About

March 9th, 2010

The basic goal of the network is to establish a common cultural space – the network of Baltic and Nordic organizations operating in the area of audio visual art – that would be accessible and rich in content.

The network will give artists, institutions and art professionals access to the information exchange resources (newly launched website, monthly newsletter) as well as new platform for cultural exchange and discussions on subjects concerning continuous progression of contemporary art languages, collaboration scenarios and expanding of territorial borders.

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Space call Writers on the move

November 11th, 2010

SPACE – Supporting Performing Arts Circulation in Europe

Pilot Project for Artist Mobility

December 2008 – November 2011

Ten national cultural institutions with an international policy and practice created a new platform, dedicated to Support the Performing Arts Circulation in Europe: SPACE.

The members of SPACE share a position in between politics and the artistic field in their own countries, work as centres of information, promote the (performing) arts on a national and international level and are experienced in supporting and running European cultural projects.

They share the belief that one of the cornerstones of a European Cultural Policy is to facilitate the circulation of (performing) arts across Europe, and also realize there are still a lot of imbalances in this transnational arts sphere, between countries, regions, artists, disciplines and cultural operators.

The SPACE project’s objective is to give priority to the mobility of arts productions and to combine cultural mobility with cultural diversity, European citizenship and investing in emerging generations. Still a young initiative, SPACE will enlarge the network while implementing the different activities of the multi-layered project.

For the last training program in three year project, WRITERS ON THE MOVE, addressed to professional writers on performing arts (journalists, trainings, theoreticians), deadline extended to apply from November 7th to November 14th.

Aims of the training are to question the idea of mobility by investigating the way to look at foreign artworks, to rethink the position of Art Critic today in order to find new ways of thinking and writing about Art for a new public – as a way of »answering through practice«, to improve knowledge about international work in the performing arts and its questions in terms of aesthetics, new forms and genres.

Information and application forms  at www.spaceproject.eu

Call for artists

Call for Artists: Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities

November 2nd, 2010

Call for Artists: Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities

extended deadline: November 10, 2010

International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short.films

to include in the next 2010 Exhibitions:

Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities at PÖFF’s 11th Student & Short Film Festival Sleepwalkers in Tallinn, Estonia (November 20-24, 2010).

Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities at the 5th edition International Streaming Festival in The Hague, The Netherlands (December 01-05, 2010).

Liquid Cities & Temporary Identities at Torun Short Film Festival in

Torun, Poland (December 10-12, 2010). The selections will be based on two main concepts. With the first

section, Liquid Cities, we will present videos about contemporary cities, future cities and possible connections between videoarchitecture and videoart experimentations. The second section, Temporary Identities, will show videoart works based on the concept of contemporary identities, new technologies and body borders.

The number of works with you can participate is unlimited. All works must be on DVD (PAL or NTSC), no matter what the original source medium. The duration may be any, with a preference given to a max lenght of 15 minutes. If you are interested, send your video submissions (Name/Surname, City/Country, Film title, Running time, Brief film synopsis) with a CV/biography, videography and an introduction about the piece to:

Luca Curci Architects

Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33

70122 – Bari, Italy

International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. We depend on the support of you. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our efforts. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and writers from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects. Participation open to: professional artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.

www.lucacurci.com/artexpo

Call for artists

Nida Art Colony

October 26th, 2010

Nida Art Colony or NAC is an interdisciplinary art, education & residency center. It is a new subdivision of the Vilnius Academy of Arts. It is developed under the EEA and Norway Grants support. The project started in 2009. NAC  will open in February 2011.

The overall objective of the NAC project is to improve the quality of art and design education in Lithuania and to implement innovations in the field of art education by promoting international cooperation. By launching the Nida Artist-in-residence Programme NAC also aims to create favourable conditions for creative contemporary art practices.

The main forms of NAC activities are international workshops, summer schools, exhibitions, conferences, video screenings and the artistst-in-residence programme. In June, July and September the NAC will house summer workshops of the Vilnius Academy of Arts (these workshops constitute a part of the curriculum and are organised by the Academy‘s departments themselves). All other events are subject to planing.

Nida Art Colony is on the Curonian Spit, which is a peninsular dividing the Curonian Lagoon and the Baltic Sea. In the year 2000, the Curonian Spit was included into the UNESCO World Heritage List as one of the most beautiful and unique cultural landscapes of Europe. The Curonian Spit is a National park with sand dunes and pitch pine forests as characteristic features of its landscape. Nida settlement is the administrative centre of Neringa. A century ago it had a high reputation within the artistic world: there was an active Art Colony established by German artists-expressionists in the 2nd half of the 19th century-the beginning of the 20th century. Artists like Max Pechstein and Karl Schmidt-Rotluff, writers like the Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann, composers and actors prized its landscape and ambience.

Website http://nidacolony.lt

Education Lithuania Organizations Residencies

Lithuanian Inter­disciplinary Artists’ Association

October 26th, 2010

Lithuanian Inter­disciplinary Artists’ Association (LTMKS) is an artist-run-organisation which has more than 60 members. It was established in 1998 and it continues the activities of “Metastudija” (artist-run-initiatve) which started in 1994 as an oposition to the gigantic Lithuanian Artists’ Association which had a lot of impact on Lithuanian art scene, however it was not flexible and inherited values from soviet art system. LTMKS is the biggest artist-run-organisation in Lithuania. Among its members are the most prominent Lithuanian contemporary artists working with various kinds of media: photography, video art, installations, performances, etc.

Since the beginning the LTMKS was a virtual organisation without any space. However starting from April, 2010 it moved to abandoned house in the very centre of Vilnius. It occupies the 3rd floor of the building, bearing a name “Fluxus ministry”. Around 20 artists are having studios and making open studio days. Moreover LTMKS is organising exhibitions, video screenings and other art events in the same building.
Website www.letmekoo.lt

Lithuania Organizations

EAST Galerii

October 13th, 2010

EAST Galerii, in Tallinn, Estonia, provides artists a space to freely exhibit their work, host live music and facilitate other arts oriented activities and interests. It is also headquarters to the Servataguse Muusika series of experimentalish music, but you can also expect to find cult cinema nights, open mic nights, musicians of all genres and idioms, exhibitions of artists (young or old, trained or untrained), niche music nights, performance art nights, etc… Spontaneity of exhibitions and performances is encouraged over a well booked schedule. Giving life, growth and support to all manner of living art forms and pursuits.

EAST in Facebook

Pikk tn 36, Tallinn

Estonia Galleries Places

Center For Contemporary Arts, Estonia (CCAE)

October 13th, 2010

Center For Contemporary Arts, Estonia (CCAE) acts as an expert institution in international cooperation projects related to the contemporary art scene in Estonia.

CCAE was established in 1992 as part of the Soros network, and has been operating as an independent foundation since 1999 primarily funded by the Estonian Ministry of Culture.

CCAE works on collaborative projects both with local and international partners. To get an overview of our most recent activities, click the newsletter True Guardian.

Our office on the 3rd floor of the Tallinn Art Hall is open for the following purposes in general:
a) to gather and disseminate information about contemporary art in Estonia
b) to help initiate projects both at home and abroad which would expand the presence of professional contemporary Estonian artists in the international arena
c) to provide project-based scholarships for local artists to exhibit abroad, and research-based scholarships for foreign curators to work here
d) to provide the impetus for (ex)change in local art critical discourse – to produce and distribute publications about contemporary visual art projects from Estonia
e) to host foreign curators, critics, art historians or artists in our office in order to expand exchanges and the international network
f) to act as the official representative of the Republic of Estonia at the international art exhibition La Biennale di Venezia

www.cca.ee

Vabaduse väljak 6
10146 Tallinn
Estonia

Estonia Grants Organizations

Estonian Media Artists Union

October 13th, 2010

The Estonian Media Artists Union (MARTU), established in 2006, is a non-profit association which unites media artists in Estonia, boosting their ‘voice’ in society and promoting a wider recognition of this field. MARTUs main objective is to develop cooperation between artists and to support theoretical research in media art. It is also important for MARTU to promote and show Estonian media art outside of Estonia.

www.martu.org

Estonia Organizations

Culture Factory Polymer

October 13th, 2010

During the Soviet era Polymer was a toy factory. In 1994, the company closed this branch of activities, leaving a large building in a state of abandonment. A few years later, a group of artists, intrigued by this big empty space, decided to turn it into their studio space. Step-by- step, other artists and musicians joined wishing to use these spaces for creating, for rehearsing…

Nowadays the factory disposes of 3000sq m of space, dedicated to creation and dissemination. Retaining the original flair of the of the building, and keeping its authenticity, concrete production facilities have been transformed to incorporate new spaces for living, artist studios and an environment for alternative cultural events.

Polymer has evolved into a place for international artist residencies and the diffusion of ideas and energy. Within the walls of the building live together about 30 artists and organizations, working in diverse artistic fields. Constituted as a non profit organization, Polymer works as a platform and as a venue for different events and activities, offering a new space for alternative culture in Tallinn. Public events take place regularly, involving resident artists and guest artists, both Estonian and International.

Polymer is an organization involved in local life and open to the exterior. Polymer leads different cultural and social actions at a local level, and has developed partnerships in Tallinn, throughout Estonia and within Europe. Polymer is a member of Trans Europe Halles, a network founded in 1983 bringing together 40 independent culture centres in Europe.

Polymer International Artist in Residency program is developped in close cooperation with Art Container Gallery and Estonian Media Artists’ Union, both organizations having their workspace in Polymer.

www.kultuuritehas.ee/residency

Estonia Organizations Places Residencies

MÄRZ project space

October 13th, 2010

MÄRZ is new initiative located  in Tallinn old town, Olevimägi 7, which focuses on establishing a self-initiated, non-institutional open cultural project space in the center of Tallinn. It is an attempt to create a loose helping umbrella for cultural production and promotion in the capital city where the cultural life is highly institutionalized and tends to be restricted according to division of separate cultural fields. The project brings together people from different fields – art, architecture, urban studies, design, music, theater, contemporary dance, social sciences, gay, lesbian and queer activists, in order to foster creative collaboration and mutual exchange of ideas and information. The project space will work on the principle of seriality which enables bringing together very different agents, events and issues while retaining them their clearly distinguishable character.

marzprojekt.wordpress.com

Estonia Places

MoKS

October 13th, 2010

MoKS – Center for Art and Social Practice, is a non-profit artist-run project space in Estonia situated in the rural community of Mooste.

MoKS main activities include:

moks.ee

Estonia Organizations Places Residencies

Baltic Event

October 13th, 2010

December 1 – December 3, 2010

The largest regional film market, and best place to meet the Baltic film industry, BALTIC EVENT, will take place for the ninth time this year. And for the sixth time, the Baltic Event Co-production market brings together intriguing, challenging, and promising projects with the best producers from the region and representatives of international sales and distribution companies.

be.poff.ee

Estonia Market

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

October 13th, 2010

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is a unique event combining a feature film festival with the sub-festivals of animated films, student films and children/youth films. The festival aims to present Estonian audiences a comprehensive selection of world cinema in all its diversity with the emphasis on European films, providing a friendly atmosphere for interaction between the audience, Estonian filmmakers and their colleagues from abroad.

The 14th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival takes place from 19 November to 5 December 2010.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival consists of the main programme, four sub-festivals, as well as film and co-production markets:

Black Nights Film Festival main programme (24 November - 5 December) – International competition programme EurAsia and Tridens Baltic feature film competition. Informative side programmes include fiction and documentary features from previous 2 years, retrospective of a filmmaker, genre or studio, and focus on a country.

Student and Short Film Festival Sleepwalkers (20 - 24 November) – International competition of student films from previous 2 years – fiction, documentary or animation films; national competition of Estonian short films and special programmes.

Animation Film Festival Animated Dreams (19 – 23 November) – Competition of short animations from previous 2 years. Additional non-competitive programmes include a retrospective of a filmmaker and focus on a country.

Children and Youth Film Festival Just Film(19 – 28 November) – Competition of children’s films and youth films. Non-competitive special programmes.

Nokia Mobile Phone Film Festival MOFF (1 September - 3 December) – Competition of short films made with mobile phones.

Black Market Industry Screenings (1-3 December) - regional cinema and audiovisual market focusing on the new films from the neighbouring regions and smaller film industry countries: Central and Eastern European countries, Nordic countries, Russia and countries like Georgia, Ukraine, Romania, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyztan, Tadjikistan.

2010.poff.ee/eng


Photo by Janis Jurkovskis

Estonia Festivals

Baltic Film and Media School

October 13th, 2010

The Baltic Film and Media School (BFM) at Tallinn University is the only higher-educational institution in northern Europe teaching film, television and media studies in English.

BFM offers hands-on three-year BA and two-year MA programs, as well as courses in:

* Electronic media and television production
* Public relations
* Mass communications and media
* Directing
* Producing
* Screenwriting
* Sound Design
* Editing
* Cinematography
* New media technologies and processes

Classes are currently taught by academics and professionals from Europe and North America. Students start their first year of studies with practical tasks and assignments, and eventually graduate with an internationally accredited university degree. BFM offers a well-equipped study and production environment in the vibrant capital city of Tallinn, which is the largest city in Estonia. BFM courses are geared towards providing essential practical media skills to enter today’s changing media landscape right after graduation.

www.bfm.ee

BFM trailer in Youtube

Education Estonia

KLIK!ESTONIA//KLÕPS

October 2nd, 2010

KLIK!ESTONIA//KLÕPS is an animation festival featuring a fine selection of animations from the KLIK!AMSTERDAM

festival plus some interesting & original stuff from Estonian animators. The Festival program features a large number of short animations and two animated feature length films.

Festivals homepage, festival on Facebook.

Estonia Festivals

Technical Innovation House Annas 2

September 4th, 2010

Technical Innovation House (Theniskās jaunrades Nams) is a place in Riga where children and youth aged 6 to 25 years can spend their free time in technological, scientific and artistic orientations clubs, studios and workshops that develop the practical skills and at the same time can help to choose a possible future profession.

TJN organizes different events, such as festivals and competitions to children.

Riga, Annas 2, LV- 1001

www.tjn.lv

Education Latvia

Kalnciema street

September 4th, 2010

Kalnciema street is restored wooden buildings in the heart of Pārdaugava: place for cultural events, public events, possible rental or business activities.

www.kalnciemaiela.lv

Events Latvia Market Places

Riga Film Museum

September 4th, 2010

The compact and cosy Riga Film Museum houses a labyrinthine exposition space, a miniature film theater room used for regular film screenings, and a cinematheque offering a plethora of significant Latvian and foreign films. Instead of a permanent exhibition the museum periodically curates unique shows – the current exhibit traces the childhood and dramatic later life and work of the Riga-born cinematic genius, world-acclaimed Russian film director and theoretician Sergei Eisenstein.

www.filmas.lv , www.nfc.lv

Galleries Latvia

Virtual studio “URGA”

September 4th, 2010

Society “Virtual studio “URGA”” is a film studio located in Technical Innovation House.

The studio works in three main directions – organizing an international short film festival 2ANNAS and events related with it, producing films, mainly animation, and educating children by organizing lectures about film industry.

Riga, Annas 2, LV- 1001

www.studijaurga.com

Latvia Organizations

International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS

September 4th, 2010

2ANNAS is an international film festival, which offers films made by young professional filmmakers, winners of international festivals, students and graduates of film schools from all over the world.

Every May, 2ANNAS offers a range of short film collections – features, animation, music videos, and documentaries – in its original competition and special programs, which are screened in Riga’s cinemas and other venues. The festival hosts lectures and photo exhibitions, as well as theater and music performances, “out-of-box events”, and other activities within the rich city environment and the vibrant multi-talented 2ANNAS atmosphere.

The only short film festival in Latvia is organized by a film studio “URGA”.

Riga, Annas 2, LV- 1001

www.2annas.lv

Festivals Latvia

kim?

March 14th, 2010

kim? is a pilot project of the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art. kim? offers a wide range of changing contemporary art activities in order to educate society about contemporary arts processes and t foster a discourse and interest in contemporary art.

kim? has its home in the Spīķeri distric near the Riga city centre. The district hosts not only kim? and its activities but also many other arts and creative sphere related organizations.

Rīga, Maskavas iela 12/1

www.kim.lv


META Kafe


Candyland (Sweden) “Global Trash”, 2009

Galleries Latvia Organizations

Gallery VKN

February 18th, 2010

Gallery VKN was founded to promote the recognition of Latvian contemporary art and artists both in Latvia and abroad along with the popularization of foreign artists here in Latvia. It is located in the same block of houses as the upcoming pilot project „kim?“ of the Contemporary Art Museum of Latvia is, and it takes part in its events, jointly looking for the answer to the question „What is art?“

Riga, Maskavas iela 12/1
www.galleryvkn.lv



Miks Mitrēvics & Kristīne Kursiša “Entropy Cube”



Armands Zelčs “Escape Attempt”

Galleries Latvia

RIXC

February 18th, 2010

Centre for new media culture in Riga (founded in 2000.) – the RIXC is the joint effort of a number of independent local cultural groups working in the fields of new media, art, film, music, youth culture and the social projects.

http://www.rixc.lv


Martins Ratniks “Fields” 2007.


Gints Gabrans “White Point” 2009.

Galleries Organizations Uncategorized

Noass Video Art Archive

February 18th, 2010

The Latvian Video Art Archive has been created as the only national video art database. It is available for free and covers the entire history of Latvian video art from the late 1980’s through to the present day. The platform for the Latvian Video Art Archive – Database is the videoteque which has been established and built up over a number of years by “Culture and Arts Project NOASS”.

Anete Melece “Vilma Doesn’t Work Today”, 2007 (still)

Archives Latvia

NOASS

February 18th, 2010

Culture and Arts Project “NOASS” (founded in 1998) is one of the oldest non-governmental arts and culture organisations in Latvia. NOASS’ goal is to participate in the formation of the Latvian and European cultural environment.

www.noass.lv


Mārtiņš Ratniks’ “Redzes lauks” in greenhouse at Light Garden festival.

Galleries Organizations

Supernova

February 18th, 2010

This hybrid gallery (opened in April 2009)  deals with certain contemporary art issues that can be translated into exhibition format as far as environmental requirements and available funding allow.

www.super-nova.lv


Edgars Gluhovs’ exhibition “Good Cop/Bad Cop”

Galleries Latvia

Serde

February 18th, 2010

The interdisciplinary art group SERDE is a public association organisation, with and the mission statement to develop the regional and international collaboration between different culture fields, organizations and professionals. SERDEs main activities involve the exchange between culture, science and education fields, including the organisation of residencies, workshops, seminars, lectures, presentations etc.

www.serde.lv


“Moonshine distillation device”

Latvia Organizations Places Residencies

The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art

February 17th, 2010

The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) is a non-governmental organisation, which serves as a platform for promotion and popularisation of contemporary art processes.

Basic tasks of the LCCA are to promote and integrate local contemporary art processes in the international art scene, to collect, update and disseminate information about Latvian contemporary art, as well as to develop an open-minded critically thinking environment, thus stimulating interchange between art and society.

www.lcca.lv


Theo Mercier & Evelīna Deičmane “Humm…Kartofell…Grrrrrr…”, 2009. Survival Kit exhibition.


“Is a Show, Is a Shop, Is a Book”, exhibition, graphic design workshop, talks and lectures that took place during Survival Kit art project.

Events Latvia Organizations

Riga Art Space

February 17th, 2010

Riga Art Space is a multifunctional contemporary art space, which in its activity strives not only to the contemporary visual art representation but also to the production of world level art projects by taking relevant and professional organisational measures.

www.artspace.riga.lv


Krišs Salmanis “Lost”, 2009.


Voldemārs Johansons “Aero Torrents”, 2007


Finnish contemporary art exhibition “Variations on Transcending the Finiteness of Human Vision”, 2009

Galleries Latvia

Gallery “Alma”

February 17th, 2010

The idea and concept of Alma Gallery is built on stable foundations, acquired over many years of professional activity.
Through careful and reasoned selection, the gallery follows the principle of representing its own, limited circle of artists, who belong to the tradition of contemporary Latvian art; special and particular attention is devoted to our greatest masters of the early 20th century.

www.galerija-alma.lv


Kristaps Ģelzis’ exhibition “Home Video”, 2008.


Kristīne Kursiša “Out of Control V”, 2009.

Galleries Latvia

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