The carpets carrying the full scale of culture projects, artistic ideas, new stories and inspiring collaborations have finally landed. The year 2 of the MagiC Carpets platform has been an exciting journey for 27 international artists, who worked with the local colleagues and communities in 25 residencies. With our official […]
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The ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics in Berlin is delighted to announce the presentation of a newly commissioned artwork by Melissa Rodrigues called CORONAS IN THE SKY, Not a Manifesto! an essay on Afrofuturism and Liberation. The five channel video installation will be presented at the ZK/U OPEN […]
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There are two dimensions of my work, both important. They are the same as those of ancient academic philosophy: the exoteric dimension and the esoteric one. The first is the one everyone focuses on – the works, and how they are received. And in this sense, I have to say […]
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Latitudo Art Projects presents its new project Rodari OnLine! Starting from the stories that let many generations of children to dream, we will travel online. How? Through artists or who tose generally work with fantasy. Latitudo Art Projects have asked artists and children to read some excerpts from Rodari’s tales […]
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Jam Factory Art Center, the new member of the Magic Carpets platform, invites you to discover their story. Here are a few recommendations for the culture experience from the interdisciplinary center of contemporary art in Lviv, Ukraine. To be ruined. The project was implemented by Jam Factory Art Center in […]
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Artists Sonja Jo (Serbia) and Ana Kovačić (Croatia) presented their Residency work during the 12th edition of Kauno bienalė “After Leaving | Before Arriving” (Kaunas, Lithuania). Aftermovie of the Kaunas Biennial exhibition captures artworks by the Magic Carpets ALUMNI alongside thirty international artists represented in Kaunas last summer.
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MagiC Carpets is a four-year (2017–2020) platform project made possible by Creative Europe and headed by Kaunas Biennial (Lithuania). It is a network of fifteen international organisations in fifteen European countries. Designed to promote cultural exchange, artist mobility, inclusion of local communities and international cooperation, in the face of the […]
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“MagiC Carpets” is a “Creative Europe” platform uniting 15 European cultural organisations from 15 countries, that create opportunities for emerging artists to embark on journeys to the unknown lands and to create together with local artists and local communities. Facing the global pandemic, many countries are under the lockdown and […]
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Last month in Rome, European community awards Co-create & Comprehend were handed to their winners. The awards organised for the second time by MagiC Carpets, an international project coordinated by Kaunas Biennial, were shared by the communities of Slon (Romania) and Novo Naselje (Serbia) as well as the Italian organisation […]
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What do you know about Romania? How does it look like to you from what you have been able to see by now? I do not know too much about Romania – except that we had a sort of similar path of history. And Transylvania. It looks wonderful, with very […]
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