SOFTPOWERPALACE
Festival about independent art spaces in Europe
October 29 — November 11, 2018
Kunstgebäude Stuttgart
Schlossplatz 2, 70173 Stuttgart
SOFT POWER PALACE — Festival about Independent Art Spaces in
Europe is hosted by Akademie Schloss Solitude in collaboration with the
other partners of the Kunstgebäude network. The project is funded by the
Ministry of Research, Science and the Arts, Baden-Württemberg. Soft
Power Palace invites European projects to a cultural exchange program.
Open Stage
October 29 — November 7, 2018Daily from 7PM
Festival
November 8 — 11, 2018All day event
The five representing initiatives include Ardesia Projects , from Milan in Lombardy, which is a curatorial project dedicated to photography. Æther
from Sofia in the Danube-Region, is an independent art space that will
focus on the idea of the ethics of “The Other” engaging with the local
community and artists. Fireplace ,
is based in Barcelona, Catalonia, and is an artist-run cultural
platform that functions as a meeting point, a community, a facilitator
and a laboratory , to carry out a series of collaborative and practice research projects about what an art organization can, should or can’t be. ZZ Studio
from Rhône-Alpes is an artist-run space and artist studio, which due to
costs inevitably relocated to the suburbs of Lyon, pooling of resources
with their coworkers, designers and craftsmen.
GmbH ,
a joint venture consisting of organizers of the two projects Jacob17
and contain’t is participating in SOFTPOWERPALACE on behalf of
Baden-Württemberg. They emerged from the Waggons at Nordbahnhof and have
made a name for themselves as temporary platforms for musical, artistic
and performative events at intermediate locations.
The concept for SOFTPOWERPALACE was created by Paula Kohlmann , co-initiator of the former art space LOTTE in Stuttgart, who will realize the project along with Mareen Wrobel
and the support of the five carriers of culture. Kohlmann and Wrobel
began organizing the project first by visiting the partner regions to
gain a better understanding of each community.
