Argos, Centre for Audio Visual Arts (Bruselas)
Argos centre for audiovisual arts facilitates the presentation, production, and study of critical audiovisual arts through archival and distribution services, exhibitions and various programmes, a screening space and a research library. argos considers the audiovisual arts as a way of looking at and understanding the world. Active since 1989, it fosters dialogue with a broad range of institutional and non-institutional partners, both in Brussels and beyond, to support a multitude of voices in society and to seek new ways to engage its audiences. Through its various activities, argos wants to understand the past, hold the present and shape the future of the audiovisual arts.
argosarts.org | @argos_arts
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Centre for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan in eXiLe (Frankfurt, Alemania)
The CCAA was established in August 2004 as the first and only centre for contemporary art in Afghanistan and in 2006 established the only women’s art centre in Afghanistan to further promote women empowerment as an integral part of the democratization process and for civilization. Its aim was also to give young people the chance to express and improve their artistic talent as individuals and as creative artists to implement a new way of looking at art for the Afghan society striving towards peace, justice, democracy, freedom of expression and individuality. The establishment of CCAA over the past five centuries was in fact a new motion and movement towards visual arts in Afghanistan. In 2008 the first Contemporary Art and the first Women’s Contemporary Painting Exhibition in Afghanistan was held by CCAA artists which was a turning point in the history of visual arts in Afghanistan.
The establishment of CCAA and its Women’s Art Centre was a major achievement - not only for Afghanistan but also for the international community in Afghanistan. The CCAA worked closely with many international governmental organizations, particularly from European countries, the United States and Canada which has accelerated the CCAA’s growth and raised its profile both nationally and internationally; however, this brilliance also attracted the attention of fanatics and dark thinkers, so soon the CCAA was targeted.
Following the explosion at the French Cultural Centre in early 2015 the CCAA was also threatened, and it was closed in the next year, and finally its administrative part was transferred to a calm and quiet place in Kabul. Later that year the CCAA continued its activities under the name of Studio of Contemporary Arts (SCA) at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Kabul University. In 2020 - meeting the existing needs and demands - the CCAA took up its activities under the name of (Ustad Breshna) as an art training centre, growing again with young talents within and from outside of the university’s environment. It had just begun it's activities and spread its announcements, but its activities were stopped once again when the Taliban re-entered the city and once again all the artists of the CCAA were under severe security threats.
We take this opportunity to acknowledge the 20 young artists of CCAA - 14 of whom are women - who have been evacuated by the German government. Most of them have settled in Frankfurt. In 2023 CCAA in eXiLe received the formal registration as an international organization based in Frankfurt, Germany.
facebook.com/ccaainexil | @ccaa-in-exile
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Crawford ArtGallery (Cork, Irlanda)
Crawford Art Gallery is a National Cultural Institution of the Republic of Ireland. Through its exhibitions, learn & explore programmes, and its collection of over 3000 works, Crawford Art Gallery is committed to fostering recognition, critical assessment, and acknowledgement of contemporary and historical Irish and international art.
crawfordartgallery.ie | @crawfordartgallery
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Cultural Center of Belgrade (Serbia)
Established in 1957 as an informational and cultural hub, the Center has since expanded to generate and present the artistic content reflective of cultural activity in Serbia and Europe. Numerous programs organized through the Cultural Center of Belgrade remain the most significant cultural manifestations of both the capital and entire country such as October Salon, Belgrade International Week of Architecture, Wolrd's Poetry Days, Days of Organ etc. Integral part of CCB is the cinema - DKC the oldest active cinema in Belgrade which was awarded in 2023 for Best Programming by Europa Cinema.
kcb.org.rs | @kulturni_centar_beograda
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Forma (Londres, Reino Unido)
Forma is a contemporary arts organisation that champions ideas and artists who address urgent social and political questions. Through a discursive process, we nurture artists’ creative vision and grow their ambition in order to develop collaborative projects that are career defining and lead to new major opportunities around the world. We pride ourselves in being an organisation that artists want to work with. We offer commissioning, fundraising and production expertise, and as a non-gallery-based organisation we present projects in partnership with cultural institutions across the UK and internationally. In short, Forma is where ideas become art.
Recent artists we have collaborated with include Oliver Chanarin, Alberta Whittle, Abbas Zahedi, Cécile B Evans, Sung Tieu, Amartey Golding, R.I.P. Germain, Sophie Hoyle, Benedict Drew, Josefa Ntjam, and Himali Singh Soin.Our team works from FormaHQ, an award winning cultural hub in London. It is home to our offices, affordable artist studios, a cafe bookshop (Presse Books), a residency space for visiting and international artists, and lastly a public events space where our team of curators oversee the public programme which ties the many aspects of the building together, creating different entry points to contemporary art, environmental sustainability and community.
Forma Arts is a charity and National Portfolio Organisation, supported by the Arts Council England.
forma.org.uk | @formaartsmedia
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Fundación Proa (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
At Fundación Proa we serve as a pivotal cultural institution in Buenos Aires, offering an annual programme of temporary exhibitions, seminars, courses, conferences, concerts and performances. Since our inception, we have been dedicated to showcasing significant artistic movements of the 20th and 21st centuries, across mediums such as photography, video, design, electronic music, and special projects. Our three-storey building features four exhibition halls, a multimedia auditorium, a specialised bookstore, a terrace restaurant, and open spaces for public engagement. Committed to fostering educational initiatives and cultural exchange programs, we actively engage with the community through our education team and collaborations with local schools and educational entities. Additionally, we oversee the cultural program of the Techint Organization globally, collaborating with Tenaris to support artistic residencies, workshops, and an experimental space for emerging artists, aiming to enhance their visibility and creative development. Through these endeavours, Fundación Proa enriches the cultural landscape, facilitating meaningful interactions between artists, audiences, and the wider community, and contributing to the cultural vitality of Buenos Aires and beyond.
proa.org | @fundacion_proa
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The Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (GAMeC) (Bergamo, Italia)
The Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (GAMeC) was opened in 1991. A virtuous model of shared public-private management, the museum is located in the spaces once occupied by the fifteenth-century Monastery of the Dimesse and Servite, the restoration of which was entrusted to Studio Gregotti Associati International between the late eighties and the nineties. Over the years, diversified planning has transformed it into a versatile space that draws many types of visitors with its targeted activities. With its 1,500 square meters of exhibition space, GAMeC welcomes contemporary art in all its forms. Temporary personal and collective exhibitions by international artists, and an intense calendar of fringe activities designed for different types of users are among the strong points of the Gallery’s cultural policy. It is a dynamic place for debate, analysis, and cultural integration, and one evolving daily. Thanks to both donations and acquisitions, the Gallery has built the collection of modern and contemporary art of the city of Bergamo, which includes works by Italian and international authors of the twentieth century, and works by contemporary artists.
gamec.it | @gamec_bergamo
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Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) (Los Ángeles, Estados Unidos)
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) LACE is the longest-running contemporary artist space in Los Angeles, California supporting emerging artists, curators, and cultural workers. LACE both champions and challenges the art of our time by fostering artists who innovate, explore, and risk. We move within and beyond our four walls to provide opportunities for diverse publics to engage deeply with contemporary art. In doing so, we further dialogue and participation between and among artists and those audiences.
welcometolace.org | @welcometolace
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MMAG Foundation (Amán, Jordania)
MMAG is a contemporary art foundation that strives to contribute to the future of art practice and pedagogy in its region by drawing on historical encounters and contextual issues alike. Through art, it works to facilitate opportunities to shape responsible approaches to learning, knowledge-making, sharing, and modes of dialogue. Its campus includes multifunctional areas for creating and living, and shared studios such as an art library, a screening room, a dark room, a glass studio and a sound studio. By offering a space for residencies, workshops, public programs and exhibitions, it has established itself as an essential gathering place for artists and art practitioners from the city and beyond.
mmagfoundation.org | @mmagfoundation
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Project 88 (Mumbai, India)
Project 88 inhabits 4000 square feet of what was formerly a century old metal printing press in Colaba, Mumbai, restored and renovated by Rahul Mehrotra. It has a roster of some of the most thoughtful and exciting artists working in the Indian subcontinent today. If you want to know what constitutes the future of contemporary art in South Asia, Project 88 is the place from where you could begin your exploration of tomorrow's terrain.
From it’s inception in 2006 and under the adventurous directorship of Sree Banerjee Goswami, Project 88 have developed a context for the exhibition of experimental and ambitious work in all media by artists who’s practice have strong conceptual foundations. A second generation gallerist, Sree grew up with art in Kolkata where her mother Supriya Banerjee founded Galerie 88, Kolkata, in 1988, working with illustrious artists such as M.F. Hussain, Ram Kumar, Akbar Padamsee, Meera Mukherjee, Ganesh Pyne, Somnath Hore, K.G. Subramaniam, etc. Project 88 remains committed to the discovery and nurturing of emerging talent, even as it works with cutting-edge, intelligent, internationally known mid-career artists from South Asia and elsewhere. The gallery regularly participates in various art fairs, including Frieze London and New York, ARCO Madrid, Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Dubai and India Art Fair. Many of it’s artists are in major international collections and are featured regularly in the most prestigious biennales and museum shows. The future of the art landscape is being shaped here.
project88.in | @project88mumbai
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Sapieha Palace, Branch of the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) (Vilna, Lituania)
Resurrected from the ruins, the Sapieha Palace aims to become a vibrant and lively place on the cultural map of Vilnius. The curation of the Sapieha Palace has been entrusted with Contemporary Art Centre, the largest contemporary art institution in the Baltic States. Like the CAC, the Sapieha Palace is not a museum and thus will not amass a permanent art collection. Rather, its activities seek to reflect the constantly changing reality and position history as always intertwined with the present. The new custodians of the palace are keen to ensure that exhibitions, concerts and other events weave contemporary art with works of the past. Today, the Sapieha Palace embraces the values of creativity, attention to heritage, coherence, openness and internationality. The team’s goal is to eventually transform the Sapieha Palace into an international cultural space, fostering respect for history and creating the conditions for an original dialogue between cultural heritage and contemporary art.
sapiegurumai.lt | @sapiegurumai
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Tramway (Glasgow, Escocia)
Tramway is a renowned international arts venue with an interdisciplinary spirit whose mission is to enrich and inspire our communities by providing ambitious, innovative and culturally relevant contemporary visual art and performance.Through a dynamic year-round programme of free art exhibitions, engagement activity, and festivals, dance and live art we aim to stimulate meaningful dialogue between artists and audiences, responding to the urgent cultural, social and political issues of our time.The programme curation encourages creative experimentation and bold, innovative approaches to our unique venues, culminating in some of the most ambitious presentations of work across Scotland and the UK.
tramway.org | @glasgowtramway
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Tromsø Kunstforening (Tromsø, Noruega)
Tromsø Kunstforening - Romssa Dáiddasiida is a space for contemporary art, exhibiting new, experimental art and artists. Starting in 1924, we continue to present boundary-pushing exhibitions, projects in public space, performances and workshops that are open to all. The program includes international and emerging artists, with special attention to projects that are rooted in the region of Northern Scandinavia and Sápmi. We are home to several artist-run initiatives like the bookshop Mondo Books, the screening space Kinobox and the Materialbanken for Kreative Prosjekter which allows you to donate and collect materials for reuse in exchange for your stories about the materials delivered or picked up.
tromsokunstforening.no | @tromsokunstforening
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Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) (Berlin, Alemania)
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) is a site of contemporary art and discourse production. The institution was founded in 1969, with the goal of presenting contemporary fine art to a broader public, and of inviting that public to actively participate in cultural processes. With the collection Video-Forum, n.b.k. makes available to the public over 1,700 international works of video art. Founded in 1971 as an artists' initiative, the Video-Forum is the oldest and one of the biggest public video art collections in Germany and Europe. Since its funding it has been expanded constantly through co-productions and yearly purchases. The holdings of the Video-Forum can be watched in a dedicated space. Presentations and screenings based on the collection introduce current and historical developments in video art to the public and generate discussion around them.