European Cultural Foundation

Report by Ofri Cnaani (Israel/NYC) and Jenny Vogel (Germany/NCY), artists
What are the daily issues one is confronted with?
What are the misunderstandings, frustrations, challenges one is confronted with?
Due to several circumstances like the instability of the political situation in the Middle East, the lack of budget available to us, we had to stay flexible […]

Report by Achilleas Kentonis, artist
Director of Artos Foundation, Nicosia Cyprus (www.artosfoundation.org)
What are the daily issues one is confronted with?
I would focus on two key words on this question: daily and confronted. Human nature deals with these two “codes” in an opposite way. “Western” people as part of a social group always try to keep on […]

Report by Abdalla Daif, artist and writer
Co-founder of Gudran Association for Art and Development (www.gudran.com)
The first question that came on my mind is what I would do, as an artist going to that community, with all those artists gathered in that meeting. A question that takes many forms, beginning with how to say “goodmorning“, including […]

Report by Giulia Giapponesi, video artists
University of Visual Arts, Bologna (part of Italian group)
As an Italian artist who participate in the international project Atlante Mediterraneo, I am part of the group of the exchange in which thirty young artists from five different Mediterranean countries have been invited to work together with the same task: having […]

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 […]