CELEIA CELJE - The Centre for Contemporary Art is a non-profit organisation founded in 2004 with the main mission to initiate, develop and promote contemporary visual arts in the local, regional and international context, as well as to re-articulate and re-contextualize the heritage of local artistic practices that form the foundations of the Centre’s activity.

As it is situated merely an hour from the capital city of Ljubljana, and is one of the most representative institutions for the production and display of contemporary visual arts in Slovenia, the Centre represents a creative hub devoted to arts, culture and theory, and is experienced in the specific conditions of the current social, political, and economic situation. Under the auspices of the City Council of Celje and its Cultural Department, the Centre has been actively engaged in the project-based cultural programming in cooperation with partners across the region and beyond.
The Centre for Contemporary Art Celje consists of three exhibition venues in the downtown Celje area: Gallery of Contemporary Art, since 1993), Likovni salon (Likovni Salon Gallery, since 1963), and Galerija Racka (Racka Gallery, since 2006). One of the Centre’s activities is its AIR CELEIA programme initiated in 2005. The AIR programme emerged as a result of the need for a more active flow of people and ideas in the field of culture and art in Celje. The programme is conceived in a way that encourages artists in residence to create ties and actively participate in the local community, as well as enable local artists to work in a foreign environment. This provides them with new contacts and new models of production and presentation. The residency programme is based on mobility, inter-disciplinarity, participation, and builds a dialogue and cooperation between artists as well as between art and the broader community. It is based on the contemporary models of artist residencies that are no longer isolated artist communes but dynamic and linking forms of creativity within an urban environment.

The main idea of AIR CELEIA is to connect the artists and the city in a new, unexpected way and provide a situation in which professionals from different fields of city development (urban planning, tourism, architecture, leisure activities, social programmes, technological park projects) – who do usually not work with artists (and vice versa) - experience a fundamental change in their mindset and working practice (as a result of the project). It is our presumption that contemporary visual art carries all the characteristics of an extended definition of cultural resources that has been coming into general use over the last few years (for instance the “cultural planning” concept ). Contemporary art is interdisciplinary, hybrid, holistic, integrated, innovative, provocative, participatory, investigative, and ecologically aware and engaged; it deals with the lives of ordinary people, political conflicts, global warming, social inequalities or intercultural dialogue.
As such, it could be an ideal mediator in linking various sectors, a connection between the different fields of human performance. However, because it remains trapped in the distribution channels of the art system, communication between contemporary art and other cultural sectors remained on the level of a traditional relationship between art and society.
Resident artists receive an opportunity to present their work publicly at the CCA CELEIA as lectures, projections, public discussions, exhibitions and performances. They are also encouraged to realise their work in the public spaces of Celje and its sourounding .

The selection process is both by invitation and application. 

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AIR- OPEN CALL 2010

AIR CELEIA  International Curatorial Residency Program

Celje, Slovenia

Deadline for applications: 29nd August, 2010

CCA CELEIA (Center for Contemporary Arts Celeia Celje) offers an opportunity for an individual curator to visit Celje to research contemporary visual art produced in Slovenia and to build contacts with local artists/curators and galleries. The selected individual will develop an international curatorial project with the CCA CELEIA being the host venue for the show in 2011. It is envisaged that the resulting project would involve a minimum of 50% participants working in Slovenia. In addition the selected individual would be requested to give a lecture or workshops during one of the research visits.

The residency is an opportunity for curators to structure their own time within a supportive and nurturing creative environment. Participants will be introduced to the other activities at CCA CELEIA. This residency program creates opportunities for creative collaborations resulting from direct interaction with professional artists or professionals in other disciplines. Experimentation and collaboration across media is encouraged and use of other facilities can be negotiated.

The selected curator will receive a monthly stipend up to 600 eur and a curator’s fee up to 1000 eur- after the completion of the proposed. project/exhibition.The travel cost are not covered.

 

Residency Timeframe:

August 29, 2010:           Deadline for expressions of interest

Sept 10, 2010:                Notification of selected Curator           

Oct/Nov 2010:                 Research residency (up to 2 months)

Jan 31, 2011                   A completed outline for a proposed exhibition/project

mid-late 2011:                Presentation/exhibition of proposed exhibition/project

 

Expressions of interest are accepted by email to:

nevenka.sivavec@celje.si , senior curator

sabina.decman@celje.si, curatorial assistant

 

Please include your expression of interest (max 1000 words). Curriculum Vitae, a curatorial statement/bio and examples of previous work – please mark the subject box of the email - Curatorial Residency.

 

For more information please contact Nevenka Šivavec, senior curator at CCA CELEIA

nevenka.sivavec@celje.si

http://www.celeia.info/center_sodobnih_umetnosti

 

 

 

 

 

 Contact : Nevenka Šivavec / +386 3 42 87 938 / nevenka.sivavec@celje.si

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