The Biennale of Western Balkans launches the open calls of the 2nd edition of Art Pluriverse, a Community Science Series for Intangible and Natural Heritage in the Balkans, under the title Iatrosophia: On folk medicine and phytogeography. We invite artists

5 - 20.8.2021   Over three weeks social practice artist Maria Juliana Byck investigated the embedded social, cultural and emotional implications of textiles in Kranj. Holding a wealth of intergenerational wisdom, textiles contain a complex network of history, materials, production techniques, fluctuating

The presentation of the installation METAXI: Close to Me by Marlene Hausegger took place on April 27th on the roof terrace of The Breeder in Athens, as the outcome of the residency program for the Province of Styria/Austria in cooperation

The Art Pluriverse: A Community Science Series on intangible cultural heritage, art and open knowledge, has presented its 1st edition in December 2020 with a month-long online programme of collective actions, focusing on textile communities and their artistic heritage in the

The VR public experience is a Virtual Environment specially designed to host the main events of the Art Pluriverse. It is the collaborative outcome of a digital design workshop that took place within the framework of the academic course “Spatial

For the course programme for creating FAIR Community Archives, there were released two walkthrough videos on digital technologies in relation to textiles and documentation of local histories in a wiki format.   Susanna Ånäs created a video tutorial regarding Wikidocumentaries project. Wikidocumentaries builds

As we move along the Artist-Community Synergies, we invite you to delve inside the creative universe meticulously woven by artists and communities. Along with and despite the distance imposed by covid-related restrictions, artists and communities have been able to connect,

The Biennale of Western Balkans is happy to announce the selected applicants by the appointed committees of the 2 Open Calls launched for Textile Month, the first edition of Art Pluriverse - A Community Science Series.   Artist-Community Synergies Open Call Results For

We are happy to announce the selection committee for the FAIR Community Archives Open Call of Art Pluriverse – Textile Month, the digital event of the Biennale of Western Balkans. The committee will consist of: Evelin Heidel (a.k.a. Scann), longtime member of Creative

We are happy to announce the selection committee of the "Artists-Communities Synergies" Open Call of Art Pluriverse - Textile Month, the digital event of the Biennale of Western Balkans.

The MAZIzone was fun to use and interact during the 3-day festival!

View & Download the programme of this year's BBB short film festival

The digital interactive platform that will be available in the venues of Balkans Beyond Borders’ Short Film Festival, was developed within the working group “Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Media” of the History of Art Laboratory.

* A documentation by GLAM Hack of their inspiring workshop, visit it also here: https://glamhackevents.wordpress.com/2019/05/10/15-may-2019-conference-tradition-anew   GLAM Hack designed and implemented the workshop: What-the-hack?!, in the context of the Conference: Tradition anew! Documenting cultural heritage and artistic creation -interdisciplinary approaches, contemporary media*. In the

We would like to thank all the speakers and collaborators for their presence and their contribution to the May 15th conference in Ioannina, as part of the International Museum Day events #IMD2019 of the International Council of Museums - ICOM! We

DATeCH Conference 2019 and the Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal gifted our 7 invited speakers of the conference, workshop and screenings organized by the Biennale Of Western Balkans in the context of the International Museum Day - ICOM their badges,

We are so excited to be among this year's favourite posters for International #MuseumDay #IMD2019 !! Thank you International Council of Museums - ICOM !! ? https://www.instagram.com/p/BxSHTceAcUC You can follow us on Instagram too! #biennaleofwesternbalkans #BoWB #traditionanew

Presentations and on-stage dialogues that survey, analyse and debate aspects of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), offering a multi-vocal and interdisciplinary perspective.

An exhibition that critically explores the historical language of weaving and textile as a practice and metaphor in the contemporary artistic practices based on new technologies.

A symposium toward a politics of ecology in contemporary art, departing from Guattari's concept of 'ecosophy', linking ecological thought, environmental aesthetics and artistic practices,

The Laboratory of Engraving of the School of Fine Arts in the University of Ioannina participated in the Biennale of Western Balkans.

An exhibition that examines the concept of myth through interdisciplinary art and research, combining intangible cultural heritage with new technologies, anthropology and other fields.

“Common myths” is an exhibition that examines the concept of myth, initiating from the work of 20th c. theorists as Claude Lévi-Strauss, Lucian Blaga and Roland Barthes.

The Un-co-nference set in its core the new age of the Commons. Examples range from urban space to open-source technologies.

Walk along the cityscape using your mobile phones and enter a sound art world. Wanderers are also able to record their own narratives and co-create a hidden, collective acoustic experience

The “Intangible Meetings” are intended as presentations and on-stage dialogues that survey, analyse and debate aspects of Intangible Cultural Heritage

The “Un-co-nference” sets in its core the new age of the Commons. Examples range from urban space to open-source technologies.

The Ground Tour Project, within the frame of the exhibition Common Myths shares the ongoing and open story Some Call them Balkans with you in the form of an interactive and co-created exhibition.

The Bubble becomes the central stage of BoWB's event programme.

A symposium toward a politics of ecology in contemporary art, departing from Guattari's concept of 'ecosophy'.

“the forgotten past leaves traces that remain undetected, until some time in our present space - or ‘spatial time’ we awaken to the call of re-enacted event, or found object, or memory” (Ludovisi, 218).

Weaving Europe / Weaving Balkans critically examines topics related to weaving, a craft associated with the history of Epirus and Balkans.

‘Sonic Minds: Mnemonic Passages’ is an immaterial, walking sound exhibition that examines the concept of memory in relation to sound.

Mekeio is hosting the interactive performance of Lotus Eaters “Resetting Homeland” (2017), in the dorm rooms of the School. Viewers wear headphones lying on the beds, where hundreds of young women where lying every night for nearly a century, finding a

Soundtrope Festival will present a set of cultural events related to the intangible cultural heritage of the Western Balkans and in particular the Polyphonic Song, one of the most interesting musical forms in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans, as

Museum Day, which will tackle the same theme as the ICOM General Conference Kyoto 2019, will kick off the global conversation on the role of museums as cultural hubs and the future of tradition.

A choreographic allegory about the endless construction and deconstruction of human relationships, which dives into the wealth of tradition and draws inspiration from the folk legend of ‘Tou gefiriou tis Artas’, while peeking at the Theater of the absurd and