Lecture by Alenka Gregoric |  Cultural Jet lag – Museums in/and the region | Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, 18 December 2017, 20.00 h.

Press to Exit Project Space together with Museum of Contemporary Art invites you to the lecture by Alenka Gregorič, artistic director and curator at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana, Slovenia. 

One of the oldest and the most developed organisational structures of the art system is a museum. The basis for the professional working of a museum – collection policy, programming and exhibition activities, public communications, publishing, education, and marketing - is a coherently conceived vision. But today, when museums seem to focus principally on ways and means of marketing their collections and collection-related content, it is necessary to be aware of the dangers of marketing-based approaches in the conception of museum polices.

Lecture by Anton Lederer |   | Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, 12 December 2017, 20.00 

press to exit project space together with The Museum of Contemporary Art invites you to the lecture by Anton Lederer, co-founder of <rotor> Center for Contemporary Art in Graz, Austria.

In his lecture Anton Lederer will focus on the question of institutional strategies. What kind of art do we want to present and produce? And, whom do we want do address with our cultural activities?
Many art institutions and initiatives face the same situation: There is a well informed but relatively small audience of experts and art lovers. How can we attract other people for contemporary art who often think that it is too complicated and only for insiders? Anton Lederer will follow the idea that an art production which is related to people's personal life circumstances and touches questions of the nowadays society is able to raise strong interest of many.

External activities |  Hristina Ivanoska and Yane Calovski | exhibition Dialogue (A Form of an Answer), curated by Branka Bencic and organized by Tihomir Milovac, and Vanja Žanko | Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia, 25 November 2017.

The  Dialogue (A Form of an Answer) exhibition is a second of a tri-part series of exhibition conceptualized to gather and map individual and collective interest of the artists geared toward politics of art production and the institutional contexts in which they act. 

External activities |  Jovanka Popova | "Participatory Governance in Culture: Exploring Practices, Theories and Policies. DO IT TOGETHER." conference | organized by Kultura Nova Foundation in Rijeka, Croatia, 22-24 November 2017.

Jovanka Popova, the executive director of JADRO Association of the Independent Scene in Macedonia represent the association at "Participatory Governance in Culture: Exploring Practices, Theories and Policies. DO IT TOGETHER." conference, held in Rijeka, Croatia from 22-24 November 2017.  The international and interdisciplinary conference was organized by Kultura Nova Foundation in partnership with Rijeka 2020 LLC, in collaboration with the European Cultural Foundation, and with the support of Central European Initiative regional intergovernmental forum. It has been selected as an ENCATC labeled event. The conference is part of the "Approaches to Participatory Governance of Cultural Institutions" project supported by UNESCO’s International Fund for Cultural Diversity.

External activities |  Jovanka Popova | CIMAM 2017 Annual Conference “The Roles and Responsibilities of Museums in Civil Society” | organized by CIMAM, National Gallery Singapore, 10-12 November 2017.

Jovanka Popova, curator and program coordinator of press to exit project space, attended CIMAM 2017 Annual Conference “The Roles and Responsibilities of Museums in Civil Society”  at National Gallery Singapore as one of the travel grantees of CIMAM granted by Getty Foundation.

Given the rising sentiments of populist nationalism that we are witnessing around the world, and extending from the focus on the conference in Barcelona (The Museum and Its Responsibilities), the theme of the conference to re-evaluate and re-examine the roles of museums, their public functions and how they respond.