[artinfo] conference Public vs Private

[galerija skuc]

Skuc Gallery is inviting you on the international conference

 
Public vs. Private

Cultural Policies and the Art Market in Central and South-Eastern Europe


2-4 April 2004

at Moderna galerija/Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana

The conference Public vs. Private: Cultural 
Policies and the Art Market in Central and 
South-Eastern Europe is one among the series of 
conferences and symposia that will take place in 
2004 in Vienna, Linz, Ljubljana, London, Lüneburg 
and Riga as part of the European Internet project 
republicart. Supplementing the Vienna conference 
on Public Art Policies, the conference in 
Ljubljana will look at the cultural-policy 
aspects of the wider republicart project. At the 
same time it is a part of the series of events 
“In the Cities of the Balkans”, the second part 
of the one-year project “Balkan Trilogy”, 
initiated by Kunsthalle Fridericinaum, Kassel.

The goal of this gathering is to interrogate the 
workings of art institutions, and their specific 
support structures. The conference looks at the 
buffering role of art institutions within the 
context of the dismantling of the welfare state 
and cutbacks in arts funding from two distinct 
regionally oriented perspectives in which the 
question of the relationship between private and 
public support for the arts is of particular 
significance for these two quite different 
geographical and historical contexts.

At a time when private and public support for art 
is even more closely intertwined and we see such 
strategies being introduced as, for instance, 
“private-public partnerships”, the conference 
will attempt to probe more deeply into the 
differences between private and public support, 
in terms of their mechanisms, functions and 
effects, as well as their mutual rivalry and 
exclusivity.

Concept by Gregor Podnar in collaboration with Nataša Petrešin.

The participants of the conference: Marius Babias 
(Berlin), Zdenka Badovinac (Ljubljana), Riccardo 
Caldura (Marghera/Venice), Vesna âopiã 
(Ljubljana), Dobrila Denegri (Rome), Els Hanappe 
(Athens), Janos Szoboszlai (Budapest), Erden 
Kosova (Istanbul), Brane Koviã (Ljubljana), Tomi 
Medak (Zagreb), Miran Mohar (Ljubljana), Angelika 
Nollert (Munich), Blaž Peršin (Ljubljana), Robert 
Pfaller (Vienna), Sonia Rosso (Turin), Andreas 
Schnitzler (Graz), Erzen Shkololli (Peja), Goran 
Sergej Pristaš (Zagreb), Attila Tordai-S. 
(Cluj-Napoca), Nebojša Viliç (Skopje), Franci 
Zavrl (Ljubljana).


Moderated by: Steve Green (British Council, 
Ljubljana), Bernard Micaud (Institut Français 
Charles Nodier, Ljubljana), Nataša Petrešin 
(free-lance curator, Ljubljana), Gregor Podnar 
(Galerija Gregor Podnar, Kranj/ Ljubljana), and 
Eva Maria Stadler (Grazer Kunstverein).

The conference will be accomplished by a 
publication edited by Nataša Petrešin in 
collaboration with Gregor Podnar, funded by 
Kulturstiftung des Bundes. 


Public vs. Private is organised by Galerija Škuc, 
Ljubljana, as part of the project republicart 
(<http://www.republicart/>www.republicart.net). 
Public vs. Private also takes place in the 
context of “In the Cities of the Balkans”, the 
2nd part of the “Balkans trilogy”, a project 
initiated by the Kunsthalle Fridericianum, 
Kassel. The conference will be hosted by Moderna 
galerija / Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, 
co-organiser of the project.