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Abir Gasmi

Tunis, Tunisia

After a degree in computer engineering, I decided to turn my life over and go back to my first love: writing. More precisely, storytelling. Visual storytelling. I started with scriptwriting for movies, I did a short fiction, A Woman and a Half, and a short animation, Fade. As I spent my college years in Fine Arts Institute, I had a lot of frie...

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ACT Association

Sofia, Bulgaria

1 person

London, United Kingdom

Alessandra Cianetti is a London-based curator, creative producer, and writer. Since 2013 she has been curating international live and visual art projects around notions and lived experiences of movement, migration, identity, and borders. She has worked internationally on multi-disciplinary live and visual art projects across the UK, Europe, an...

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Alex Meszmer

Pfyn Thurgau, Switzerland

Alex Meszmer was born in Lindenberg/Allgaeu, Germany and studied in Kassel, Germany. Since 2001 he has lived mainly in Pfyn, Switzerland. Meszmer has worked as a visual artist and curator since 1995. He exhibits internationally and has won various awards. From 2003 – 2010 he was a member of the curatorial team of visarteost and Projektra...

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Alexander Levene

Brussels, Belgium; Bedford, United Kingdom

I am a UK-based, queer male Creative Producer, community arts manager and spoken word artist. I work across forms and settings, to curate, produce and create events that engage under-represented communities in performance arts projects. The background aim to all my projects is to create a more inclusive atmosphere for minority groups to engage...

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Alfredo Martins

Lisbon, Portugal

My name is Alfredo Martins and I’m a Portuguese theatre maker. My professional activity has been swinging between acting, directing, producing and researching and in all these 'métiers' I always felt the tension between the labour of producing an artistic object and its relation with the world – how does art address the worl...

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Alice Smits

Amsterdam, Netherlands

I am the initiator and artistic director of Zone2Source, a platform for art, nature and technology in the Amstelpark in Amsterdam. We invite artists for regular exhibitions, talks, workshops and excursions in which new imaginations on nature-culture relations are being developed in the parks pavillion and outdoor spaces. With Zone2Source I am ...

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Alliance Operation City

Zagreb, Croatia

Alliance Operation City (former Alliance for Independent Culture and Youth Center) is a collaboration platform of NGOs, art organizations, informal groups and individuals. Formally, Alliance is an association of 28 member organizations. Its mission is to foster development of independent culture and self-organizing of youth actors thro...

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AltArt Foundation

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2 people

AltArt contributes to promoting the impact of culture on societal development through research, debates, networking and policy work. AltArt projects involve interactive platforms, interventions in public space, mixed reality events exploring new cultural dimensions through the use of new technologies, workshops, and urban labs. AltArt work dea...

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Amber Bloos

Amsterdam, Netherlands; Gent, Belgium

Amber Bloos (1992, NL) studied Cultural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. She began at Company New Heroes as an intern internationalization, during that period she wrote her thesis: ‘Why we need New Heroes now, Company New Heroes and their project “In Search of Europe” placed in the era of meta-modernism’. After ...

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Ambrus Ivanyos

Budapest, Hungary

I'm a writer and dramturg. I was born in 1991, Budapest, Hungary. I've contributed in more than  a dozen independent theatre and film projects around Europe. In the past years I turned my focus towards interactive narrative design both in performing arts, live and digital games, AR, digital storytelling and installation design. I'm exploring n...

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Amina Mourid

Tangier, Morocco

I’m 27 years old cultural entrepreneur and project manager based in Tangier Morocco. I’m graduated with a Master’s Degree in Political Science & International Project Management with a focus on Contemporary Arab World. These studies gave me the keys to understanding the international environment in which I evolve professi...

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An Vandermeulen

Brussels, Belgium

I’m born in the countryside, but mentally raised in an activist city life. I’m living in Brussels for 10 years, after a 7 years study of linguistics & literature on the one hand and arts (performance & sculpture) on the other hand in Ghent, Brussels & Berlin. During my educational life, I developed a passion for - &lsqu...

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Ana Pinto Gonçalves

Portugal

With a career born and developed in communication, curiosity and interest led me to advance, learn and work on marketing and, in the last six years, fundraising and sponsorship. Sports was the economic sector I kicked off my sponsorship and fundraising path in, until I was dared to move to the cultural sector to create and implement a strategy...

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Ana Alexieva

Sofia, Bulgaria

My name is Ana and I have been professionally engaged in the arts and culture field for the last eight years. I started my career as a documentary film producer in 2011 at AGITPROP, one of the most acclaimed Bulgarian film companies. Parallel to my work in film up until 2016, I was also the project manager of the NGO Balkan Documentary Center....

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Ana Henriques Brotas

Portugal, Lisbon

Embracing playful discourses that cross art, design, science, pedagogy and activism, I position my work not through a specific discipline but rather in the optics of a methodology. I begin by questioning assumptions in order to create sustainable narratives. This contextualized starting point leads to a wide range of materializations. ...

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Anastasia Dourida

Athens, Greece

13 years ago, I was about to graduate as a structural engineer but I didn’t feel that I had an option of putting my profession into positive use for the society. I always thought of Athens as THE place to live, but back then this was considered a joke, so I started wondering why people don’t agree. I postponed graduating, while stu...

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Anastasya Kizilova

Saint-Petersburg, Russia

My main artistic activity is the search for hidden gaps in social, economic and environmental patterns that could open a way for a new kind of interaction and communication. My projects address the tightknitness of the artistic community, its autonomy as a separate social group, and explore and implement alternative models of interaction. ...

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Andrea Möller

Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Andrea Möller, Director Media Art Friesland Foundation.Independent creative producer, born in 1971 in Münster/Germany, studied Master of International Leisure and Tourism Studies in Leeuwarden, Bilbao and London, ever since works in visual arts, preferably with experimental arts projects and festivals as a temporary space for m...

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Andrea Giacomelli

Torniella, Italy

Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from Tuscan parents in 1967, raised between Milan, Basingstoke (UK), short but memorable stays in Mohammadia (Morocco) and Portollano (Spain) in the early Seventies. After an MS in environmental engineering at Politecnico di Milano (1993, with MS thesis work in Gent) and PhD in Hydrology from the same Instit...

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Andreas Niegl

Anna Kamay is an independent curator and cultural manager hailing from Yerevan, Armenia. Anna organizes community-based art projects with the goal of using public space and art to meet local needs, and manages Nest Artist Residency and Community Center at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Yerevan. Anna curated two major exhibits tac...

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Anna Duda

Katowice, Poland

For about 10 years I'm working both with institutions and independent artists or NGO in field of theater, dance and visual art, mostly as project manager, dramatist or educator. My heart is especially dedicated to dance. I'm now finishing my phd in dance Studies. Currently I'm also working in Individual Interfaculty Studies on Silesian Univers...

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Anna Soldánová

Brno, Czech Republic; Mikulov, Czech Republic

My profesional and academic career is connected with transdisciplinary cooperation between performing and visual arts. I also focus on the activisation of the cultural heritage and its connection with the community. I studied theatre management, currently I am a post gradual student of the Theatre Arts (my PhD theasis deals with transc...

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Anna Karpenko

Minsk, Belarus; Vilnius, Lithuania; Berlin, Germany

My name is Anna Karpenko. I gratuated from Philosophy Department (Belarusian State University) and have MA in Sociology (with a focus on visual art) from European Humanities University (Vilnius). I'm working as an independent curator, art-manager and researcher in Minsk, Vilnius and Berlin. My curatorial practice is strongly connected ...

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Anna Sadowska

Warszawa, Poland; Zalesie Górne, Poland

Anna Sadowska (born 1978), from 2003 actress of the Realistic Theater in Skierniewice. Animator, theater instructor and director of children and youth performances in projects carried out within the means of the Theater Institute, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Marshal of the Lodzkie Voivodship, Lublin City, Skierniewice and the Yo...

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Anna-Ilona Kiss

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

I finished my university studies as a cultural worker with a strong interest in anthropology and a less, but still important interest in ethnographic. My main interest consist questions about how can we encourage people to change their relation to cultural events and products, how can we break the traditional way of thinking that art is only t...

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Anouk Froidevaux

Lisbon, Portugal; Berlin, Germany; Brussels, Belgium

I am a Canadian-Swiss professional dance artist, performing across Europe and internationally for 16 years. I have worked transnationally in Europe, collaborating with local communities through performances and experiential workshops. In 2003, I received my Dance Individual Study Bachelor at Codarts, Rotterdam. Since 2009, I am part of Berlin-...

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ANTespacio

Bilbao, Spain

ANTespacio was born in Bilbao, Spain. We organize collaborative cultural projects mainly in the city with a network, developing new ways of working collectively. Considering art as something that should be part of the society, the daily life and not inside a bubble. Social transformation is an important element in contemporary art and ...

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Antónia Marques

Porto, Portugal

Visual Artist and Educator was born in Oporto in 1974, Portugal. Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts and Design for Public Space, FBAUP. Since always engrossed in an intense and diversified civic participation, it reflects in its artistic practice on the group dynamics that are organized in support of the defense of common causes. It seeks to ...

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Athens, Greece

Ash Bulayev has worked for 20 years as curator, producer and artist, at the cross-section of contemporary performance and time-based visual arts. As of 2018, I am the Director of Onassis AiR: (inter)national artistic research residency program (Athens). Onassis AiR is a year-round program, located in the urban centre of Athens, that grounds it...

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Aubry Eric

Angres, France

Here, the artistic intervention is not addressed to the cultural public, but to the inhabitants and users of the territories. Here, the works are not worth for themselves, but for what they do to each other. Here, the public space is not a scene, it is a living material of creation. Here, culture is not lived in the past or the future, it is i...

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Aurore Stalin

Nantes, France

Aged of 31, I’m a cultural worker since few years as production manager for contemporary dance company. My educational background goes from licence degree in History at Nanterre University to master Degree in cultural project in public spaces in Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne University. Right after graduate, I worked for Arcadi - Cultural Ag...

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Azza Ezzat

Cairo, Egypt

I am Azza Ezzat, a Cairo based visual artist with architectural background. I am interested in urban observations. Between the formal governmental city and the informal community’s reactions, there are hidden cities that are built by residents’ impressions. My practice involves deconstructed elements in multi-intersected layers....

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BADco.

Zagreb, Croatia

BADco. is a collaborative performance collective based in Zagreb, Croatia. The artistic core of the collective are Ivana Ivković, Ana Kreitmeyer, Tomislav Medak, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Nikolina Pristaš and Zrinka Užbinec. As a combination of three choreographers / dancers, two dramaturgs and one philosopher, plus the compa...

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Barbara Van Lindt

Antwerp, Belgium

I am currently reshaping my professional practice outside of an institutional frame. After working for, in, and on behalf of institutions, I decided to leave and re-orientate myself. Educated in philosophy and theatre studies, I have gained experience as a producer and curator, mostly in positions of artistic (and sometimes general) leadership...

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Bee Time Sociedad Cooperativa Andaluza

Santa Lucia; Spain

Bee Time residencies provide conditions for living and working together over a period of two weeks in order to communally enter an intimate space of research. We are a core team of three artists and we invite others to join our living explorations within an expanded sense of time inspired by the bees, what we know as Bee Time. The natu...

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Bernard Borghino

Paris, France

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Bernard Fairhurst

Gloucestershire, United Kingdom; Bristol, United Kingdom

Difficult as there is a lot to say.Informal education is part of the daily experience.Formal art education began aged 11, first day at secondary school, issued with Gombrich's The Story of Art. All at lessons were through art history. 1960's working class background. My aunt paid for a residential art trip to London, I saw all the ...

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Bernhard Garnicnig

Austria

During my studies, I started setting up alternative sites for collaboration and exhibition. After the first attempt crashed, I started to wonder what post-digital and late-stage-capitalist circumstances require new structures and platforms for collaboration between dividual artists. Multiple projects were launched: The Palais des Beaux...

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Beshoy Adel

Minya, Egypt

Beshoy Adel Makram graduate of fine arts, Minia University Direct directing through grants from the promised associations destinations fleshed American University in Lebanon and worked as a director of a theatrical and coach with the promised destinations and job offers in Lebanon, Jordan and opera in Cairo and worked on leadership promised yo...

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Bianca Hisse

Tromsø, Norway

I am a Brazilian independent artist based in North Norway. My work traverses performance, public space and social practice. Participatory awareness and new types of collaborative frames are in the core of my recent works, in which I expand my conversations to a variety of professionals such as fire-fighters, architects, mountain climbers and n...

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birbuçuk

Istanbul, Turkey

birbuçuk (one-and-a-half in English) is a collective which aims to re-interpret and re-discuss the information, knowledge and suggestions revealed through scientific and socio-political works around ecology and through social movements in our planet and geography, and to deliberate them with reference to visual arts, performing arts and...

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Björn Säfsten

Stockholm, Sweden

Björn Säfsten is a choreographer and dancer educated at the Balett Academy in Sthlm (2003) and at X.IDA, Institute for Dance Arts in Linz Austria (2004) and has been freelancing within the field of dance and choreography since 2004. Björn Säfstens own company, Säfsten Produktion works as a plattform for choreog...

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Blanca Callén Moreu

Madrid, Spain; Barcelona, Spain

Trained as a social psychologist, I have developed an interdisciplinary career that combines expertise and knowledge from several fields: social studies of science and technology (STS), feminist and environmental thinking, collective action and design and culture as research tools for social transformation. My work interests point to s...

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Bojan Krištofić

Zagreb, Croatia

Bojan Krištofić (b. 1987 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a writer, art critic, designer and curator. He received his MA degree in Visual Communications Design at the Faculty of Architecture (University of Zagreb) in 2012. He was a member of the editorial board of Zarez, a journal for cultural and social issues; and has been writing on design, ar...

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Brendan Jackson

Birmingham, United Kingdom; Black Country, United Kingdom; Tbilisi, Georgia

I originally trained in visual communication, holding a Fellowship in Photography at the Photographic Gallery, Southampton University, and was part of the development of the John Hansard Gallery there. Since that time my interest has been in collaborative projects where my expertise intersects with photography and film, community arts and hidd...

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British Council

London, United Kingdom

1 person

The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. It creates friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and other countries. It does this by making a positive contribution to the UK and the countries it works with – changing lives by creating oppo...

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Bunker

Ljubljana, Slovenia

2 people

Bunker is a non-profit organization for the realization and organization of cultural events. Bunker produces and presents contemporary theatre and dance performances, organizes different workshops and other educational programmes, carries out various research methods in the field of culture and brings together one of the most noted internation...

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BURILAR Processos Criativos na Mediação de Públicos CRL

Porto, Portugal

BURILAR – Processos Criativos na Mediação de Públicos CRL, it is a cultural co-op funded in 2018, by a multidisciplinary arts collective - visual arts, performing arts and design; mixing years of work experience and several projects in education and cultural sector. BURILAR come as an answer to a multi-sided call fro...

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Bálint Tóth

Budapest, Hungary

I am graduated architect (Budapest University of Technology 2015.). We founded Meetlab Art&Tech Collective in 2016, to develop artistic projects, installations, irregular theatre plays, games, and organise educational workshops. We constantly experiment with formats. We search the boundaries that separate performing art from the technologi...

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Caique Tizzi

Berlin, Germany

Caique Tizzi (geb. 1984, BR) lives and works in Berlin. Tizzi is an artist, curator and co-founder of Agora Collective, where he directs from 2015-2018 the Berlin component of the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP), co-funded by Creative Europe. Tizzi is interested in the development of social art practices, experimental methods o...

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Camilla Crosta

Glasgow, United Kingdom

I am a curator and producer with a focus on public and socially engaged art currently living in Scotland. I have always had a keen interest in public art, and this is what lead me to undertake different working experiences with cultural organisations which belief is the potential of art to inspire changes through its power of imagination. ...

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Carine Meulders

Antwerp, Belgium

My name is Carine Meulders. I studied Sociology of Religion and Culture at the University of Leuven, where I worked for a couple of years as a researcher in the field between anthropology, sociology and history. In 1996 I became a programmer in Beursschouwburg (Brussels). Together with the other members of the team I developed and real...

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Carla Sofia Galli

Milano, Italy

Carla Sofia Galli, anthropologist, born in Milan in 1986. I hold a I level degree in art history and a II level degree in anthropological and ethnological sciences. Since 2015 I have been working in anthropology and cultural heritage. I did post-graduate studies in anthropological cultural heritage at the University of Milan-Bicocca and in mus...

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Carlo Ferretti

Bari, Italy

I am Carlo Ferretti, I am a Cultural Project Manager and Researcher, graduated in Cultural Economics and Entrepreneurship. My job could be described following three axes at the moment: the research and consultancy on experimental methods of social and cultural impact assessment, the research on cultural and social innovation through a podcast,...

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Carly Schmitt

Nürnberg, Germany; Minnesota, USA

I am an internationally experienced Public Artist and head of Artist@Large, a small art business under which I execute large-scale public art projects and curate various community based initiatives. Originally from Minnesota, I graduated from Macalester College in 2003 with a double major in Studio Art and Communication Studies. In 2005 I esta...

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Carmen Lozano Bright

Madrid, Spain

Journalist, cultural researcher and agitator. Born in Colombia of Spanish and British background, I live in Madrid sinde 2012, where I experience and research the rising transformation of citizen laboratories and P2P and commons-oriented practices. Living in Madrid has given me the opportunity to witness mutualism and resistance in soc...

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Carolina Martins

Portugal

I'm currently a PhD Fellow writing a thesis on how spatial configurations of graphic narratives installations affect the narrative itself. My aim is to take this further to the graphic medicine field. Also, I've been working as a contemporary dance producer for a few years now and I am mostly connected to projects that are interdisciplinary an...

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Caroline Melon

Bordeaux, France

My artistic career was driven during 12 years as a director of a festival in Bordeaux. This festival, Chahuts try to make link between people and to work about how art could help empowerment (self-empowerment, about urbanistic projetcs, gentrification of the city....). The festival works with fragile people...

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Catarina Vieira

Lisbon, Portugal

I was born in 1983, Aveiro, Portugal. I’m a theatre maker based in Lisbon whose work articulates different artistic fields, such as Theatre, Performance, Installation and Video. I graduated as a theatre maker at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Lisbon). Between 2007 and 2015, I have worked mostly in partnership with the theatre maker ...

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Catarina Saraiva

Portugal

I present myself as performing arts curator and researcher, but I could say that I’m a manager, producer, dramaturgist... Resuming, I’m a cultural worker who needs to know a lot in many fields in order to develop the projects I conceive and work with. For several years, I’ve worked in big projects as ...

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Catharina Sligting

Faia, Portugal; Guarda, Portugal

Since 2007 I am co-owner of the 20 ha ecological mountain farm in rural Portugal, where I developed activities centered on eco-agroturism, cultural heritage, nature conservation, biodynamic farm, artist-in-residence, annual small scale art festival, land art projects, slow food. In the Netherlands, my country of origin, I was director ...

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Catherine Blondeau

Nantes, France

Before taking on the role of General Manager of the Grand T in January 2011, Catherine Blondeau was Senior Lecturer in French Literature at the University of Rouen (1994-98) and cultural attaché in South Africa and Poland (1998-2006). Between 2006 and 2010, she conceived and animated at the University of Rouen a professional Master in c...

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Catherine Charlety

Marseille, France

After having studied foreign languages, expertise and mediation in the arts and culture at the university in Aix-Marseille University, my first work experiences were in Germany and in Egypt. For 15 years, I have been in charge of the administration, production of the organization for an artistic group called Les Pas Perdus based in Marseille....

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CeRCCa

Barcelona, Spain

1 person

CeRCCa, the Centre for Research and Creativity Casamarlès, is a non-profit organization that has been developing research and artistic projects since 2009. CeRCCa works with a double strategy. On one hand it provides living and working space for artists and researchers through the Artist in Residency Program. On the other CeRCCa develop...

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Chang Sun

Amsterdam, Netherlands

I am an artist organizing events and programs. I grew up in China and am currently based in Amsterdam. As a person trained as an artist from a young age, I studied and worked in the art fields in Beijing, London, New York, Amsterdam, Leipzig and Athens. I also have experienced different fine arts discourses through a variety of educational and...

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Charles Busmanis

Riga, Latvia; Cesis, Latvia

I am a Swiss-French citizen who graduated from high school in Japan and did my master in the Netherlands. Since 2013 I am based in Latvia, and have worked extensively with startups, universities and public sector in creating new innovation environment and inclusive policy design. Below are 3 relevant projects we have been worki...

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Chiara Scolastica Mosciatti

Amsterdam, Netherlands; Greece, Italy

In Perugia (IT) I studied European History and Archives and I was an author for radio and theather. I moved to Amsterdam and I had an internship at Centrum of Visual Art Zuidoost. Interested on politically-driven artists practicing inclusion, I wrote a series of biographical essays...

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Chiara Organtini

Terni, Italy

I am a curator and creative producer passionate about art and public space as site specific interventions, digital experiments, participatory works that question the boundary of spectatorship. My mission is to challenge people imagination through physical experiences that let alternative scenarios emerge. Within Reshape my focus is on form of ...

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Christian Cherene

Barcelona; Spain

BeAnotherLab is a transnational interdisciplinary collective formed in 2012 that investigates, reproduces and communicates individual subjective experiences with a focus on generating perspective-taking toward pro-social behaviour. We have worked in over 25 countries in a wide diversity of contexts, ranging from film festivals, art exhibitions...

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Christian Koch

Germany

*1971, holds a Master of Arts in Literary Science, History and Philosophy from Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Head of Administration at Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart 2006-2009, Executive Director at PACT Zollverein Essen 2009-2012, Controlling for PINA 40 – 40 years of Tanztheater Wuppertal 2012 – 2014,Executive Dir...

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Christophe Blandin Estournet

France

Fabricoleur de culture, je suis aujourd'hui directeur de la Scène nationale de l’Essonne, Agora-Desnos, établissement culturel généraliste, fondé sur un projet de territoire, qui se déploie en dialogue avec son environnement humain, social, géographique. notre contexte socio-éco-d&e...

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Christos Mouchas

Athens, Greece

Christos Mouchas (b. 1994) studied at the British University of Sussex. His practice includes performances, which focus on the artist-audience relationship and dynamics through motion and contact, as well as visual artworks and installations. His works have been presented at the Onassis Stegi, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival with The...

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Claire Malika Zerhouni

Istanbul, Turkey

I am a Cultural Manager of French and Algerian descent, based in Istanbul-Turkey, Co-Director of A Corner in the World, an independent platform focusing on performing arts. I also collaborate as a freelancer with international institutions as the Sundance Institute, and volunteers with Addar, a space supporting refugees settling down in Istanb...

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Claudia Roselli

I am an Italian freelancer working in the domain of contemporary theater as performer, trainer, director and researcher. Since 2014 I live in Berlin, where I launched my project/company “Marcozzi Contemporary Theater.”I hold a master degree in Biotechnology. Although the interest in scientific research, in 2011 I left t...

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Danielle Ash

London, United Kingdom; Suffolk, United Kingdom; Preston, United Kingdom

I am an independent artist-curator based in London and Suffolk and manage artist residencies at Suffolk-based nature reserves, part of a long-term curatorial research project. Whilst studying for my MFA in curating at Goldsmiths, University of London, I kickstarted the research-led pilot project Sound Art Residency: Suffolk Soundcamp, at the G...

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Danish Arts Foundation

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Davor Mišković

Rijeka, Croatia

Davor Mišković is president of the association Drugo more (Other Sea). He was a part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka and a president of the Clubtire Network. He worked at the Faculty of Science and Croatian Ministry of Culture. He curated and organized numerous cultural events, conferences and educational programs, ...

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Delphine Demont

Paris, France; Bruxelles, Belgium

I'm the choreographer of Acajou; I don’t have an academic background: I'm graduated of both literature and Notation Laban and I started dancing as a professionnal quite late, after my studies. I became a professionnal within my own research, questionning the hierarchical organization of our perceptions and asking what would happen if we ...

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Dia Hamed

Cairo, Egypt

Born 1982, studied Art Education, currently working as the director of projects at Medrar which I co-founded in 2005. My practice as an artist went through various disciplines like theater, hand craft, Shadow puppets, Sculpture, Light design and Live Video Performance. My recent works try to tackle the cycle of data transformation between crea...

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Diana Wesser

Saxony, Germany; Leipzig, Germany

I'm an artist working in the fields of visual and performing arts with a focus on socially engaged art, urban explorations, community projects, (audio)walks and story telling. I describe my practice as urban performatism. I studied Media Art at the Academy of visuals Arts in Leipzig and postgraduated in the master class of Prof. Alba D’U...

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Dina Karadžić

Zagreb, Croatia

Dina Karadžić (b. 1986) — Born, works and resides in Zagreb, CRO. Mastered in art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2012. A member of the Croatian Association of Artists since '11, of Croatian Association of Professional Artists since '18, and the Art Director of Format C (an artist organi...

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Dirk De Wit

Brussels, Belgium

Dirk De Wit (°1960) is works on visual arts and coordinates international relations of the Flanders Arts Institute. From 2003 to 2014, Dirk De Wit was coordinator of the digital platform of BAM – Institute of Visual arts and became director of BAM in 2007. Before, Dirk De Wit worked as a free-lance curator for Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, Cent...

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Dominika Belanská

Bratislava, Slovakia; Prague, Czech Republic; Lisbon, Portugal; Warsaw, Poland

I was born in Czechoslovakia in 1988. I took academic courses in architecture, fine arts, design of interior and exhibitions, intermedia and art pedagogy in Bratislava and Milan. Since 2011 I have been actively organizing initiatives and campaigns to support citizen rights and participation, and organizing projects of re-qualification of urban...

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Dominika Święcicka

Poznań, Poland

Enniskillen County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

I have worked as a Dance Artist for 24 years across professional and participatory practice and since 2010 as Artistic Director of Dylan Quinn Dance Theatre. I seek to explore social and political issues through my work such as: masculinity, community cohesion, power and control, human rights and identity. I also undertake work that is designe...

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East European Performing Arts Platform

Lublin, Poland

2 people

The East European Performing Arts Platform (EEPAP) is an independent project, administratively housed by Center for Culture in Lublin, and jointly founded by Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Municupality of Lublin. Aims of the project is to supports the development of the contemporary performing arts in Central and Eastern Europe. EEPAP supports ...

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Eclipse Arte

Tábua, Portugal; Sintra, Portugal; Porto, Portugal; Barcelona, Spain

Eclipse Arte develops the solarte community and The Maries project. We are to develop an art with sustainability in harmony with animals and plants. We have focus to create alive art that inspires the communities and the gathering of artists and publics. Living in small farms and creating mobility between the cities, exhange of tools and creat...

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Eda Sutunc

Turkey, Istanbul

My name is Eda Sutunc, I am an interdisciplinary artist, lecturer, dreamer and an art entrepreneur based in Istanbul, Turkey. I completed my undergraduate studies at Koc University, Istanbul majoring in Media and Visual Arts, minoring in Psychology with a design certificate. I did design projects working as a freelance designer and worked, cre...

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Edenamiuki Aigobasinmwin

Manchester, United Kingdom

Edenamiuki Aiguobasinmwin, known as Namiuki, is a creative practitioner and social entrepreneur concerned with how urban movement is presented and used within the creative industries. Namiuki’s artistic interest as a choreographer and dancer lie predominantly with applying his strong breaking (Break Dance) and hip-hop foundation ...

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Eduardo Bonito

Pamplona, Spain; Madrid, Spain; Barcelona, Spain; Copenhagen, Denmark; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Fortaleza, Brazil

Athens, Greece

I am a content strategist, cultural consultant and independent researcher from Milan, currently based in Athens. After a BA in Communication and MA in Arts management, I started working for communication agencies, cultural institutions and non-profit contemporary art organizations. In 2013, I started my journey in the academic field, w...

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Elisabete Paiva

Lisboa, Portugal; Alcanena, Portugal; Cartaxo, Portugal

I’m interested in arts and politics ever since I remember, but it took me time to find the path that would connect the two. I started studying Architecture, but I finally graduated as Theatre Producer and worked as freelancer with several Portuguese artists, in Lisbon. The experience that gave meaning to my voice was at CENTA, an arts re...

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Elisabetta Consonni

MIlano, Italy

I choreograph everything, either human or non-human beings, movable or immovable objects, buildings and roads, groups of people at the bar, ideas, emotions and souls. During the degree in Communication at the University of Bologna (2004), I felt in love with sociology. After attending London Contemporary Dance School (2005), driven by a fetish...

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Elsa Sofia de Oliveira Santos Mathei

Algarve, Portugal; Lagos, NIgeria

Harpsichordist | mother | artist | creative person Répétiteur at the Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa and harpsichord teacher at the Conservatório de Música Loulé. Co-founder and member of the pedagogical team of the Conservatório de Artes de Lagoa, where we established a transversal organizatio...

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Enes Kurtović

Sanksi Most, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Enes Kurtovic was born in 1969. He graduated agronomy in Ljubljana. Although working in the profession, as an advisor in local Rural Development Agency, he is building his art career in parallel. He has published three collection of poems in classical format, and several art book projects combining his own poetry with other art techniques. Cri...

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Engy Mohsen

Cairo, Egypt

I am a visual artist and an architect, recently graduated with a B.Sc. in Architecture from the German University in Cairo and Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany. My first encounter with art education happened through being a participant of two...

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Enkhnaran Sundev

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

My relevant qualifications include my Master of Science degree at the University of Gothenburgin Sweden. Also of note is my work position as a Junior Researcher at the Art and Culture Institution of Mongolia. In this role, I was responsible for Cultural heritage and Museum studies of Mongolia. During my tenure, I have participated the basic re...

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Ermira Goro

Athens, Greece

After graduating from the Greek National School of Dance, I found myself in New York City where I was exposed to new and innovative dance forms. All these stimuli combined with living in one of the most vibrant and artistically progressive cities in the world had a profound effect on my trajectory as both a dancer and a choreographer. I had th...

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Esther Poppe

Frankfurt, Germany; Berlin, Germany; Sofia, Bulgaria

I am applying as an artist, curator, researcher and Art Educator, based in Germany. My work consisting of variables, scopes of projects and situated Knowledge(s) express the agency(s) and the splatteredness that informs what I want the work to become, and how it can interweave and serve different communities and settings that I involve...

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Esther Gouarné

Brussels, Belgium; Rouen, France

I am both a performer and an academic. I did a phD about contemporary collectives and creative processes in the Dutch-speaking theater. I first went to Belgium to nuance and contextualize the notion of "Flemish Wave" used since the 1980s. And to see what was happening on Belgian stages twenty years later. That drove me to go to the Netherlands...

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Ettijahat

Beirut, Lebanon

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EUNIC

Bruxelles, Belgium

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Eva Pyrnokoki

Amsterdam, Netherlands; Athens, Greece

Tunis, Tunisia

1 / Major teacher of secondary education plastic art in the quarters / 2 / researcher and artist experts in the fields of creation of changes through * artistic, cultural and ecological expressions / 3 / researcher (master: aesthetics and practices of visual arts - ethnoscenology / 4 / formatrice certifier and coach training / 5 / director fes...

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Felizitas Ammann

Zürich, Switzerland

Felizitas Ammann is the Head of the Performing Arts Departement at Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council in Zurich. She studied german literature, history of art and theatre in Basel and Berlin. After her studies she worked as a freelance dramaturge and researcher for theatre projects and as a journalist in the fields of dance and theatre. S...

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Filip Pawlak

Silesia, Poland

I am currently finishing two fields of study - Film production at the film school in Katowice and Mediation of contemporary art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, and from February I will begin theater studies in Budapest (Erasmus). In my professional activity, I tried in several places / roles. I tried the forces as a journalist,...

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Filippo Andreatta

Rovereto, Italy

I (Rovereto, IT, 1981) graduated in Architecture from Politecnico di Milano (BA) and in Performing and Visual Arts at IUAV University of Venice (MA). In 2008, I’ve established OHT [Office for a Human Theatre] and decided against the invitation of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama - University of London, for an MA in Performanc...

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Flanders Arts Institute

Brussels, Belgium

Barcelona, Spain

2 people

The Goethe-Institut is Germany’s cultural institute and plays a central role in the country’s cultural and educational policies. With a network of 159 branches in 98 countries, it enables mobility in an international learning community through its educational and training products. Further, it encourages cultural exchange by organi...

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Goran Denic

Belgrade, Serbia; Budva, Montenegro

Born in Belgrade (SFR Yugoslavia) in 1966. He studied at the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Perfected sculpture with master Alberto Chissano in Mozambique in 1989. In 1994. Special DIP/FA with distinction in sculpture / Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT, Republic of South Africa. In 1996. UCT/part time lecturer. In ...

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Gosie Vervloessem

Brussels, Belgium

My artistic practice is research based. There are outcomes, presentations of the research, but I never create products that can be re-created as they are. My work is about sowing questions and bringing people together around these questions through different formats. Recipes for Disaster is an ongoing research that focuses on classific...

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Grzegorz Reske

Lublin, Poland

Grzegorz Reske is freelance curator and producer of performing arts. He is permanent associate of EEPAP. His last years curatorials projects includes “Konfrontacje Teatralne” in Lublin 2013-2017 (together with Marta Keil), “Kalisz Theatre Meetings” 2015-2017, as well as project developed with Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw ...

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Hakan Silahsizoglu

Istanbul, Turkey

I trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in England. As a cultural operator; I'm a member of The Fence theatre network and the co-coordinator of Turkish committee in Eurodram, Europe's largest drama translation network. I've given talks & classes about theatre in Turkey in various international theatre schools, instituti...

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Hammana Artist House (HAH)

Paris, France; Hammana, Lebanon

Located in the beautiful village of Hammana, 40 minutes away from Beirut, Hammana Artist House is a multidisciplinary art residency space. Founded in 2016 by D. Robert Eid in partnership with Collectif Kahraba, HAH is a space for artistic development, a space to create and connect. HAH is open to local and international artists to deepen their...

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Harald Geisler

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Northwest, United Kingdom

I am a multidisciplinary socially engaged artist working in the arts, cultural and sciences, facilitating collaborative workshops and projects. Based in the Northwest (of England) I’ve been involved in producing projects with grassroots led community spaces, makers and artists in the North and internationally for over ten years. ...

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IDENSITAT

Barcelona, Spain; Valencia, Spain

Portugal, United Kingdom

I am a young artist and creative leader who believes that art can be a useful tool to communicate with others, question social subjects and to engage properly with our inner self observing nature. I'm currently building my way to be an art therapist. I took a Graphic Design course at the Secondary Art School António Arroio, a foundation...

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Ioannis Pavlatos

Athens, Greece

I am a curator and public sound artist, focusing on sound and gender in a socially engaged practice. I have completed an MA in Public Art, a BA Hons in Sonic Arts (1st Class Hons), and a BA in Drama & Theatre Studies. I am currently working in a collective as a curator @AMOQA, and as an activist/org...

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Isabella Indolfi

Maranola di Formia (LT) - Italy

Independent curator and consultant for contemporary art. Since 2009 I've been developing and producing projects in collaboration with artists, institutions, festivals, galleries and museums. I approach contemporary art from the perspective of public, social, spatial and relational aspects. My curatorial research is focused on site-specif...

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Istvan Szakats

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

István Szakáts is an artist, curator and cultural producer. He is president of the AltArt Foundation and president of Fabrica de Pensule (space for contemporary arts) in Cluj, Romania. He has been advocating for empowerment through culture, socially engaged art and active citizenship for more than 20 years. As a multimedia artist...

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Itziar Rubio

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Judith Schoneveld & Jette Schneider

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Judith Schoneveld & Jette Schneider both started out as artists – visual art, dance- and have since separately organized and founded multiple initiatives to empower artists in their creation and practise. In 2014 we founded Transistor Foundation together and collaborate in shaping working conditions and tools for (performing) artists...

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Judy Nylon

France

Judy Nylon is a self-taught and widely influential multidisciplinary artist whose vision is international and Avant Garde, flowing across continents & disciplinary boundaries and often containing elements of what can be called social practice. She is co-founder of the 1970’s female punk rock DIY studio duo SNATCH. Judy has recorded a...

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Julia Gnatowska

Berlin, Germany; Kraków, Poland

I am a young visual artist and researcher currently based in Berlin. Currently I am working in a German-Israeli art gallery, Circle1 Platform for Art and Culture, where I am mostly an artists’ assistant and a designer. My professional interests among others is curating and organising exhibitions engaging cultural and transnational dialog...

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Julia Cozic and Mathieu Huot

Karla Crncevic, was born in Dubrovnik 1989. After Classical Gymnasium she attended Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Academy for Drama Art in Zagreb. Now she holds MA in Dramaturgy and BA in Comparative Literature. She was working as a writer and dramaturge for different theaters and art productions, also she worked as Assistant Di...

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Karolina Spaic

The Netherlands

I am a theatre maker, a strategist and builder of bridges, always trying to think ‘outside the box’. Karolina Spaic (Belgrade, Former Yugoslavia, 1963) is the artistic director and director of ZID Theater, The Netherlands. After having studied classical ballet and literature and graining much experience in theatre and youth...

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KARRASKAN

Bilbao, Spain

1 person

We are a professional association for the promotion of innovation in culture and the culture of innovation in the Basque Country. A network that includes agents, spaces and programmes related to contemporary creation and applied creativity, from a prospective of dialogue, cross-cutting approaches and hybridisation bet...

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Katarina Pavić

Zagreb, Croatia; London, United Kingdom

Katarina Pavić is a cultural worker and activist. She has been active in the independent cultural scene in Croatia and the region of former Yugoslavia since 2005. She has an extensive experience in facilitation of networking and collaboration of cultural and activist collectives. Katarina worked as the overall coordinator of the Clubture Netwo...

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Katharina Kuehn

Berlin, Germany; Tbilisi, Georgia

I have always been very interested in the potential of international exchange and collaboration to stimulate dialogue and change in societies and institutions globally. My own perspective and access is shaped by an interdisciplinary background: I studied International Law (LL.B. and LL.M.) in Bremen, Barcelona and Rome (2003-2010) as well as P...

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Kathrin Hrusanova

Sofia, Bulgaria

Kathrin Hrusanova is a creative manager working as a freelancer and based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Currently, she is the chairperson of ACT “Association of Independent Theatre” (since June 2016) and executive festival director of ACT “Festival of independent theatre” (from 2015). She was engaged with an organisation of vario...

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Katrien Reist

Brussels, Belgium

Since my studies at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, I tried to instrumentalise my role as an artistic thinker to facilitate the art of others. The particular way artists fulfil this role is crucial to me. Concerned with practical and theoretical reflections around the role of the artistic voice within society, I developed an engaged practic...

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Kinga Réka Kovács

Ksenija is a cultural worker based in Belgrade focusing on organisation and production models in the independent art scene. Holds a BA from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade where she was also undergraduate PA (2008-2010). Since 2011 has worked as project coordinator with Station Service for contemporary dance, an organisation wor...

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Kunsthal Gent

Gent, Belgium

Kunsthal Gent is a new presentation and development platform for visual art in a monumental 13th-centrury monastery in the centre of Ghent, Belgium, that opened its doors in January 2019. Kunsthal Gent is a collective experiment, both in its organisational model and in its artistic programme, thinking outside of the existing hierarchies and se...

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Lala Rascic

New Orleans, USA; Zagreb, Croatia; Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

I am a media and performance artist using the strategy of enactment to deliver narratives that include verbal video performances, performances, performative installation environments, and objects. I have been an active arts practitioner since 1998 and a seasoned migrant since childhood. I live and work in New Orleans, Zagreb, and Sarajevo. My ...

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LAPAS

France; Italy

Since 2013, LAPAS, a non-profit organization, has offered to gather art managers and producers working in companies, production offices or free-lance, in France and/or for France-based companies. LAPAS was created in order to analyze and find solutions to the problematics drawn by these jobs (solitude, recognition, underpaid jobs, multi-taskin...

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Lara Weiß

Cologne, Germany

I started my training in Görlitz in the border triangle and traveled through various jobs, internships and countries to complete my master's degree in Düsseldorf. I have been working for the Un-Label Performing Arts Company for several years. We work inclusive, international, mixed-abled and interdisciplinary in the artistic field. C...

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Laura Frederico

Lisbon, Portugal; Berlin, Germany

I am a Portuguese actress based between Lisbon where I am studying a Master in Performance Arts and Berlin where my theatre collective, Blauhauch, is based. After working with different theatre and cinema directors all around the world, attending workshops to improve my knowledge and capacities in different areas, I felt something was missing....

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Laura Fiorio

Berlin, Germany; Verona, Italy

After studying Performing Arts, Visual Communication & New Media at IUAV and Academy of Arts in Venice 2010 and Interactive Media at Middlesex University in London 2009, I started my career in film and photography production. As freelance documentary photographer I worked later for cultural institutions like Haus der Kulturen der Welt, ZKU...

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Laure Deselys

London, United Kingdom; Brussel, Belgium; Geneva, Switzerland; Ramallah, Palestine; Berlin, Germany; Beirut, Lebanon

Working under different spellings, Laure Deselys is an artist, cultural practitioner and researcher who works collaboratively with words, lenses, multi-definitions of space, their users and inhabitants. She studied Art, Philosophy and Visual Culture in disorder at La Cambre and Université Libre in Brussels , Académie Libanaise de...

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Lejla Odobasic Novo

Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina

My name is Lejla Odobasic Novo and I am from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH). I studied architecture at the University of Waterloo in Canada where I am a licensed architect. Currently I live in Sarajevo and teach at the International Burch University. My research field lies in the regeneration of post-conflict spaces through arch...

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Libertar.io

Barcelona, Spain

Libertar.io is a group founded in 2014 in Barcelona engaged with research and education in domains of philosophy and computing arts. Our research and educational activities are carried out using methodologies that synthesize theory-action, making critical knowledge available to the general public -anyone willing to go beyond the role of the Us...

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Lies Vanborm

Ghent, Belgium

I graduated as a Master in Theatre Sciences at Ghent University in 2000. For the last 20 years I've been working as a creative producer for individual artists (Alexandra Bachzetsis, Christine De Smedt, Miet Warlop, 2 Many Dj's,...), festivals (Brugge 2002, Lille 2004, Filmfestival Ghent, Timefestival Ghent, Dour Festival,...), Art organization...

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Louis Camille

France

Born in 1984, Camille Louis is a dramaturg, doctor of philosophy and co-initiator of kom.post, an international collective made up of researchers, artists and activists. She lectures at different international universities and, mainly, in Paris VII et Paris VIII in Paris. In her different creations- theoretical as well as artistical - she trie...

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Louna Sbou

Berlin, Germany

Louna Sbou is, among else, co-founder of both tunesisters Entertainment (artist and event agency) and be'kech Anticafé (hybrid community space). As a serial entrepreneur she is a recovering capitalist moving toward less profit-first governance models in the cultural sphere. The core of her work is to support social initiatives and emerg...

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Lucas Simões

Portugal

Lucas Simões began his career in Brazil as a filmmaker in 2014 with a short film production company. Today, Simões begins a new cycle studying Visual Arts and conducting Marketing courses in Portugal, where he has just released his latest feature film "Red Mask" through his new continent-born producer Omni Studios, where Lucas implements and impr...

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Lucyna Kolendo

Gdańsk, Poland

Lucyna Kolendo (born 1988) is a visual artist living and working in Gdansk, Poland. She uses photography, film, and sound to examine memories evoked by senses and objects. She tries to keep her research open and allows the results of her thoughts to be shaped by the knowledge and experiences gathered throughout the process. She holds an MA fro...

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Ludmila Dragulova

My name is Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, I was born in Germany and live in Austria now since almost 10 years. If you ask me what I do, I would say I am a musician, researcher, cultural activist, curator and sound/media artist (in free order). In short, I would consider myself as a kind of „node-in-a-network-person”, since I am act...

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Margarita Pita

Athens, Greece; London, United Kingdom; Berlin, Germany

Margarita Pita is a freelance lawyer, a cultural manager and a social artist based in Athens. She works in complex cultural projects that allow her to harness her multidisciplinary background and she passionately creates participatory experiences through the performing arts.She has a BA degree in Law (Athens),a Master’s in Arts &am...

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Maria Vlachou

Almada, Portugal

I am a Cultural Management and Communications consultant. Founding member and Executive Director of Acesso Cultura | Access Culture, working on promoting access – physical, social and intellectual – to cultural participation. In our work, we consider both exogenous and endogenous barriers that hinder the relationship between cultur...

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Maria Salazar Riaño

Bilbao, Spain

María Salazar Riaño_Cultural gestation_ Degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Public University of the Basque Country. I have been developing my activity as a cultural producer in the Basque context since 2006. I learned the art of production during my journey in the contemporary art producer consonni where I worke...

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Marija Dejanović

Zagreb, Hrvatska

"U privremenom smještaju kod ljudi" is collaboration of me (poet awarded with "Goran" and "Zdravko Pucak" prizes for young poets) and Sara Renar (musician praised by the critics and the audience, awarded with "Porin" prize and nominated for "IMPALA" award for album of the year). The project combines poetry, music and performance. ...

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Marijana Rimanić

Zagreb, Croatia

Marijana Rimanić is a communication manager at POGON – Zagreb Center for Contemporary Culture and Youth and a coordinator of net.culture club Mama run by Multimedia institute. Beside organizing cultural events, she takes part in activities directed towards the improvement of working conditions in cultural field and (re)thinking of new mo...

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Marina Urruticoechea

Bilbao, Spain

We are 3 interconnected networks of cultural agents located in the Basque Country, in the city of Bilbao, with common,complementary objectives and shared strategic lines (Wikitoki is a partner of Sarean, Sarean and Wikitoki are in turn partners of KARRASKAN). We work in a context marked by de-industrialisation, economic restructuring t...

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Marina Paulenka

Zagreb, Croatia

Marina Paulenka is an artist and independed curator, the recipient of the Lucie Awards 2018 for best curator/exhibition of the year. She is also the Founder and Artistic Director of the Organ Vida International Photography Festival and the Organ Vida Photography Organisation, the leading institution for contemporary photography in Croatia. Org...

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Marina Neophytou

2019 Pina Bausch Fellowship recipient. Studied Dance in her homecountry Colombia and finished her studies in Dancetheatre and SoloDance at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen, Germany, under the guidance of Pina Bausch. Her own creations have been invited to Festivals in France, Croatia, Italy, Holland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ecuador, México, Br...

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Martin Schick

Fribourg, Switzerland

I'm an independent artist, cultural manager and activist, born in Switzerland, living in empty homes of other people. Educated as a performance artist at the Highschool of Arts in Berne, I work since 2007 on scenic plays and spatial projects within the field of independent dance and performance. While treating the arts as a place of permanent ...

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Martina Čurdová

Prague, Czech Republic

I work as a theatre director, performer and lecturer. I have studied Theatre performance and directing at Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic. Very prestigious and progressive art school, but I was disappointed. I couldn´t see any sense. I have felt art has a lots of power. The power that people went to experience in the...

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Martina Kartelo

Croatia; Iceland

Martina Kartelo has BA in economy, BA in theatre acting and MA in performing arts. She was born in Split, Croatia. She has been studying in USA, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, France and Denmark. During her theatre studies and some time after she finished her BA in theatre acting she was taking part and performing in classical and e...

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Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen

Oslo, Norway; Uddebo, Sweden; Bratislava, Slovakia

Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar de Carmen have been working together as an artistic duo since 2005. Our practice, which is often community based, aims at setting up new social ecosystems. We use artistic expression as a didactic strategy that transcends the limits of everyday life and art to question relationships between ethics, aesthetics and...

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Mateo Chacon-Pino

Zurich, Switzerland

Mateo Chacon-Pino is an independent curator and writer. His work stems from a sociological point of view and uses systemic analysis and thought. Sustainability of art and culture in wider society is a main concern in Mateo's projects and informs his practice. He studied History of Art, History and Theory of Photography and Modern German Litera...

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Matina Magkou

Athens, Greece

For 20 years, you would find me living in Greece, Spain, Belgium, Qatar and being constantly on the move juggling between different international projects in the fields of culture and youth. You would find me organizing events and festivals, touring with theater companies, delivering capacity building trainings, facilitating meetings, editing ...

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Matías Daporta

Madrid, Spain; Amsterdam, Netherlands

From the very beginning of my studies in performance art in Amsterdam my interest moved from finding ways of offering a new aesthetic or emotional experience to the audience, to how to develop new mechanisms of attention and propose alternative way to encounter each other in a cultural space. In Amsterdam I discovered the squat movemen...

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Max Schweder

Cologne, Germany

I'd like to represent our international and inclusive Performing Arts Company Un-Label from Cologne. We bring artists with and without disabilities from all over Europe together. Un-Label produces contemporary stage performances, inspires and links science and research. We keep discovering new possibilities...

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Melih Gencboyaci

Amsterdam, Netherlands; The Hague, Netherlands; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Istanbul, Turkey ; Brussels, Belgium

Melih Gencboyaci, was born 1977 in Germany. While studying economics and acting in Turkey. Later, he studied at Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Mime departement in The Netherlands. Since 2008, he has been an active member of fruitful and tender collaborations: Schwalbe and Copycats. He was one of the co-founders and engaged in developi...

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Melissa Ghidini

Milan, Italy

My name is Melissa Ghidini and I'm currently based in Milan. My background is in Art as well as Literature and writing. I graduated from Goldsmiths University in English Literature and followed an MA in transnational creative writing at Stockholm University. I've co-founded and was part of two collectives, one of which I'm still co-running now...

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Merel Smitt

Rotterdam, Netherlands; Amsterdam, Netherlands

I’m an artist in the performing arts. In 2014 I graduated in directing from the theateracademy Maastricht. I build theatrical installations and interventions in the public space. My work is site-specific and the audience, knowingly and unknowingly, participates in various ways being actively present and co-creating with me. I hijack, exp...

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Mersid Ramičević

Novi Pazar, Serbia; Hamburg, Germany; Ulcinj, Montenegro

Born in the city of Novi Pazar (Yugoslavia, 1981.), lived in Sarajevo, lives elsewhere. A composer and media artist, performance musician, sound and research practitioner, working in the field of acousmatic music, sound art, phonography, improvisation, electroacoustic composition. He is an alumnus of European joint Master Program in Co...

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Merve Caskurlu Belgesay

California, USA; Istanbul, Turkey

I was born in Istanbul in 1981. After graduation from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, I interned in ENSBA in Paris between 2007-2009. Since 2015, I work as a full-time instructor in the Visual Communication Design Department of Yeditepe University in Istanbul. I co-directed various events one of which is the first new media art f...

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Michaela Solnicka Volná

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Prague, Czech Republic

Visual artist, set designer and photographer of Czech origin, based in Burkina Faso since 2012. Already during my studies of architecture and design in Prague, Lyon and Paris, internships and curiosity led me to discover set design and graphics in Morocco, Ghana, Burkina and Italy. In light design I got trained byside of Simon Schroter...

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Michał Rogulski

Warsaw, Poland

Born 1990 I’m theatre curator/producer currently working at the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, Poland. Graduate from Theatre Studies at Warsaw Theatre Academy (2009-2014). I participated in directing workshops led by Jan Lauwers (2014) and Romeo Castellucci (2015) at the Venice Theatre Biennale. My work is dedicated to promoting Po...

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Michela Trovato Giancardillo

Amsterdam, Netherlands

I’m a curator and producer in a young residence for artists in Amsterdam, and I work mainly with recently graduated artists from various disciplines. Before I started to work for WOW Amsterdam, I’ve obtained a bachelor degree in Art History and preservation of the cultural heritage at the University of Florence, a master in Cultura...

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Michele Cremaschi

Bergamo, Italy

Born 1973, graduated in Information Technology in 1997, actor, director, digital artist. With his shows takes part at festivals the length and breadth of Europe, and in Russia, Africa, Asia, USA, being awarded of several prizes. Author of paper “Towards Augmented Coreography” selected for ArtsIt 2011 – International C...

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Michelle McCormack

Mireia Estrada, 20 years experience in culture, civic citizenship and interculturalism. She first studied Catalan philology in Barcelona (UAB 1998) before moving to France and later to Quebec and Montreal where she obtained a master (M.A.) in French African literature (UdeM, 2002) then, once in Spain, a master in Emigration and Interculturalis...

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Mirjam Schmuck

Bochum, Germany; Berlin, Germany

Lisbon, Portugal; Barcelona, Spain; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

I am an autodidact born in NYC, raised in Puerto Rico. Trained in ballet and the visual arts. At age 22 retrained as a modern dancer studying the choreographic and stylistic expressions of the 20th century, both theoretically and technically in NYC. Co-founded Barrunto Dancers, a collective of international choreographers dedicated to the crea...

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Mónica Papamija Urbano

Madrid, Spain

I am a Colombian industrial designer who studied in La Universidad Javeriana, in Bogotá-Colombia. My career emphasis was done on aesthetics and culture; two main supports that enabled me to accomplish a Master’s degree of Arts in Gender, Media and Culture in Goldsmiths, London University (UK), which was based in feminist and queer...

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Project

NACMM – North Africa Cultural Mobility Map

Barcelona, Spain; Marrakech, Morocco; Casablanca, Morocco; Alexandria, Egypt

1 person

The NACMM – North Africa Cultural Mobility Map is a research and info-platform about residency and mobility initiatives for artists, writers and researchers interested in travelling and developing projects from within North Africa. The aims of the NACMM are to promote a better understanding of the ...

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Naomi van Dijck

Glasgow, United Kingdom; Amsterdam, Netherlands

Artist and curator Naomi van Dijck explores ways of producing differently and how we can learn from existing structures to do so. Research within her artistic practice reflects on the act of learning as an ecology, grounded in her experience within museum education and her experimental secondary education. Her practice is committed to ...

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Natalia Skobeeva

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Partner Organization

Onassis Foundation & Onassis AiR: (inter)national artistic research program

Athens, Greece

2 people

ONASSIS AiR (Artists-in-Residence) is a year-round program, located in the urban centre of Athens, that grounds its mission in commitment to supporting artistic process, towards a less product-obsessed arts ecosystem.The (inter)national artistic research and residency program in Athens (Greece) is being born in 2019 and is established by the O...

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Onda — French office for contemporary performing arts circulation

Paris, France

Barcelona, Spain

Pau Cata has been working in the cultural field as facilitator and curator for more than 10 years. He competed his degree in Contemporary History by the University of Barcelona in 2004 with awarded Erasmus in the Univercita degli studi di Firenze (Italy) and at the Laboratory of Anthopology a Democrit University of Komotini (Greece). In the sa...

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Paula Minelgaite

Well, maybe the best way to characterize myself is to describe what I am not: I am not a physicist. I am also not a bank clerk. And I am somehow far from being an all too serious man. Despite having been trained as a theatre scholar in Germany, having been employed as a dramaturg at a German state theatre and as a curator for theory at Tanzqua...

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Petr Dlouhy

Prague, Czech Republic; Berlin, Germany; Warsaw, Poland

In 2017 I've established a new venue for independent performing arts Cross Attic. I was thinking a lot about responsibility of a venue in the context of a city scene and about its role. By looking at Prague arts communities I started to feel an urge to open more towards international perspectives. To enrich Prague scene with artists th...

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Petra Martinez

Helsinki, Finland

I'm a visual artist graduated from Art School MAA (2012) and have a Master of Arts degree from Aalto-university Visual Culture and Contemporary Art program (2018). In my MA thesis "SUBURB seedlings" I studied possibilities of socially engaged and environmental art located in city-space. I have experience in art education, youth-work and workin...

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Piotr Brożek

Warsaw, Poland; Lublin, Poland; Gdansk, Poland; Bucharest, Romania

When I had started my work as cultural worker at the NN Theatre-Grodzka Gate, I got to know Henio. He was six and dead for over sixty years. For one year, I was writing a Facebook diary on behalf of a Jewish boy killed in the Nazi camp of Majdanek. I created a new model of ...

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Other

I graduated on the Faculty of Fine Arts in Bizkaia and currently I am studying a Masters in Contemporary, Technological and Performative Arts. My main insterests as an artist are performative actions which take place in the urban sphere. The context is everything for me. I work with a real situation, which involves establishing contact...

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Sara Vertongen

Belgium

Born in Italy from a Belgian father and British mother, Sara has been working in radio and theatre since the age of 14. She is now part of the artistic crew of Belgian award-winning music theatre company Het nieuwstedelijk (translates as New Urbanicity). Het nieuwstedelijk is the city...

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Sara Machado

Cairo, Egypt

I am currently the artistic director of The BuSSy project. BuSSy is a performing arts project that documents and gives voice to censored untold stories about gender in different communities in Egypt. The project organizes storytelling workshops and performances where women and men step on stage to share stories about harassment, rape, g...

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Sonja Soldo

Zagreb, Croatia

Sonja Soldo is a cultural manager based in Zagreb, Croatia. As a member of BLOK she co-curated five editions of UrbanFestival, an international festival of art in public space, coordinated different collaborative projects and campaigns of local independent cultural scene that dealt with citizens’ participation in urban development, trans...

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Stef Meul

Brussels, Belgium

Since 2008 I've been active in organizing work spaces for artistic practices - from an alternative approach. After studies at Sandberg institute, Amsterdam and research at Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies, Brussels my practice as performance artist found an interest in Social Choreography - expressed in the startup of the Artist Co...

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Stephanie Hanna

Berlin, Germany

Stephanie Hanna works process-oriented and situation-specifically with audio, video, performance, participative artistic projects and actions as well as spatial and shifting installations. She likes to invite the participation of an unknown other into her process of creation. That other can be people she did not know before, or coincidence, al...

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Steven Brett

London, United Kingdom

Steven start a career dancing briefly with NDTII and then Rambert Dance Company. Privileged to have worked with some wonderful choreographers, he became rehearsal director and then Associate Artistic Director with Rambert before joining the British Council in 2004 working the Theatre and Dance department developing project in the Americas, the C...

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Sun Chang

I am a member of TAAK. From 1987, based on my own artistic practice and in collaboration with other artists, I experimented with organising exhibitions with various artists' initiatives. From 1994 to 1998, I was the first appointed director at W139, an exhibition space for contemporary art in Amsterdam. I later worked on exhibitions in the Net...

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Theo Prodromidis

Athens, Greece

I am a visual artist and director based in Athens. I studied Contemporary Media Practice at the University of Westminster and MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London, UK. My work has been exhibited in institutions such as Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, the 1st and 5th Thessaloniki Biennale, the 4th Athens Biennale, Werkleitz zentrum für medien...

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Tiago Dias dos Santos

Porto, Portugal

My name is Tiago, and I’m a BA in Audiovisual Communication Technology by ESMAE, in Porto, with a specialisation in Photography at the Karel de Grote-Hogeschool in Antwerp. I’m also a MA in Multimedia — Culture and Arts branch, by FEUP, also in Porto. I’ve participated in different courses or interchanges, like ...

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Tiago Prata

Vessel was born in 2011 in Puglia (Southern Italy) with the aim of exploring socially engaged practices in relation to their context of emergence, to their geographies and psychogeographies adopting a transdisciplinary methodology aiming to facilitate interaction and exchange between different subjects envisioning the creation of a multi-cente...

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VestAndPage

I have been working as an arts manager and consultant for more than 15 years, both in the independent and the public sector. I have specialized in the performing arts, namely in the field of strategic planning, internationalization and programming. My last two positions were as Strategy Advisor for Artemrede...

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Waldemar Rapior

Poznań, Poland

I am an independent sociologist and cultural theorist with a strong interdisciplinary background and a history of collaboration with trans-disciplinary R&D media laboratory and artistic hubs in Brighton (Blast Theory), Rotterdam (Patchingzone) and Warsaw (The Theatre Institute). I hold a Ph.D. in Sociology from Adam Mickiewicz University (...

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Wikitoki

Bilbao, Spain

1 person

Wikitoki is... Wiki (like co- an open source) + Toki (means "place" in Basque). Living-lab of co-creation and collaborative practices for social and cultural innovation. Working from the private, with public vocation, for the strengthening of the pro-commons. From cultural practices as a way to transform individual and ...

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Xenia Niki Matita

Berlin, Germany; Buscha, Germany

Collective work and collaboration is a lifelong challenge and an ideal to me. Politically active since middle school days I aim to reform education and DIY organisation of human communities. Early artistic works in interventional performances and as DJ. I studied European Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies, Philosophy at Humboldt...

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Yan Duyvendak

Geneva, Switzerland; Groningen, The Netherlands

Originally from the Netherlands, I live in Geneva. Trained at the École cantonale d’art du Valais and the École supérieure d'art visuel de Genève. Since 1995, I have produced a chain of creations and performances at major European venues and beyond. My latest creations, dealing with the notion of citiz...

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Yara Said

Netherlands

Yara Said is a Syrian visual artist based in the Netherlands. The Salwa Foundation was initiated by Yara. She received her education at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Damascus, where she graduated in 2014. As a result of personal experience, she is aiming to connect art with social development. By immersing herself in discipline...

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Yazan Khalili

Ramallah, Palestine

I’m a visual artist, architect, and a cultural practitioner who lives and works in and out of Palestine. My practice frames landscapes, institutions, and social and technological phenomena as politicized entities. My background in architecture allows me to look at landscape in a critical manner, deconstructing colonial visual discourse a...

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Yvonne Zindel

Berlin, Germany

I studied Fine Art and Art Education at the HBK Braunschweig and graduate since 2014 at the HfBK Hamburg on "Performative Conversation" with Prof. Dr. Mania. My research is accompanied by a salon series, the "Performing Encounters". The salons were executed i.a. at KW Berlin, at Goethe Institute Krakau, at Bethanien Berlin, at Haus am Lüt...

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Zenko Bogdan

Romania, Cluj-Napoca

After finishing my studies and a brief venture into the state theater system in Romania at the Hungarian State Theater of Cluj - I started working in the independent performing art scene of Budapest at Jurányi Art Incubator House. Later through some local and international projects I had the chance to work for the Trust for Mutual Under...

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Zeynep Uğur

Paris, France; Istanbul, Turkey

I was born in Istanbul and based in Paris since 5 years. While studying International Relations in Galatasaray University, I played an active role in university's theatre club. In 2014, I moved to Paris for my MA in political studies at EHESS. In 2015, I started my PhD at the same department with my dissertation “Transformation of Public...

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Zoe Lafferty

United Kingdom; Palestine

I am a theatre director and creative producer, touring productions to leading theatres and festivals across the UK and world-wide including the Young Vic London, Schaubühne Berlin and the Skirball Theatre NY. I am an Associate Director at the Freedom Theatre in Palestine and was a director as part of the first Old Vic 12. I was named one ...

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Zoya Sardashti

Milan, Italy; Florence, Itay; San Diego, USA; Los Angeles, USA

The focus of my practice-based research explores socially engaged art that generates new forms of assembly and possibilities for alliance within the context of cultural exchange in performance. Drawing from one-to-one, participatory and workshop formats, I use performance to create community engagement, in order to inspire nonviolent realities...

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Zuloark

Madrid, Spain; La Coruña, Spain; Berlin, Germany; Bologna, Italy

Zuloark is a distributed architecture and urbanism open office, founded in 2001. We develop flowing and collaborative working contexts in co-responsibility environments. Zuloark is meant to be a ‘proximity development area’; we count on the knowledge and the experience of each individual member to teach each other how to do...

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Zuzanna Nazaruk

Rotterdam, Netherlands

I’m a student, creator, manager. I spent the last 3 years pursuing a bachelor in Management of International Social Challenges while simultaneously building up my path as a performance artist and an art manager. The result is KONTRA: an initiative run by me and my partner, that tries to explore the boundaries of artmaking in Rotterdam. B...

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Škart collective

Belgrade, Serbia; Ljubljana, Slovenia

We started to work 1990 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In 90’s we were making little ‘self made’ books and artworks and distributing them in the streets. At year 2000 we founded other collectives - choir and orchestra named Horkeškart and female embroidery group, singing and exhibiting mostly in public spaces. 2008 we starte...

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