ifa Gallery Berlin is bringing art into the center of dialogue, acts as a space of encounter and is a digital platform alike. With the transdisciplinary project Untie to Tie, ifa Gallery Berlin invites since 2017 visitors to take part in a discourse on colonial legacies, movement, migration and environment. The programme encourages thinking beyond colonial borders, be they mental or territorial, and perceives diversity and plurality of perspectives as essential features that make it possible to grasp the present as an ever-changing reality. Movement and migration are understood as emancipatory processes that facilitate interactions between people.
ART & PROJECT SPACE
A STUDIO actor is an artist whose role in a performance goes beyond simply being a part of the production. Visual arts play a significant role at STUDIO. We aim to co-create the current art scene, expand its scope of activity, and provide a platform for the exchange of knowledge and experience. Studio Gallery, with its unique Studio Collection, is now the largest municipal space for the presentation of contemporary art, creating opportunities for art education and fostering partnerships with major public institutions, NGOs, and individual artists.
The mission of STUDIO is a broadly defined culture-forming and educational activity. We aim to promote contemporary art in all its forms and genres. We fulfill this mission through the presentation of original and guest productions from the contemporary repertoire, including works specially commissioned for STUDIO. The mission is carried out by a team of competent, ambitious, and professional employees and collaborators, with the support of public art institutions at both the state and local levels, and of non-governmental organizations.
STUDIO builds a network of like-minded institutions and opens itself to partnership and dialogue. All activities are conducted transparently, in accordance with legal provisions and in line with the highest standards of governance and best practices.
Plan B was founded in 2005 in Cluj, Romania, on the initiative by Mihai Pop and Adrian Ghenie as a production and exhibition space for contemporary art. The gallery program focuses on researching Romanian art from the past 50 years, highlighting the work of remarkable artists who have had little to no international exposure.
In 2008, Plan B expanded by opening a permanent exhibition space in Berlin, which has since been managed by Mihai Pop and Mihaela Lutea. In 2009, Plan B helped initiate Fabrica de Pensule (The Paintbrush Factory) in Cluj, an independent cultural center housed in a former paintbrush factory. Currently, Plan B Cluj is working on establishing Fundatia Plan B, an art foundation with programs designed for a historic late Baroque palace in the city center, now undergoing renovations. This foundation will broaden the research and presentation of Romanian art in an international context.
Foksal Gallery was founded in 1966. The idea of founding a gallery with a focus on searching out and highlighting radical approaches to contemporary art, was developed by art critics, such as Wiesław Borowski, Anka Ptaszkowska, Mariusz Tchorek, and artists, including Tadeusz Kantor, Henryk Stażewski, Zbigniew Gostomski, Edward Krasiński and Roman Owidzki.
RAA is a cultural space that hosts regular theatrical and contemporary performances, exhibitions and workshops. At RAA you don’t have to be loud to be heard. A little herbal shop offers the possibility to take in some Latvian forest in the centre of Riga.
GARAGE 33 GALLERY-SHELTER is an international art space for art from «conflict?», which was founded by MKUV Studio [Maria Kulikovska + Uleg Vinnichenko] and SPP [School of Political Performance]. We try to break down rigid concepts of borders: geographical, national, religious, class, gender, ethical and aesthetical. It is a democratic art space for art, which is pushed aside onto the margins and remained outside the official discourse. We lack the hierarchical symptoms, we talk on an equal level, we present the artworks by different artists – mid-career and well-known as well as emerging or underrated. It is an independent art space which is located in one of the oldest garage cooperatives in Kyiv not far from half-forgotten dendrological park – in the area from «conflict?», which needs of cultural transformation and reorganization. We dictate our own rules just based on our own observations. We ignore censorship and biased understanding of «truthful» art. It is a hybrid art space which was established for touching upon the issues, which are standing out sharply. We ask questions, we hunt for answers, we call for dialogue and discussion. It is an experimental non-binary art space for the freedom of speech of people, who were denied a voice, who lost a voice, those whose voice was taken away. We’re «uncomfortable», we’re different, and we’re other. It is a shelter for the artists Everyone has the opportunity to be honest. Everyone will be able to feel safe. It is a platform for education which creates the right conditions for studying art that helps in understanding and adequate perception of it. It is a place for presentation of a true pure act of art coming from the inside. This act of art can conflict with society or with moral norms whereby lifting much deeper hidden layers and working them out.
Studija is a new art space in Kuldīga city, located in Kaļķu Street quarter. By offering space and time it aims to support creativity, research and education in the field of contemporary art and culture. An essential focus of the new art space is a dialogue between the invited participants, local community and international networks. Studija’s main focus is the Artist in Residency program that aims to host around 20 artists and other creative folks per year. Studija is founded and run by an independent curator, art historian and researcher Maija Rudovska, who has been working in the field of contemporary art for more than 15 years.
https://www.studijaspace.com/about
PART TIME GALLERY is new, non-commercial gallery in Tallinas Street 94, Riga, managed by artists and founders of the association “Neatlaidība” Liene and Oskars Pavlovski. Its title – Part Time – is both a multi-faceted metaphor and a play of words, as well as a direct reference to the economic uncertainty faced by artists of different generations.
It is also an indication of the gallery’s focus – coexistence of visual art, design and architecture in the same space. Liene Pavlovska says that Part Time is conceived both as a space and a meeting place with the viewer, serving as a platform for the practice of art, design and architecture, which is based on practical and theoretical research and which responds perceptibly to the local context – in Riga, Latvia and the wider region of Northern and Eastern Europe.
Yermilov Centre is a centre of contemporary art in Kharkiv, opened in March 2012. Named after the famous Kharkiv artist, the representative of the Ukrainian avant-garde Vasyl Yermilov. The largest exhibition space in Kharkiv “YermilovCentre” represents contemporary Ukrainian art processes. Our priorities are artistic dialogue with the viewer and international cooperation.
Activities of the Yermilov Centre:
– curatorial projects;
– artistic residences;
– lectures and discussions;
– performances;
– seminars;
– cinema, video shows.
https://yermilovcentre.org/
RIXC is the center for new media culture, art gallery and artist collective, that initiates projects in intersection of art, science and emerging technologies. RIXC’s activities include: running an art gallery, production of artworks and innovative art, science and technology projects, organising of the annual RIXC Art Science festival, exhibitions, publishing of Acoustic Space journal series. RIXC uses events and publications to introduce novelty themes, such as renewable energy (2009), techno-ecologies (2011), art of resilience (2012), fields – contextual seedbeds for social changes (2014), renewable futures (2015) and open fields (2016). RIXC also is a key founder of Liepaja University’s Art Research Lab & New Media Art education program. RIXC has extensive experience in network building locally and internationally, and currently is developing Renewable Network – for Baltic-Nordic and Europan cooperation.
History
RIXC was established on May 2000 on the basis of E-LAB (Centre for electronic arts and media, since 1996). The basic activity of RIXC is to initiate the most novel and current topics in digital art by performing innovative experimental projects in art, science and technology in Latvia and internationally. RIXC fosters cultural exchange as well as promotes new forms of cultural and artistic expression. RIXC approaches new media not only as a new field of artistic and cultural practice, but also as an infrastructure to support other forms of art and culture.
http://rixc.org/