AICA-HELLAS SEMINAR

Seminar 4 - Athens

From Art school to professional Practice

	Venue: Benaki Museum Thursday 22 Febryary 2007
	*Countries taking part: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, FYROM, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey*

	Another Analytical Step West, South, North, East Europe
	AICA investigates the theme “From Art School to Professional Practice” in a series of four seminars reflecting the problematic in different European countries. The cardinal questions around which the discussion will evolve are on how and why do the local art schools prepare their students to become visual artists? What is the importance/role given to a transversal training with curatorial courses, history and art criticism? And in a broader perspective, taking into consideration that all these questions and responses are raised 1) within the context of the European reforms for high level teaching, and 2) with the intention of setting up a show/Biennale of young artists. The first seminar in Dublin showed the need to examine the role of art education in its social context, by looking at the differences between the systems of art education in the countries represented: Austria, Greece, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. The second one, in Copenhagen, involving representatives from Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Norway, examined some of the same issues in greater depth and focused more closely on analysing the contents and the consequences of fully professionalized teaching, in line with the new requirements of the current European reforms. In Valencia, the speakers who represented art educational institutions from Croatia, France, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain explored related fields of enquiry, with a particular emphasis on the role of curatorial courses in the field of higher education, not only for art historians, but for visual art students and discussed the differences in approach by the different cultural situations. In the Athens seminar the general theme will be further developed by investigating the ways in which the countries participating from East and South Europe, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, FYROM, Greece, Hungary, Rumania, Serbia, Slovakia and Turkey face the question of standardizing the art educational system in relation to the Bologna model. Special attention will be given, first, to highlight both the similarities and differences in social and institutional structures between the older and the new member-countries of the European community, and secondly, to examine the role of the media in shaping homogenized aesthetic values over the domain of theoretical enquiry and art criticism. Emphasis will be given to the question of sharpening the young artists’ critical view and theoretical preparation vis a vis the new cultural geography of Europe through the current educational methods adopted in each country and through the development of an art teaching network throughout the European territory.
	Session 1 Critical approaches to the standardization of the art education system and the diversity of European culture
	> 9.30 am – 9.45 amWelcome speech, Efi Strousa, President of AICA Greece > 9.45 am – 10.15 amIntroduction, Ramon Tio Bellido, General Secretary of AICA > 10.30 am – 12.30 amModerator: Miltos Frangopoulos Yorgos Golfinos, Chairman, Dept. of Visual & Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Yorgos Divaris, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Visual & Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Suzana Milevska, Writer and Curator, Skopje, FYROM Ahu Antmen, Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Turkey Zoran Todorovic, artist, Belgrade Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia Emmanuel Mavrommatis, former professor of History of Art at the University of Thessaloniki, art critic, member of the Administrative Board of AICA Hellas, Greece Kostis Stafylakis, Art theorist, Presentation of the Research Program Pythagoras II “Women graduates of the Athens Fine Art School 1980-2994”, an interdisciplinary approach, Greece > 12.45 pm – 1.15 pmDiscussion
	Session 2 Investigating new universal models of cultural identity and theoretical training: the role of the media over art theory. Networking in the teaching practices
	> 3.00 pm – 5.00 pmModerator: Efi Strousa Beata Veszely, Director of TIPP, Tihany International Postgraduate Program, Tihany, Hungary Gabriela Rostas, Public Relation Responsible, University of Art and Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Jiri Prihoda, Dean/pro-rector of Foreign Affairs, Faculty of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic Dimitri Konstantinidis, Director of Apollonia, Strasbourg, France Maria Maragou, art critic, Director of the Rethymnon Contemporary Art Center (Crete), General Secretary of AICA Hellas, Greece > 5.00 pm – 5.30 pmDiscussion Venue: Benaki Museum, 138 Peiraios Street, Athens

	For further information AICA International / International Association of Art Critics http://www.aica-int.org Contact: Alexandra Gillet / eeya@aica-int.org AICA Hellas: Efi Strousa / secretariat@aica-hellas.org / The Athens seminar is organized with the support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the collaboration of the Benaki Museum

Seminar 4

European Exhibition of Young Artists

	Venue: Benaki Museum Friday 23 Febryary 2007
	*Pre-selection of the Artists*

	> 9.30 – 1.30 & 15.30 – 17.30 SELECTION COMMITTEE
	Examination of artists’ dossiers from: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, FYROM, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey. At this session, the dossiers of the artists recommended by the directors or staff members of the main Art Schools in all these countries will be presented. The commission, as follows, will have the task of examining these dossiers. George Harvalias, Professor, Post-graduate Department of Visual Arts, Athens School of Fine Art, Greece Haris Savvopoulos, Asst. Professor, Department of Visual Arts, School of Fine Arts, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece Yorgos Golfinos, Greece Yorgos Divaris, Greece Suzana Milevska, FYROM Ahu Antmen, Turkey Zoran Todorovic, Serbia Beata Veszely, Hungary Gabriela Rostas, Romania Jiri Prihoda, Czech Republic Malene Vest Hansen, Denmark Ciaran Bennett, Ireland Fabienne Dumont, Belgium Dimitri Konstantinidis, France Henry Meyric Hughes, UK Ramon Tio Bellido, France Efi Strousa, Greece Maria Maragou, Greece Emmanuel Mavrommatis, Greece Stavros Tsigkoglou, Greece Miltos Frangopoulos, Greece
	> 17.30 – 18.30 RESTRICTED COMMITTEE
	At the end of this session, a smaller group of representatives from the main committee will further reduce the number of short-listed artists, in preparation for the final selection round of artists chosen to participate at the European Exhibition of Young Artists: Maria Teresa Beguiristain OR Toni Calderon (Spain) Ciaran Bennett (Ireland) Fabienne Dumont (Belgium) Dimitri Konstantinidis (France) Henry Meyric Hughes (UK) Efi Strousa (Greece) Ramon Tio Bellido (France) Malene Vest Hansen (Denmark)
	Saturday 24 February 2007 > 9.00 – 13.00
	Examination and pre-selection of the artists from the previous seminars. Restricted Committee: Maria Teresa Beguiristain OR Toni Calderon (Spain) Ciaran Bennett (Ireland) Fabienne Dumont (Belgium) Dimitri Konstantinidis (France) Henry Meyric Hughes (UK) Efi Strousa (Greece) Ramon Tio Bellido (France) Malene Vest Hansen (Denmark) List of the artists: Ulrike Knorr (BEL) Ailbhe Ni Bhriain (IRL) Collectif Fact (CHE) Kristofffer Akselbo (DNK) Karianne Stensland (NOR) Munan Ovrelid (NOR) Randi Nygaard(NOR) Willehad Eilers (NLD) Taatske Pieterson (NLD) Clelia Zida (NLD) Sebastian Christoffel (NLD) Helmut Dick (NLD) Magnus Monfeldt (NLD) Wojciech Doroszuk (POL) Kristina Muntzing (SWE) Bjorn Perborg (SWE) Ida Pettersson (SWE) Joyce Ip (SWE) Henrik Andersson (SWE) Zupancic Nika (SVN) Gasper Jemec (SV)