Rise of woman in culture in Western Balkan

Recognizing from the immediate experience the increasing occurrence of the female – identifying artists and the problem in underrepresentation, the idea from which the concept of curatorial initiative develops brings together the art around the identity of a woman in contemporary creative work, a generation of the XXI century. The synergy between the artist and the curator leads to better visibility and awareness of the presence of the woman’s identity in the artworks and the inclusion of new forms of presentation of improving communication with the audience. In the wider context of observation and artistic adversaries, as well as improving visibility and networking, in addition to the Western Balkans region, a project involving participants from a wider European area.

The selected and planned activities (traveling exhibit, conference, workshops, lectures, residency program, research, VR technologies, publication …) during the project are directed at raising the capacity of women’s identities in culture, which aim to leave a mark for future generations.

We decide to undertake this project in attempt to answer on some of most pressing challenges, needs and problems young female visual artist, female curators and more in general women in culture in Western Balkans confront in their daily work, especially in independent sector. In attempt to secure empirical base for problem we would like to tackle in we will mainly relay on few existing research done by NGO`s in Western Balkans and on experience of people from the field (Croatia: Young women and gender quality in post-Yugoslav societies: research, practice and policy international scientific conference, UNESCO participating program, 2013; How female artists live, Selma Banich i Nina Gojić, 2018; Serbia: Obstacles towards women’s experts in culture, Mira Vidaković and Vesna Šćepanović; The right to culture or the right to develop cultural needs, Dušica Dragin …). Needs of young female artist in Western Balkans are basically grouped around main phases of art generation process: preparation, production, distribution, promotion and selling. All of this phases are characterized by structural weekens which make difficult for young female visual artist to professionally do their work.

Lokar Gallery

(Partner)

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Udruzenje Fenomena (leader)

Republic of Serbia
Association for development of culture and ecology sensus - Skopje (partner)

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Beoart Contemporary (partner)

Republic of Serbia
NVO SPES (partner)

Montenegro
Udruga za poticanje razvoja ljudskih potencijala i kreativnosti-PRIZMA (partner)

Croatia (EU)

Funded projects

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Our Little Library: Literary Exchanges

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo. An interactive digital tool that brings kids closer to classical music (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!

SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage

SPECTRUM 14|15

Small Size, Performing Arts for Early Years

Performing the Museum

Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age

HEROES WE LOVE. Ideology, Identity and Socialist Art in New Europe

European Digital Art and Science Network

European Artizen Initiative

Ephemeral Heritage of the European Carnival Rituals

Sustainability is in the AiR

BeSpectACTive!

Artecitya

Advancing Light-driven Public Interactions

Quantum Music

Litterae Slovenicae - Small Literature Crossing Borders

CEE Animation Workshop (CEE AW)

Young Programmers for Young Audiences! European Film Festival Network

European Network of Film Discourse

Network of the Festivals in the Adriatic Region

YoCoJoin

GELATOn the ROAD

reDiscover

PS4Her

ARTAS - Art Archives Study.

Sense (of) sharing

Inspiration Forum LAB – Interdisciplinary art co-production program

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

OUT OF THE BOX

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Slavic Soundwalking (SSW)

European Itineraries of Roma Cultural Heritage (ROMHERIATGE)

Pariahs - Performing Europe's Historical Memory

TOBIES FRIENDS

Forest Encounters

Books on the Beach (BOB)

Made In 2.0 - Platform for Contemporary Crafts & Design

ARCH-E, European platform for architectural competitions

SEARCHER - The Art of Associative Searching

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Performing Landscape

Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery

Puppet Nomad Academy IV

Other Words – Literary Circuit for Small and Minority Languages

Open House Europe (OHEu)

The Pulse of European Literature (UEL)

One Space

VigeVageKnjige - The Next Generation (VVK NextGen)

IMAGINE 2020 (2.0) – Art, ecology & possible futures