Saturday, December 17, 2016
Opening of the exhibition
THERE MUST BE SOMETHING IN BETWEEN
Artist: DZT Collective (Albania/Italy)
Saturday, December 17, 2016, 7 pm
Location: afo architekturforum oberösterreich, Linz, Austria
Installative work from the productive residency of DZT collective, hosted by Atelierhaus Salzamt and
afo architekturforum oberösterreich in the frame of WEST BALKAN CALLING.
A political and poetic project dealing with European borders and asylum seekers.
For further information click here
www.blog.salzamt-linz.at
www.afo.at
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Opening of the exhibition
NOT BEING AND IDENTIFY
Artist: INGE VAVRA (Austria)
Wednesday, November 23, 2016, 7 pm
Location: Artist´s Pavilion, Podgorica, Montenegro
Together with graphic artist Prof. Karl Korab, Inge Vavra, who was Artist-in-Residence at Art Research Center 42° Cetinje in the frame of WEST BALKAN CALLING in September 2016 will show artworks at the Artist´s Pavilion in Podgorica. Inge Vavra will present the series “not-being” and identify, which she developed during her residency in Cetinje. The artist will be present at the opening.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Opening of the exhibition
AWAY – Stories from abroad
Wednesday, November 6, 2016, 6 pm
Location: Ehemaliges Post- und Telegraphenamt, Wien, Austria
The Austrian Federal Chancellery and its Division II – Arts and Culture have sent Austrian artists all over the world since the 1970s. AWAY – a project around residencies showcases the renowned international residency programme of the Federal Chancellery on a large scale for the first time. The exhibition Stories from abroad presents art resulting from the temporary re-location of 106 artists as well as the stimuli provided by a foreign residency grant for their artistic work.
In the frame of the project, three Think Tanks were held – in the second edition, Artist Residencies – Learning from each other, Margarethe Makovec from < rotor > center for contemporary art was invited to give insight into the Artist-in-Residence Exchange Programmes BLACK SEA CALLING and the current project WEST BALKAN CALLING.
For further information click here
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Thursday, September 29, 2016
Presentation
AN ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH PRACTICE
Artist: NINA VALERIE KOLOWRATNIK (Austria)
Thursday, September 29, 2016, 8 pm
Location: Boxing Club, Prishtina, Kosovo, organized by Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art
Within this presentation Kolowratnik will discuss two recent research projects on socio-cultural claims to land and property conducted in Israel-Palestine and together with a Native American pueblo in New Mexico. Thereby she will focus on the development of multiple spatial notational systems that are not only directed towards examining the terms of conflict, or giving conflict a new articulation, but attempt to dislodge the terms, assumptions, histories, social and legal codes around which the conflict is formed and narrated.
The first project represents a study and consultancy on evidentiary production methods within an Indigenous land claim in US courts and the difficulties presented to the tribe due to the organization of their culture around secrecy. The second project examines return narratives, images and possibilities of Palestinian refugees into today’ s Northern Israel, among other looking at what return to a place which has been deliberately overwritten will mean.
The presentation will end with a short introduction to the research Kolowratnik is currently conducting in the framework of her residency at Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, that focuses on the institutional response to alternative return practices and the complexities of property restitution claims in Kosovo.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Opening of the exhibiton
DISUSE // REPURPOSE
Artist: TADI (Kosovo)
Wednesday, September 28, 2016, 6.30 pm
Location: KEX Studio, WUK, Wien, Austria
In 2020 power lines will begin to disappear. electricity will be passed wirelessly. ‘wireless cities’ will emerge. wires are used for design and aesthetics.
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Opening of the exhibtion
NOT-BEING AND IDENTIFY
Artist: INGE VAVRA (Austria)
Wednesday, September 28, 2016, 2 pm
Location: The Gallery 42º, Cetinje, Montenegro, presented by Faculty of Fine Arts Cetinje
Inge Vavra had spent four weeks in September 2016 in the artist residence program of the Gallery 42 ° of the Faculty of Fine Arts. During her stay, Vavra held lectures and presentation of her work for FFA students.
Realisation of the project and the exhibition was supported by the Ministry of Culture of Montenegro.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Open Studios
TICA AIRLAB 2016
Artists: REMIJON PRONJA (Albania), KOJA ISUFI (Kosovo), VERONIKA EBERHART (Austria)
Tuesday, September 27, 2016, 7 pm
Location: Qendra Rinore e Tiranës, Tirana, Albania,
in the frame of ARTIST PRESENTATION – TICA AIRLAB 2016 residency program
T.I.C.A has the pleasure to invite you at the presentation event of the fall period of AIRLAB 2016 residency program. From 2016 TICA AIRLAB will be run in collaboration with MAPS – Museum of Art in Public Space and Stefano Romano will be the curator/coordinator of the fall term. The artists will present for the public their artistic practice and previous projects in an open and informal event.
TICA AIRLAB 2016 is made possible through the support of the Ministry of Culture of Albania. For the fall term the program is also collaborating with West Balkan Calling, supporting the residency of the Austrian artist, Veronika Eberhart.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
ARTIST TALK
Artist: WOLFGANG OBERMAIR (Austria)
Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 7 pm
Location: GEM Klub, Skopje, Macedonia, organized by press to exit project space
Visual artist Wolfgang Obermair gives an insight into a field of activities he was engaged in the recent years. The focus lays on collaborative projects and other art related activities, that he sees as a way to develop a subjective practise towards a discursive situation between artists and the public. Obermair is interested in independent structures especially, if they enforce an alternative for the art itself. Part of the talk is a performative exercise he developed in a collaboration with the Czech artist Jakub Vrba within the residency.
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Thursday, July 28, 2016
Discussion
THE FINANCIALISATION OF CAPITAL AND ITS (ARTISTIC) REPRESENTATION
Artist: GREGOR SCHLATTE (Austria)
Thursday, July 28, 2016, 7 pm
Location: Social Centre October, Belgrade, Serbia, presented by Kontekst Collective
During his residency in Belgrade, organized in cooperation with Kontekst Collective, Gregor Schaltte was researching the case of Hypo Alpe Adria Bank and their investments in Serbia, processes of privatization and capital speculation as well as their connections with political and economical elites and the consequences it had to local surroundings.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016
ARTIST TALK
Artist: DENIZ SOEZEN (Austria)
Wednesday, 27 July 2016, 7 pm
Location: Public Room, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Deniz Soezen’s work explores themes of culture, location and language questioning the notion of identity and belonging. In the framework of the “West Balkan calling” residency in Sarajevo Deniz began to explore the question of belonging through an audio-visual research concerned with the five connected chapels/compartments at Bare Cemetery: Atheist, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and Orthodox. The project intends to shed light on the region’s multi-faith history and explores our unity in death – the final migration.
In the artist talk, Deniz will present some of her recent projects, e.g. ‘Trans Angeles’ (an audio installation and artist book created following her residency in Los Angeles, 2014) and ‘Kahvehane (Coffeehouse) Kongresspark’ (2016), a pop-up café serving ‘Turkish’ coffee in specially designed cups as urban art intervention in Vienna. ‘Kahvehane Kongresspark’ included an interactive performance about the cultural history of coffee, developed in collaboration with Shane Shambhu, an award-winning choreographer, dancer and actor, initially trained in the Indian Performing Art of Bharatanatyam. Shane Shambhu, who has also been in Sarajevo, will also share some of his reflections and insight into his practice.
www.publicroomsarajevo.wordpress.com
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Thursday, July 5, 2016
Presentation
OPEN STUDIO VISIT
Artist: MARKO KOSOVIĆ (Montenegro)
Thursday, 5 July 2016
Location: AIR–ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Krems, Krems, Austria
The artistic interest of Marko Kosović is focused on the relationship between humans and their digital prosthesises, which impart „reality“ and the two poles of virtuality versus reality. In Krems he has been working on the series Immersion, in which he photographed people in different, staged situations. These settings show them entirely immersed in their digital parallel life. Kosović is using the medium of cross-fading to indicate the moment of transfer from reality to virtuality.
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Monday, May 30, 2016
ARTIST TALK
Artist: DANTE BUU (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Moderation: DANIELA JAUK
Monday, 30 May 2016, 7 pm
Location: < rotor >, Graz, Austria
Dante Buu´s works are dealing with questions on private and public identities, looked upon the view of social, cultural, traditional, economic and political norms, which are defined by the mechanisms of power. His practice of presenting inimate works in interventions publicly shows the courage and the determination to face a brutal society, which is characterised by disdain and ubiquitous alienation.
In the Artist Talk, the piece „Welcome Mustafa to the Life You Deserve“ (2015) will play a central role, because the artist intensely dealt with it during his residency in Graz.. Other projects, which will be presented to get an impression of Dante Buu´s work will be „A Portrait of My Parents“ (2014) and „Weekend Lovers“ (2013 – 2015).
Daniela Jauk comes from the field of feministic social work and worked as independent women´s representative of the City of Graz. After studying sociology with a main focus on gender studies in Graz and the US she did her PhD at the University of Akron/OH (Fulbright Scholar Program). She emphasises the following aspects in her research: (trans)gender studies, transnational feministic movements – especially within the context of the UN – critical masculinity studies and qualitative methods of social studies.
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Friday, April 29, 2016
Artist Talk & Discussion
WHAT IS PUBLIC (ART)?
Artist: DANILO PRNJAT (Serbia), Philosopher: SEBASTIAN RAUTER-NESTLER (Austria), Art historian: NORA LEITGEB (Austria)
Friday, April 29, 2016, 6 pm
Location: Co-Working-Space Hafen 11, Klagenfurt, Austria
Sebastian Rauter-Nestler, expert on media-culture and philosopher, talks to the Serbian-Montenegrin artist Danilo Prnjat, who is currently spending his residency in Klagenfurt, about his artistic practise and his definition of art. The question about what art in public space can archieve nowadays will be discussed afterwards.
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Monday, April 18, 2016
Presentations
DISTITLED COMMUNITIES & SOCIAL ECONOMIES
Artists: VELIMIR ZERNOVSKI (Macedonia), DANILO PRNJAT (Serbia)
Monday, April 18, 2016, 7 pm
Location: < rotor >, Graz, Austria
Distitled Communities – Velimir Zernovski is a visual artist and curator, who is exploring notions of identity, urbanity and popular culture through the media of drawings, videos, installations, art in public space and artist books. In the last 10 years Zernovski has been working in the field of socially and politically engaged art, often collaborating with various human rights movements and activists´groups. Zernovski is co-founder of IPAK Center – Research Center for Cultures, Politics and Identities based in Belgrade and furthermore co-founded FRIK Cultural Initiatives developement Formation, based in Skopje.
Social Economies – Danilo Prnjat is an artist and art critic, who intervenes in the domain of political reality, explicating specific social problems by performing a variety of projects that includes controversial, sometimes legally problematic actions, interventions and (media) manipulations, and furthermore social participatory projects. Prnjat is one of the founders and editors of the contemporary art and art critic web portal DeMaterialisation of Art.