YARAT ACADEMY 2018: JOIN OUR UNIVERSE!

02 Apr - 11 May 18

YARAT ACADEMY 2018

(April – May)

YARAT Contemporary Art Space invites you to be a part of YARAT Academy 2018 – 4th block.

Description

The mission set forward by YARAT Academy is to educate wider audience about art with the help of the range of resources and opportunities.

The lectures and workshops by foreign and local art experts will empower not only the education in this area but also trigger an ambitious opportunity for amateurs to further explore the art world.

2018 Spring session – Syllabus

April 2, 2018 / 19:00 /// April 9, 2018 / 19:00

CONCEPTUAL ART

Speaker: Dilara Vahabova

Dilara graduated from the Moscow State University named after Lomonosov, Department of Arts, her thesis was dedicated to the problems of Byzantine painting. Passed a scientific internship at the University of California exploring the theme of post-modernism.
She also participated in numerous international conferences. Curator of a number of international exhibitions, including exhibitions of Azerbaijani art in Stavanger (Norway), 2006-2007, International Festival of Visual Arts in Ganja, 2007 and Baku Biennale of Contemporary Art "Aluminum", 2009, 2012. The author of about 120 scientific and popular scientific works devoted to the current problems of contemporary Azerbaijani art, as well as the works of contemporary Azerbaijani artists.

April 13, 2018 / 19:00

NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND ART

Speaker: Suad Garayeva - Maleki

Suad worked as a curator and a specialist in Contemporary Art from Russia and the CIS at Sotheby's, London, curating the pioneering At the Crossroads exhibitions. She also headed up Russian and Eastern European Contemporary Art sales. She has been a long-time collaborator of YARAT, and has worked on numerous international exhibitions, such as the National Pavilion of Azerbaijan at the 53rd and 54th Venice Biennales. One of the recent exhibitions curated by Suad in collaboration with Lorenzo Balbi was held in Villa Delle Rose.

April 18, 2018 / 19:00

AZERBAIJANI ART OF RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD

Speaker: Sabina Shikhlinskaya

Sabina Shikhlinskaya is an Azerbaijani artist and independent curator. She works in painting, video and photography. Being well known with her early modernistic paintings, in the 90s she transitioned to contemporary art. She is one of the pioneers of conceptual art in Azerbaijan. Shikhlinskaya's work explores actual problems of relationship between individual and society. In the art projects curated by Sabina Shikhlinskaya, the social subject is also of high priority.

April 20, 2018 / 19:00

VISIBLE PROJECT

Speaker: Judith Wielander and Matteo Lucchetti

Judith Wielander is an independent curator based in Brussels, Belgium. Her main curatorial research is focusing on the intersection of Art, Politics and Social engagement. She is founding member and codirector with Matteo Lucchetti of the Visible project, a research project and first European biennial production award devoted to socially engaged artistic practices in a global context. She has been cocurator of Le Jardin Essentiel Parckdesign Brussels 2016, cocurator of the Belgian Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia 2014, curator of Evento II - Urban Art Biennale Bordeaux 2010, Atti Democratici 2009 and Turin Biennale Big Social Game. From 2001 to 2009 she was curator of the Pistoletto Foundation with whom she conceived and realised exhibition projects such as Contemporary Myths – Wael Shawky (initiating the film trilogy of Cabaret Crusades with The Horror Show File), C’est à ce prix que vous mangez du sucre, Place Beyond Borders, Turning-point/ Literature-Writing the Transformation.

Italian born, Matteo Lucchetti is a curator, art historian, and writer. He is Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programs at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. His main curatorial interests are focused on artistic practices that redefine the role of art and the artist in society. His curatorial projects include: Marinella Senatore: Piazza Universale. Social Stages, Queens Museum, New York, 2017; De Rerum Rurale, 16th Rome Quadriennale, Rome, 2016; Don’t Embarrass the Bureau, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, 2014; Enacting Populism in its Mediæscape, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, 2012; andPracticing Memory, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, 2010. In the projects he curated, Lucchetti has worked with artists such as Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Rossella Biscotti, Nástio Mosquito, Marinella Senatore, Jonas Staal, SUPERFLEX, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Pilvi Takala, and Stephen Willats, among others. Since 2010, Lucchetti also has co-directed, with Judith Wielander, the Visible project, a research endeavor and the first European biennial award devoted to socially engage artistic practices in a global context, initiated and supported by Pistoletto Foundation, Biella and Fondazione Zegna, Trivero. Lucchetti has worked as curator in residence at Para Site, Hong Kong; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; and AIR, Antwerp. During his residency at BAK in 2010, Lucchetti worked in the frame of the Former West project to develop curatorial and discursive possibilities for the new online platform of the research—the digital archive. He has organized and taken part in several seminars, talks, and debates at various institutions, such as the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Steirischer Herbst, Graz; and the Centre for Historical Reenactments, Johannesburg. He lectured as a guest professor at HISK, Gent; Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam; Sint Lucas Antwerpen, Antwerp; and Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, and contributed to magazines such as Mousse Magazine, Manifesta Journal, and Art Agenda.

April 27, 2018 / 19:00

ART IN FASHION

Speaker: Silvio Betterelli

Silvio Betterelli is fashion designer, from 17 year lives and works in Milan. He studied textiles in Sardinia, fashion design in Milan and fine art /textile design at the University of Plimouth in England. In 2008 he's selected to spent a year in Paris at Les Ateliers de Paris, institution that offers research residencies for fashion and product designers. The year after is the Finalist of the Tokyo fashion gran prix as sole italian Designer. In 2011 he won the who's next prize from Vogue Italia From 2013 Designs its label produced and distributed by SpS, its presented also in the official calendar of Milano Moda Donna fashion week Among the various collaborations from 2007 to 2009 Silvio co-signed collections of accessories in limited edition, on behalf of the Furla Foundation and Max Mara Group From November 2015, Silvio Betterelli dresses are selected as part of the exhibition at the Milano Triennale dedicated to the last 18 years of Italian fashion. In addition to its label, it continues to follow its path in the university world with fashion design chairs at IED Istituto Europeo di Design and Milan Politecnico for the international project with the fashion Institute of Technology in New York. He has also been a fashion design teacher at IUAV University of Venice, and Naba Milano collaborating and conceiving the short term courses of NABA Milano and Central Saint Martins School from London. From 2015 is the Creative Head of B.E.S.T.'Bio Ethical Sustainable Trends in Cittadellarte/ Fondazione Pistoletto, a project which collaborates with institutions, companies, designers and schools promoting a new point of view in fashion world. In 15 years of experience he deals with fashion and textiles Design, presenting and collaborating with company with his work and his creations in Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, London, Milan, Rome, Florence, New Delhi, Moscow, Vien, San Francisco, Thessaloniki.

May 2, 2018 / 19:00

SOUND ART, ELEKTO MUSIC

Speaker: Jahangir Salimkhanov

Jahangir Salimkhanov – an art historian, the member of the European Cultural Parliament, director of Program of Culture and Art of “Open Society FS- Azerbaijan” Institute and author of many cultural projects in Baku and abroad.

May 4, 2018 / 19:00

ART AS A URBAN AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: THE THIRD PARADISE EXPERIENCE

Speaker: Stefania Crobe

Indipendent researcher and cultural planner. She is PhD in urban planning at the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering of Sapienza University (Rome), specializing in the relationship between art practices, urban space and territorial development. With an educational route in humanistic studies, she specialized in educational management for contemporary art. Her investigation main issu is the relationship between art, public space and territory, between artistic practices and education, about the role of imagination as a research methodology. She collaborated with several museums and cultural institutions, including Gam - Civic Gallery of modern and contemporary art and Pav Parco Arte Vivente in Turin, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art and Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, Cedrap (Research Center and Documentation on Public Art) of Sapienza University, Academy of Fine Arts of Frosinone. In 2014 she founded SITI Laboratorio di immaginazione urbana [e umana], a cross-disciplinary, itinerant and multi-located experiment, that investigates the relationship between artistic and cultural practices and territorial development. She's author of scientific articles and she is contributor editor for the magazines Juliet, Titolo and Il Giornale delle Fondazioni.

May 9, 2018 / 19:00

TALK WITH ARTIST

Aida Mahmudova

Aida Mahmudova (b. 1982, Baku, Azerbaijan) is an Azerbaijani artist and the Founder of YARAT Contemporary Art Space. Mahmudova lives and works in Baku. She graduated from Central Saint Martins, London with a degree in Fine Art in 2006. She has widely exhibited internationally, including group and solo exhibitions in Belgium, London, Rome, New York, Moscow and Baku. Selected solo exhibitions include: “Non-imagined Perspectives”, YARAT Centre, Baku (2017), “Can't Capture The Light”, Deweer Gallery, Otegem (2017), “Passing By...”, Leila Heller Gallery, New York (2015), and “Internal Peace”, Barbarian Art Gallery, Zurich (2013). Mahmudova exhibited at the 55th Venice Biennale in the group show “Love Me, Love Me Not” (2013) and in the 56th Venice Biennale as part of “VITA VITALE” curated by Artwise (2015).

May 9, 2018 / 19:00

FORM FOLLOWS MEANING

Speaker: Katia Meneghini

Katia Meneghini has always been passionate about calligraphy and art history, while her contemporary projects develop through relational processes and mechanisms which place emphasis on human interaction. Her approach to art is based on social research with the use of performances, installations and documentation. At the same time she is keen in investigating the possibility of a multi-disciplinary design related to different aspects of social life using the methodologies gained through her social art experiences. CTRLZAK is a hybrid studio that integrates diverse disciplines and cultures. Founded by artists and designers Katia Meneghini and Thanos Zakopoulos, the duo’s creations are inspired by their experiences around the globe, their own rich cultural backgrounds, and the natural world that surrounds us. The studio creates artworks, objects and spaces but above all points of reflection where form follows meaning. CTRLZAK’s projects and extensive research into tradition and cultural context create a new hybrid future by learning continuously from the past. Each project is a story waiting to be told, with a multitude of forms and endings. Each one experiments with diverse methods of narration where symbolism and irony go beyond aesthetics and functionality in order to make people contemplate their actions and the world that we live in.

May 11, 2018 / 19:00

ARTE POVERA

Speaker: Lorenzo Balbi

Lorenzo Balbi is from Turin. After his Bachelor’s degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, he specialized in Contemporary Art at the University of Turin. He collaborates with Giornale dell’Arte and Giornale dell’Architettura and has been the artistic director of the gallery Verso Artecontemporanea.

COOPERATION WITH CITTADELLARTE FOUNDATION

The Cittadellaarte Foundation will hold lectures and meetings with experts in fine arts, fashion, architecture and design.

Provision of YARAT:

ACCESS TO FREE MODERN LIBRARY AND WIFI (the books of the world's most prestigious art publishers are available for readers in Azerbaijani, English and Russian languages, which students can freely use the WIFI service to carry out various study and research project)
AUDIO AND VISUAL PRESENTATION MATERIALS (all audio and visual resources used during the YARAT Academy lectures and workshops will be shared with participants)
INTERPRETATION (all foreign lectures of YARAT Academy are always interpreted into Azerbaijani language, simultaneously or consecutively)
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION (at the end of the course, students who will actively attend all lectures and demonstrate a distinguished interest for learning will be awarded with a certificate of completion)

Registration

Those who want to participate at YARAT Academy must register by sending an email by the subject of “YARAT Academy” and inlude the below mentioned information

First and last name
Name of the higher education institution, faculty
Contact number

Email address: registration@yarat.az

Deadline for application: March 26, 2018

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