K-Gold Temporary Gallery is a nomadic platform for contemporary art that was founded in 2014 in the Greek island of Lesvos by Nicolas Vamvouklis. It focuses on collaborative approaches to cultural production within its locality and beyond by activating alternative spaces and offering artists and curators the opportunity to expand their research and practice through art commissions, exhibitions, performances, educational programmes and other artistic projects that strongly connect communities. K-Gold Temporary Gallery, beside its activities in Lesvos, collaborates with cultural institutions in Greece and abroad.
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K-Gold Temporary Gallery is a nomadic platform for contemporary art that was founded in 2014 in the Greek island of Lesvos by Nicolas Vamvouklis. It focuses on collaborative approaches to cultural production within its locality and beyond by activating alternative spaces and offering artists and curators the opportunity to expand their research and practice through art commissions, exhibitions, performances, educational programmes and other artistic projects that strongly connect communities. K-Gold Temporary Gallery, beside its activities in Lesvos, collaborates with cultural institutions in Greece and abroad.
kgoldtemporarygallery.tumblr.com
kgoldtemporarygallery@yahoo.com
K-Gold Temporary Gallery is a nomadic platform for contemporary art that was founded in 2014 in the Greek island of Lesvos by Nicolas Vamvouklis. It focuses on collaborative approaches to cultural production within its locality and beyond by activating alternative spaces and offering artists and curators the opportunity to expand their research and practice through art commissions, exhibitions, performances, educational programmes and other artistic projects that strongly connect communities. K-Gold Temporary Gallery, beside its activities in Lesvos, collaborates with cultural institutions in Greece and abroad.
kgoldtemporarygallery.tumblr.com
kgoldtemporarygallery@yahoo.com
K-Gold Temporary Gallery is a nomadic platform for contemporary art that was founded in 2014 in the Greek island of Lesvos by Nicolas Vamvouklis. It focuses on collaborative approaches to cultural production within its locality and beyond by activating alternative spaces and offering artists and curators the opportunity to expand their research and practice through art commissions, exhibitions, performances, educational programmes and other artistic projects that strongly connect communities. K-Gold Temporary Gallery, beside its activities in Lesvos, collaborates with cultural institutions in Greece and abroad.
kgoldtemporarygallery.tumblr.com
kgoldtemporarygallery@yahoo.com
Virginija Januskeviciute is curator at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius, Lithuania, where she has organized numerous projects such as The Joy is Not Mentioned, 2007, (part of an ongoing ‘young Lithuanian artists’ series, featuring Egle Budvytyte, Goda Budvytyte and Ieva Miseviciute); and For the First and the Second Time, 2008 (an exhibition of artists investigating the history of Modernism, in collaboration with Stroom, a center for visual arts and architecture based in The Hague). Most recently, Virginija is programming the Reading Room, CAC’s venue for talks, discussions, lectures, performances and presentations as well curatorial and artistic experimentation.
Virginija Januskeviciute is curator at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius, Lithuania, where she has organized numerous projects such as The Joy is Not Mentioned, 2007, (part of an ongoing ‘young Lithuanian artists’ series, featuring Egle Budvytyte, Goda Budvytyte and Ieva Miseviciute); and For the First and the Second Time, 2008 (an exhibition of artists investigating the history of Modernism, in collaboration with Stroom, a center for visual arts and architecture based in The Hague). Most recently, Virginija is programming the Reading Room, CAC’s venue for talks, discussions, lectures, performances and presentations as well curatorial and artistic experimentation.
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The Easttopics East Talks online program offers you the possibility to participate in courses, lectures and discussions focusing on the CEE contemporary art world with flexibility, wherever you are based. Composed of presentations by curators, artists and researchers, the second Easttopics East Talks program aims to investigate the very actual topic of Art and Future.
Video conferences are scheduled from 10am to 5pm CET. Recordings will be available after each day in case you miss a live session.
The live video conferences will run on Zoom, please check the technical requirements here.
Live captioning will be available during the video conference.
Dates: 1-3 October
Deadline: 27 September
Fee: 200 EUR
The Art and Future conference is open to all individuals around the world.
The Art and Future East Talks will focus on the following thematics:

Maja and Reuben FOWKES: Ecological concerns in the Art of Central and Eastern Europe - A historical approach (1960- 1970)
Oct 1
14:30-15:15 CET

Róna KOPECZKY: Agnes DENES, the pioneer of Eco-Logic and Environmental Conceptual Art
Oct 1
16:30-17.15 CET

Selma SELMAN: Superpositional Intersectionalism - a 100 year plan curated by AI
Oct 2
12:00-12:45 CET

Joanna WARSZA: Needs and means of making biennials under pandemic
Oct 2
14:00-14:45 CET

Joanna WARSZA: Autostrada Biennial
Oct 2
15:00-15:45 CET

Ágnes Karolina BAKK & Mihály MINKÓ: How to communicate in the future (with our plants)? Researching and visualizing plant cognition with artistic methods in university lab setting
Oct 3
12:00-13:00 CET

Eszter SZAKÁCS: Figuring the Future of Grassroots Alliances in Art Organizing
Oct 3
14:00-14:45 CET

Barnabás BENCSIK: Antal LAKNER
Fiction and Speculation – When the Art Objects become Prototypes for Tactile Use
Oct 3
15:00-15:45 CET