The Santorini Biennale of Arts announces the “Design a wish for Greece” International Poster Competition, a parallel project that aims to support the image of Modern Greece around the world.

The Hellenic Centre for Photography (HCP) invites submissions for the Athens Photo Festival 2012. HCP accepts proposals from established or emerging artists, galleries, curators and organizations world-wide, in all areas of contemporary photography practice and forms, ranging from art and documentary photography to photographic installations, film and video.

Festival focuses on narrative and/or abstract art projects which combine image and sound, communications and networks, from video art works, documentaries and short films, digital animations, media installations, url and network projects, objects, interactive and robotized objects, open source applications, audiovisual performances, mobile technologies, electronic music, advanced technologies in art practice...

The exhibition of contemporary Slovenian design will be displayed on main venue of BELGRADE DESIGN WEEK 2012 at renovated building of National Library of Serbia in Belgrade and then in Maribor Art Gallery within European Capital of Culture 2012.

The Founding Director and the organizing team of the Biennale of Santorini have the great pleasure to announce the inaugural Santorini Biennale of Arts, taking place on the island between 01 July 2012 to 30 Sept 2012. The Biennale is the idea of artist, designer and economist Kikos Papadopoulos; supported by the Municipality of Thera, the Estia Association of Pyrgos and the Museum of Pyrgos, further sponsoring private art foundations will shortly be announced.

From its first edition in 2010, D-Day has tried to stress and present the power and potential of young designers, those who are currently in school or have graduated, as well as those who are on the scene and those who are yet to become a part of it, but only if they are under 35 years of age. The main aim of D-Day is to strengthen the cooperation between authors, institutions, designer initiatives and industry, entrepreneurship and crafts partners from the region and its wider area. 

The main goal of the festival awards is to seek, present and award the most creative ideas in the field of public communication, created by young authors. The competition for the festival awards - Golden & Silver Bras and the big Magdalena award - is open to individuals of 30 years or less. An international jury selects winners in individual categories, awarded with Golden Bras, and the overall (Magdalena prize) winner based on the most creative idea. Entry fees are symbolical so that the competition is accessible to most young people all over the world.

The Pavilion of Turkey in Venice Biennial will be coordinated by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) with the contribution of the Promotion Fund of the Turkish Prime Ministry, and sponsored by Fiat in 2013, as it was in 2011. Emre Baykal, the curator of the Pavilion of Turkey in the 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale was appointed by İKSV's Pavilion of Turkey Advisory Board, consisting of Esra Aysun, Cengiz Çekil, Mine Haydaroğlu, Adriano Pedrosa and Cristiana Perrella.

The Klovicevi dvori Gallery, as organiser of the exhibition the Fourth Croatian Biennale of Illustration, hereby invites artists/illustrators to participate at the exhibition of original book or magazine illustrations for children, young people and adults, and original newspaper and commercial illustrations.

The first edition of the Istanbul Design Biennial will be held from 13 October to 12 December 2012 by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) under the co sponsorship of Eren Holding, Koray Group of Companies, Vestel and VitrA. The deadline for submissions for the two exhibitions, which will be independently curated by the biennial’s curators, Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima within the framework of the biennial theme ‘Imperfection’ (Kusurluluk) is 2 June 2012.

Childhood Pattern (Official Trailer) is the first part of the video project 'Childhood Pattern' by graffiti provocateur The Miha Artnak from Ljubljana (SLO). Video production by Tilen Sepic. Mix by Felis Catus.

[VAULT] project, presented in Italy for the first time at Vault Gallery (16 March – 6 May 2012) is a collaboration between the two Romanian artists Alex Mirutziu (1981, Sibiu, RO) and Razvan Sadean (1987, Sfantu Gheorghe, RO) as the natural end of their shared experience during an artistic residency at the Ze Dos Bois Centre in Lisbon in 2011. Both artists they were oriented to the performance, using their body as a kind of machine for eviscerating dark, obscene and gory aspects of the surrounding reality. 

The Chelsea Space gallery in London will host from 20 March to 21 April 2012 a retrospective of the radical Slovenian art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst (New Slovenian Art) in the years 1984-1992. The exhibition will feature photos, video documentation and other material linked to the NSK’s appearance in the UK.

In the past few years graphic novels have attracted more and more attention both in the field of literature and the visual arts. Not only do they allow for an alternative perspective on the complexities of everyday life, but because of their distinct use of two media - image and text - they also suggest how memories of the past can find new forms of expression despite their inherent blanks

Naoussa International Film Festival is in the pleasant position to announce the Call for Entries for its 9th edition. In the forthcoming festival - which will take place the period from 27 to 30 of September 2012 - exceptional short films will be screened and great ideas will be utilized thus confirming that the Naoussa International Film Festival constitutes a unique cultural experience.

Following six years of continuous efforts in discovering and nurturing design talents in Serbia, in the Balkans and most recently on the international scene, Mikser organisation is making a big leap forward in supporting innovative design ideas by launching its own product label Mikser Design with two product lines: Ghost and Young Balkan Designers.

The 13th Istanbul Biennial, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts and sponsored by Koç Holding, is set for the autumn of 2013, under the curatorship of Fulya Erdemci. Fulya Erdemci, who is currently Director of SKOR | Foundation For Art and Public Domain in Amsterdam, will curate the 13th Istanbul Biennial in 2013.

A spring and summer tour starting in April 2012, featuring Laibach live, presenting and promoting the science fiction dark comedy, film Iron Sky. Laibach has composed the soundtrack for this film and will perform selected songs from it live in concert, along with other material including some preview songs from their two forthcoming albums and a set of classic Laibach songs spanning from the early 80’s to today.

CURATOR ON TOUR Upneet Kaur / ARTIST Unknown / LOCATION West London

The Biennial of Design (or BIO, from its Slovene acronym) is an international design exhibition that, through its selection of well-designed works and emphasis on quality, originality, and innovation, presents current trends in contemporary design. The exhibited works are eligible to receive the Biennial’s awards for the best designs of the past two years.

Confronting the Balkans: Post-Socialism, Post-Modernism and Contemporary Art Practice in South Eastern Europe since 1968. Maria Todorova’s Imagining the Balkans (OUP, 1997) sought to unpick the implications of the word Balkans, understanding and negating its toxic connotations. Whilst this canonical text has gained traction in Slavonic and Eastern European studies, the implications of the book for how art from the Balkan region can be understood, and discussed, have yet to be worked through.

Are you an independent artistic or cultural organisation working on a cultural project with partners from the Western Balkans and elsewhere in Europe? Is your collaboration stimulating the European Union integration process, and are you looking for funding to launch your project?

We are pleased to announce that the 8th edition of Video Vortex will 
take place at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia,
 between the 17th and the 19th of May, 2012. So far Video Vortex has 
taken place twice in Brussels and Amsterdam and once in Ankara,
 Split and Yogyakarta.

The phenomenon of youth alternative pop culture in Belgrade during the late 1970s and early 1980s, that of the last generation that spent its youth in socialist Yugoslavia, is the focus of the exhibition entitled The Last Youth in Yugoslavia, the first exhibition of 2012 at the 25. Maj Museum in Belgrade. The people behind the exhibition are art historian Marina Martic and art theorist Stevan Vukovic.

Nikola Dzafo's series of installations on the theme of the rabbit has been awarded the best exhibition in Serbia in 2011 by Belgrade daily Politika. Lepus in Fabula by artist Nikola Dzafo was an exhibition held in February last year in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina.

Dzafo's creation was so named because it was composed of several similar elements – the Rabbit opera, an art installation made out of rabbits, and photographs of the furry creatures. 2011 was the year of the hare or rabbit- Lepus in Latin- according to the Chinese zodiac.

Low budget and highly efficient artistic interventions in public space – that is the idea behind the project, which is presented in the ICA-Sofia Gallery. Five young artists from Bulgaria are showing photographic, video and sound documentation of their interventions in the urban space of the cities of Sofia and Dobrich from the summer of 2011. Amusing, ironic, critical, nostalgic, and poetic – these artistic interventions are concentrating on the dysfunctional aspects of the 'wild' neoliberal space that we inhabit during the last 20 years. They are asking the question: is there space left for the individual human being with his/her everyday life joys and concerns?

In 2007, Christa Frieda Vogel visited Istanbul for the first time. She was immediately fascinated by the city at the Bosphorus. It was her ambition to portray the city from an insider perspective, which led her to let Istanbul’s artists lead her to capture the city through their eyes. From this thought follows the concept to portray both, the individual artists and the spots that best represent their personal perception of Istanbul.

Balkan Snapshots 2012 will be a creative hub engaging artists, experts, thinkers, participants and the public in finding endless variations & perspectives to look at Southeast Europe. The central theme will be the collaborative quest of Southeast European creatives to find and show as many meanings, definitions, functions and stories that the region can represent, mean and tell to its inhabitants and to the rest of the world. 

Creative Zone Siska is a place where creatives from the field of design, photography and art meet, work and collaborate. The collective has renovated a 150 years old house in Siska, Ljubljana, this summer and are now ready to enjoy it. They are: a group of industrial designers Rompom (Andraz Tarman, Gasper Premože, Jurij Lozic, Nusa Jelenec, Tilen Sepic), the Cycling Cultural Society Muslauf, photographer Natasha Kosmerl, illustrator Greg Loz, product designer Nina Mrsnik, graphic designers Mina Arko and Biba Kosmerl and many guests. For more information visit www.rompom.com 

The new issue of New Moment magazine is a project of reconstruction of an untold history of advertising - the one that had been created in primarily former Yugoslavia in times when West had not been expecting to see anything more than propaganda coming from the East. Content is a patchwork of personal stories of both first-hand participants (many of them true pioneers of advertising in the region) and witnesses from the Western countries who, in one way or another, got in touch with creativity from the East: Bob Isherwood, Bob Garfield, Andrew Rawlins, Donald Gunn, Vladimir Ceh, Boris Miljkovic, Jernej Repovs, Ivica Vidovic, Lazar Dzamic, Sasa Zograf, Jure Apih, Meta Dobnikar, Slobodanka Lazarevic – Sakan, Milena Trobozic – Garfield, Bojan Hadzihalilovic, Nenad Lozovic, Jugoslav Vlahovic, Nina Milosevic, Nadežda Milenkovic.

1st promotor of slovenian contemporary illustration, contexts of usage and its authors. Independent biennale is more than just a periodical event. It not only reseaches different fields of contemporary illustration and its usage, but also directly supports and promotes authors and co creates visual culture in Slovenia. The Biennale supports the total independent production of its authors. This is realized in completely uncensored artwork created for the authors personal usage but specifically and exclusively for Independent Biennale events.

Kosovo 2.0 pulses with voices unfettered and unafraid. Interactive blogs, articles and multimedia bring the untold stories and views of your world and their world.  Preview select articles from the magazine, including in-depth cover story, which explores the challenges and failures of fighting corruption in Kosovo. 

Video work  Repeat till end by the Romanian artist Razvan Sadean will be part of the of International frstival of viedo art Optica in Buenos Aires, which will be celebrated from December 15th until the 17th at the Palais de Glace and Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina.

Marko Stojanović from Belgrade presented his latest multimedia exhibion Edukacija at the Center for Urban Culture Kino Siska in Ljubljana. The work ironically entitled Edukacija / Education is based conceptually on the phenomenon of a new reading of the world of art in the sense of status-defining or a simulation of serious and devoted culture exploration. Displaying the scenes from Serbian TV shows and series that in their set feature artworks of world renown, the author explores the function of art in the context of mass media. 

CURATOR ON TOUR June / ARTIST Peter Movrin / LOCATION Ljubljana

From 25 November until 4 December 2011 Jakopič Gallery (Ljubljana) will be hosting in collaboration with Wolfova V an exclusive Maison Martin Margiela, Spring-Summer/Fall Winter exhibition. The exhibition will be showcasing the défilé collections of the fashion house named after Belgium designer from the period between the years of 1989 and 2011. 

Greek artist Panos Sklavenitis who produced the composition (and the idea) together with Manolis Anastasakos and Kretsis Crew (who painted the mural) have created the mural No Signal in the streets of Athens, just a few blocks from the Greek Parliament. Of this street art, he says: ‘The sign No Signal interests me for a number of reasons. It declares and cancels at the same time the lack of signal in Greece. And the analogies with the current socio-political situation of the country are more than obvious’. 

CURATOR ON TOUR ZeZ / ARTIST Unknown / LOCATION Novi Sad

Turkey's first street art gallery opened in 2009! Milk Gallery & Design Store exhibits a genre of work influenced by graffiti, street art, illustrations and comics. Owned by a couple that spent a long time abroad envying the street art, came back and opened this white painted, small but intense gallery. They embraced street art and are working with many artists. 

Gothic. Power of era about God’s Excellency and people’s humility. People who were longing for raising into altitude. Architecture, the art of painting and statuary were strongly marked by the religious motives of Christianity. Architecture was the most expressive among these arts; it combined the era with its powerful objects and showed its strength with details like rosettes, glass partitions and Christian symbols. 

A major retrospective tracing the prolific career of performance artist Marina Abramović is on show at Moscow’s Garage Center for Contemporary Culture from 8 October to 4 December 2011. Curated by Klaus Biesenbach, the exhibition features approximately 50 works spanning more than four decades of her early interventions, sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances and collaborative performances. 

CURATOR ON TOUR Jenny Lee / ARTIST Marko Stojanovic / LOCATION London

Today, a new unit of the Moderna galerija - Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM) has opened in the renovated army barracks building in the new cultural quarter in Metelkova Street (Ljubljana, Slovenia). The inugural exhibition is Present and Presence, showing pioneering collection of Eastern European art Arteast 2000+, devoted to postwar avant-gardes from the 1960s to the present, and a selection of works from Moderna galerija's national collection. 

Celebrating its 6th anniversary in 2011, Contemporary Istanbul is Turkey’s most comprehensive contemporary art event to date, expanding Istanbul’s cultural and artistic life to the world. Consisting of national and international galleries chosen by the organizational committee, art institutions and sector representatives, the premier art fair of the region will open its doors this year to art lovers on November 24-27 at Istanbul Congress Center and Istanbul Convention and Exhibition Center. Contemporary Istanbul showcases contemporary paintings, sculptures, videos, photographs, installations and limited editions with the participation of national and foreign galleries. 

UAA! Association of Artist Anonymous invites artists to apply for the 3rd International Exhibition of miniatures Minimum Maximum 2011 on the topic of Sexuality.  After Communism and Religion, as the taboo of our society, this years's theme Sexuality will, in the broadest sense try to raise up the issue and re-examine the attitude of the artist (and audience) towards something that is an integral part of human evolution and encompasses all phases of life, including physical, psychological and social components. 

D'CLINIC studios is a place for creative individuals/groups to live, work, research, investigate, experiment, understand, meet and have fun. Located in the northeast of Slovenia in the small town of Lendava; where the sun (almost) always  shines and the wine (almost) never runs out! D'CLINIC supports both established and emerging arts practitioners; regardless of whether visual artist, musician, curator, theorist, writer,... 

ZagrebDox Pro, a program intended for authors and producers of documentary films, takes place as part of the ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival. It includes a project-development workshop, pitching forum for selected participants and a number of other events open to the general public.

The aim of this event is to gather creative people from the area of design, visual communications, architecture and other ancient skills as well as to ruthlessly promote their work outside of their usual guild’s borders. The concept of the exhibition is the reproduction of works on standard office paper size A4 by printing with the laser printer in black and white technique. All the works, independently of the author, are on sale at the same price, 1 EUR. 

Razvan Sadean and Alex Mirutziu from Bucharest have presented their newest research project History is nothing but muscles in action at the legendary ZE DOS BOIS. They had been working together for this particular piece in residence for the duration of two weeks, hosted by esteemed art centre, Ze Dos Bois in Lisbon, Portugal.