Going Public aimed at the critical analysis of the public space in Kaliningrad and reflection on artistic strategies used in relation to it. It was started with a workshop for local artists and curators run by Ekaterina Lavrinec (LT) and aiming to explore the burning issues Kaliningrad urban landscape and brainstorm on relevant artistic and activist strategies. The workshop was an important stage for conceptualization of subsequent interventions artistic and curatorial interventions of three International artists: Mikhail Gulin (BY), Juozas Layvis (LT) and Shahram Entekhabi (DE) coming to Kaliningrad in the framework of the project.
The latter three artists have been invited, as they often employ humorous, absurdist and subversive strategies, that might be interesting to use in order to “shake” everyday reality of Kaliningrad streets and provoke people thinking about the city they live in.
*An international project “Going Public: how to say?”
By the Goethe Institute in Vilnius and was carried out with its support in Lithuania, Germany, Belarus and the Kaliningrad region in cooperation with local cultural institutions:
Baltic branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Kaliningrad),
Leipzig Museum of Contemporary Art and Academy of Graphic and Book Arts (Leipzig),
European Humanitarian University Centre of Contemporary Art Studies (Vilnius)
Centre of Cultural Communication (Klaipeda) and Goethe Institute in Belarus