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Hidden Visegrad Heritage: Artists’ Studios Online – Archival Workshops
Hidden Visegrad Heritage: Artists’ Studios Online – Archival Workshops
Since 2023, the Arton Foundation, in cooperation with three partners: Moravská galerie v Brně (Czech Republic, www.moravska-galerie.cz), Technická univerzita v Košiciach (Slovakia, www.fu.tuke.sk) and Trance Balance Kft (Hungary, www.acbgaleria.hu), has been running the project “Hidden Legacy. Online studios of female and male artists from the Visegrad Group countries”. One of the important activities of this project are workshops dedicated to the preservation of artists' private archives, addressed to students of the Faculty of Artistic Research and Curatorial Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
Archives stored in art studios are often difficult to access and extremely vulnerable to dispersal or destruction. In response to these challenges, the workshops organized as part of the project offer participants a unique opportunity to reflect on ways to protect and document these valuable resources, and to gain practical knowledge of how to secure both the archival resources in question and the art studios, which often play a dual role - a space for creative work, but also a place to store and display the results of that work. Among the places we visited are the studios of Małgorzata Kuka Rittersschild and Jagoda Przybylak.
The workshops allow participants to learn about documentation standards, including cataloging and digitizing artistic archives, as well as methods of preserving artistic estetes. In addition, we teach how to support creators and their heirs in securing their artistic heritage. The classes also provide an excellent opportunity to develop skills in interviewing artists and studio caretakers to gain valuable information about art and archives.
The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
Since 2023, the Arton Foundation, in cooperation with three partners: Moravská galerie v Brně (Czech Republic, www.moravska-galerie.cz), Technická univerzita v Košiciach (Slovakia, www.fu.tuke.sk) and Trance Balance Kft (Hungary, www.acbgaleria.hu), has been running the project “Hidden Legacy. Online studios of female and male artists from the Visegrad Group countries”. One of the important activities of this project are workshops dedicated to the preservation of artists' private archives, addressed to students of the Faculty of Artistic Research and Curatorial Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
Archives stored in art studios are often difficult to access and extremely vulnerable to dispersal or destruction. In response to these challenges, the workshops organized as part of the project offer participants a unique opportunity to reflect on ways to protect and document these valuable resources, and to gain practical knowledge of how to secure both the archival resources in question and the art studios, which often play a dual role - a space for creative work, but also a place to store and display the results of that work. Among the places we visited are the studios of Małgorzata Kuka Rittersschild and Jagoda Przybylak.
The workshops allow participants to learn about documentation standards, including cataloging and digitizing artistic archives, as well as methods of preserving artistic estetes. In addition, we teach how to support creators and their heirs in securing their artistic heritage. The classes also provide an excellent opportunity to develop skills in interviewing artists and studio caretakers to gain valuable information about art and archives.
The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.
