/ GeoAIR TBILISI From 2003 onwards, GeoAIR organizes and supports internatio- nal exchange projects with the goal of strengthening the Georgian and Caucasian art world, bringing together artists from different cultural backgrounds and finding relevant contexts for them to work in. GeoAIR works together with international individuals and orga- nizations that share same goals. Since January 2010, GeoAIR runs an Art Residency programme in Tbilisi, Georgia. This is a self-directed residency programme, that offers artists and curators the opportunity to base themselves in Tbilisi, Georgia, and use this location as a starting point to build networks, meet artists, curators, get to know cultural institutions from the Caucasus region. In 2007 GeoAIR initiated the ‘Archidrome’ Contemporary Art Ar- chive. ‘Archidrome’ serves as a presentation room where artists’ talks, meetings, discussions and presentations take place ‘Archid- rome’ invites local as well as foreign artist for presentations and lectures that concern the cultural events in the Caucasus region. ”Shaded projects“, Art prints of 5 submissions of art projects for the Biennale of Levan Chogoshvili, Konstantin Mindadze, Levan Mindiashvili, Iliko Zautashvili, Natalia Amirejibi, Gia Bughadze, Oleg Tumchenko Geo Air22, Saguramo St. 0112 TbilisiGeorgia www.geoair.blogspot.com / [kSA:k] - CenTeR foR ConTempoRARy ARTChISInAu Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau - [ksa:k] is a non-govern- mental, non-profit, independent institution registered in the year 2000. The Center’s mission is to contribute to the accreditation ofthe contemporary art practices in the Republic of Moldova by the encouragement of the new forms of artistic and cultural expression that would reflect the dynamics of the social, political and eco- nomical transformations of the country. The Center emphasizes on supporting of a new generation of socially active artists, capable of questioning the legitimacy of the official cultural policy, with its inheritance of the totalitarian past. In this sense, the Center is in a continuous search for cultural forms, which would correspond to the newly established social, political and economic order of a society in transition. ”MALLdova"presentation of documentary by Denis Bartev, Tatiana Fiodorova, Vadim Tiganas, Vladimir Us, Collage of texts, posters and postcards by Igor Scerbina [ksa:k] - Center for Contemporary ArtStr. Banulescu-Bodoni 5, Ap. 2MD-2012 Chisinau Moldova www.art.md/ ART And CuLTuRAL STudIeS LABoRAToRy(ACSL)yeReVAn ”Art and Cultural Studies Laboratory” (ACSL) is an independent, non-governmental organization providing a stable platform for cri- tical analysis, reflections, open discussions, information exchange and interactive communication, which would contribute to the de- velopment of contemporary creative processes by setting up exhibi- tions, discursive events, and educational programmes. ACSL promo- tes the development of Armenia as a zone of cultural dialogue and meeting place with its current situation as a post-Soviet country and its contextual and ideological issues. In 2008, ACSL established the ”Art Commune” International AIRprogramme as an artist residency and projects workshops in Armenia. The programme can be con- sidered as one of the major hubs of ACSL’s international and local activities incorporating promotion and analysis of contemporary art practices. ”Black Garden“, of Archi Galentz, 9 litho-monotypes on paper on canvas”How to colonize a nation in 19 steps!”, June 05, 4 p.m.Performative interaction with Karen Hakobyan and Harout Simonyan Art and Cultural Studies Laboratory – ACSL 8, A. Hovhannisyan, Apt. 28 0076 Yerevan Armenia www.acsl.am / RohkunSTBAu mARquARdTAs the introduction to a four-year cycle of shows, the XVIII Rohkunstbau is highlighting the subject of power in its 2011 summer exhibition – in a free interpretation taking Wagner's ”Ring of the Nibelung” as its point of reference. ”The Rhine gold” with its seeds of conflict in unrequited love and an overwhelming desire for power defines the context of the to- pics explored in the first part of the Rohkunstbau Ring. In today's society, the idea of power tends to have a ne- gative connotation, and is generally associated with a craving for power, suppression, manipulation or even avarice. Hard- ly any other concept has been discussed and interpreted in such conflicting ways. The French philosopher Foucault, for example, who considered power to be productive capacity , saw it as a principle of development and integration in our society and, hence, as a practical principle. The Rohkunstbau arts festival has a long established tradition of presenting site-specific contemporary art. This summer it has once again brought together a group of inter- national artists to present their works to an interested au- dience at a location outside the mainstream art scene. Photographs of the Rohkunstbau exhibition 2011 taken by Roland Horn, with art- works of Marc Brandenburg, Christoph Brech, Simon Faithfull, Oswaldo Maciá, Judy Millar, Mariele Neudecker, Frank Nitsche, Katinka Pilscheur, Karin Sander, Mariana Vassileva Rohkunstbau Dortustr. 5214467 Potsdam Germanywww.rohkunstbau.de/ heInRICh- BÖLL-STIfTunG BRAnde nBuRG poTSdAm The Heinrich-Boell-Stiftung Brandenburg e.V. was foun- ded in 1990 as an educational institution affiliated with the Green Party and is located in Potsdam/Germany. Since then, the foundation organizes and promotes events of political and cultural education with the objective of supporting de- mocratic decision-making processes and socio-political en- gagement on regional, supraregional and international level. In cooperation with various partners from Eastern Europe, the foundation coordinates the ‘Atlantis’ artist network and administrates the ‘Rohkunstbau’ exhibition, an international contemporary art festival at Schloss Marquardt. ”I Remember Chernobyl“4-channel-video-ins tallation of”Inamillionyears.com“Heinrich-Bö ll-Stiftung Brandenburg Werkstatt für politische Bildung e.V. Dortustr. 5214467 Potsdam Germanywww.boell-brandenburg.de/ ART TodAy ASSoCIATIon pLoVdIVArt Today Association was established in 1997 as a non- governmental organization. We established the Center for Contemporary Art Plovdiv, situated in the Ottoman Bath premises - a unique monument of culture from the 16th century with a specific interior. Our mission is to present and document alternative and experimental forms of contemporary art; to build an infor- mational multimedia data base presenting contemporary authors; to prepare periodical and unique print materi- als; to host artists and curators in residence; to implement training programs, workshops and conferences for different target groups. ”A place, where we won´t be again (Shopski traditional)"a projectby artist collective R.E.P. (Kiev)shortlist of submissions to the Open Call"A Bulgarian Pavilion in Bulgaria", mixed media Art Today Association - Center for Contemporary Art Plovdiv36, Konstantin Stoilov Str. 4000 PlovdivBulgaria www.arttoday.org / SpACe GALLeRyBRATISLAVA SPACE, founded in 1999 as a non-profit gallery, covers several independent projects focusing on presentation ofcontemporary art both in Slovakia and abroad, residency programmes, public art projects and publication activities. SPACE is an initiative for presentation of artists who syste- matically question common communication strategies and break formal and contextual structure of an artwork stres- sing the importance of innovation and experiment. SPACE’s central mission is to create an interactive space for the com- munication between the audience and contemporary art and to initiate international cooperation and exchange. ”Rahova“video by David Možný (CZ)video by Matúš Lányi (SK), documentation of his installation ofChartres cathedral’s plan SpaceVelehradská 7/A 821 08 Bratislava Slovak Republicwww.crazycurators.org ”This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communica- tion reects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.“
