Telling the Baltic otworzyła w Kaliningradzie

The International Art Exhibition “Telling the Baltic” is now officially opened in Kaliningrad. Telling the Baltic is a unique art project that links the countries around the Baltic Sea together. As from April 19 this is now the fourth time it opens, but in a entirely new context at the BB NCCA Kaliningrad.

The exhibition is based on different personal stories from people who live around the Baltic sea travels to it and those who works on the Baltic Sea itself. The stories has then inspired artists from the participating countries to create contemporary art works.

What is shown in Kaliningrad is in big parts the same art that was previously shown in Karlskrona, Gdansk and Rostock, but here it has been placed in an existing museum, The Museum of the World Ocean, and the historic fort Kronprinz Tower with its contemporary art center. The works are shown in a new context such as the museum ship Vityaz or with museum exhibits, in departments like shipbuilding and fishing.

The exhibition reflects the common historical roots of the people around the Baltic Sea in contemporary art. Fishermen, lighthouse keepers, mechanics, sailors and islanders, dock workers, rescue workers and scientists, they have all contributed to the collection of stories that are the basis for the exhibition. A part of the project was the collecting of stories whose contents were raw material for further work and inspired artists in several workshops in Sweden and Lithuania.

Nearly 30 project participants from Lithuania, Russia (Kaliningrad), Sweden, Germany and Poland have been working with photography, video and sound, installations and objects. Everything is held together by a common factor – The Baltic Sea. The exhibition was inaugurated at Blekinge museum in the summer of 2012, went on to CCA Laznia in Gdansk and by March 2013 the Kunsthalle Rostock.

Artists: Poland: Patrycja Orzechowska, Iwona Zając, Anna Steller, Łukasz Szałankiewicz, Anna Zaradny, Agnieszka Wolodzko, Marek Zygmunt. Sweden: Astrid Göransson Anna Brag Johan Thurfjell Denmark: Henrik Lund Jørgensen Russia: Anton Zabrodin, Oleg Blyablyas, Katerina Cherevko, Konstantin Traschenkov, Aleksandr Ljubin, Evgeny Umansky, Aleksey Tchebykin, Danil Akimov, Aleksey Chebykin, Vasiliev Kolesnik, Alexander Lubin, Alex Trotsak Vadim Chaly, Vadim Chaly Germany: Katrin Roeber, Paetrick Schmidt, Michael Soltau Lithuania: Laura Stasiulyte, Irma Stanaityte, Jurgita Remeikyte, Dainius Dapkevicius, Gintaras Makarevicius

Telling the Baltic has been implemented as part of the art project Art Line, which is partly financed by the EU’s South Baltic Cross-Border Programme. Art Line was recently appointed a flagship project in the EU by the European Commission and is included as a part of a part of the action plan for the Baltic Sea Strategy (EUSBSR). This summer, the exhibition Telling the Baltic will travel on Stena Line ferries between Karlskrona and Gdynia.

Participants Telling the Baltic are: Nida Art Colony & Arts Academy (Vilnius, Nida / Lithuania), Baltic Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Kaliningrad NCCA) (Kaliningrad / Russia), NGO Art Mission, Museum of Contemporary Art Laznia (Gdansk / Poland), Kunsthalle (Rostock / Germany) and Blekinge Museum and Blekinge Institute of Technology (Blekinge / Sweden).

The project is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam / Netherlands), EU (European Development Fund).

Partner: Museum of the World Ocean (Kaliningrad / Russia)

The countries participating in the project: Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Kaliningrad / Russia, Sweden.

The project website: http://ttb.artline-southbaltic.eu/

Curators and initiator of the project: Karlskrona / Sweden – Torun Ekstrand, Gdansk / Poland – Agnieszka Wolodzko

Curators: Kaliningrad / Russia – Julia Bardoun, Elena Tsvetaeva, coordinator Zinaida Shershun, Nida / Lithuania – Race Antanaviciute, Rostock / Germany – Ulrich Ptak.

More information about the exhibition Telling the Baltic:

http://ttb.artline-southbaltic.eu/

http://artline-southbaltic.eu/telling-the-baltic/

Link to page with short information in Russian.

Torun Ekstrand, Project: 0709 30 49 71

e-mail: torun.ekstrand @ Artline-southbaltic.eu

Ingemar Lönnbom, Information: 0708 31 03 92

e-mail: ingemar.lonnbom @ Artline-southbaltic.eu