Talks
29 November – 18 December 2023,
Ho Chi Minh City
Pacific Leipzig
Graphic Exhibition
Pacific Leipzig, poster for the exhibition
Nordic and Pacific Leipzig originated from a personal encounter in Copenhagen. At a Res Artis conference on worldwide artist residencies in the autumn of 2017, Bettina Senff, Institute Director of the Goethe-Institut Denmark, met Anna-Louise Rolland, founder of LIA – Leipzig International Art Programmes. This meeting inspired a collaborative project: just one year later, eleven artists from Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland were invited by the Goethe-Institut to spend three months living and working in the LIA residency in Leipzig. During their stay, the artists not only pursued their own projects but also had the opportunity to learn etching techniques and collaborate with Vlado & Maria Ondrej at the Atelier für Zeitgenössische Radierung Leipzig.
The initiative expanded to the Pacific region through Wilfried Eckstein, Institute Director of the Goethe-Institut Vietnam. So far, three artists from Vietnam, Malaysia, and Myanmar have participated in the LIA programme. Further exchanges are planned, welcoming fellows from New Zealand, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
At the end of 2023, an exhibition of works created through the programme was held at the Deutsches Haus in Ho Chi Minh City. On this occasion, Anna-Louise Rolland moderated a talk at the location.
30 March 2022, Sevilla
Mujeres
en el Foco
European exchange of experts
and associations for the promotion
of the work of women artists.
Mujeres en el Foco, poster for the event
Even though France, Germany and Spain agree that inequalities between men and women in the art world are increasingly being taken into account, the current situation is still that in 2022 it will still be more difficult for women artists to make a living from their art than for men. In these three countries, where artists’ associations, public pressure and the commitment of some gallerists are considered catalysts for change towards parity and real equality between women and men, progress towards equality is recognised.
In this sense, the Women in Focus conference aims to establish European networks of professionals and associations concerned with promoting the work and creations of women artists and to create a meeting point and conditions for a European dialogue aimed at concretely questioning practices with regard to gender equality and the visibility of women artists and creators in the public sphere and in the visual arts in particular.
The programme includes four rounds of discussions involving political representatives, curators, art centre directors, academics, emerging and established artists, as well as civil society associations and experts from the EU Commission from Spain, Germany and France. The conference will be moderated by Charo Ramos and will feature experts such as Agnès Saal, Anna Kedziorek, Mar Sánchez Estrella, Lola Díaz González-Blanco, Pilar Albarracín, Semíramis González, Anna Hidleston, Nathalie Ernoult, Ellen Blumenstein, Concha Jerez, Marta Perez Ibañez, Marc Vaudey, Tonia Trujillo, Mau Monleón, Patricia Mayayo, Anna-Louise Rolland and Irene Infante.
The talks will be recorded and broadcast on the Youtube channel of the Institut français de España.