The program includes a combination of activities organized by the EGC secretariat and adjoining events organized by local glass artists, students and visiting artists who wish to participate in the event by organizing an exhibition, a happening and an event. All proposed activities will be reviewed by the secretariat, to ensure a high level of artistic quality.
http://www.europeanglasscontext.com/programme
EGC2016 – Open Call, will be exhibited at Grønbechs Gaard. We invite individual curators, artist groups or artists to apply for participation. With this approach, we hope to include collaborative works, experimentalism, activism etc. The curator group will select works and projects for participation among the applicants.
http://www.europeanglasscontext.com/egc2016-open-call
EGC2016 – Curated, will be exhibited at Bornholm Art Museum and curated by a group of 6 curators. The curators will nominate artists for participation from their region, the curator group will make the final selection. Participation in this exhibition is by nomination only.
http://www.europeanglasscontext.com/egc2016-curated
The EGC2016 Prizes and Jury. Two prizes of € 10.000 € and € 5000 will be given to two outstanding artists or artists groups, selected among the participants in the two exhibitions. A jury of three international members with expertise within the field of glass will go through the exhibitions before the opening and select the prize winners. The winners will be announced at the exhibition opening.
http://www.europeanglasscontext.com/exhibitions
AiR Bornholm. The Royal Danish Academy, School of Design Bornholm is offering a residency for two artists working in glass. Selected artists will be given the time and space to develop a new project or body of work in glass. The residency provides basic materials and six weeks access to studio facilities at the glass department at KADK Bornholm.
http://www.europeanglasscontext.com/artist-residence
The Glass Virus Think Tank and The Royal Danish Academy, School of Design Bornholm have decided to join forces in organizing an educational seminar in collaboration with the objective: Creating the utopian synergy of glass education
http://www.europeanglasscontext.com/glass-virus
EGC2016 Conference - Call for Papers
GLASS - Cultural Heritage and Craftsmanship, Process as Object. In the expanding field of contemporary glass art and crafts, artists, curators, museums, and educational institutions are thus using the glassmaking process and matter as content and mediator for expressing narrative works, performance, and activism with both political and gender issues.
http://www.europeanglasscontext.com/conference
For further information please contact the EGC2016 secretariat:
European Glass Context 2016
v/ Royal Danish Academy School of Design Bornholm
Project Director Susanne Jøker Johnsen
+45 (0)4170-1980
info@europeanglasscontext.com
