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Hulda I
The Arts & Sciences Sailing Festival

[festival] [workshops] [exhibition on-board] [student contest]

PROJECTS
Hulda Festival (2012)

Hulda Festival is a long-term international project that celebrates the coalescence of art and science through the works of Turkish-Swedish sculptor Ilhan Koman (Edirne, Turkey 1921 — Stockholm, Sweden 1986). The festival proposes an original approach which consists in using M/S Hulda, a centennial 2-mast schooner, Baltic trader and cargo ship built in Sweden in 1905, as a sailing cultural centre. 

Koman acquired Hulda in 1965 and restored her to make her his residence and workshop. He lived there until his death in 1986. Today, the centennial Hulda has been restored and is touring Europe to raise the interest of general public for art and science via an innovative approach consisting in mixing both disciplines to make them more playful and accessible to the public. 

Launched in March 2009 in Stockholm, Hulda has since traveled to Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bordeaux, Lisbon, Barcelona, Naples and Malta, and is now about to arrive in Thessaloniki. 

Starting from August 27 and onward, Hulda will be open to the public everyday from 11.00 to 14.00 and from 16.00 to 23.00. Visitors are invited to come onboard at the Port of Thessaloniki, Pier 1, where Hulda will moor. There, they can enjoy free visits of the exhibition of Koman’s scientific artworks. In parallel, children aged 10-12 and general public are invited to art & science workshops designed by the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, in collaboration with the Interuniversity Postgraduate Programme of Museology (Aristotle University – University of Western Macedonia) and ArtBOX.gr. The Hulda Festival in Thessaloniki also features a very rich programme of parallel events: from contemporary art video projections on the sail of Hulda to special workshops addressing young artists and led by established artists through a special performance for the opening night… All these activities are free of charge.

Art & Science Workshops:
The workshops, designed by the Educational Department of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, are titled “Metal World” and they are designed for children between 10-12 years old. Using examples of art works by well-established Greek artists from the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art’s collection, they focus on the relationship between art, science and technology through the manipulation of metal and other materials, in order to create art works that actively interact with the public or with the natural environment.

The workshops are designed and realized with the support of a volunteers’ team of young museologists and in collaboration with the Interuniversity Postgraduate Programme of Museology (Aristotle University - University of Western Macedonia.

Thessaloniki

Programme

Opening night, 26/08, 20.00
“EVERY JOURNEY IS A RETURN” 
Performance specially designed by theatre group SourliBoom 

Daily, 21.00-23.00
SCREENINGS
Projection of video art works by artists Lena Athanasopoulou, Lia Psoma, Marios Spyroglou, Danae Stratou

Thursday 02/09
18.00 WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG ARTISTS
Artists Foteini Kariotaki, Vasilis Hatzopoulos and Babis Venetopoulos will present their work to young artists and will discuss issues of the relevance between art & science

20.00 THE EXPERIMENT
Project by artist Angeliki Makri

24.00 SPECIAL SCREENING
“12 by Night” by Haris Pallas
The young artist’s work-in-progress will be shown at a special preview screening

PLUS 
Illustration specially designed by comic artist Tasos Marangos will be distributed to the public during the visit to the on board exhibition 

Screening of a specially prepared projection of photos of early 20th century Thessaloniki inspired by the concepts of journey and intercultural dialogue, edited by Giorgos Adamidis.
Photos courtesy: the Folklife and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia-Thrace

Location for all events: Port of Thessaloniki, Pier 1.

Istanbul


Artscist - international art & science student contest
[student contest]

An international art & science student contest was launched in February 2010.
A committee of art professionals and scientists has evaluated the proposals of students from around Europe and has selected 10 winners. Among the 10 winners, 5 students from Thessaloniki will have the chance to visit Istanbul at the end of September on the occasion of the festival’s opening events there and will participate in an exhibition of the projects they submitted. 

Port of Thessaloniki
Greece
27 August - 5 September 2010
Istanbul
Turkey
2-23 September 2010

Organised by:
Ilhan Koman Foundation (Istanbul)
Komans Konstförening (Stockholm)

In collaboration with:
Municipality of Thessaloniki - Culture Delegate
General Secretariat for Youth
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
Forum European Cultural Exchanges

Creative Coordination:
ArtBOX.gr

Artists:
Lena Athanasopoulou, Vasilis Hatzopoulos, Foteini Kariotaki, Angeliki Makri, Haris Pallas, Lia Psoma, SourliBoom, Marios Spyroglou, Danae Stratou, Babis Venetopoulos

Workshops supervisor:
Giorgos Adamidis (museologist)

Museologists:
Lina Hante, Nastia Hatzigoga, Efstratios Hatzinikolaou, Sasa Koutsoudaki, Anna Papazaka

Supported by:
7th Framework Programme of the European Commission
Istanbul 2010 - European Capital of Culture
Turkish Ministry of Culture & Tourism
Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul
Christ Foundation
Garanti Bank

Local Supporters:
Thessaloniki Port Authority SA
Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey in Thessaloniki

Local Partner Institutions:
Interuniversity Postgraduate Programme of Museology
Folklife & Ethnological Museum of Macedonia-Thrace

Local communication sponsor:
Skai TV

About Ilhan Koman
Born 1921 in Edirne (Turkey), Ilhan Koman moved to Stockholm in 1959 where he took a professorship at Konstfackskolan, and lived in Hulda, docked at Drottningholm, until his death in 1986. Koman acquired Hulda in 1965 and restored her to make her his residence and workshop. A lifetime dedicated to art and science, it would not be wrong to place Koman in the line of a universal approach that descends from Leonardo da Vinci. Ilhan Koman’s work spans a great variety of innovative materials and methodologies. Some of his works are presently found in the collections of Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Museo J. Battle, Montevideo; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; National Museum for Painting and Sculpture, Istanbul; Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR), Brussels; Seattle Art Museum; Santralistanbul and Bogaziçi University, Istanbul. Most of his later works are designed as projects to be actualised in monumental scale.

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