A collaboration between PRAKSIS and Art Encounters Foundation (RO)
1–2 November 2023
Online. Held in English
Free of charge and open to national and international candidates
Sign up by sending an email to contact@artencounters.ro
PRAKSIS and the Art Encounters Foundation invite you to engage in four workshops over two days led by Nicholas John Jones, artistic director of PRAKSIS, and Kristian Schrøder, programme manager at PRAKSIS.
These workshops aim to generate dialogue between art students, artists, cultural mediators, and thinkers at all career stages and across diverse cultures, disciplines, and publics. Through exercises in mapping the scenes in Romania and Norway, the workshops foreground collective activity and exchanging ideas, skills, and information. The resulting maps will be included in a handbook – with acknowledgment of all contributors, of course!
You are welcome to join as many of the workshops as you wish to. Sign up by sending an email to contact@artencounters.ro
Day 1, part 1: Your say on the contemporary art field
1 November 2023, 10-12 CEST
What do you love about the arts field? Are there things about it that really irritate you? What do you consider to be important to building relationships between art and its publics? What issues does the field need to address, and what do the institutions you visit do well?
PRAKSIS and Art Encounters welcome your voice as we seek to collectively map out issues and strengths of the art field. This session will identify areas of operations and the strengths and weaknesses of grassroots, small-and-mid sized organisations, and large scale institutions working with art. The workshop aims to develop an overview of institutional practices across the sector and collectively identify progressive ways of working.
Day 1, part 2: Which conversations should arts institutions be part of?
2 November 2023, 13-15 CEST
PRAKSIS and Art Encounters welcome you to a workshop that aims to outline what you want arts institutions to aim to do. Together we will discuss: What do grassroots, small-and-mediums sized organisations, and large scale institutions offer? How do they feel when we visit? Who do we feel they are targeting, and who would we like them to address?
About Art Encounters
Established in 2015, the Art Encounters Foundation aims to deliver an institutional model tailored to the needs of the local context and which is equally engaged in contributing to the international art scene. Founded by art collector and entrepreneur based in Timișoara Ovidiu Șandor, the Art Encounters Foundation is an initiative aiming to enrich and support the development of the contemporary art scene in Romania. Its core mission is to foster dialogue, learning, research, and experiment.
The Foundation's activities are carried out over the following main directions: organising the Art Encounters Biennial in Timișoara and the exhibition program taking place at its permanent space in Timișoara or other sites; fostering education and audience development through public programs; developing a solid series of artistic and curatorial residencies. In conjunction with the permanent programs of the Foundation, the private art collection of Ovidiu Șandor, president of the Art Encounters Foundation, functions as an open resource for exhibitions, institutional collaboration, and research.
