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Telling the Baltic opens in Rostock
The exhibition and story telling project Telling the Baltic travels from Gdansk to Rostock. The opening is on Thursday February 7 at Kunsthalle Rostock.
 Artists and participating partners have gathered “stories” from individuals who live within and who work throughout the South Baltic. The collected materials span many forms and types and include interviews, photo essays, digital stories, historical and archival media, as well as accidental encounters, ambient sounds, and abstract images, all gathered from sea-travelers, sea-dwellers, and from the sea itself.
The collected stories form the raw materials and inspiration for 30 artists from our partner countries who turned the stories into art works that will be touring museums and galleries around the Baltic throughout 2012-2013.
Read more here and see photographs from the exhibitions in Karlskrona and Gdansk.
 Marcus Sandekjer – new director at Blekinge County Museum
– The Art Line project is interesting and exciting. I am impressed with Art Line being a Flagship project within the EU. International cooperation is very important and I look forward to learning more about Art Line.
Marcus will be attending the partner meeting in Rostock, as well as the opening of Telling the Baltic.
 Workshops in Kaliningrad in December
A workshop exploring public art in Russia, Poland and Sweden was held before Christmas.The art institutions exchanged working methods and experiences from different perspectives. There were presentations of public space projects and art practices as well as discussions on curatorial strategies, decision-structures, guerilla-actions, state and private-funding, permanent and temporary public art. The workshop participants also discussed local, regional and international contexts.
Artists and curators from Russia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden met in a workshop about the Telling the Baltic exhibition in Kaliningrad. Site-specific installations and re-location of the exhibition to several buildings and a ship of the Museum of the Ocean and to the BB NCCA will create a new map for both the exhibition and Kaliningrad.
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Hydro Active City-contest – Call for entries!
An open contest for an art work using digital media technology in public space has been launched by The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre. We are looking for art works using digital media technologies in a creative approach to public space.
Interactive art works involving people in the Baltic countries are looked upon as especially interesting. The winning art works will be shown in Gdansk city during an international seminar on art and public space, held May 16-18, arranged by Gdansk City Gallery. Deadline is February 1 and the jury will meet in the end of February.
Read the guidelines here.
Telling the Baltic opens in Kaliningrad on April 12
The opening of Telling the Baltic in Kaliningrad has been moved to April 12. The exhibition closes on April 28.
Read more here.
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Lead partner: Blekinge museum. Partners: Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Rostock, Art Centre Gallery EL, Gdańsk City