Tuesday, 20. December 2022, 7 pm Online (Zoom event) Vienna, Austria   Nastia Khlestova is the curator and founder of the independent art space 127 Garage in Kharkiv, focused on working with emerging artists and community-based practices. Over the past years, Nastia studied the functioning of self-organized spaces in different countries of Europe in order to understand their experiences and put it into practice. During the last three months, she has scanned the Viennese art scene in the scope of the residency program Curators’ Agenda Research Residency: Vienna 2022, adding a new position to her

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14, 15, & 17 February 2022 (Online / Vienna, Austria) Hybrid format, combining online and live sessions:   In the framework of the project "RESHAPING THE IMAGE OF DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONS 1989: European Contemporary Perspectives and Forgotten Lessons from the Past" the International Forum “The democratic revolutions of 1989 in popular culture and art” will be realized in a hybrid format, combining online and live sessions. The project seeks to remind European citizens about the democratic revolutions 1989-1990 as a period of arduous struggles for pluralistic democracy and peaceful coexistence in Europe with the aim to

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6 – 7 December 2019 Venue: Depot - Kunst und Diskussion Breite Gasse 3 1070 Wien   In the light of 2019 – the bilateral “Year of Culture” between Ukraine and Austria, BLOCKFREI has created a project The New Scene of Ukraine with the idea to present the existing and emerging cultural associations from Ukraine. The main goal is to connect them with their Austrian colleagues for the purpose of exchange of ideas and to lay a foundation for their potential collaboration in the years to come. So far two of the three planned activities have

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Friday, 11 October, 4pm U10 Art Space Kralja Milana 10 (entrance from Kosovke devojke 3) 11000 Belgrade   The international art fair - viennacontemporary Presentation by Johanna Chromik Keynote: Kate Sutton - Art critic The panelists: Johanna Chromik - Artistic director of viennacontemporary Max L. Feldman - Art critic Andrea Kopranovic, Associate Director, Christine König Galerie, Vienna Christiane Kada - Styrian State Government, Department for Cultural Affairs – Awards and Scholarships Introduction and moderation: Nevena Janković - BLOCKFREI co-founder and director   According to the statistics in various yearly reports, the globalization of the art world has been immensely contributing to the expansion of the art market, however, its main dominant players are

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Saturday, 27. October 2016 11:30 am - guided tour 12:30 – 2 pm - artist talk Krinzinger Projekte Schottenfeldgasse 45 1070 Vienna As a part of the exhibition Tomorrow Is Cancelled at Krinzinger Projekte (26 October – 6 November 2018), organized by 8 international curators in the framework of the residency program Curators’ Agenda: VIENNA 2018, we invite you to join us for an artist talk with Lisa Großkopf, one of the featured artist in the show. The talk will be led by Sania Galundia, one of the exhibition’s curators. A guided tour through the exhibition will precede the artist talk.   Artists Maximiliane Leni Armann / Nicoleta Auersperg /

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Symposium program 2nd and 3rd November, 2018 University of Applied Arts Vienna (Lichthof B) Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2 1010 Vienna The key note speakers of the panels are art historians, historians, political scientists and artists. After giving their presentations on relevant topics of their interest (15 minutes) the key note speakers will engage in a moderated panel-discussion talk for another 30 minutes, with additional 10 minutes for audience Q&A. The participants will exchange and compare their knowledge, experiences and convictions on the context, causes, the course and the aftermath of the influential tendencies in the art of the ’68, while emphasizing the

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CONFERENCE/EXHIBITION/FILM PROGRAM EUROPOLY, VIENNA #4 Past, Present and Future of the Balkan Migrations in Countries of Central and Western Europe   Exhibition opening: 14. December 2017, 7pm Europoly - The European Union Identity Trading Game by the artist Dejan Kaludjerović On view: 15. December 2017 ‒ 12. January 2018 Conference: 15. December 2017, 6pm 16. December 2017, 1pm Film program: 12. January 2018, 5pm   Volkskundemuseum Wien Laudongasse 15-19 1080 Wien   A fourth multidisciplinary event in the framework of the project EUROPOLY takes place in Vienna, realized in collaboration with four independent organisations – Krokodil (Serbia), Bijeli Val (Croatia), Crvena (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and BLOCKFREI (Austria). The intention of the project is to research and map the intense

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Tuesday, 21. November, 6:30pm KUNST HAUS WIEN Untere Weißgerberstraße 13 1030 Vienna, Austria   In the framework of the BLOCKFREI's residency for six international art critics Critics' Agenda: VIENNA 2017 a panel discussion will be held on the Role of Art Criticism. Organized in two consecutive panels lead by AICA France and AICA Austria prize winners Klaus Speidel and Christoph Chwatal, respectively, the discussion provides an insight into the residency program for international art critics Critics’ Agenda: VIENNA 2017 focusing on the participants’ reflections on art criticism and the larger field into which criticism

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CONFERENCE/EXHIBITION EUROPOLY, SARAJEVO #3   Past, Present and Future of the Balkan Migrations in Countries of Central and Western Europe   9. November 2017, 7pm Opening of the 6th OPEN UNIVERSITY SARAJEVO Exhibition opening: Europoly - The European Union Identity Trading Game Artist talk: Dejan Kaludjerović and Jelena Petrović History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zmaja od Bosne 6 71000 Sarajevo   A third multidisciplinary event in the framework of the project EUROPOLY takes place in Sarajevo, realized in collaboration with four independent organisations – Bijeli val (Croatia), Krokodil (Serbia), Crvena (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and BLOCKFREI (Austria). The intention of the project is to research and map the intense social, cultural and

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CONFERENCE/EXHIBITION/FILM SCREENINGS EUROPOLY, ZAGREB #2   Past, Present and Future of the Balkan Migrations in Countries of Central and Western Europe Opening: 2. May 2017, 7pm 2. ‒  3. May, conference 2. ‒ 11. May, exhibition 4. ‒  6. May, film screenings Centre for Culture and Information (KIC) Preradovićeva 5 10000 Zagreb    A second multidisciplinary event in the framework of the project EUROPOLY takes place in Zagreb, realized in collaboration with four independent organisations – Bijeli val (Croatia), Krokodil (Serbia), Crvena (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and BLOCKFREI (Austria). The intention of the project is to research and map the intense social, cultural and artistic

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