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No. 4
Come summer, come Art Line in full force.
There´s no less than five main events arranged within the framework of Art Line, starting May and running throughout the summer. There´s two exhibitions opening and one public space event arranged in Karlskrona and Ronneby, Sweden. Kalmar konstmuseum arranges an art-conference, in collaboration with Ölands folkhögskola, to take place 7 - 8 May. One of two contests within the lifespan of Art Line has been launched and is taking call for artists commisions. Apart from this, the first art-tour to the tri-state area (Gdynia, Sopot, Gdansk) is to be arranged 10 May.
Save the Date
The Art Line seminar entitled Save the Date, arranged by Kalmar konstmuseum in collaboration with Ölands folkhögskola, will take place 7 – 8 May. Issues of art in public space will be discussed. Go here to read up, and to get information on how to register to attend. The conference is free of charge.
Baltic Goes Digital
Baltic Goes Digital is an open contest for artworks that utilize web-based, mobile or locative media to create a vision of an imaginary, non-existent “Baltic City”. The contest is organized by the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre in Gdansk and the Gdansk City Gallery as part of Art Line. Deadline for application to take part in the contest is 15 June. Go here to read up!
Telling the Baltic
The storytelling-project Telling the Baltic organized an artist workshop 5-16 March, held at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona. Artists from Poland, Germany, Russia, Lithuania and Sweden gathered. The story-collectors presented collected stories, and artists started up their work on the creation of artworks for the Telling the Baltic exhibition, touring the South Baltic region:
Blekinge Museum, Karlskrona, 9 June - 16 September, 2012.
CCA Laznia, Gdansk, 5 October - 2 December, 2012.
NCCA Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, 14 December, 2012 - 15 January, 2013.
Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, February - March, 2013.
Stena Line Vision, June - July, 2013.
Following the workshop, a second workshop was arranged in Lithuania, at Nida Art Colony, 1 - 5 April.
  
Photos from Karlskrona-workshop
Photos from Nida Art Colony workshop
To read more on Telling the Baltic, visit the TTB-blog.
Art & Apparatus
The third and last workshop within project Art & Apparatus was held 30 January – 3 February. Four of the starting eleven artists returned to Swedish Waterjet Lab and MAD Studio respectively. These artists were Izabela Żółcińska and Sylwia Galon from Poland and Jakob Ingemansson and Magnus Peterson from Sweden.
At MAD Studio– arm-chairs and self-portraits
Sylwia Galon and Magnus Peterson returned to MAD Studio where they continued their artistic practice in turning sketches into printed models.
Sylwia Galon had a cubistic self-portrait printed, and Magnus Petersson– small, intricately modeled arm-chairs printed; arm-chairs planned to be part of model-installation of a hotel-lobby.
At Swedish Waterjet Lab– red and black
In Ronneby Izabela Żółcińska used high pressure waterjets to cut representations of rivers out of red acrylic glass. One of the rivers represented, out of a totality of five, was Ronnebyån.
Jakob Ingemansson had a large number of black forms cut out of acrylic glass. These forms are to be assembled into an abstract architectural shape.
You will have a chance to see these works of art during the Art & Apparatus exhibition, opening 16 June, 2012 at Kulturcentrum Ronneby.
 
 
Art and Apparatus workshop photo-set
Space Matters II
Space Matters II is a continuation of a public art-event, entitled Space Matters, that was arranged by Art Line in the public space of Karlskrona on the 13th of October 2011. During Summer 2012, Space Matters II will pick up where Space Matters left off.
Public spaces and digital media
Historically, the public square was a focal meeting place. It used to be the very symbol of a free and open space for deliberation and communication of ideas and experiences. Today this former symbol of free-flowing communication has increasingly come to be stunned by the burden of having to bear up ad-campaigns and homogenic sites of consumption. Instead, the Internet, and especially social medias such as Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia, have jacketed the role of the public space. As a consequence many contemporary artists have started working in relation to this new digital, public space.
During summer, from 30 June – 19 August, this shift from real to digital, or rather what the interstice of this meeting may look like, will be visually communicated in containers set up at various locations in the public space of the city of Karlskrona in Blekinge, southern Sweden.
Art-tours
Trojmiasto, or the tri-city area including Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot, are filled to the brim with contemporary art. There are numerous galleries in the area. Together, Art Line partners sat down and composed a tailor made art tour directed at art-organizations in the South Baltic area. The first tour will be held on the 10th of May, 2012.
Contact Details:
Torun Ekstrand, project leader:
torun.ekstrand@artline-southbaltic.eu
+46709 30 49 71
Annika Thelin, financial manager:
annika.thelin@artline-southbaltic.eu
+46709 30 49 73
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