Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina
Open call for participation in the workshop Prishtina Map 21 led by Minna Henriksson
Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina is pleased to announce the open for participation in the workshop Prishtina Map 21 led by Minna Henriksson and will be held in collaboration with younger generation artists, local art students, and other active participants in the art field.
Application deadline: December 4, 2021
The art scenes in bigger cities usually comprise of public and private museums, commercial and non-commercial galleries as well as artist-run spaces, art schools, art festivals and art fairs, dealers and auction houses, artists’ unions and other advocacy organisations, private and public funding bodies, art journals and platforms for art criticism.
What kind of institutions are dominant in the local art scene of Pristina, and what kind of organisations are less present or completely non-existent? The reasons for how things are in Pristina in 2021 will be thought about and discussed during the workshop, as well as the impact that the nature of the Pristina/Kosovo art scene has on local artists and artistic productions.
During Prishtina Map 21 workshop led by Minna Henriksson a diagrammatic visualisation is produced of the organisations and people active in the local scene, and their relations to each other which will be displayed at a public event and be open to all.
Minna Henriksson (b. 1976, Oulu, lives in Helsinki) is a visual artist who works with a disparate range of tools including text, drawing, linocut and photography. She studied art in Brighton, Helsinki and Malmö.
Her work is often collaborative, and relates to the anti-racist, leftist and feminist struggles. In recent years her work has often dealt with archives and histories. Her work is research based and engages with covert political processes that appear to be neutral or natural.
In 2017 Henriksson was awarded with the Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Award of artistic work committed to the ideal of democracy and antifascism.
Prishtina Map 21 workshop led by Minna Henriksson will be held in Prishtina from December 6 to 10, 2021, where 10 new generation artists, local art students, and other active participants in the field of art will have the opportunity to collaborate and create an overview and map of the art scene in Prishtina, thinking also about their position. They will list the groups in which they are active (all unstructured collectives and groups, registered associations, jobs). From this they will expand into listing other groups and communities that are somehow related to their own.
Once participants have sketched small mind maps related to their field position in general, eventually, participants will gather and combine their maps with the rest of the group, thus starting to create a scene map in the capital and on a large scale. After the end of the workshop Prishtina Map 21, the created map will be presented to the public.
Prishtina Map 21 will include museums, independent and public institutions of art and culture,commercial and non-commercial galleries as well as artist-run spaces, art schools, art festivals and art fairs, dealers and auction houses, artists’ unions and other advocacy organisations, private and public funding bodies, art journals and platforms for art criticism.
To participate in the workshop, those interested should send a motivation letter and CV to the e-mail address application@stacion.org
The working language is English.
Prishtina Map 21 is part of the Rilindja Rilindja Rilindja project and aims to develop on-site research and document developments in the field of art and society, and to influence the promotion of art and culture and cultural heritage for knowledge creation, tourism development and international exchange.
Rilindja Rilindja Rilindja as a project responds to the reality dominated by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and aims to create program interventions that help economic revival and renaissance of groups directly affected by the consequences of prolonged economic "fatigue" in the visual arts scene and civil society in Kosovo.
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Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina during the implementation of Rilindja Rilindja Rilindja will adhere to the measures suggested by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kosovo and IKSHP against the spread and infection with the Covid-19 virus.
Rilindja Rilindja Rilindja is supported by The Ministry fo Culture, Youth and Sports, The Municipality of Prishtina, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Kosovo Office and DZG.