March 8 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
We are delighted to invite you to celebrate the launch of the largest expansion of the Secondary Archive to date! This milestone brings together artists and curators from Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Albania, Serbia, and Kosovo, while also welcoming new voices from our newest partner countries in the Western Balkans: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and North Macedonia.
Join us on March 8th at 5:00 PM CET for a special online conference, streamed live on the Facebook page of the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation and our partners. During this event, we will unveil powerful statements from female artists and creatives from Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and North Macedonia, alongside contributions from the four founding Visegrad countries.
Through an Open Call, nearly 150 artists from diverse backgrounds, selected by an international team of experts, will now be part of the Secondary Archive platform.
The launch event will offer not only a space for celebration of the female voices, but also raise awareness and open discussion related to the struggles and wins of the female artists of the region.
The list of speakers includes:
- Maja Wawrzyk – Deputy Executive Director of the Visegrad Fund,
- Katarzyna Kozyra – Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation (Poland)
- Adna Muslija – Manifesta Gallery (Bosnia and Herzegovina),
- Ana Ivanović – Institute of Contemporary art (Montenegro),
- Ivana Vaseva – Organization for arts and science FACULTY OF THINGS THAT CAN’T BE LEARNED (North Macedonia),
- Klaudia Fagu – Tirana Art Lab (Albania, as representative of the – previous Western Balkan partner countries)
- Róna Kopeczky (Hungary, as representative of the V4 group)
- Adrianna Wiktoria Kowalik – Moderator, Coordinator of the Secondary Archive
The speakers will be joined by artists representing Bosnia and Herzegovina (Lamija Čehajić), Montenegro (Azra Omk), North Macedonia (Ivana Mirchevska), Kosovo (TBC), Hungary (Klaudia Januskó) and the Czech Republic (Darja Lukjanenko).
SECONDARY ARCHIVE
Project leader: Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation
Partners: Tirana Art Lab (Albania), Galerija Manifesto (Bosnia and Herzegovina), MeetFactory (Czech Republic), EastTopics (Hungary), Oral History Kosovo (Kosovo), Institute of Contemporary Art (Montenegro), AKTO-FRU. Faculty of things that can’t be learned (North Macedonia), CZKD. Center for Cultural Decontamination (Serbia), Björnsonova (Slovakia).
Project managers: Iga Maria Szczepańska, Adrianna Wiktoria Kowalik
Curator (Poland): Romuald Demidenko
Design and graphic identification: Marcel Kaczmarek
Website: Justyna Michalska
Production support: Iga Maria Szczepańska, Adrianna Wiktoria Kowalik
Albania
Partner: Tirana Art Lab
Project coordinator: Adela Demetja
Curator: Klaudia Fagu
Translations and proofreading: Klaudia Fagu
Kosovo
Partner: Oral History Initiative
Project coordinator: Jeta Rexha
Curator: Jeta Rexha
Serbia
Partner: Center for Cultural Decontamination
Project coordinator: Aleksandra Sekulic
Curatorial team: Simona Ognjanović, Mirjana Dragosavljevic
Translations: Luna Đorđević and Vojislava Jovanović.
Czech Republic
Partner: MeetFactory o.p.s
Project coordinators: Daniela Šiandorová
Curator: Daniela Šiandorová
Translations: Petr Uram
Proofreading: Zuzana Kolouchová
Hungary
Partner: Easttopics
Project coordinators: Róna Kopeczky
Curator: Róna Kopeczky
Translations: Andrea Soós
Slovakia
Partner: björnsonova
Project coordinator: Lucia Kvočáková
Curator: Lucia Kvočáková
Translations: Katarína Orlovská
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
Partner: Galerija Manifesto
Project coordinator: Adna Muslija
Curator: Adna Muslija
Montenegro:
Partner: Institute of Contemporary Art
Project coordinator: Natalija Vujošević
Curator: Ana Ivanović
North Macedonia:
Partner: AKTO-FRU. Faculty of things that can’t be learned
Project coordinator: Ivana Vaseva
Curator: Ivana Vaseva
Translator and proofreader: Nevenka Nikolikj
Web designer: Denis Saraginovski
The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czech Republic, 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.