Mare Articum
MARE ARTICUM is a cultural co-operation project in the Baltic Sea region. It is co-ordinated by the Mare Articum Foundation in collaboration with the National Museum in Szczecin (Poland) and representatives from important art institutions around the Baltic Sea. The strategic aim of MARE ARTICUM is to promote contemporary visual art and artists.
- What is the project about?
MARE ARTICUM strengthens the framework for regional co-operation via ongoing projects as well as to add new components that involve new projects and partners. MARE ARTICUM achieves this by the means of projects such as The Baltic Contemporary Art Biennial, exhibitions and seminars as well as the MARE ARTICUM Magazine (1997 to 2003).
The Baltic Contemporary Art Biennial, produced in conjunction with the National Museum in Szczecin, is an ongoing project that has taken place in Szczecin (Poland), Visby (Sweden) and Riga (Latvia). Over 200 artists, performers and musicians have taken part in these events. A course of seminars by art critics and curators probably resulting in publications accompanies each biennial.
Since 1997, MARE ARTICUM has curated, co-ordinated and produced exhibitions and seminars devoted to Baltic contemporary art events in Stockholm (Sweden), Gdańsk (Poland), St. Petersburg (Russia), Bornholm (Denmark), Riga (Latvia) and Frankfurt am Main (Germany). MARE ARTICUM also strives to extend its reach beyond the Baltic Sea Region via co-operative exhibitions and publications.
- Who is the target group?
MARE ARTICUM is a project for anyone interested in contemporary visual art.
- Retrospect on past MARE ARTICUM projects
The Mare Articum Magazine was a semi-annual bilingual (Polish/English) magazine devoted to themes in contemporary art. The 13 volumes published between 1997 and 2003 have dealt with an array of themes, including: Beauty, Nomadism, Gender, Globalisation, Art and Politics, New Art of St. Petersburg. The magazine served as one of the basic tools for developing the MARE ARTICUM program. Focused on contemporary art in the Baltic countries, the magazine covered the most innovative arts in all fields – ranging from painting over photography and video to text-based art. The magazine created a critical forum for the discussion of the Baltic art scene and brought together a distinguished group of critics, writers and curators from the region as editors and contributors.
2003: co-operative exhibitions and publications together with the MOMOA PS1 Contemporary Art Centre in New York
MARE ARTICUM had a co-operation with the association apollonia european art exchanges from Strasbourg (France) and the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (Greece).
In 2007, the Baltic Biennial held in Szczecin dealt with TransRobota – culture in post-industrial areas – as its main topic.
In 2009, the Dystopian Realms – Idyllic Meadows exhibition took place in Szczecin’s Pomeranian Castle and The National Museum. The biennial called Windows upon Oceans was realised simultaneously by partners from Artventure – the Visual Art Network in Strasbourg, Thessaloniki, Liege, Nikosia and Szczecin.
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23.11.2010
"Creative Geography – Mental Landscapes"
The ARS BALTICA accredited MARE ARTICUM (Poland) offers a programme with exhibitions, presentations and workshops (until 16 Dec 2010).
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"ARS BALTICA is not a bureaucratic construction for political posturing, but a concept that stands for unconventional and committed collaboration in real cooperative projects." (Rainer Haarmann, former ARS BALTICA Coordinator, 1997)
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Key Facts
- start of the project in 1995
- accredited with the ARS BALTICA logo since 1999
- located at Szcecin (Poland)
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