I'm a multidisciplinary artist, but over the last few years I have been working mainly in the field of video art, anyway I don’t want to use this as a label to define myself. I believe the most important thing being an artist is to have freedom of thinking and to have a courage to express your ideas. To provoke people to see how their own world is changing in front of their own eyes because of the influence of the diversity of nowadays cultures. For me, art is a form of communication with other people and the artist has in his/ her hands the art as tool, in which the opportunity to provoke and change the thinking of the others is hidden. In the same time, I believe there is art, pure art, which artists make for their own spiritual development as well as to find out the divine essence in their selves. This understanding of art is a way of life and a way of thinking with no commercial value.

Art is my way to be free.

short CURRICULUM VITAE
NENO BELCHEV BELCHEV
2009

SELECTED AWARDS & COMPETITIONS:
August - November 2009 Grant at the OCAT (OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum) International Art Residency 2009 (catalog), Shenzhen, China www.ocat.com.cn/
Sept - Oct 2008 Grant - artist in residency by REDline'08_BORDERING ON US programme
in Espaço IMERGE of IDEIAS EMERGENTES (IMERGE) (catalog), (www.imerge.com.pt), Porto, Portugal redline08.wordpress.com/03-exposicao/
July 2007 Grant by European Culture Foundation - special guest of ESPACE 29 for contemporary art, Bordeaux and LES OUVRIERS DU CHAI, Sainte Foy La Grande, FRANCE;
January - March 2007 Grant - artist in residency in ICC + S-AIR 2006 Exchange Programme(catalog), Sapporo, Japan, sair.exblog.jp/4583279/;
April 2006 Prize of jury for best video at ON DIFFERENCE # 2(catalog), Sofia, Bulgaria, ondifference2.i-space.org/index_en.php?page;
November 2003 First prize for experimental photography at the 1st NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON(catalog), Varna, Bulgaria www.fotosalonvarna.org/en/winner5.htm;

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
April 2010 – “Silicone Identity” – objects and drawings, in the frames of CONEMPO, gallery 8, Varna, Bulgaria
November 2009 “What Do You Want for Your Body?” open studio in the frames of the International Art Residency 2009 at the OCAT (OCT Contemporary Art Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum), www.ocat.com.cn/, Shenzhen, China
May 2007 SEE HOW THE BULGARIAN DOES ART 3, Georgi Velchev Art Gallery Museum, Varna
April 2007 SEE HOW THE BULGARIAN DOES ART 2, Gallery 8, Varna, Bulgaria...

Since 2007, Batofar develops an artistic and cultural policy.
For this well-known musical venue of Paris, I set up artistic residencies (mainly focused on music and visual arts) and an yearly program of actions dedicated to our audiences (e.g. artistic workshops or educative actions).

Mehmet Dere is a young artist, living in Izmir. His practice is

primarily focused on public interventions and gestures about cultural,
political and social conditions of Turkey. He is living in a
district of Izmir called Gurcesme, where can be briefly described as a
ghetto, because the majority of the inhabitants consists of immigrants
from the east. Therefore his works has a lot to do about his
neighborhood, on identity strategies, sub-culture of the ghetto and
social-political conditions. He produces stencils and site-specific
installations which provoke ideas of both cultural and political
notions. He plays with popular and sub-cultural imagery to point out
the manipulative nature of the system.

Laundry is an association with a core of 10 artists, with additional affiliates. Our members and affiliates both maintain their individual freelance practices and come together under the umbrella of Laundry to develop and deliver collaborative projects.

Our members and affiliates both maintain their individual freelance practices and come together under the umbrella of Laundry to develop and deliver collaborative projects. Members utilise a wide range of artistic practices and methodologies - photography and film, visual arts, oral history, performance, writing and digital media - working creatively in community contexts and with a diversity of cultures. To do this we engage in partnerships with groups in both the voluntary and statutory sector, in UK and elsewhere.

As an artist group we are interested to:

• explore the nature of collaborative work, and how we utilise different styles of participatory practice, engaging with audiences and communities

• provide a supportive environment to collaborate and experiment, seeking opportunities to developing artistic practice through shared knowledge and experience; through skills exchange, mentoring and practical actions

• develop international partnerships which are of benefit to our locality.

In his audiovisual productions Pieter Geenen questions the landscape as a bearer of meaning. He is interested in the suggestive and evocative qualities of the landscape, and geo-political and geo-social realities in particular. How does man relate to the landscape? How do we shape landscape, what traces do we leave, and what do we experience in confrontation with a landscape? In his work the image manifests itself slowly, exploring the subtle and hidden characteristics of things. Listening and watching becomes intense, intimate, alienative, contemplative and almost tangible in the context of an undisturbed stillness.

His work has been presented among others at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL), Argos Centre for Art and Media (Brussels, BE), MuHKA_media (Antwerp, BE), Courtisane Festival (Ghent, BE), Stadsgalerij (Heerlen, NL), New York Film Festival (US), Art Rotterdam (NL), All Art Now International Video Art Festival (Damascus, SY), Images Festival (Toronto, CA), EMAF (Osnabrück, DE), Media City Festival (Windsor, CA), Synoptic Visionaudial Art Meeting (Pécs, HU), Onion City Festival (Chicago, US), Crosstalk Festival (Budapest, HU), VAD Festival (Girona, ES), TIME Festival (Ghent, BE), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, and at the Venice Biennial 2009 (IT) and the Liège Biennial 2010 (BE).

Graduated from the Odessa National University n.a. Mechnikov with a specialization in journalism in 2010. I took part in creation of a campus newspaper, different arrangements and events (business development, cultural exchange) as a member of a youth organization. Got extended high art education; able to speak German and English. I am deeply enthusiastic in advertising and PR, writing articles and press releases for Odessa and other Ukrainian companies; visit advertising festivals annually.
Fond of theatre, art exhibitions, music, movies and communication with interesting people especially, feeling creative inspiration in it. Wish every person on the earth to know how Ukraine is culturally different and rich with talent country.

Since graduation from the Odessa State I.I.Mechnikov University (1982) she is involved in International activity.

Member of the Editorial Board of the text book "Cultural Management in the Sphere of Culture" (Ukraine). Project author and manager of International projects supported by the ECF (The Netherlands), International Renaissance Foundation , Pro Helvetia (Switzerland) etc. Within 2003 – 2008 worked for the Centre for Applied Cultural Management – cooperation project implemented by the Swiss Cultural Program in East European Countries and Ukraine. Ukrainian expert of the United Experts - an international consulting network. PR manager at the NGO “KusiCreaVision”.

My work is a continuing examination of personal and cultural histories, and the implications of the past upon the present. The paintings, video, sound and installation work are investigations of time passing; of what we gather, what we leave behind and how this ultimately defines us as people and as a culture. It’s about time and it’s unfolding and overwhelming nature. And it’s about our lives and how we move through time and traverse landscapes.

I look for tremendous beauty in simple things.

Katsiaryna Shimanovitch
Composer

Curriculum Vitae

Date and Place of Birth: 01.06.1981, Minsk Nationality: Belarus

Marital Status: married (maiden name – Katsiaryna Murauskaya)

Education

2005 – current Belarusian State Academy of Music, Composition (teacher – Prof. Viacheslav Kuznecov)

2003 – 2006 International Sakharov Environmental University, PhD course,
Biochemistry

1998 – 2003 International Sakharov Environmental University, Ecological Medicine, graduated with honours

List of Compositions

“Sula” for mixed choir a capella (2004); “Black sun” for women choir a capella (2005); “Sun-dial”, suite for clarinet solo (2005); “Sand box”, 5 children pieces for piano (2005); “Elegy” for violin and cello (2005); “Dancing shadows” for trumpet and piano (2005); “Small princess” for 3 trumpets (2005); “Rain” for flute solo (2005); “Ghost” for mezzo-soprano, clarinet and cello (2005); “Beaten’ Square” for trombone and French horn (2006); “Moon canyon” for trumpet and organ (2006); “Anderson Tails”, suite for flute, violin and viola (2006); “Footprints on the water”, Adagio for brass quintet (2006); “Kupalle” for women choir a capella (2006); “Summer cried” for mixed choir a capella (2006); “Sunrise” for clarinet and piano (2007); “Roads” for flute, oboe, violin and cello (2007); “Letters to Lucilius”, 3 aphorisms for baritone and piano (2007); “You come” for mezzo-soprano, flute and cello (2007); “Earth siblings”, suite for woodwind decemete (2008); “Overheard Talks” for clarinet and contrabass (2008); "For Whom the Bell Tolls”, Adagio for clarinet and orchestra (2009); “Lullaby for Sophia” for orchestra of belarusian folk instruments (2009); “Two voices” for soprano, mail voice and viola (2009); “Poteshki”, three songs for childish voice and piano (2009); “The n...

i work as a projectmanager, producer and writer in art, sound and culture to create and develope projects for a better world, freedom of speach and a better intercultural understanding.