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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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’. 

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. 

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. 

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,...