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03/01/2022
Policy Statement Following Russia's War Against Ukraine
CEC ArtsLink reaffirms its commitment to the Ukrainian artistic community and to its many members who are internally displaced or living in exile.
03/01/2022
Art Prospect Network Open Letter Against War in Ukraine
We condemn this criminal war of Russian aggression against Ukraine and stand firmly with those who seek peace and freedom.
09/15/2021
8th Art Prospect Festival: Program
We are pleased to present the program of the 8th International Public Art Festival: Forms of Unity.
08/20/2021
8th Art Prospect Festival: Forms of Unity.
Participating Artists
The 8th Art Prospect International Public Art Festival will take place in St. Petersburg September 23–26. For the second year in a row, it will be hosted at House of Culture Creative Cluster, which will display works by over 20 artists and artist collectives from Russia, Finland, Switzerland, and the US.
07/11/2021
Deadline extended until July 17
The participation deadline for the contest of the remote projects within the 8th Art Prospect International Festival of Public Art is extended until July 17.
06/14/2021
CEC ArtsLink Announces an Open Call for Artists to participate in the 8th Art Prospect International Festival of Public Art
CEC ArtsLink invites artists from around the world (with the exception of
St. Petersburg, Russia), to propose public art projects examining how contemporary art organizations engage, support and unite local communities.
03/26/2021
View of the Periphery or Peripheral Vision
Presentation of the research program Edu-Art made by our colleagues from Oberliht Association (Moldova).
03/22/2021
Artistic residency Our School KHTZ
Open Place Platform is pleased to announce an open call for artists 30 years old and under from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Application Deadline: March 31, 2021.
02/08/2021
Art Prospect Network Residency Program
In 2021, the Art Prospect Network Residency program will support residencies for U.S. artists and curators, focusing on exchange and collaboration in the field of socially engaged art and/or public art. CEC ArtsLink will place US artists and curators with host organizations in the 11 Art Prospect Network countries, which share common strategies, concerns, and goals. Each Art Prospect Network partner will host an artist or curator for a one-month residency to participate in a collaborative project, such as a public art festival or event, lead training programs, and/or conduct an independent project. US participants and host organizations will work together to define the residency goals and structure based on their reciprocal interests, needs and strengths.
Applications are due by February 15, 2021. Guidelines are on the CEC ArtsLink web page.
01/25/2021
The exhibition Listening to Imagine
Listening to Imagine, a group exhibition curated by Eva Khachatryan with the support of CEC ArtsLink, was held at the Dalan Art Gallery in Yerevan, Armenia.
The exhibition Listening to Imagine examined the role of art during a time of crisis. Is art relevant during the time of a pandemic, struggles for freedom or war? In a constant struggle against the system in the name of justice and democracy, the artist turns into an activist, a participant in political and civil battles or social movements, but they never cease to think in the language of art and sooner or later later share their thoughts, feelings and research with others.
01/18/2021
Art Prospect Network
The first part of the 7th Art Prospect Festival recently ended, but few of you probably know that Art Prospect is not just a festival, but also an entire network of partner organizations working in the fields of public art and socially engaged art in 11 countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan).
Among the Art Prospect Network partners are the Eurasian Cultural Alliance (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Ilkhom Theater (Tashkent, Uzbekistan), ArtEast (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), Bukhara Photo Gallery (Bukhara, Uzbekistan), Open Place (Kiev, Ukraine), CEC ArtsLink (St. Petersburg, Russia), Dushanbe ArtGround (Dushanbe, Tajikistan), Oberliht (Chisinau, Moldova), Salaam Cinema (Baku, Azerbaijan), Silk Museum (Tbilisi, Georgia), and Suburb (Yerevan, Armenia).
Each of these organizations are active players in their local arts communities and participate in collaborative network activities, including public art festivals, arts residencies, and educational programs in the field of socially engaged art. Thanks to their collaboration, the Art Prospect Festival took place in Bishkek and Baku in 2017 and in Bishkek, Kiev, and Tbilisi in 2018.
11/27/2020
Art Prospect and ArtsLink Assembly 2020 video streams
Inside Out: Art Prospect 2020. How social distancing, Covid, and digital technology are changing our concept of public space, moderated by Kendal Henry.
A Miracle or Misunderstanding – socially engaged art in post-Soviet countries, moderated by Viktor Misiano.
10/15/2020
7th International Public Art Festival Art Prospect official application
The app is currently only available in Russian for download in the Russian Google Play Store and App Store.
10/3/2020
7th Art Prospect Festival: Treasure Hunt. Participating Artists
In 2020, the 7th International Public Art Festival Art Prospect simultaneously brings together 23 cities and 13 countries in an online-offline format. The festival features over 50 artists.
8/10/2020
Deadline extended until August 16
Application deadline for the Open Competition for Artists to participate in the online version of the 7th International Public Art Festival ART PROSPECT
is extended until August 16.
7/23/2020
Charitable Foundation CEC ArtsLink Announces an Open Competition for Artists to participate in the online version of the 7th International Public Art Festival ART PROSPECT
The Art Prospect Festival team invites artists from Russia and 10 countries of the Art Prospect Network (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine) to propose art interventions which could be displayed on a balcony or fence, in a window, courtyard, or yard, or in any private space.
11/17/2019
A Miracle or Misunderstanding |
Socially Engaged Practices in the Art Prospect Network Countries
This publication grew out of CEC ArtsLink’s commitment to support international cultural mobility and new models for creatively addressing socio-political concerns, transforming urban environments, and engaging local communities.
10/2/2019
Art Prospect Intensive in Socially Engaged Art: Participants
The Art Prospect Intensive supports the exchange of expertise and development of innovative methods to facilitate collaboration between artists, social organizations, and the community to address local problems and issues.
8/8/2019
Art Prospect Intensive in Socially Engaged Art
Open Call for Artists and Curators from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
3/20/2019
Deadline extended until March 30
Application deadline for the intensive ten-day educational study visit focusing on best practices in the fields of Public Art and Social Practice Art is extended until March 29.
2/24/2019
Art Prospect Fellows: Public Art and Social Practice Art Study Visit in New York
July 16 – 25, 2019
Open Call for Artists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
Eight artists will travel to the U.S. from July 15–25 to participate in an intensive ten-day educational study visit focusing on best practices in the fields of Public Art and Social Practice Art organized by the international exchange organization CEC ArtsLink.
Application Deadline: March 22, 2019
12/13/2018
Platform Art Prospect Network Meeting
The 2018 evaluation and planning meeting of the Platform Art Prospect Network took place from December 10-13 in Minsk, Belarus.
10/22/2018
Art Prospect Tbilisi | Memory Threads: Museum and Neighborhood
The festival concerns the relationship of museums and neighborhoods, in this particular case the special history and layers the Silk Museum has in its surrounding.
10/22/2018
2nd International Festival of Public Art 'Art Prospect Bishkek'
The festival is planned as a practical experiment to rethink public spaces bearing in mind the influence of neoliberal policies.
9/10/2018
Open Call: 2nd International Festival of Public Art 'Art Prospect Bishkek'
Open Call for Artists from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine
Application deadline: October 3, 2018
9/9/2018
Art Prospect Festival 2018: Food for Thought
The 6th International Public Art Festival Art Prospect opens on Thursday, September 20, with a series of performances, workshops, presentations and events, which will offer artists and local residents the opportunity to explore the urban environment and to determine and reimagine its aesthetic, historical, cultural, and social ingredients.
7/31/2018
Four Days on the Road: open call for artists
CSM invites artists from Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan to participate in the project “Four Days on the Road” that will take place on September 27-30 as part of the Art Prospect public art festivals and residencies program.
7/22/2018
Open call: Art Prospect Festival: Memory Threads: Museum and Neighborhood
27 October — 4 November, 2018
Open call for participation
Artists based in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan are invited to apply for the Art Prospect festival “Memory Threads: Museum and Neighborhood” and implement public artworks.
Additionally, artists based in Georgia are invited to apply for creating and implementing artistic tours of the neighborhood as part of the festival.
Application deadline: 10 August, 2018 / 18:00 Georgia time
6/10/2018
Residency program '18
CEC ArtsLink is pleased to introduce the 25 artists and curators selected to participate in the 2018 Platform Art Prospect Residency Program. Read on for details of their projects on our website.
5/1/2018
Berlin and St. Petersburg
«From tactical urban interventions to strategic ones: Berlin and St. Petersburg» / Curator of educational programs of the Art Prospect festival on tactical and strategic interventions in public spaces that change the city, the experience of the Art Prospect and importance of solidarity, which made the territory of the former Tempelhof airport one of the most important public spaces of Berlin.
4/18/2018
Participants in the 2nd year of the Platform ART PROSPECT Residency program
CEC ArtsLink and the Platform Art Prospect Network are pleased to announce the participants in the 2nd year of the Platform Art Prospect Residency program. These artists and curators, who were chosen through a competitive competition of more than 130 applicants, will spend 3-4 weeks in residence at host organizations in ten countries between May and November 2018.
3/16/2018
Deadline extended until March 30
Platform Art Prospect Residency deadline extended until March 30
More information and application form is available here
3/5/2018
Open call — Residency Program 2018
Open Call for Artists and Curators from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan
APPLICATION DEADLINE MARCH 21, 2018
9/30/2017
[press-release] ART PROSPECT: URBAN OLUM - RETHINK, REDO, REVIVE
'Urban Olum' Public Art Festival organized by the Pillə urbanist initiative in Bayil concludes with a public exhibition on September 30 in the Bayil District of Baku.
9/14/2017
ART PROSPECT BISHKEK PROGRAM
We are pleased to present the program of the ART PROSPECT BISHKEK: BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO GREEN ZONES festival
9/14/2017
ART PROSPECT BISHKEK: BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO GREEN ZONES
International Public Art Festival ART PROSPECT BISHKEK: BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO GREEN ZONES kicks off on Sept. 22. The main venue chosen for the festival is the Gareev Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic. The Festival brings together more than 30 artists from Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Ukraine and the USA. Art Prospects' Public program includes master classes, meetings with artists and curators, and guided tours.
9/11/2017
Art Prospect Residency Program Blog
The ART PROSPECT Residency program provides opportunities for artists and curators to conduct research, collaborate with the local arts community and create new work in partnership with cultural organizations in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
Read our blog artprospectresidencyprogram.wordpress.com to know more about what artists do during residencies – domesticate in new spaces, think, make work, research, invent, rest and so on.
Among the latest publications — thoughts and observations from Olya Sosnovskaya, Diana Ukhina and Antonina Slobodchikova.
Stay Tuned!
9/6/2017
ARTBAT FEST 2017
Art Prospect became a partner of the international festival of contemporary art ARTBAT FEST (Almaty, Kazakhstan). The Art Prospect residency program will be represented at the festival by artists Lado Lomitashvili and Oksana Chepelik.
8/20/2017
OPEN CALL — ART PROSPECT: URBAN OLUM — RETHINK, REDO, REVIVE (16 – 30th of September, 2017 Baku)
8/13/2017
“Kukia Alphabet” in Tbilisi
Tigran Amiryan has a PhD in Literary Studies and is an independent curator and researcher of contemporary culture. For many years, his primary interest has been the narrativization of individual and collective memory in contemporary culture.
During his residency at GeoAIR Tigran Amiryan worked on the topic of multi-ethnicity and its dynamics in Tbilisi. He concentrated his research on cemeteries as sites of memory and elaborated a project called “Kukia Alphabet”.
7/24/2017
Alexandru Raevschi. The other Bukhara, or the personal is political
On July 15, an exhibition of the Moldavian artist Alexandru Raevschi was opened in the Bukhara Art Museum. The exposition is devoted to the self-determination of Bukhara citizens, expressed in the contrast between integration into the old-style political system and becoming a political outcast.
7/25/2017
Laboratoria ci in Bishkek: Artistic practices in investigation of the city
We are pleased to announce the meeting with Diana Ukhina — female curator and researcher from Bishkek, who will tell about the projects of Laboratoria ci as well as about the context of contemporary art and investigation of the city in Kyrgyzstan. The meeting will take place on 26 of July at 7 p.m. in the Gallery at DIM MK, Bohdan Khmel’nyts’kyi Street 57B.
Diana Ukhina will introduce methods used by Laboratoria ci for investigation of the city such as: learning of history and transformation of the districts, drifting and photodrifting, and mental maps.
6/5/2017
The first exhibition-installation was opened in Bukhara, Uzbekistan
The exhibition was held in Bukhara city on the 6th of July in the private apartment of local photographer Shavkat Boltaev. The show included work by a Belorussian artist Antonina Slobodchikova.
6/14/2017
Public Art Festival “ART PROSPECT – BISHKEK: GREEN ZONES-NEW BREATH”
The deadline for open call for International Public Art Festival “ART PROSPECT — BISHKEK: GREEN ZONES-NEW BREATH” is extended until June 30!
6/9/2017
On June 1-3 in Baku in El Viento Art&Crafts Cafe took place the exhibition "Gidjavar" prepared by participants of Art Prospect Residency Program
Works of contemporary artists Oleksander Ieltsyn (Ukraine) and Koka Vashakidze (Georgia) are focuced on the topic of how art can address diverse issues of pedestrians
5/31/2017
City and Culture with Dinara KANYBEK (Zpace, Chisinau, Moldova)
The presentation was dedicated to the experience of reorganizing the municipal library of the city of Bishkek. An important element of the project was the reinterpretation of meanings and values as well as the temporal dimension of this complex process
5/13/2017
International Public Art Festival “ART PROSPECT – BISHKEK: GREEN ZONES-NEW BREATH”
CEC ArtsLink is pleased to announce that this year's ART PROSPECT will take place in Bishkek, the capital and largest city of the Kyrgyz Republic. Artists from the following countries are invited to apply to participate in the Festival: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.
4/26/2017
[partner news] Open Call for Artists Arts in the Environment, Nordic Symposium
The organizers are accepting proposals for environmental artworks and performances, which will be mounted on Vartiosaari island, Helsinki August 25–31, 2017. The application period is March 4–May 31, 2017. Preference is given to Nordic, Baltic and Russian artists and artists living in the Nordic and Baltic countries and Russia
4/23/2017
Participants in the 1st year of the Platform ART PROSPECT Residency program
CEC ArtsLink and the Platform ART PROSPECT Network are pleased to announce the participants in the 1st year of the Platform ART PROSPECT Residency program. These artists and curators, who were chosen through a competitive competition of more than 130 applicants, will spend 2-4 weeks in residence at host organizations in ten countries between May and September 2017
4/22/2017
Presentation in Pskov, Russia
On April 23, the art-manager of the ART PROSPECT festival Natasha Ergens held a presentation in Pskov, Russia. The presentation took place within the framework of the 'Milk and Hay' project, and as a part of the 'Vetka' educational program
3/19/2017
Deadline extended until March 28
Platform Art Prospect Residency deadline extended until March 28
More information and application form is available here
2/28/2017
Open call — Residency Program
Open call for Artists and Curators from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan
APPLICATION DEADLINE MARCH 21, 2017
2/9/2017
Platform ART PROSPECT officially kicks off on February 11-14 in Tbilisi, Georgia
Platform ART PROSPECT officially kicks off on February 11–14 in Tbilisi, Georgia with a network meeting of representatives from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan and project organizer CEC ArtsLink. In 2017 Platform ART PROSPECT will support the exchange of more than thirty artists through a program of artist residencies in ten countries and a collaborative public art festival. Through these activities, Platform ART PROSPECT aims to facilitate communication and collaborative projects which demonstrate how art can be used as a tool for community engagement and to address social, economic, and political issues.