CREART OPEN CALL – ARTIST RESIDENCE IN LIEPAJA (LATVIA) – MEDIA ART FESTIVAL UPDATE – SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER, 2024

24 June 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

21 June 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.

AFAR TALK: “your type of unity “: Art practice as a way to hold yourself up

19 June 2024

TALK: Iza Tarasewicz (PL) with Leonidom Kovač (HR)

in cooperation with the discursive doctoral study program of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb

25.6.2024 u 19:30

Galerija Putolovac Ilica 112

“I read somewhere in Bacon’s “every researcher of nature is caused to disbelieve what his mind most delights and attracts”… and this reflects my main journey… there is no central message, for me there is no centralization of ideas… everything is parallel and important, there is no device and no faulty elements, it is your type of UNITY, which we usually forget about, because this is our neurological structure, resulting from the evolution of our brain and the history of our ancestors. It was and equivalent to our primitive grandparents who tried at an independent price in a separate environment.”

Iza Tarasewicz

Iza Tarasewicz (b. 1981 in Białystok) graduated from the Faculty of Sculpture and Performing Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań in 2008. She lives and works in Kolonia Koplany, a small village near Białystok where she grew up. Working with sculpture, installation, drawing and performance, her work has gained significant recognition in the country and abroad. She is the winner of the 2019 Bayerischen Kunstförderpreise award for fine arts and the 2015 VIEWS [Spojrzenia] award of the Deutsche Bank Foundation, in co-organization with the Zachęta National Art Gallery in Warsaw. In 2013, she was nominated for the Passportu Polityka prize for visual art. Her sculptural installations take the form of modular, flexible and mobile systems, which combine raw and modest functionalism with formal logic found in the natural world, scientific experiments and graphs and diagrams — figures of thought and diagrams of relationships that systematize knowledge and data and abstractly describe the interaction of phenomena. The artist finds inspiration for her work in classical Greek philosophy and quantum physics.

https://izatarasewicz.com/

Leonida Kovač (HR) is an art historian and theoretician, curator, and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb. Since the mid-1980s, she has been intensively engaged in the feminist deconstruction of heteronormative discourses, with a focus on regimes of representation, that is, structural violence in the discourse (about) art and in visual culture. She conceived and realized about thirty author’s exhibitions, among which the exhibitions of Nan Hoover, Dube Sambolec, Katarzyna Kozyra, Orshi Drozdik, Dorothy Cross, Rita Duffy, Naste Rojc and Edita Schubert are particularly important. She was the trustee and curator of the Croatian pavilion at the Contemporary Art Biennale in São Paulo (2002) and at the Venice Biennale (2003), where she presented Ana Opalić’s series of self-portraits in the exhibition Patterns of Visibility. From 2002 to 2005, she was elected vice-president of the International Association of Art Critics – AICA.

The Artists for Artists Residency Network, a two-year project (2023-2024), aims to improve the mobility of contemporary visual artists and curators, while creating greater opportunities for women in the arts. The project takes place in four European partner countries – Romania, Germany, Croatia and Austria. The project focuses on the development of new international exchanges and transcultural dialogue and provides a number of new opportunities for art practitioners of all ages, in different artistic media, with a special emphasis on women in art and gender equality. The result of the project will be increased awareness of the importance of cultural mobility at local legislative levels, but also in the general public, especially in the current (post)crisis European context, strengthening EU affiliation and connection with contemporary visual art.

The project includes: 12 artist residencies in Zagreb (HR), Mulhouse (FR), Bucharest (RO) and in Săcel, Maramureș (RO), 4 curatorial residencies in Zagreb and Bucharest, 12 conferences in Zagreb, Bucharest and Vienna and 1 traveling international exhibition, which will first be shown to the public in Zagreb (HR), and then in Vienna (AT) and Bucharest (RO).

Within the project:

Project partners:

Supported by:

Co-funded by the European Union – CREA-CULT-2022-COOP. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

[Project number: 101100309 ]

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.

Matija Čop – IN THE MEANTIME

18 June 2024

MATIJA ČOP
IN THE MEANTIME
Bačva Gallery, Home of HDLU (Meštrović pavilion)
25.6.-25.8.2024.

On Tuesday, 25.6.2024. Matija Čop opens his solo exhibition entitled In the Meantime, at 7 pm in at Bačva Gallery (Home of HDLU / Meštrović pavilion).

In her foreword, Lea Vene emphasizes:

“The site-specific installation In the Meantime is created in the space between Matija’s earlier works in the medium of soft sculpture and new exploration of steel frameworks, which are now oversized and merged with soft membranes in a radical gesture of synchronisation with the circular space of the Bačva Gallery.

At the core of Matija’s approach is manual work, which implies respect for the given modular restrictions but, at the same time, freedom from predefined matrices in the very process of constructing living forms that now react to newly introduced metal compositions. Manual work also leads to slowing down and adapting to the fingers and hands that precisely intertwine each building element of these soft organisms. (…)”

Biography:

Matija Čop (b 1987) is an artist living in London. His work encompasses sculpture, painting, and printmaking.
Čop’s practice explores the transformative potential of “translation” as ideas, structures, and their component materials pass between encapsulating frameworks.
Čop’s visual language constructs itself from selected unit elements which are iteratively combined, reconfigured, and dissolved in accordance with self-contrived, project-specific logics. The resultant works invite reflection on tensions between order/disorder, manufacture/craft, and unit/system.
Čop completed his MA at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2017. His work is held in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Modern Art at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb. He exhibited at the Textile Art Biennial 2021 in Kranj, Innovative Costume of the 21st Century in Moscow, and Future Fashions in Eindhoven.

PREFACE

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The exhibition will be open from June 25 to August 25, 2024

Visual identity: ivanklis.studio
Organizer: HDLU
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb

18 June 2024

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 – Karl Iaro from Regensburg was selected through the Open call.

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.

Karl Iaro (1994) studied industrial design in Regensburg with stays abroad (study/internship) in Barcelona and Porto. Light is his main fascination, which is why he is often called an artist of light.

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.

NEW THREE CreArt EXCHANGE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE SECOND SEMESTER IN LUBLIN, CLERMONT-FERRAND AND VALLADOLID

13 June 2024

SHORT AIR WITHIN “FESTIVAL OPEN FORM. WILENSKA” LUBLIN (POLAND)

5-11 AUGUST

Lublin invites 2 artists from CreArt Network, within the framework of the Annual Festival. The artists will be supervised by Marta Ryczkowska – PhD in art history, university lecturer, contemporary art critic, curator of exhibitions and festivals, educator, animator of cultural activities. Participants will be provided with all conditions to be inspired by the space of the estate, and the projects will be developed taking into account the specificity of the place and local identity.

CONDITIONS: The artist will receive an artistic fee of 700 euros (after signing a contract in advance).The organizer will provide accommodation, a studio for creative work and the cost of materials. The artist will cover travel costs on his/her own.

DEADLINE: Applications must be sent by July 3, 2024, through the CreArt application and mail to creart3.0@lublin.eu

MORE INFO

AiR IN CHALET LECOQ CLERMONT-FERRAND (FRANCE)

3 OCT-29 NOVEMBER

Clermont-Ferrand is organizing a two-month residency for 3 visual artists at Chalet Lecoq. It will select 2 artists from the CreArt network and 1 from Clermont-Ferrand. The Chalet Lecoq welcomes international artists in residence throughout the year. It offers a privileged setting, with a two-bedroom apartment and a fully equipped workspace. Both in the center of town and in an atypical location in the middle of a public garden, the Chalet Lecoq invites reflection on the relationship between nature and the urban space.

CONDITIONS
• residency grant: 3 000 € / artist for the two-month residency (1 500 € / month)
• production costs: 600 € / artist
• for European artists, reimbursement of round-trip travel expenses (up to 500 € )
• an end-of-residency presentation may be organized, in discussion with the artists hosted.

DEADLINE: Applications should be sent by 7th July through the CreArt intranet.

MORE INFO

AIR IN GALERÍAS VA VALLADOLID (SPAIN)

21 OCT- 13 DECEMBER

Valladolid will select 3 artists to work on their artistic projects for 8 weeks in Galerías VA in Valladolid, between 21st October to 13th December 2024. The selection criteria will seek to represent the quality and diversity of the different visual arts. There is no age limitation. However, it is necessary to have a degree in an artistic field at the university level (or, alternatively, prove an equivalent ability through their artistic career).

CONDITIONS

Travel expenses to Valladolid for artists from other cities in the Network (round-trip plane ticket from their CreArt city -or from the closest one that communicates with Madrid- and train ticket between Madrid and Valladolid).

Artist fee of 1.500 € (NET amount)

Production costs (if needed) up to 600 €.

Accommodation in apartament close to Galerías VA, and one studio per artist.

Organization of Final Open Studio/exhibition

DEADLINE: Applications should be sent by 18th August.

MORE INFO

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.

LAST ART RESIDENCY OF EU PROJECT AFAR IN ZAGREB

11 June 2024

The last resident within the European project AFAR is artist Iza Tarasewicz (PL). She was born in 1981 in Białystok, Poland. Her sculptural installations take the form of modular, flexible, mobile, and reconfigurable display systems that combine a raw and modest functionalism with formal logics found in the natural world, scientific experimentation, and graphs and diagrams — figures of thought and charts of relation that systematize knowledge and data and abstractly describe the interaction of phenomena. The artist gets inspiration for her work from the atomism of classical Greek philosophy and from the reality-explanations of 20th-century quantum physics and chaos-theory. Her statues and object-assemblages that may be combined into installations are generated into systems filled with energy, formed from hardly identifiable organic and inorganic materials. She lives and works in Kolonia Koplany, Poland.

As part of the residency, Iza will familiarize herself with the local art scene through visits to studios and exhibitions and will create a new artistic work related to the main themes of the project: ecology, sustainability, heritage, and textile arts. This work will be exhibited at the final exhibitions in Zagreb, Vienna, and Bucharest. In addition to the artistic work, she will also give a lecture at the Putolovac Gallery, June 25, at 7:30 pm, followed by a discussion with Leonida Kovač (AFAR Talk), in cooperation with the discursive program of the doctoral study of Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb

The Artists for Artists Residency Network, a two-year project (2023-2024), aims to improve the mobility of contemporary visual artists and curators, while creating greater opportunities for women in the arts. The project takes place in four European partner countries – Romania, Germany, Croatia and Austria. The project focuses on the development of new international exchanges and transcultural dialogue and provides a number of new opportunities for art practitioners of all ages, in different artistic media, with a special emphasis on women in art and gender equality. The result of the project will be increased awareness of the importance of cultural mobility at local legislative levels, but also in the general public, especially in the current (post)crisis European context, strengthening EU affiliation and connection with contemporary visual art.

The project includes: 12 artist residencies in Zagreb (HR), Mulhouse (FR), Bucharest (RO) and in Săcel, Maramureș (RO), 4 curatorial residencies in Zagreb and Bucharest, 12 conferences in Zagreb, Bucharest and Vienna and 1 traveling international exhibition, which will first be shown to the public in Zagreb (HR), and then in Vienna (AT) and Bucharest (RO).

Within the project:

Project partners:

Supported by:

Co-funded by the European Union – CREA-CULT-2022-COOP. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

[Project number: 101100309 ]

The views expressed in this announcement are the sole responsibility of HDLU and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Government Office for Cooperation with NGOs.

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CREART OPEN CALL – ARTIST RESIDENCE IN LIEPAJA (LATVIA) – MEDIA ART FESTIVAL UPDATE – SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER, 2024

CreArt Residence: Lumo Light Festival | Oulu, Finland October-November 2024

AFAR TALK: “your type of unity “: Art practice as a way to hold yourself up

Matija Čop – IN THE MEANTIME

HDLU LAUNCHES CREART ART IN PUBLIC SPACE 2024: KARAS+KVART

NEW THREE CreArt EXCHANGE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE SECOND SEMESTER IN LUBLIN, CLERMONT-FERRAND AND VALLADOLID

LAST ART RESIDENCY OF EU PROJECT AFAR IN ZAGREB

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