FORUM #7
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About FORUM European Cultural Exchanges
Ongoing platform for the development and promotion of European cultural exchanges –with emphasis on Southeastern Europe– aiming towards the support and diffusion of contemporary artistic creation. Founded in 2000 in Thessaloniki by Apollonia european art exchanges (Strasbourg) and ArtBOX, and coordinated by ArtBOX, Forum includes annual events, conferences, meetings, exhibitions and networking activities, as well as the Forum Artists-in-Residence program (F.A.R., 2005-2008).
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2000 - 2010
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Forum 2006
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Hellenic American Union |
Conferences
Borderlines - Meetings with Remarkable Situations
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Helenic American Union |
Meeting Europe - Contemporary Art from Latvia
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Helenic American Union |
Meeting Europe - Contemporary Art From Latvia
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Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art |
Exhibitions
Focus Latvia
Thus the presentation of Latvia is divided into two sections:
Part 1: introducing Latvian culture with the Art of the Poster. 1920-1990 and the photographic works (from 1984 to the present) of Andrejs Grant
Part 2: presenting the young generation of Latvian artists with the exhibition Suspense and video art program Blinks.
The exhibition is trying to reveal the common themes in the works of four contemporary artists who share similar cultural backgrounds and life within the neo-liberal society. The tension of the show is built up by its guiding theme: the unsteady balance of the daily routine on the fragile edge of emotional and mental overload. The artworks by Katrīna Neiburga, Gintas Gabrāns, Kaspars Podnieks, Ēriks Božis give the twofold mapping of the contemporary state of Latvian self-reflection: on the one hand indicating contemporary dominance of capitalism and information society, with its universal protestant logic of the production/consumption and efficient impersonal organisation of labour and leisure; on the other re-reading the conservative cultural symbols that are adding identity to the current society – linking it with historic prototype: the first national state in the pre-war period. Artworks are based on the careful revisionism of the eclectic contemporary culture. "Suspense" is leaving us to sense art as a response to everyday, and to evaluate contemporary eclectics of the powers of tradition, technology and the new rational social project. The issues evoked are suspended between nature, progress, routine and freedom of imagination.
The projects featured in this show are results of especially autonomous creative quests by recognised Latvian artists. The exhibition also maps a slight division between two artists’ "generations"; Gints Gabrans and Eriks Bozis, whose practice began during the mid-nineties, display conceptual object-based works, where expressiveness is reached by the flash of the idea, ironic hint, precise metaphor; artists who stepped in the scene around the turn of the millennium –Katrina Neiburga and Kaspars Podnieks– use digital imagery and performance action to convey a narrative or evoke a poetic situation. |
Helenic American Union |
Blinks: Projected Visions - Latvia
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Helenic American Union |
Latvia: Changing and Unchanging Reallity
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Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art |
The Art of Poster in Latvia. 1920 - 1990
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Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art |
Forum Artists-in-Residence program - F.A.R.
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F.A.R. Parallel Activities
Borderlines - AYOR
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Helenic American Union |
AYOR: No man’s land
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Hellenic American Union
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