Apollonia Art Exchanges: Aspects of Contemporary Cultures in the Balkans

[anna balint]

ASPECTS OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURES IN THE BALKANS
THE SOUTH EAST AT THE CENTRE OF EUROPE

1. Street - Photographic exhibition by Milcho Manchevski
2. Projected visions Video art festival
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg in collaboration with the
Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Strasbourg and the French
Institutes of Belgrade, Chisinau, Sofia and Thessaloniki
3. GAZET'ARTCultural reviews and magazines in the Balkans
Lectures - debates
4. Artists' collectives in the Balkans. The example of "subREAL"
5. Des Anges et des Hommes
Exhibition  Aneta Svetieva (Macedonia), Aurel Vlad (Romania), Zahary Kamenov
(Bulgaria)

1. Street
Photographic exhibition by Milcho Manchevski
20 September– 7 November 2001: Apollonia space, 12 rue du Faubourg de
Pierre, 67100 Strasbourg
Admission free, Tuesday to Sunday at 3p.m. to 7p.m., Closed Monday
Preview Wednesday. 19th September at 7p.m.
Catalogue in Serbo-Croatian and English
In collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Skopje
As well as being a well-known film director - his film After the rain, won  the Golden
Lion at the Venice Festival in 1994 - Milcho Manchevski also excels as a
photographer. His incisive compositions, raw lighting and bright, almost  saturated
colours are the hallmark of his very personal style, which is firmly anchored  in the
contemporary reality of his country.
Born in Skopje (Macedonia) in 1959, Manchevski records unique, fleeting  moments for
all eternity: street scenes, daily life, the activities of ordinary people...  His style is
based on the sharpness of his outlook on life, with its often wry humour, his  technical
skills and his lucidity. His photographs are reminiscent of the grain and the  coloured
magic of his films.

2. Projected visions
Video art festival
23-24 October 2001 at 8p.m.: Auditorium du Musée d'Art Moderne et
Contemporain de Strasbourg
1, place Jean Hans Arp, 67000 Strasbourg
In collaboration with the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Strasbourg
and the French Institutes of Belgrade, Chisinau, Sofia and Thessaloniki
http://www.musees-strasbourg.org
A festival devoted to video creation in Bulgaria, the Federal Republic of  Yugoslavia,
Moldavia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Greece… On the programme: works which  illustrate
the rather caustic world of video art in the Balkans selected by several  personalities of
the region.

3. GAZET'ART
Cultural reviews and magazines in the Balkans
Lectures - debates
25 October 2001 at 3p.m.: Ecole des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, 1 rue de
l'Académie, 67000 Strasbourg
26 October 2001 at 8p.m.: Apollonia space, 12, rue du Faubourg de Pierre,
67000 Strasbourg
With Sonia Abadjieva for the Golemoto Staklo review (Macedonia), Ruxandra
Balaci and Irina Cios for Artelier (Romania), Darka Radosavljevic for Remont
(Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), Monika Matraszek pour la revue Arteon
(Pologne)
In collaboration with l'Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg
http://www.esad-stg.org
And with the participation and intervention of Rhinocéros et and the
representatives of the Compresse review
Apollonia and the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg are  organising
a series of talks given by critics, editors and publishers from Romania,  Macedonia, the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, among others, who produce, often in rather  difficult
circumstances, art reviews and magazines in order to promote the contemporary  art
scene in their respective countries.

4. Artists' collectives in the Balkans. The example of "subREAL"
Residence, performance, lecture
At 2nd to 8th November 2001: Syndicat Potentiel, 13 rue des Couples, 67000
Strasbourg
In collaboration with the Syndicat Potentiel
The 7th November 2001 at 8p.m.:  Lectures-Debates, Artists' collectives,
Apollonia Space, 12 rue du Faubourg de Pierre, 67 000 STRASBOURG
Info: Apollonia: 03 88 45 20 27, Syndicat Potentiel: 03 88 37 08 72,
syndicatpotentiel at fr.st
What does "collective work" mean for artists today, particularly when it is  carried out
on the periphery of the major centres of financial and cultural power? Can an  artists'
collective go beyond simply grouping together for material purposes (sharing  a
workshop and production tools, etc.)? What position will it adopt with regard  to
contemporary political and social questions, with regard to the market?
These are just a few of the elements that will be addressed in the debates  organised
by the Syndicat Potentiel, a Strasbourg collective and Apollonia, on the role  of
collectives and the practical issues they face in the current artistic world. The presence of
 "subREAL", a Romanian artists' collective, will enable  visitors to
discover an Eastern European collective and to compare approaches from  different
perspectives.

5. Des Anges et des Hommes
Exhibition
15 September–14 October 2001: La Laiterie–CEJC, 11, rue du Hohwald, 67000
Strasbourg
Tuesday to Sunday, at 3p.m. to 7p.m.
Artists: Aneta Svetieva (Macedonia), Aurel Vlad (Romania), Zahary Kamenov
(Bulgaria)
Curator: Dimitri Konstantinidis
Brochure in French
In collaboration with La Laiterie–CEJC
la.laiterie.cejc at wanadoo.fr
Spotlight on plastic artists who use elements of a traditional style in their  search to
create a continuity between the styles, signs and images of different eras  and different
cultures. Their work is highly individual, but they all use a formal  vocabulary that has
been handed down by the work done in raw