledge of contemporary art, 18 Street Art festivals, 10 annual gallery festivals in nine cities, and six European conferences and study visits.
Organizer:
Within the project:
Partners:
Supported 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]
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.
CreArt 3.0: KARAS+KVART
During October we are hosting an international residential program KARAS+KVART, in which artists Luana Lojić (HR) and Karl Iaro (DE) participate, as part of the EU project CreArt 3.0 where HDLU is one of the partners.
The Karas+Kvart program aims to observe the gallery space in the wider context of the public urban and social space in which it is located, with emphasis on engagement and research approach, considering the following: How does the art communicates and responds to the needs of the community? What does the gallery as a general term (but also a specific example of Karas gallery) represent in urban tissue of the city and social evolution in the neighbourhood in which it is located? What is and should be the extension of the gallery and its activities into the public space and social structures surrounding it?
This year’s artists in residence recognized as particularly interesting the nearby Kvatrić market, as well as the building above it, which hosts various functions: from the city library, to a variety of bigger and smaller businesses, to the gym and cafe integrated in it. In the same building (entrance from Martićeva street 67), on the second floor they founded and launched their own agency – Transparency Agency, in the manner of con event, which in a playful and dashing way explores the innovative and artistic use of space.
During three weeks of intensive residence, two artists strive to explore and get to know the market and the building, its inhabitants, customers, their mutual needs, as well as they seek to point out (artistic) potentials hidden in two locations. In this context, Karas Gallery is the starting point that spreads and dissolves to the north, as a space for recording reflections, found and newly created, and as one of digital but tangible extensions of intertwined spaces, ideas and plays.
Join us for the series of events through which you will be able to meet the artists themselves, their Agency, co-existence of public and private space of the building, market and surroundings, as well as segments from the past and the speculated future.
Program
Saturday, 19th October
17-22: join the Gallery Rally at the Karas Gallery, where you will get a glance at the research segments of two artists
21-24h: join the DJ session on the second floor of the building (Martićeva 67) with the program of three guest DJs
Monday 21st October
16-20h: join the artists at the delicately decorated Agency and learn more about it (second floor of the building on Martićeva 67)
at 18h: join the tour through the building and surrounding area led by architect Mirna Udovčić
Tuesday, 22nd October
16-20h: join the artists at the delicately decorated Agency and learn more about it (second floor of the building on Martićeva 67)
at 18h: join Karl’s experimental workshop
Wednesday, 23rd October
16-20h: join the artists at the delicately decorated Agency and learn more about it (second floor of the building on Martićeva 67)
at 18h: join Luana’s experimental storytelling beginning in Karas Gallery (Zvonimirova 58)
Details of the program will be released shortly.
About artists
Karl Iaro
Karl Iaro is a visual artist based in Regensburg, Germany. Many of his works evolve around playful explorations of light and motion phenomena and the mechanisms connecting them. He earned a BA in Industrial Design in Regensburg, completing his Erasmus studies in Barcelona, followed by an internship in industrial design at Porto’s studio ideia.m and another one at opo.lab. He has been developing his independent artistic practice since 2018. His work springs from a joyful and loving perspective which blasts beauty as an agent for engagement. n the process he likes to apply an hands-on approach, embracing any kind of material, medium or technical device. After focusing mainly on objects and installations he further implemented multimedia, social events, interventions and stage design to the scope of his exerted artforms. As part of a collective „Kulturviertel“ in Regensburg, managing a sociocultural space, he gathered experience in cultural organizing, curating, event management and also political action. Recently he started taking his practice out of his incubator Regensburg, availing himself to the opportunity of hitting a bigger playground.
Luana Lojić
Luana Lojić is an artist and experimental factographer based in Croatia whose practice orbits around narrative texts, spatial playlists and multimedia installations. She imagines sensory data as a wide, autonomous, free, chaotic, elastic and promiscuous being. In her work she often explores topics of geomotionality, object empathy and sensuous waste. She turns to media translations, wordsmithing, dialogues and delicate visual entities as love gestures in times of crisis. She shares her life with her companion dog Ulla and constitutes one sixth of the art collective The Lovers.
Within the project:
Partners:
Supported 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]
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.
CREART 3.0: RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM IN LEIPZIG (DE/CONSTRUCTION OF PAINTING), OPEN STUDIO
On October 11, 2024, there will be an open studio day/exhibition of the first residency De/Construction of Painting, as part of the European project Creart 3.0.
Artists: Ante Dujmović (HR) and Daria Titova (UA).
DE/CONSTRUCTION OF PAINTING CONCEPT:
The project De/construction of Painting encourages and addresses contemporary artistic practices within the context of the visual arts center of Eastern Germany, Leipzig, which has transformed into a global hub for the arts with a focus on the painting scene. The former industrial complex Spinnerei in the Plagwitz district spans 10 hectares and has been almost entirely renovated, now serving as the heart of the local and international art scene with 12 galleries, the non-profit art center Halle 14, and around a hundred resident artists. The residency program De/construction of Painting tries to answer the following questions:
- To what extent is the idea of an image/painting still a cultural construct within various dichotomies (Western-Eastern, industrial-post-industrial)?
- How does the media in which the painting is formed correspond to the concepts of representing different realities?
- What is individual in the image/painting and what is symbolic or universal?
Part of this year’s residency program takes place within the EU project CreART 3.0, a European network of medium-sized cities aimed at exchanging experiences and best practices to promote contemporary art through a continuous transnational mobility program for emerging artists, curators, and cultural workers, in order to maximize the economic, social, and cultural contributions that creativity can bring to local communities. As part of the EU project CreART 3.0, 4 residencies will take place in Leipzig in 2024, each lasting 5 weeks, including 2 Croatian and 2 foreign artists from the network of cities.
Project web page: https://residencyleipzig.hdlu.hr/
BROCHURE
Ante Dujmović was born in Zagreb year 1999. He was educated in Applied Arts High School in Department for Metal Design. He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb with BA degree in New Media year 2022. He is a multidisciplinary artist with interest in all forms of art and materials. Since year 2023 he is member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists. He participated in many exhibitions and projects in Croatia and abroad.
Daria Titova is a young twenty-year-old artist from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She completed her undergraduate studies in Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She is the author of several projects, including the design of the 2-euro coin “Glory to Ukraine” (2022); she was the winner of the competition for a wallpaper design for a kindergarten that Estonia built in Ukraine (2023); her work was selected for presentation in the Tallinn Adidas store (2024); and she created 12 murals for the new hospital (Health Center 2) and is currently working on an animated educational platform for the same center (2024).
Within the project:
Partners:
Supported 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]
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.
CITY OF LUBLIN INVITES 2 CreArt ARTISTS FOR AiR BETWEEN NOVEMBER – DECEMBER
The city of Lublin invites 2 artists (one from Lublin and one from the CreArt network), to work in Lublin at Galeria Labirynt, from November 4th up to December 6th, 2024.
CITY OF LUBLIN
Lublin is a medium-sized city in eastern Poland. It is a thriving scientific and cultural center. Considered a city at the crossroads of Eastern and Western culture, in the past it had an international character, with a large Jewish population living here. Lublin is home to numerous cultural institutions, museums and galleries, as well as non-governmental organizations that animate cultural life. There are large festivals such as Carnaval Sztukmistrzów, Night of Culture, East Of Culture – Different Sounds and others. Lublin is competing for the title of European Capital of Culture 2029.
GALERIA LABIRYNT
Galeria Labirynt is a modern municipal cultural institution focused on art. It has existed since 1956, when it functioned as the Bureau of Art Exhibitions.
It regularly host exhibitions of artists who can be called contemporary classics as well as newcomers. You can also participate in a number of other events: come to an author’s meeting about a book, watch a movie, take part in discussions on important, current topics, take advantage of the open reading room and a rich workshop offer.
The gallery constantly reacts to the changing artistic and social reality. The exhibitions organized in Galeria Labirynt are distinguished by their topicality and the combination of what is local with what is universal. The events often take on a national or international scale. The mission of the gallery is to follow the pulse of modern art, to notice its most interesting phenomena, and to discover important contexts. Galeria Labirynt also has an extensive collection of works of art from the beginning of the 1960s, which hosts various presentations and also plays an educational role.
Openness and accessibility are the goals we strive for all the time. We dream of creating an institution without barriers, so we want everyone to feel welcome with us – regardless of their native language, age, origin, degree of ability, etc. Our offer includes foreigners – students and migrants, the elderly, children and youth, as well as the needs of various other groups, such as d/Deaf, partially sighted and blind people.
CREART AiR PROGRAMME
Within the framework of CreArt 3.0, the city of Lublin and the Galeria Labirynt launch a residency for 2 artists, one from Lublin and one from the CreArt network. Artists in residence will have a mentor to help them to establish in the city (information on cultural institutions, events, useful places…), for their presentation to the artistic community in the city and support in the development and presentation of the project. The last week will be spent putting together a small exhibition, open studio or performance so the residents can share their final works (selected by the mentor and the organization) with the citizens of the hosting town and have some foreign feedback.
RESIDENCY DURATION: 5 weeks.
RESIDENCY DATES: November 4th – December 6th, 2024.
WHO CAN APPLY?
Artists born or residing in one of the cities in the project network: Kaunas (Lithuania), Liepaja (Latvia), Skopje (North Macedonia), Aveiro (Portugal), Valladolid (Spain), Lublin (Poland), Venice (Italy), Clermont-Ferrand and Rouen (France), Regensburg (Germany), České Budějovice (Czech Republic) and Oulu (Finland).
Members of HDLU (Croatian Association of Visual Artists).
Ukrainian artists through our collaboration with Lviv Artistic Council «Dialogue».
This call is intended to visual artists with a wild range of medium: painting, video, installation, new media, performance, artistic activity in the public space and community art projects. A particular attention will be paid to artists who interrogate the environmental impact of artistic production in their work. There is no age limitation. However, it is necessary to have a degree in an artistic field at the university level (or, alternatively, prove equivalent skills through their artistic career).
Applications must be strictly individual. Applications submitted by artist collectives will not be accepted.
GRANT AND CONDITIONS
Artist fee of 800 EUR/gross (to be paid after the residency).
Production cost (if needed) of new artwork(s) up to 500 EUR/gross.
The Organizer will cover travel expenses and provide accommodation and meals (2 meals per day) for the artist coming from the partner city.
For the local artist one meal per day will be provided.
The artists will sign a contract with City of Lublin before the start of the residency.
The artists must have a European health card or equivalent.
Upon return from the residency, artists are required to submit, within one week, a brief narrative report that will include title, description of the project, objectives and graphic dossier (minimum 10 pages in English).
DOCUMENTS
The following attached documentation is required in a single PDF document:
Identity card or passport (scanned).
Any kind of document proving you connection with the partner city of CreArt network.
A short version of your resume/CV (one A4).
Portfolio of works and artistic activity (maximum 10 pages i 10 pictures, links can be included).
A short written project proposal (one A4) and a letter explaining why would you like to take part in AiR in Lublin. This document should also contain a list of technical needs and other relevant technical details, which can help the organization to understand the project.
APPLICATION
The online application form is available here
(artists should register first and then upload portfolio in this link). Also, please send your application to: creart3.0@lublin.eu, with the subject: open call Lublin.
Deadline: applications should be sent by 30th September 2024.
Only complete and timely applications will be considered. Artists will be selected by a jury of Lublin contemporary art professionals from Galeria Labirynt. The committee is not obliged to provide reasons for its decision. The shortlist will be published on the CreArt website. The participation in this call implies the acceptance of these bases, and the artists selected should include a reference in all their future communications that they have been selected to participate in the CreArt Artists in Residence program in Lublin, project co-funded by the European Union – Creative Europe program.
In case of any questions, please contact: creart3.0@lublin.eu
Within the project:
Partners:
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]
HDLU LAUNCHES CREART 3.0: RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM IN LEIPZIG (DE/CONSTRUCTION OF PAINTING), SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 2024.
DE/CONSTRUCTION OF PAINTING CONCEPT:
The project De/construction of Painting encourages and addresses contemporary artistic practices within the context of the visual arts center of Eastern Germany, Leipzig, which has transformed into a global hub for the arts with a focus on the painting scene. The former industrial complex Spinnerei in the Plagwitz district spans 10 hectares and has been almost entirely renovated, now serving as the heart of the local and international art scene with 12 galleries, the non-profit art center Halle 14, and around a hundred resident artists. The residency program De/construction of Painting tries to answer the following questions:
- To what extent is the idea of an image/painting still a cultural construct within various dichotomies (Western-Eastern, industrial-post-industrial)?
- How does the media in which the painting is formed correspond to the concepts of representing different realities?
- What is individual in the image/painting and what is symbolic or universal?
Part of this year’s residency program will take place within the EU project CreART 3.0, a European network of medium-sized cities aimed at exchanging experiences and best practices to promote contemporary art through a continuous transnational mobility program for emerging artists, curators, and cultural workers, in order to maximize the economic, social, and cultural contributions that creativity can bring to local communities. As part of the EU project CreART 3.0, 4 residencies will take place in Leipzig in 2024, each lasting 5 weeks, including 2 Croatian and 2 foreign artists from the network of cities.
In this year’s edition of the project De/Construction of the Painting, as part of the EU project Creart 3.0, the participants are: Ante Dujmović (HR), Barbara Muhr (DE), Petra Šabić (HR), and Daria Titova (UA).
Ante Dujmović was born in Zagreb year 1999. He was educated in Applied Arts High School in Department for Metal Design. He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb with BA degree in New Media year 2022. He is a multidisciplinary artist with interest in all forms of art and materials. Since year 2023 he is member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists. He participated in many exhibitions and projects in Croatia and abroad.
Barbara Muhr works as a visual artist predominantly in large-scale figurative paintings as well as screenprints. Her colorful works combine realistic but mostly fictitious portraits with abstract surroundings and overlaps. She mixes acrylic and oil paint with crayon drawings and tapes to indicate different layers of physical and psychic states of people. Her motifs derive from classical art history and literature such as allegories and iconography of love and death, which are transferred into contemporary topics of coming-of-age and identity crises. Currently she works in her studio in Regensburg and exhibits in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic and was awarded several art prizes in Germany.
Petra Šabić completed primary school and high school in Bjelovar. She graduated in two fields from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb – first in 2019 with a degree in Fine Arts under mentorship of Professor Gordana Balić, and in 2021 with a degree in Painting under mentorship of Professor Ksenija Turčić. Petra Šabić, along with two colleagues, received the Rector’s Award for the project Cycle of Creative-Art Workshops “UMMA – umjetnička mama,” in collaboration with the Children’s Home Zagreb and the beneficiaries of the Mother’s Home Zagreb. Her first solo exhibition, “Zbiranja,” was held in 2018 at the “Petar Preradović” Public Library in Bjelovar. By the end of 2022, she had exhibited in ten solo and twenty-seven group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad (India, Vietnam, Serbia). She created illustrations for the publication of the international literary competition “Lapis Histriae 2020” and for the first version of the illustrated “Dictionary of Foreign Words” by Bratoljub Klaić. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists and a collaborator with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.
Daria Titova is a young twenty-year-old artist from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She completed her undergraduate studies in Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She is the author of several projects, including the design of the 2-euro coin “Glory to Ukraine” (2022); she was the winner of the competition for a wallpaper design for a kindergarten that Estonia built in Ukraine (2023); her work was selected for presentation in the Tallinn Adidas store (2024); and she created 12 murals for the new hospital (Health Center 2) and is currently working on an animated educational platform for the same center (2024).
Within the project:
Partners:
Supported 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]
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.
CREART 3.0 – AIR IN REGENSBURG (GERMANY) – 7 OCT- 3 NOV 15 NOV – 15 DEC
City of Regensburg invites two artists from the CreArt network to 1 month Residence to chose between:
– 7th October to 3rd November 2024
– 15th November to 15th December 2024
Regensburg is a south-eastern city in Bavaria (Germany). It is characterized by its medieval town centre and its location by the river Danube. The city has around 160.000 inhabitants. Due to the universities, many young people live in Regensburg, which makes it both modern and traditional at the same time. Well-known landmarks include the Stone Bridge from the 12th century and the Gothic cathedral with its twin towers. The winding city centre, the many charming cafés and the colourful houses exude Italian flair in the heart of Bavaria, which is why Regensburg is also known as the ‘northernmost city in Italy’.
CONDITIONS:
Organization will offer a grant: 1000 € (+ refund up to 400 € for material and production costs, + refund up to 400 € for travel. The artist will stay and work at the atelier of the historical building Andreasstadel, a cultural venue close to the river that combines a cinema, gallery and several studios. The atelier features a kitchen, bathroom and sleeping area and offers plenty of space for art and creativity. The accommodation is paid by the city of Regensburg.
DEADLINE: Until 1st September included. Contact kultur@regensburg.de
MORE INFO
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Partners:
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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]
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.
CREART: ARTIST IN RESIDENCE IN ROUEN (FRANCE) / 16 SEP – 16 OCT
The city of Rouen invites one artist from the CreArt Network to work for a month in Rouen at « La maison pressée » from September, 16th to October, 16th 2024.
The location: « La Maison Pressée »
La ”Maison Pressée” is an artist run space, managed by the association “Polymorphe”. This association aims at implementing artistic, cultural and citizen projects with and for the inhabitants, in public places, and more particularly in abandoned or unoccupied locations. Since 2015, this collective transforms unused places into spaces for meeting, reflexion and collaborative creation.
Since May 2021, Polymorphe is settled in a four-floor-building, located in the heart of Rouen at 9 rue des deux anges, called LA MAISON PRESSÉE. This place includes artists’ studios, an exhibition hall, a recycled material center and 2 apartment-studios with a shared kitchen.
More info :
http://collectifpolymorphe.fr/portfolio/la-maison-pressee/
Facebook : @lamaisonpressee
Instagram : @collectifpolymorphe
AiR Rouen / CreArt program
Within the framework of CreArt 3.0, the city of Rouen and the association “Polymorphe” launch a residency for 2 artists, one from Rouen and one from the Creart network.
The CreArt artist will be settled in a combined work-studio and apartment-studio;
The artist will be guided and shown around by the members of La Maison pressée. They will advise the artist in their work, make him/her discover cultural places and organize events to introduce him/her in the local artist’s community and the neighbourhood (brunch, workshops, openings);
_During the AiR will be defined one open day for visitors;
_A final public presentation of the works created during the residency will take place from at the end of the residency from October, 11th to the 13h;
_ A final report (in English) must be provided after the residency.
Conditions and stipend
The organization will cover, for both artists, the material costs (up to 400€), subsistence costs (500€) and will provide 1000€ as artist’s fee.
The city of Rouen also takes in charge travel expenses to Rouen [up to 500€] and accommodation at la Maison Pressée.
Who can apply?
The residence is open to professional artists (art and design degree) within the Creart 3.0:
– Artists resident in one of the cities in the project network: Kaunas (Lithuania), Liepaja (Lithuania), Skopje (North Macedonia), Aveiro (Portugal), Valladolid (Spain), Lublin (Poland), Venice (Italy), Clermont-Ferrand (France), České Budějovice (Czech Republic) and Oulu (Finland);
– Artists-members of HDLU (Croatian Asociation of Fine Artists);
– Ukrainian artists through our collaboration with Public Organisation Lviv Artistic Council «Dialogue».
This call is intended to professional visual artists with a wild range of medium: drawing, engraving, illustration, video, installation, collage, new media, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, design, textile, graphics, micro-editing. For logistical reasons, monumental creation cannot be offered.
A particular attention will be paid to artists who interrogate the environmental impact of artistic production in their work.
More generally, the artist should be close to the values of the association (sensitivity to ecological values, DIY spirit, recycling and Low Tech) and their lifestyle: the place is vegetarian/vegan and cat friendly.
Documents to be submitted in English
- A CV
- A portfolio [with technical specifications, representative artworks and pictures. Links can be included];
- A short written project proposal. This document should also contain a list of technical needs and other relevant technical details, which can help the organization to understand the project.
- ID or passport (scanned copy);
The applications must be submitted before Thursday, July 25th online via link: https://creart2-eu.org/open-calls/artist-in-residence-in-rouen-16-sep-16-oct
Only applications with complete information will be accepted. The city of Rouen will inform of the results by the end of July.
Within the project:
Partners:
Supported 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]
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.
FIRST CYCLE OF THE TAKEOVER PROGRAM COMPLETED
European Month of Creativity
Curators: Kustoski kolektiv Kućća
Artists: Andrej Beštak i Anja Leko, Teuta Gatolin, Robert Fenrich, Gaia Radić i ROSE kolektiv (Bruna Jakupović, Lana Lehpamer i Ivor Tamarut)
The Croatian Association of Fine Artists, for this year’s European Month of Creativity, within the EU project CreART 3.0, has organized a small festival of contemporary art in business premises – TAKEOVER.
Emerging artists (Andrej Beštak and Anja Leko, Teuta Gatolin, Robert Fenrich, Gaia Radić, and the ROSE collective (Bruna Jakupović, Lana Lehpamer, and Ivor Tamarut)), selected by the curatorial collective KUĆĆA, “took over” spaces within recognized companies operating in or related to the fields of cultural and creative industries (404 Agency, Infinum, Leapwise, Studio 3LHD, VMD group).
When selecting the works, the curators, in addition to considering the typologies of the spaces encountered in the project, also examined the production of content for those spaces with the aim of establishing a closely related interaction between the artistic projects they represent and the workers who would encounter these projects daily. The result is excellent collaboration, significant interest from company employees, as well as from owners who have shown interest in retaining certain works in their corporate spaces.
The artists exhibited their works in the companies and presented their work to the employees. Each intervention was also presented to the public through open-door events and conversations with the artist.
Umjetničke intervencije:
Artistic Interventions:
Teuta Gatolin creates digital collages based on archival visuals in the public domain, mostly sourced from old magazines, encyclopedias, or other scientific studies. The archival material is collected based on the keyword search of visuals used to describe the concept of “nature” – whatever that word meant in the context of a particular year, decade, location, or source publication. The collages are created using the scanography method and are layered multiple times. The English and Croatian translations of the book are merged into a single entity that does not have a preferred linear reading order; instead, the audience was invited to browse and connect pages in the VMD company’s space according to their own intuition.
The ROSE collective consists of Bruna Jakupović, Lana Lehpamer, and Ivor Tamarut, who are the creators of the digital influencer Rose Velvet – a computer-generated chimeric identity. They explore authenticity and reality in the digital environment through a new entity that appears on social networks, seemingly harmless persona that occupied the space of the company Infinum, specialized in the development of applications and mobile games.
We are very pleased to have been part of this initiative and to have supported the interesting concept of the Rose collective. Every day in our work, we witness how artificial intelligence is being integrated into a wide variety of solutions and changing established processes. In the world of technology, innovations happen at an incredible speed, but we don’t often see a revolution like the one caused by artificial intelligence. The work of these young artists is a commentary on the changes we are all witnessing, and whose ultimate implications we have yet to discover.
Zrinka Lepan, Infinum d.o.o.
Andrej Beštak and Anja Leko are an artistic duo who combine audiovisual techniques to create emotive, bizarre, and fantastical environments. These environments carry narratives, one of which was located within the space of the architectural firm 3LHD. The atrium of the office was occupied by sculptural installations made of ceramics, metal, and plastic – meditative shrines dedicated to hybrid goddesses.
This is the first time we are participating in the Takeover project. Collaborating with the team from HDLU, the curators, and of course, the artists has been very pleasant and interesting. After the works were exhibited in our green atriums, we eagerly anticipated the conversation with the artists. It was great to have the opportunity to hear their perspectives.
Romana Ilić, 3LHD @Urania
Robert Fenrich, in his work, breaks down traditional dichotomies between the fictional and the real, as well as between technology and nature, through immersive spatial installations whose pronounced narrativity is connected to inexplicable phenomena. Within the space of the communication agency 404, mysterious beings, spaces, and objects from untold pasts were hidden, quietly seeking the attention of those in their vicinity.
New media artist Gaia Radić presented a project within the space of the company Leapwise, in which she explored the relationships between virtual, mental, and physical spaces. Through virtual modeling and contemporary printing technologies, she investigates mysterious landscapes and beings inspired by technological advancements and the accompanying fragmentations of contemporary subjects and spaces.
About curators:
KUĆĆA is a curatorial collective and independent organization founded in 2021 with the aim of creating a space for collaboration between artists, curators, theorists, and other individuals and organizations working in the fields of process-oriented, experimental, and research-based artistic practices. Based in Zagreb, Croatia, KUĆĆA currently consists of curators Jurica Mlinarec, Klara Petrović, and Luja Šimunović. “Participation in the project is seen as a continuation of our curatorial practice, which is operationally and conceptually focused on close collaboration with local emerging artists and collectives. These are award-winning participants of the new generation of the local art scene, whose artistic vocabulary is characterized by a certain ease of visual language and the construction of fictional worlds through strong storytelling. Our curatorial engagement in recent years has also considered the historical, socio-political, and spatial topographies of the venues of artistic events we have organized (the 63rd edition of the Poreč Annals, the 36th edition of the Youth Salon titled PARASITES).”
About the artists:
Andrej Beštak (1993) and Anja Leko (1991) are an artistic duo born in Zagreb. Their artistic practice includes installations, performances, and video works. They are mostly considered narrators in space, using visual language and sounds rather than words to create an emotional dialogue between the artwork and the audience. Both graduated in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. They have been operating as an artistic duo since 2020, exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions, participating in artistic residencies, and receiving awards for their work, including the Grand Prix at the 36th Youth Salon.
Robert Fenrich (1995) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Zagreb, exploring the boundaries of image, atmosphere, and sound. Using various media, he raises questions about the marginal relationships of traditional dichotomies: fiction and reality, technology and nature, substance and negative space. He graduated in printmaking in 2020 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. In 2018, he founded the informal art collective Medium Movement, conceived as a space for experimentation and a platform for the production of hybrid forms of entertainment, which lasted until mid-2023.
Teuta Gatolin (1993) is an intermedia artist currently interested in narrating ecology, exploring how narratives about nature are constructed, the subversive potential of mythological tricksters, and considering technology as a companion species to humans. She was a participant in the third generation of the WHW Academy. Gatolin has exhibited in four solo exhibitions and numerous group shows. She has participated in festivals such as Improspekcije, Week of Contemporary Dance, Platform HR, Perforations, Museum Night, among others. She was a recipient of the Erste Fragments Award for Young Artists for 2019/2020.
Gaia Radić (2001) is a new media artist. In her projects, she explores the correlation between virtual, mental, and physical spaces through the combined use of computer graphics and spatial installations. She graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka, Croatia, and currently resides in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where she is studying architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and video, animation, and new media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design.
The ROSE collective is a group of three artists who specialize in performances and audiovisual installations. It was formed in 2017 by Bruna Jakupović (1998), Lana Lehpamer (1997), and Ivor Tamarut (1998). At the final exhibition of the New Media department in 2019, they performed their first collaborative piece, which involved improvisation and interaction between live sound and image within a closed loop. Since then, the collective has continued to explore ideas of communication, collaboration, and improvisation through collective artistic expression. In 2021, the collective exhibited a site-specific work titled “Working Spaces” at the CEKAO gallery and performed “Speaking Spaces” at the VN gallery in the same year. In 2023, they began a research project and residency as part of GMK, where they developed the concept and conducted research on Rose Velvet – a virtual persona designed as a starting point for further exploration of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and the infrastructure upon which the entire online sphere relies.
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The Takeover program provides art with the opportunity to “coexist” with the bustling everyday life of workspaces. In doing so, artistic works become active participants in the non-artistic world, blurring the sharp boundaries between the corporate and artistic sectors, while retaining their ever-present power to reshape our reality.
More about Takeover at: www.takeover.hdlu.hr
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CreArt is a network of 13 medium-sized European cities aimed at exchanging experiences and best practices to promote contemporary art through a continuous transnational mobility program for emerging artists, curators, and cultural workers, in order to maximize the economic, social, and cultural contributions that creativity can bring to local communities. At the same time, CreArt 3.0 pushes boundaries beyond visual arts, empowering other artistic practices such as performing arts or music, and has also initiated a new collaboration with a non-governmental organization based in Lviv to support Ukrainian artists. The 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, over 39 public events to celebrate the European Month of Creativity in 13 network cities, 13 educational programs to strengthen creativity and knowledge of contemporary art, 18 Street Art festivals, 10 annual festivals in galleries in 9 cities, and 6 European conferences and study visits.
CREART OPEN CALL – ARTIST RESIDENCE IN LIEPAJA (LATVIA) – MEDIA ART FESTIVAL UPDATE – SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER, 2024
Liepāja invites two new media artists from the CreArt Network to work in Liepāja AiR, between September 23th up to October 27th. During the residency, the artists will have a diversified cultural program, which will aim to widen their knowledge about the city and the region. Moreover, the artists will have the opportunity to attend and experience New Media and Technology Festival UPDATE, as well as to take an active part in the festival programme with a masterclass, artist talk or presentation. The final works created during the residency will be presented to the public in the exhibition “UPDATE 2024” together with other festival artists working with digital arts, VR, environmental art, media art. The exhibition will be open from November 19th until December 9th.
UPDATE is a community of artists and researchers interested in different aspects of the unique combination of creative technologies, artistic mediums, concepts, and technologies. UPDATE festival is a week-long event for emerging artists, art students, people interested in using art tools and techniques in their practices or research. UPDATE offers workshops, masterclasses, performance events and exhibition.
UPDATE (updatefestival.lv)
WHO CAN APPLY
Artists born or residing in any of the cities taking part in the CreArt: Kaunas (Lithuania); Aveiro (Portugal); Valladolid (Spain); České Budějovice (Czech Republic); Clermont-Ferrand and Rouen (France); members of HDLU (Croatia); Lublin (Poland); artists from Ukraine through Lviv Artistic Council “Dialogue” (Ukraine); Oulu (Finland); Regensburg (Germany); Skopje (North Macedonia), and Venezia (Italy).
GRANT CONDITIONS
The Organizer (Liepāja 2027) will provide:
- Five-week accommodation for two international artists and studio space (if needed).
- Round-trip ticket expenses to and from Liepāja up to 400 EUR
- Artistic fee in the amount of 1,000 EUR/gross
- Daily allowance of 30 EUR/day
- Production cost of new artwork(s) in the amount of 800 EUR/gross, result presented in the exhibition
- The artist must have an European health card or its equivalent
- Report: Upon return from the residency, artists are required to submit a brief narrative report containing evidence of newly created work/s (in English), and boarding passes if traveling by plane.
- Contract: Before going to the residency, the artist will sign a contract with foundation “Liepāja 2027”.
HOW TO APPLY
In a single PDF document:
- identity card or passport
- a short version of your CV (one A4 page)
- an artist’s portfolio, selection of recent projects (maximum 10 pages and 10 images, you can include links)
- a short written project proposal (maximum one A4 page) explaining why you would like to carry out a residency in Liepāja, including a short description of a masterclass proposal for the festival.
Application documentation must be submitted via the artists’ platform on the network’s website: https://creart2-eu.org/open-calls/
DEADLINES:
- Applications accepted until: July 14, 2024
- Announcement of results: no later than July 30, 2024
- Contract signing with foundation “Liepāja 2027”: two weeks before departure
- Submission of report: 1 week after the end of the festival exibition
Only complete and timely applications will be considered.
Selection Committee: Baiba Bartkeviča, Anna Priedola, Maija Demitere
The Committee is not obliged to justify the selection decision.
QUESTIONS:
The contact person for all questions is Sabine Jermalovica Sabine.jermalovica@liepaja2027.lv
https://www.liepaja2027.lv
Within the project:
Partners:
Supported 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]
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.
CreArt Residence: Lumo Light Festival | Oulu, Finland October-November 2024
CreArt Artist in Residence: Lumo Light Festival in Urban Neighbourhoods of Oulu | Oulu, Finland October-November 2024
The General Cultural Services of the City of Oulu opens a residency call for artists of the CreArt network as part of the program production of the Lumo Light Festival and the Urban Neighbourhood Culture of Cultural Centre Valve.
As an Arctic European city, Oulu has a special relationship with light and darkness. Lumo Light Festival celebrates light and visual arts during the darkest time of the year in Northern Finland as a city-wide open event. Located and organized by the City of Oulu, Lumo is the largest festival in Oulu area and a solid audience-favorite with over 100.000 annual visitors on the festival weekend.
A special theme at Lumo Light Festival 2024 is interaction. We encourage artists to contemplate how to promote and encourage open and respectful dialogue between different points of view and showcase this in their installation proposals. Lumo Light Festival is an integral part of Oulu’s upcoming European Capital of Culture year Oulu2026 and the city’s work in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network for Media Arts.
As the installations of the Lumo Light Festival are traditionally concentrated in the Oulu city centre, the CreArt residency wants to take visual art to new, surprising locations on the borders of Oulu and create art pieces in our peri-urban and rural communities with the CreArt AiR Program 2024.
The Urban Neighbourhood Culture facilities of Cultural Centre Valve produce and develop neighborhood culture and opportunities for cultural activities in different districts of Oulu. The aim of the district activities is to support and promote the regions’ own cultural activities. It creates opportunities for art and culture and brings cultural services and events within everyone’s reach. With the light and media art works implemented in Oulu’s neighborhoods during Lumo, Valve’s Neighborhood Culture facilities aim to promote these goals in the more diverse neighborhoods of the northern city.
The open portfolio call is aimed at artists in the visual field of the CreArt network who work in the fields of light and media art. Urban neighbourhood works of Lumo can be light and media art, community and environmental art, installations or surprising visual art interventions in a city where November is the darkest time of the year.
Lumo Light Festival
Urban Neighbourhood Culture of Cultural Centre Valve
Oulu2026
Oulu – City of Media Arts
Overall schedule and eligible artists
The portfolio search is open from 20 June to 11 August 2024.
Artist and work selections will be made in week 33, by 18 August 2024. Selected artists will be notified of the selection separately to initiate travel and accommodation arrangements. The artist and work selections are published as part of the communication of the CreArt project, Cultural Centre Valve and the Lumo Light Festival. 1–2 artists from the CreArt network are selected for the residency.
The artist applying for the residency must have been born or live in one of the cities in the CreArt 3.0 network: Kaunas (Lithuania), Liepaja (Latvia), Skopje (North Macedonia), Aveiro (Portugal), Valladolid (Spain), Lublin (Poland), Venice ( Italy), Clermont-Ferrand and Rouen (France), Ceske Budejovice (Czech Republic) and Regensburg (Germany).
In addition, HDLU (Croatian Association of Visual Artists) members can apply for the residency period.
Ukrainian artists apply in cooperation with Lviv Artistic Council Dialogue.
The residency period is 21 October – 30 November 2024 (six weeks) and the realized works will be exhibited at the Lumo Light Festival on 22-24 November 2024. The locations of the artworks are selected according to the work plans, coordinated by the Valve Neighborhood Culture facilites, and they are located in selected districts/neighborhoods in Oulu.
Description the work plan
The work plan for the residency must include a brief description of the work to be implemented, the materials used and its technical requirements, the working process and the artistic theme of the work (max. length two A4 pages). A work placed outdoors can be, for example, a light and media art installation, environmental and/or community artworks. The artist applying for the residency must submit a CV and a portfolio (including work samples in a suitable file format) and a copy of the passport.
Residence fees and other costs
The residency’s work plan must detail an estimate of the materials and technical requirements related to the work’s implementation. Required technical equipment is acquired per piece, other required materials are allocated max. €1,500.
The residency period in Oulu includes the artist’s residency fee of €2,500/gross, travel expenses from the artist’s hometown to Oulu and back, and accommodation expenses in Oulu (6 weeks). Material and technical costs as well as workspace rent are included in the open call. The working spaces required by the work plan are arranged separately according to the work sites.
A cooperation agreement with the General Cultural Services of the City of Oulu will be drawn up for the implementation of the selected work.
Selection criteria
The artworks are selected by a professional council coordinated by the CreArt project coordinator, Valve Neighbourhood culture and the Lumo Light Festival. The work plan must support the goals of the festival and Valve Neighbourhood Culture in general.
Portfolio delivery and application deadline
The open call deadline is Sun 11 August 2024.
Register on the intranet of the CreArt project and upload your portfolio by 11 August 2024. The residency work plan can also be submitted by email (zip file or link to the application materials): Project Coordinator Hanna Jakku, hanna.jakku@ouka.fi, tel. +358 50 3468 537.
Within the project:
Partners:
Supported 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]
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.
HDLU LAUNCHES CREART ART IN PUBLIC SPACE 2024: KARAS+KVART
DESCRIPTION:
Karas Gallery is an exhibition space of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists (HDLU) with a long tradition of activity in the contemporary art scene. After many years of activity at Praška 4, since 2018, it has been operating at the address Kralja Zvonimira 58. Recognizing the need for redefining and creating a new cultural identity for the neighborhood where Karas Gallery is located, within the EU project CreART 3.0, a collaborative artistic program titled KARAS + KVART is organized, envisioned in a collaborative and co-creation model between one local artist and one artist from the network. Artists will explore the neighborhood for 2 weeks, and the final result will be an artistic work or initiative in the public space of the gallery neighborhood in October. As part of KARAS+KVART 2024 project, Luana Lojić has been invited to participate, and an international artist will be selected through an Open call.
Preference will be given to artists who are interested in and express themselves through innovative visual, auditory, multimedia, and research practices, or who contemplate the function and activation of public space, responding to the concept of the artist Luana Lojić, which is envisioned as a series of performative actions in the neighborhood in the format of a con-event, simulating cultural content. In its absence, the concept compensates with temporary and exaggerated performances in the form of film projections, spoken word poetry, parties (VJ/DJ session), podcasts, and dances that convince viewers that they are really happening (e.g., projection on a factory, podcast at the market, contemporary dance around and through the square, party in one of the vacant spaces, etc.). The artist imagines ‘scenes’ or ‘illusions’ unfolding simultaneously while the content’s focus is dispersed, and the theme plays with performance options and hallucinations of unused spaces and public areas. Fictional events would rely on confusion inductions (methods of verbalizing nonsense in a monotonous tone, used in hypnotherapy to put the rational part of the brain to sleep). Themes and formats, as well as additional collaborators and performances/scenes, would be developed in collaboration with the selected artist.
Luana Lojić (1991) deals with applied cosmophilia and internet nomadism. From poetry for stones to live installations, videos, films, voiceovers, and live art addressing the relationship between humans and the systems, perceptions, and materialities surrounding them, her work seeks to understand natural processes beyond and within the concept of senses. She has received numerous awards for her work.
WHO CAN APPLY
- Artists born or residing in one of the cities in the project network: Kaunas (Lithuania), Liepaja (Lithuania), Skopje (North Macedonia), Aveiro (Portugal), Valladolid (Spain), Lublin (Poland), Venice (Italy), Clermont-Ferrand and Rouen (France), České Budějovice (Czech Republic), Oulu (Finland), Regensburg (Germany)
- Ukrainian artists through our collaboration with the Lviv Artistic Council “Dialog”
GRANT CONDITIONS:
The Organizer (HDLU) will provide:
- Three-week accommodation for artists in residence (October 2024)
- Round-trip ticket expenses to and from Zagreb up to a maximum of 400 EUR
- Artistic fee in the amount of 1,200 EUR/gross
- Daily allowance of 30 EUR/day
- Production cost of new artwork(s) in the amount of 5,000 EUR/gross, resulting from the joint action and collaboration between artists.
- Report: Upon return from the residency, artists are required to submit a brief narrative report containing evidence of newly created works (in English), and boarding passes if traveling by plane.
- Contract: Before going to the residency, the artist will sign a contract with HDLU, committing to participating in CreArt promotional activities until the project ends in 2026, in agreement with HDLU.
Only complete and timely applications will be considered.
Selection Committee: Nika Šimičić, Mihaela Zajec, and Luana Lojić
The Committee is not obliged to justify the selection decision.
HOW TO APPLY:
Send an email to: karas.hdlu@gmail.com with the subject: KARAS+KVART, including the following documentation:
- ID card or passport (scanned)
- Motivational letter (max 500 words) and a brief written project proposal (one A4 page)
- Curriculum vitae in English
- Portfolio of works and artistic activity (in PDF, max 7 MB; for video works – include links to online publications in the PDF)
- Artists need to register on the CreArt website and upload their portfolio: LINK
DEADLINES:
Applications accepted until: June 7, 2024
Announcement of results: no later than June 15, 2024
Contract signing with HDLU: two weeks before departure
Submission of report: 1 week after the end of the residency
QUESTIONS:
The contact person for all questions is Mihaela Zajec, karas.hdlu@gmail.com. Questions will be accepted only via email.
Within the project:
Partners:
Supported 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]
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.
CreArt 3.0: EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM – CREARTISTS COMPLETED
With the exhibition CreArtivci, held at the Karas Gallery from April 30 to May 2, 2024, the first in a series of educational programs within the European project Creart 3.0. was successfully completed.
The work of the students from the 16th Gymnasium, created under the mentorship of the artist Marko Zeman.
The CreArt Educational Program is part of the European project CreArt 3.0 and aims to improve collaboration between local schools, cultural institutions, non-governmental organizations, and independent professionals and companies in the cultural and creative sectors. The program builds and strengthens intergenerational connections, creates a network for cultural education exchange, and encourages future participation of school children in the cultural life of the city. Over the course of 3 years, the program will involve 76 schools in the partner cities of the project, more than 4,500 students and teachers, and 47 artists.
The work of the students from Matko Laginja Elementary School, created under the mentorship of the artist Natalija Borčić Peuc.
Some of the works by the students of Marija Jurić Zagorka Elementary School, created under the mentorship of the artist Monika Meglić.
This year, HDLU (Croatian Association of Fine Artists) has connected its educational program with the 7th Biennial of Painting, which for 14 years has positioned itself as the only national visual arts event dedicated to documenting the scene and shifts in the medium of painting. In its inaugural edition, 6 schools participated (Ivan Merz Elementary School, Matko Laginja Elementary School, Marija Jurić Zagorka Elementary School, XV Gymnasium, XVI Gymnasium, Classical Gymnasium) with more than 120 students and 6 teachers. The program consisted of guided tours through the Biennial of Painting along with an educational booklet with tasks and workshops conducted in schools under the mentorship of artists from the 7th Biennial of Painting, including Natalia Borčić Peuc, Monika Meglić, Valentina Supanz Marinić, Iva Zagoda, Marko Zeman, and Marta Živičnjak.
The work of the students from Dr. Ivan Merz Elementary School, created under the mentorship of the artist Marta Živičnjak (left), and the work of the students from the Classical Gymnasium, created under the mentorship of the artist Mihaela Rašica (right).
Mia Matijević Akrap conceptualized 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 by early January, the booklets were ready for use, followed by guidet tours for elementary and high school students.
The works of the students from the XV Gymnasium, created under the mentorship of the artist Valentina Supanz Marinić
The final result, and the culmination of this year’s educational program, was the exhibition of student works created during the workshops.
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
Students: 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:
Supported 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]
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.
CreArt 3.0: SEMINAR “GREAT EXPECTATIONS”
CreArt 3.0: SEMINAR “GREAT EXPECTATIONS”
Club HDLU / Home of HDLU
May 17, 2024
2.30 pm – 7 pm
SPEAKERS: Tjaša Pogačar (SI), Michal Stolarik (SK), Natalija Paunić (RS), Una Mathiesen Gjerde (NO), Mijoo Park (KR)
Moderators: Lovro Japundžić and Jelena Šimundić Bendić
The seminar, supported by the Creative Europe program of the European Union, within the CreArt 3.0 project, gathers international curators and artists from the exhibition programs of the 37th Youth Salon. Through lectures and panel discussions, seminar participants of “Great Expectations” will have the opportunity to learn about various aspects of professionalizing their artistic practice. Key points covered in this seminar include the presentation of the international art scene and different areas of activity within institutional, independent, or commercial contexts, as well as the importance of the relationship between artists, curators, and professionals in the creative sector. Professionalizing artistic practice also involves career guidance for young artists, which will also take place through lectures and discussions on developing one’s own style, the importance of choosing the right places for exhibition, and maintaining successful relationships with various institutions, collectors, and other actors in the art systems. Our aim is to provide free access to knowledge that they could not acquire during formal education, which is crucial for strengthening their business skills. The all-day program ends with a portfolio review where artists have the opportunity to discuss their work with a team of international curators.
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14.30-16.30 / Seminar ‘Great Expectations’
16.30-17.00 / Break
17.00-19.00 / Portfolio reviews
[The program is conducted in English *scroll for more info]
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Organizer:
Within the project:
Partners:
Supported 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]
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.
CreArt 3.0: TAKEOVER
TAKEOVER
European Month of Creativity
Curators: Kustoski kolektiv Kućća
Artists: Andrej Beštak i Anja Leko, Teuta Gatolin, Robert Fenrich, Gaia Radić i ROSE kolektiv (Bruna Jakupović, Lana Lehpamer i Ivor Tamarut)
The Croatian Association of Fine Artists, for this year’s European Month of Creativity, within the EU project CreART 3.0, has organized a small festival of contemporary art in business premises – TAKEOVER.
Emerging artists (Andrej Beštak and Anja Leko, Teuta Gatolin, Robert Fenrich, Gaia Radić, and the ROSE collective (Bruna Jakupović, Lana Lehpamer, and Ivor Tamarut)), selected by the curatorial collective KUĆĆA, will “take over” spaces within recognized companies operating in or related to the fields of cultural and creative industries (404 Agency, Infinum, Leapwise, Studio 3LHD, VMD group).
During the selection process of the artworks, the curators considered both the typologies of the spaces encountered in the project and the production of content within those spaces, aiming to establish a content-related interaction between the artistic projects presented and the employees who will encounter these projects on a daily basis.
The artists will exhibit their works in the companies and present their work to the employees. Each intervention will also be presented to the public through open-door events and conversations with the artist.
Apply at: popratniprogram.hdlu@gmail.com
Artistic Interventions:
Teuta Gatolin creates digital collages based on archival visuals in the public domain, mostly sourced from old magazines, encyclopedias, or other scientific studies. The archival material is collected based on the keyword search of visuals used to describe the concept of “nature” – whatever that word meant in the context of a particular year, decade, location, or source publication. The collages are created using the scanography method and are layered multiple times. The English and Croatian translations of the book are merged into a single entity that does not have a preferred linear reading order; instead, the audience is invited to browse and connect pages in the VMD company’s space according to their own intuition.
Artwork detail „Od Zemlje – III. poglavlje“ by Teuta Gatolin in VMD Group
The ROSE collective consists of Bruna Jakupović, Lana Lehpamer, and Ivor Tamarut, who are the creators of the digital influencer Rose Velvet – a computer-generated chimeric identity. They explore authenticity and reality in the digital environment through a new entity that appears on social networks, seemingly harmless persona that will occupy the space of the company Infinum, specialized in the development of applications and mobile games.
Artwork detail „Optimizacija“ by Rose collective in Infinum d.o.o.
Andrej Beštak and Anja Leko are an artistic duo who combine audiovisual techniques to create emotive, bizarre, and fantastical environments. These environments carry narratives, one of which is located within the space of the architectural firm 3LHD. The atrium of the office is occupied by sculptural installations made of ceramics, metal, and plastic – meditative shrines dedicated to hybrid goddesses.
Artwork detail „Obećala si mi vječnost“ by Andrej Beštak and Anja Leko in Studio 3LHD
Robert Fenrich, in his work, breaks down traditional dichotomies between the fictional and the real, as well as between technology and nature, through immersive spatial installations whose pronounced narrativity is connected to inexplicable phenomena. Within the space of the communication agency 404, mysterious beings, spaces, and objects from untold pasts hide, quietly seeking the attention of those in their vicinity.
Artwork detail „DIGITAL PROPHECY“ by Robert Fenrich in 404 Agency
New media artist Gaia Radić presents a project within the space of the company Leapwise, in which she explores the relationships between virtual, mental, and physical spaces. Through virtual modeling and contemporary printing technologies, she investigates mysterious landscapes and beings inspired by technological advancements and the accompanying fragmentations of contemporary subjects and spaces.
Artwork detail „The Aqueduct Behind My Eyes Keeps Rebuilding III“ by Gaia Radić in Leapwise d.o.o.
About curators:
KUĆĆA is a curatorial collective and independent organization founded in 2021 with the aim of creating a space for collaboration between artists, curators, theorists, and other individuals and organizations working in the fields of process-oriented, experimental, and research-based artistic practices. Based in Zagreb, Croatia, KUĆĆA currently consists of curators Jurica Mlinarec, Klara Petrović, and Luja Šimunović. “Participation in the project is seen as a continuation of our curatorial practice, which is operationally and conceptually focused on close collaboration with local emerging artists and collectives. These are award-winning participants of the new generation of the local art scene, whose artistic vocabulary is characterized by a certain ease of visual language and the construction of fictional worlds through strong storytelling. Our curatorial engagement in recent years has also considered the historical, socio-political, and spatial topographies of the venues of artistic events we have organized (the 63rd edition of the Poreč Annals, the 36th edition of the Youth Salon titled PARASITES).”
About the artists:
Andrej Beštak (1993) and Anja Leko (1991) are an artistic duo born in Zagreb. Their artistic practice includes installations, performances, and video works. They are mostly considered narrators in space, using visual language and sounds rather than words to create an emotional dialogue between the artwork and the audience. Both graduated in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. They have been operating as an artistic duo since 2020, exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions, participating in artistic residencies, and receiving awards for their work, including the Grand Prix at the 36th Youth Salon.
Robert Fenrich (1995) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Zagreb, exploring the boundaries of image, atmosphere, and sound. Using various media, he raises questions about the marginal relationships of traditional dichotomies: fiction and reality, technology and nature, substance and negative space. He graduated in printmaking in 2020 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. In 2018, he founded the informal art collective Medium Movement, conceived as a space for experimentation and a platform for the production of hybrid forms of entertainment, which lasted until mid-2023.
Teuta Gatolin (1993) is an intermedia artist currently interested in narrating ecology, exploring how narratives about nature are constructed, the subversive potential of mythological tricksters, and considering technology as a companion species to humans. She was a participant in the third generation of the WHW Academy. Gatolin has exhibited in four solo exhibitions and numerous group shows. She has participated in festivals such as Improspekcije, Week of Contemporary Dance, Platform HR, Perforations, Museum Night, among others. She was a recipient of the Erste Fragments Award for Young Artists for 2019/2020.
Gaia Radić (2001) is a new media artist. In her projects, she explores the correlation between virtual, mental, and physical spaces through the combined use of computer graphics and spatial installations. She graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka, Croatia, and currently resides in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where she is studying architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and video, animation, and new media at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design.
The ROSE collective is a group of three artists who specialize in performances and audiovisual installations. It was formed in 2017 by Bruna Jakupović (1998), Lana Lehpamer (1997), and Ivor Tamarut (1998). At the final exhibition of the New Media department in 2019, they performed their first collaborative piece, which involved improvisation and interaction between live sound and image within a closed loop. Since then, the collective has continued to explore ideas of communication, collaboration, and improvisation through collective artistic expression. In 2021, the collective exhibited a site-specific work titled “Working Spaces” at the CEKAO gallery and performed “Speaking Spaces” at the VN gallery in the same year. In 2023, they began a research project and residency as part of GMK, where they developed the concept and conducted research on Rose Velvet – a virtual persona designed as a starting point for further exploration of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and the infrastructure upon which the entire online sphere relies.
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The Takeover program provides art with the opportunity to “coexist” with the bustling everyday life of workspaces. In doing so, artistic works become active participants in the non-artistic world, blurring the sharp boundaries between the corporate and artistic sectors, while retaining their ever-present power to reshape our reality.
More about Takeover at: www.takeover.hdlu.hr
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CreArt is a network of 13 medium-sized European cities aimed at exchanging experiences and best practices to promote contemporary art through a continuous transnational mobility program for emerging artists, curators, and cultural workers, in order to maximize the economic, social, and cultural contributions that creativity can bring to local communities. At the same time, CreArt 3.0 pushes boundaries beyond visual arts, empowering other artistic practices such as performing arts or music, and has also initiated a new collaboration with a non-governmental organization based in Lviv to support Ukrainian artists. The 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, over 39 public events to celebrate the European Month of Creativity in 13 network cities, 13 educational programs to strengthen creativity and knowledge of contemporary art, 18 Street Art festivals, 10 annual festivals in galleries in 9 cities, and 6 European conferences and study visits.
CreArt 3.0: EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME – CREARTIVCI
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:
Supported 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]
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
