Third Open International Competition -TOWER KRONPRINZ: SECOND ADVENT

(2008 02 05 22:19)

The international competition TOWER KRONPRINZ: SECOND ADVENT  is aimed at promoting among local population and professional artistic community the future residence of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Kaliningrad - a cultural and historical monument of the mid 19th century, fortress tower-redan «KRONPRINZ».

 

Today Kronprinz barracks is the monument of the military and engineering architecture, an object of cultural and historical heritage of federal importance protected by the state. In 2003 a part of the defensive barracks – tower-redan Kronprinz – was placed at the disposal of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in order to establish a museum, exhibition, research and information centre for contemporary culture in Kaliningrad.

At present  the tower is undergoing reconstruction meant as a creative process,. Accordingly, every year the monument is integrated iinto regional and European cultural basing on the  proposals of artists. The First and Second International competitions TOWER KRONPRINZ: SECOND ADVENT took place in the years 2005/2006 and 2006/2007.

 

CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION:
The following projects are eligible for the competition: developed by Russian and international artists for implementation in the period from April to October 2008, newly created and never shown before, related to the tower KRONPRINZ and meant for demonstration on its territory.

 

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION:
• Creative approach to the space of the tower KRONPRINZ, its actualisation and new artistic interpretation
• Novelty of the idea and visual solutions
• Relevance of the project to the conditions of the competition
• Realistic technical implementation
• Realistic budget

 

ORGANISERS:

Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts
with support of the Federal Agency for Culture and Film and the Ford Foundation

APPLICATIONS ARE TO BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY UNTIL 15 MARCH 2008.

More information on the project  can be found on this website.

 

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