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Curators' Agenda: VIENNA 2018, Residencies
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Residency program for international, emerging curators   Duration: 17. September – 29. October 2018 Location: Vienna, Austria The fourth edition of the program Curators’ Agenda: VIENNA 2018 (C’A) is taking place for six weeks in Vienna in September and October 2018. C’A is an annual, unique, know-how program for international, emerging curators who are interested in exploring Vienna’s contemporary art scene and deepening their practical knowledge on the production and realization of exhibitions. The participants are selected on the basis of an open call, that is published worldwide five months before the program starts. The selection is based on the motivation letter and

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Critics’ Agenda: VIENNA 2017, Projects, Residencies
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Residency  program for international art critics Duration: 13. – 22. November 2017 Location: Vienna, Austria Critics’ Agenda: VIENNA 2017 is a pilot project of a residency program created for six international art critics who are invited to explore the contemporary Viennese art scene in more depth. The program takes place from 13. - 22. November. During a dense 10-day program, six invited art critics will be given comprehensive and profound insights into the contemporary Viennese art scene. Diverse program will include artists’ studio visits, meeting with art critics and curators, visiting ongoing exhibitions and

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Projects, Workshops
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Conversations - Sewing Workshops for Asylum Seekers Opening of the exhibition: 25. October 2017, 8.30pm Weltmuseum Wien Heldenplatz 1010 Vienna   The project Conversations – Sewing Workshops for Asylum Seekers is an accompanying project to the solo exhibition Conversations of the artist Dejan Kaludjerović, which will be held in Vienna in October 2017 on the occasion of the reopening of the Weltmuseum Wien. Kaludjerović's work series Conversations: Hula Hoops, Elastics, Marbles and Sand (2013 – ongoing) is based on interviews with children (6 – 10 years old) from different cultural, social and ethnic backgrounds. It deals with issues like friendship, dreams, games, social and political

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Curators' Agenda: VIENNA 2017, Projects, Residencies
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Residency program for international, emerging curators   Duration: 18. September – 29. October 2017 Location: Vienna, Austria The third edition of the program Curators’ Agenda: VIENNA 2017 (C’A) is taking place for six weeks in Vienna in September and October 2017. C’A is an annual, unique, know-how program for international, emerging curators who are interested in exploring Vienna’s contemporary art scene and deepening their practical knowledge on production and realization of exhibitions. The participants are selected on the basis of an open call, that is published worldwide five months before the program starts. The selection is based on the motivation

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Conferences/Symposiums, Migrations, Projects
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Past, Present and Future of Migrations from the Balkans to the Countries of Central and Western Europe EUROPOLY is a multidisciplinary project that tackles the important issue of migrations from the Balkan region to the countries of Central and Western Europe, starting from the huge influx of economic migrants (so-called Gastarbeiters) in the 1960's, over to refugees and brain drain caused by Yugoslav conflicts of the 1990's, to the most recent refugee crisis. The mission of the series of regional conferences EUROPOLY is to explore and map the rich social, cultural and artistic

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Curators' Agenda: VIENNA 2016, Projects, Residencies
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Residency program for international, emerging curators Duration: 22. September – 06. November 2016 Location: Vienna, Austria The second edition of the program, Curators’ Agenda: VIENNA 2016 (C’A), is taking place for six weeks in Vienna in September and October 2016. C’A presents an annual, unique, know-how program for international, emerging curators who are interested in exploring Vienna’s contemporary art scene and deepening their practical knowledge on production and realization of exhibitions. The participants are selected on the basis of an open call, that is published worldwide five months before the program starts. The selection

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Migrations, Projects
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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. This agreement, signed between these two countries on March the 4th 1966, represents the official beginning of this specific

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Literary program, Projects
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07. August 2016, 9pm Square in front of the St Mark's Cathedral Korčula, Croatia   In August 2016, the Festival celebrates its 5th edition. ŠUŠUR! Festival of Words 2016 has devoted this year’s program to the socio-political aspect of intellectual migration and associated cause-effects. The goal is 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. The topic of

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Curators' Agenda: VIENNA 2015, Projects, Residencies
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Residency program for international, emerging curators   Duration: 23. September – 31. October 2015 Location: Vienna, Austria   Two years after the pilot project Curators Connection, the six-week program under a new name Curators’ Agenda: VIENNA 2015 (C’A) is being organised for the first time, in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The aim of the project is to establish an annual, unique, know-how program for international, emerging curators who are interested in exploring Vienna’s contemporary art scene and deepening their practical knowledge on production and realization of exhibitions. The participants are selected on the basis of

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Projects, Visual Art
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viennacontemporary 24. – 27. September 2015 Marx Halle Karl-Farkas-Gasse 19 1030 Vienna     BLOCKFREI is happy to announce that it will present three art collectives from Serbia in the category of "editions" during the viennacontemporary art fair: 1. The Centre for Graphics and Visual Research Akademija - Faculty of Fine Arts 2. Silkskrin collective 3. Belgrade Raw collective These collectives represent some of the most distinctive players in today's contemporary art scene in Serbia, and include established figures alongside the emerging artist. Gathered around shared goals, they produce editions of graphic prints and photographs in small series, available in limited

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BLOCKFREI is an independent cultural organization based in Vienna. It was established in 2013 as a platform for innovative cultural praxis, with the goal to support the cooperation between cultural groups from Austria and South-Eastern Europe. BLOCKFREI embodies the concept of mobility of artists and cultural professionals, strongly believing that multicultural projects are of the highest importance and inevitability part of the global cultural and geopolitical sphere.
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BLOCKFREI – Verein für Kultur und Kommunikation
info@blockfrei.org
+43 6602806045
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Nevena Janković
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