CURATORS' AGENDA:
VIENNA 2016
OPEN CALL - Residency program for emerging curators
Application deadline: 31 July 2016
Duration: 19 September - 30. October 2016
After successfully carrying out projects Curators' Agenda (2015) and Curator's Connection (2013), BLOCKFREI is announcing a new open call for the Curators' Agenda: VIENNA 2016, a six-week curators-in-residence program. Envisioned as an intensive residency for emerging curators from all around the globe, the program is designed to provide an in-depth knowledge of the contemporary Viennese art scene, as well as to establish a network among its partakers.
Application deadline: 31 July 2016
Duration: 19 September - 30. October 2016
After successfully carrying out projects Curators' Agenda (2015) and Curator's Connection (2013), BLOCKFREI is announcing a new open call for the Curators' Agenda: VIENNA 2016, a six-week curators-in-residence program. Envisioned as an intensive residency for emerging curators from all around the globe, the program is designed to provide an in-depth knowledge of the contemporary Viennese art scene, as well as to establish a network among its partakers.
LANGER WEG DER GASTARBAJT -
LONG JOURNEY OF GUEST WORKERS
Langer Weg der Gastarbajt/Long journey of guestworkers is a project initiated and produced by several Vienna based organisations, associations and individuals connected through the Platform for Temporary Creation, BLOCKFREI being one of them. The project itself is dedicated to the phenomena of working migration (Gastarbeit), marking the 50th anniversary of signing the contract regulating the administrative conditions of guest working force originating from Yugoslavia and coming to work in Austria.
ŠUŠUR!
FESTIVAL OF WORDS 2016
Šušur! Festival had devoted this year's program to the socio-political aspect of intellectual migration and associated cause-effects. The goal was to examine the emergence of nomadism in the context of art, primarily literature, and try to find an answer to a question whether the origin of this phenomenon lies in a search for inspiration and adventure, or it is a consequence of the necessity and actuality.
OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION
“I MOVED ON until
I WENT BACK"
Opening: 30. October, 8pm
30. October - 6. November 2015
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
Lichthöfe A and B
1010 Vienna
The exhibition brings together artists whose works explore landscape as an expanded idea. As dynamic processes that are shaped over time or as personal experiences, sites record traces that later on are evoked and imprinted in our mind. The assertion I moved on until I went back conveys a personal experience in which the remembrance of an event generates movement – an inner transformation that may alter the memory of the event itself.
30. October - 6. November 2015
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
Lichthöfe A and B
1010 Vienna
The exhibition brings together artists whose works explore landscape as an expanded idea. As dynamic processes that are shaped over time or as personal experiences, sites record traces that later on are evoked and imprinted in our mind. The assertion I moved on until I went back conveys a personal experience in which the remembrance of an event generates movement – an inner transformation that may alter the memory of the event itself.
OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION
“VIENNA/SERBIA RAW –
UNSERE NEUEN NACHBARN" IN VIENNA
29 October - 14 November 2015
Mariahilferstraße 43, 1060 Vienna
Opening: 29 October, 5:30pm
The way how the fleeing people perceive their new country, environment as well as perhaps their current home is the focus of the photography exhibition Vienna/Serbia Raw – Unsere neuen Nachbarn (Vienna/Serbia Raw – Our new neighbours). After taking place in Belgrade in October, it will now also be shown in a public space in Vienna.
Mariahilferstraße 43, 1060 Vienna
Opening: 29 October, 5:30pm
The way how the fleeing people perceive their new country, environment as well as perhaps their current home is the focus of the photography exhibition Vienna/Serbia Raw – Unsere neuen Nachbarn (Vienna/Serbia Raw – Our new neighbours). After taking place in Belgrade in October, it will now also be shown in a public space in Vienna.
OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION
“VIENNA/SERBIA RAW –
OUR NEW NEIGHBOURS" IN BELGRADE
The exhibition “Vienna/Serbia Raw – Our new neighbours” is a result of photography workshops with migrants, which took place between May and July 2015 in two cities in Serbia (Subotica and Belgrade) and Vienna. The workshops were based on artistic practice of the established photo collective "Belgrade Raw" from Serbia in cooperation with BLOCKFREI.
BLOCKFREI PRESENTS:
ART COLLECTIVES FROM SERBIA AT
VIENNACONTEMPORARY 2015
BLOCKFREI proudly announces its appearance at the first VIENNACONTEMPORARY Art Fair, which will take place in Vienna from 24. to 27. of September 2015, at Marx Halle. On this occasion, BLOCKFREI will be presenting three art collectives from Serbia in the category of "Editions": The Centre for Graphics and Visual Research Akademija - Faculty of Fine Arts, Silkskrin collective and Belgrade Raw collective.
ŠUŠUR! FESTIVAL OF WORDS:
ISLAND OF KORČULA, 2015
Šušur! Festival od riči (Festival of Words) is a festival dedicated to literary culture and writing. Implemented by the organisation for cultural action KULA from Zagreb and Vienna-based BLOCKFREI organization, in the summer of 2015 it had its' 4th edition.
CURATORS' AGENDA:
VIENNA 2015,
OPEN CALL!
OPEN CALL - Curators' research residency programme
Application deadline: August 15th, 2015
Duration: 23. September - 31. October, 2015
After the successfully realized project Curator's Connection in 2013, BLOCKFREI is announcing the open call for the 2015 programme CURATORS' AGENDA - a 4 week curators-in-residence programme which will take place in Vienna. C'A is envisioned as an intensive four week research residency programme for emerging curators from all around the globe, who seek to discover Vienna's contemporary art scene in-depth and who are eager to immerse themselves into diverse narratives and inclinations of the Viennese contemporary art world.
Application deadline: August 15th, 2015
Duration: 23. September - 31. October, 2015
After the successfully realized project Curator's Connection in 2013, BLOCKFREI is announcing the open call for the 2015 programme CURATORS' AGENDA - a 4 week curators-in-residence programme which will take place in Vienna. C'A is envisioned as an intensive four week research residency programme for emerging curators from all around the globe, who seek to discover Vienna's contemporary art scene in-depth and who are eager to immerse themselves into diverse narratives and inclinations of the Viennese contemporary art world.
RE:KULTURA,
MANAGEMENT OF
CHANGE
Cultural Center GRAD and BLOCKFREI are inviting cultural operators to apply for the first edition of the RE:KULTURA - MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE programme, with the aim to present to cultural professionals a corpus of practical knowledge and best practices relevant for the Serbian cultural context.
DELIKATESSEN ESSEN,
BELGRADE
BLOCKFREI is hosting Delikatessen Essen, 29th of December in Cultural Center GRAD, Belgrade. Only süß! Traditional winter aroma of hot punch, timeless Kaiserschmarrn and effortless Apfelstrudel will be on the GRAD menu to warm you up in these cold days. We will bring you the atmosphere of Vienna with the finest Habsburg delicacies and selection of Austrian club sound.
THE INTERNATIONAL
SUMMIT OF
CHEAP LASER
GRAPHICS
After a successful tour across the Balkans and Europe, the Vienna-based organisation BLOCKFREI and Künstlerhaus bring the International Summit of Cheap Laser Graphics to Vienna. During two nights from 14th until 15th of November we will join forces to transform the Künstlerhaus building in a pop-up gallery that offered accessible artwork for all.
INDEPENDENT ART
FROM SERBIA
BLOCKFREI proudly announces its appearance at the 10th VIENNAFAIR, which will be realized from 2nd – 5th of October 2014, at Messe Wien (Vienna) and on which occasion BLOCKFREI will be presenting the project Independent Art from Serbia. BLOCKFREI will act as an umbrella association and exhibit art pieces by five artists closely connected with the independent initiatives active in the Serbian contemporary art scene during the past decade.
ŠUŠUR! Festival od riči 2014
11. August 2014
Korčula, Croatia
Korčula, Croatia
BLOCKFREI is co-producing another edition of the literary festival Šušur! Festival od riči in a partnership with Croatian association Kulturna Akcija - KULA and the poetic collective Pesničenje from Belgrade, Serbia.
This is the third year that ŠUŠUR will be realized in the heart of Korčula island in Dalmatia, where poets from the local and regional scene will be presented in two rounds.
7x8
7 curators, 8 weeks exploring Vienna and Budapest throughout a Curator's Connection platform
30 programs in 3 weeks, structured by 3 coordinators - Vienna's scene exposed and befriended
Curator's Connection project was conceived by Budapest based organization cARTc and Vienna based - BLOCKFREI, envisaged as five weeks residency programme open for curators coming from all over the world. The programme which altogether lasted from 9th of October till 31st of November 2013 was successfully completed with joint contentment for all parties included.
30 programs in 3 weeks, structured by 3 coordinators - Vienna's scene exposed and befriended
Curator's Connection project was conceived by Budapest based organization cARTc and Vienna based - BLOCKFREI, envisaged as five weeks residency programme open for curators coming from all over the world. The programme which altogether lasted from 9th of October till 31st of November 2013 was successfully completed with joint contentment for all parties included.
44.8167° N, 20.4667° E Šušur!
30 December 2013
In the last glimpse of the year 2013, on the 30th December, BLOCKFREI has co-produced winter edition of Šušur! Festival of words in Belgrade. Šušur! has, up till now, winning over summer crowds of the Croatian island of Korčula.
This summer event dedicated to literature and art was presented as a part of regular gastronomic and cultural program of the Cultural center GRAD under the name Deli Monday.
This summer event dedicated to literature and art was presented as a part of regular gastronomic and cultural program of the Cultural center GRAD under the name Deli Monday.
Curators Connection
9 October - 31 November 2013, Vienna / Budapest
Curators Connection is an intensive 8 weeks programme that looks directly at the roles and responsibilities of curators as mediators between artists, objects, institutions, experiences and audiences. The main focus is on contemporary conditions of display and the understanding of issues and institutions affecting contemporary art. Curators Connection aims to foster interesting dialogues on issues surrounding curation and takes a wide perspective in the inquiry into what constitutes "the curatorial" in the Central European region and particularly in Vienna and Budapest today.
The Programme is organised by cARTc space and project of contemporary art (Budapest) and Blockfrei (Vienna).
The Programme is organised by cARTc space and project of contemporary art (Budapest) and Blockfrei (Vienna).