Category Archives: European cooperation projects
Museum of applied art Belgrade: Ceramics and it’s dimensions
Project Ceramics and its dimensions is multidisciplinary and complex European project dealing with social, technological and artistic aspects of ceramics and porcelain. The project consists of 10 modules whose pillars are different European institutions (museums, universities etc.). It began in 2014, and will have been finished by 2018.
The objective is to bridge European cultural institutions, industry, science and technology in the field of ceramics and porcelain. Two manifestations are envisaged to be held in Belgrade: Symposium Ceramics between changes and challengesbetween the past and the present since Baroque till today from 20th to 23rd May 2015 at Fresco Gallery, and travelling exhibition European cultural style in ceramics – from Baroque till today from 19th May (grand opening) to 30th June 2015. The Symposium Ceramics between changes and challenges- between the past and the present since Baroque till today represents one of the first modules among many of the aforementioned perennial project. The bearer of the module is Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade, and the chief European implementing partners are Porzellanikon, Selb and International Ceramics Museum, Faenza. National Museum in Belgrade is also taking part in the project.
The structure of model one consists of actuating symposium on ceramics as significant segment of European cultural heritage aiming to perceive different dimension of ceramics in the field of art, design, technological inventions and its role in various cultural, historical and social segments.
The programme of the symposium will connect and gather world and regional experts who will deliver their experiences, scientific accomplishments and proposals in the field of ceramics production, history, culture, technology, architecture, design and advance technologies. These presentations will lay the groundwork for further advancement in terms of science, technological development, and usage of ceramics and research of the role of ceramics in numerous aspects of contemporary society. This basis will be constantly add up to and documented during the project. The exhibition of European cultural style in ceramics- from Baroque till today is a travelling exhibition which will be held in Belgrade in 2015, and then in Tallinn in 2015, Faenza in 2015 and 2016, Valencia in 2016, Stoke on Trent in 2016 and Selb in 2016/2017.
The contents of the exhibition will include art collection, multimedia strategy, workshop and representative catalogues from the funds of six European museums of ceramics. The exhibition explores ceramics tradition aiming to incite acquainting with the present state of ceramics production that spans from the production for everyday use all the way to the grand artistic and biotechnological possibilities of modern ceramics.
The partners will be encouraged to share knowledge and rich ceramics history reinforcing the role of European ceramics in the future challenges. This exhibition carries a strong message that will capture attention of a broader international audience and it focuses on the attitude of people toward ceramics from the different perspective: historical, artistic and educational strategy as well as virtual access to the collections and heritage.
The bearer of the project is National museum Porzellanikon from Selb with the partners: International Ceramics museum (Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche), Faenza; National Ceramics Museum, Valencia (Museo Nacional de Cerámica y Artes Suntuarias, Valencia); The Pottery Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent; Aalto University School of Art and Design, Helsinki; Macromedia University Cologne / Munich; University of Ulster, Belfast; Technical University, Riga (Rigas Tehniska Universitate); Kunsthochschule BerlinWeißensee, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Berlin; National Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana; Stafford Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent; Design & Crafts Council of Ireland, Kilkenny; Uměleckoprůmyslové museum v Praze, Prague; Eesti Tarbekunsti-ja Disainimimuuseum, Tallinn; Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade; National Museum in Belgrade as annexed partner to MAA (Museum of Applied Art).
Museum of Yugoslav history: Heroes we love
Heroes we love is a multidisciplinary project dealing with perennially controversial topic of socialist heritage of European art of 20th century and gathers NGO’s and institutions from Central and Southeast Europe (Bulgaria, Poland, Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina). The leading partner of the project is the Art Gallery Maribor. The project aims at connecting contemporary art practice with the research of the social art phenomenon in its cultural, socio-ideological and political context starting from the foundation of socialist countries of Eastern Europe up to the present moment, and at acquainting new public with the topics it comprises.
The objective is to draft the development of socialist art, varied art forms and visual manifestations, to map relevant works and artists, presenting different case studies and linking them to the contemporary art trends. The project will initiate the dialogue on the background of socialist art in Eastern Europe, different practices and differences in relation to the geopolitical framework of the development of practices. It will focus on questioning the role of socialist art in the period of economic transition and social transformations, as well as identifying potentials of socialist art in the context of the present and the future. Heroes we love are divided into four topics: politics, aesthetics and art during socialism, socialist monuments and modernism, heroic art and social realism, post-socialism and nostalgia. Project will ensure theoretical framework, map specific works, art forms and artists, and discuss conditions in which they were created. Conferences, lectures and panel discussions will be held concurrently with the series of art interventions in public areas as well as workshops following the project segments so as to bring contemporary art practice and public closer to the topics.
Final results will be travelling exhibition and concomitant publication comprising gathered material and knowledge acquired during the project, aiming at launching a public debate on linkage of socialist art heritage and current international trends. International conference proposed by the Museum of Yugoslav Art will deal with the phenomenon of nostalgia through different political and cultural contexts in various European countries. Yugonostalgic and Tito-nostalgic culture related to the celebration of Youth Day will have a special place. Encompassing perspectives and experiences from different countries, the conference goal is to lay the groundwork for mapping and research of the forms and visual manifestations of nostalgia. The conference will gather custodians, theoreticians, researchers and artists who will have the opportunity to share experience and knowledge and jointly set the basis for the exhibition.
Center for the promotion of science: European Digital Art and Science Network
European Digital Art and Science Network is a project funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Commission. The coordinator of the project is Ars Electronica from Linz, and apart from Centre for Promotion of Science from Belgrade, partners are also the Science Gallery from Dublin, GV Art from London, LABoral from Gijon, Ethiopia from Zaragoza, Kapelica Gallery from Ljubljana and DIG Gallery from Kosice.
The fundamental objective is to couple contemporary scientific discoveries with current practices in the domain of digital art- interactive art, digital music and sound, digital design, digital architectural installations, computer animations, film, photography, visual effects, digital communities and social networks, hybrid art, performances and choreographies. This project includes two rounds of public invitations for artists from across Europe, who can apply and register to participate in different stages of the project. Two first prize winners win one-month residencies and mentorship by scientists at European Southern Observatory located in the mountains of Chile, South America and it represents one of the most significant astronomy centres in the world.
Projects are being realised within FutureLab laboratory of Ars Electronica before premiered at Ars Electronica Festival at Linz, at the beginning of September, 2015. All other registered artists and their applications and ideas enter the selection round at national i.e. partner level.
Concurrently, after presenting two winning works and the partners’ selection of projects to be independently realised, the schedule of the travelling programme, artists’ visits and other partners’ projects are to be devised. In Serbia, two national projects will be realised and premiered at the exhibition in March 2016, featuring four partner projects. An identical cycle is reiterated, starting from December, 2015, offering the opportunity to actuate the mentorship residence at CERN, Switzerland, specialized in research and experiments in the domain of elementary particles.
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Belgrade design week: Human Cities
Human Citiesis a multidisciplinary European network composed of different profiles: universities, design centers and design weeks, ICT platforms, service design and creative design consultancies. Led by Cité du Design de Saint-Etienne, France. The partners share their know how in with people in the urban space using design as a creative and sustainable tool.
The focus of Human Cities Network (2014-2018) will be to analyze, test and implement the process of engaging people in co-creating and “challenging the City scale and Flow space in Europe today”. People are the key to design change in a network society and to respond to the growth of ‘flow space’, which is both physical and digital. To go beyond planning practices on the urban territories, the partner cities are enhancing unplanned activities within a frame of 13 shared values: empathy, wellbeing, sustainability, intimacy and conviviality, mobility and accessibility, imagination and leisure, aesthetics, sensoriality, solidarity and respect. Those values applied to everyone follow an intergenerational equity. We are here on a subjective territory where ‘an alternative environment’ is sought. By rejecting ‘specialities’ and compartmentalised disciplines, this interdisciplinary and multicultural Alliances Projects brings together designers, architects, urban planners, researchers, sociologists, philosophers, psychoanalysts, translators, artists, historians and art historians, bloggers… The State of the Art, which is enriched by Experimentation Labs, Users experiences and testing, Interaction and Exchange workshops in order to assess and implement sustainable results within the European urban territories, is coupled to Masterclasses and a ‘work in progress’ exhibition. Through applied research and co-creation, Human Cities Network appears as a continuous human-driven cultural programme questioning the position and status of people in relationship to their city and ever-changing flow space(s).
