European Cultural Foundation

By Nadim Karam, Atelier Hapsitus, Beirut (www.hapsitus.com)
I always felt it important to go public.
Maybe as a need to reach the world around me and exteriorize myself. Also as a necessity to address the city culturally, especially the emerging post war cities like (Beirut & others) were the financial issues are first addressed while the city’s […]

As conclusion of the Atlante Mediterraneo project, the aMAZE cultural lab in Milan together with the department of Industrial Arts & Design of the IUAV in Venice, offer a moment of reflection in collaboration with Venice International Biennial.
An experimental and multi-disciplinary debate on seven “case study” cities (Istanbul, Beirut, Nicosia, Tel Aviv, Alexandria, Barcelona […]

by Claudia Zanfi, artistic director aMAZElab (www.amaze.it)
Atlante Mediterraneo is a collective project, designed to create a network of theoretical and artistic research among the countries that look onto the Mediterranean. An international and multi-disciplinary exchange space, a crossroads of different ideas, theoretical reflections and contemporary artistic practices. Atlante Mediterraneo has prepared a series of activities, […]

Report by Nermin Saybasili, curator
Project coordinator for Platfom Garanti, Istanbul (www.platform.garanti.com.tr)
For the project Atlante Mediterraneo, a group of young artists from Istanbul is conducting their research individually. Here I want to make a special emphasis on mobility, a mobile artistic practice and analysis, on a Deleuzian ‘nomadic becoming’, which allows for otherwise unlikely encounters and […]

We are pleased to announce the release of the book
GOING PUBLIC ‘06. ATLANTE MEDITERRANEO
The book gathers the results of 18 mounth of public art and territorial project, the site specific artistic interventions, and the researches of partners and contributors from six mediterranean cities: Istanbul, Beirut, Nicosia, Tel Aviv, Alexandria, Barcelona.
250 pages, 2 languages (it+engl), 160 […]