Jovanka Popova's presentation | EU – Western Balkans Art Summit |  organised by FLUCA – Austrian Cultural Pavillion | Goethe – Institute, Sofia  |  17-18 May, 2018

FLUCA – Austrian Cultural Pavilion gathers curators, theorists and gallerists from the Western Balkans art scene to dialogue on the future vision of art in the region.

We will talk about the latest history of art from the Balkans, about the meaning of the Western Balkans, and whether it reflects (or does not reflect) on contemporary art in the countries concerned. An answer will be sought to the question of ways of integrating art from these countries into the context of the European scene.

International project | Public meeting of the CrossSections Project | Curated by: Basak Senova | Exhibition Labaratory, Helsinki |  19.05.2018

Exhibition Laboratory hosts the PUBLIC Meeting of the CrossSections project in Helsinki. As the speaker of the meeting, Basak Senova (TR) will introduce and talk about the research strains and the leading curatorial motive of the project. The meeting in Helsinki specifically aims to discuss the curatorial methodology and the structure of the project. In the second part of the meeting some of the participating artists including Behzad Khosravi Noori (IR/SE), Benji Boyadgian (FI/PS), Egle Oddo (IT/FI), Inma Herrera (ES/FI),Isa Rosenberger (AT), Lina Selander (SE), Nikolaus Gansterer (AT), Tamsin Snow (IE/UK), Otto Karvonen (FI) and Timo Tuhkanen (FI) along with some of the partners of the project will give their input.

Open Call | Summer School as a School organized by Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina |  in partnership with press to exit project space  |  20.05.2018

Call for application: Summer School as a school: experience of an interdisciplinary educational program in Pristina (Kosovo)

press to exit project space gladly informs that Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art in Prishtina announced the open call for participation in the Summer School as a School (SSAS) for 2018.

press to exit project space as partner organization from Skopje, in collaboration with Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art and with the support from the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Macedonia will granted two scholarships for participation for Macedonian candidates.

International project |  CrossSections  | Curated by: Basak Senova | 2017-2020

The CrossSections project is a cross disciplinary research platform focusing on artistic research, dialogues and production. The project reflects on "process" in the form of an open format with the aim to articulate critical reactions to the political, economic, and social disturbances facing us today. The project emerged from the need to challenge the‘status quo’ across the political spectrum and support effective and critical forms of discursive and artistic productions to emerge.

Exhibition |  responseAbility | Artist from the AIR program West Balcan Calling: Stefano Romano/DZT, Dante Buu, Veronika Eberhart, Nina Valerie Kolowratnik, Marko Kosović, Wolfgang Obermair,  Danilo Prnjat, Gregor Schlatte, Deniz Sözen, tadi, Inge Vavra, Velimir Zernovski | Graz (9.3.2017 , < rotor > association for contemporary art and in Vienna (7.3.2017, Kunsthalle Exnergasse/ KEX Studio)  6 pm

From 2015 to 2016, the artist-in-residence programme “West Balkan  Calling” took place in Belgrade, Cetinje, Prishtina, Sarajevo, Skopje and Tirana as well as in Graz, Klagenfurt, Krems, Linz and Vienna.  A total of 12 artists visited the cities mentioned above for a residency.  During this time, they realised works of art and/or were inspired to create new works, which will be presented in the exhibition  “responseABILITY”.

The observations and individual experiences made within the guest artists' residencies form the starting point of the exhibition.  They could check their expectations, compare them with their impressions on site and put them into relation to their own living environments. Moreover, the mutual exchange opened up the possibility to compare perceptions of the different cultural spaces.