KRAK has been shortlisted for a prestigious European award organized by the Art Explora Foundation based in Paris! One of the five awards will be decided by the public, and you can vote via the following link: shorturl.at/nKj9v If you’d like to help us win this award, please share this exciting news and invite your friends to vote for KRAK. The Art Explora - Académie des beaux-arts European Award supports non-profit cultural organizations that promote new dialogues between art and the public, offering a platform for exchange and sharing best practices. In addition to KRAK, the shortlist includes nine other organizations from Denmark, Spain, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Greece, Albania, and Croatia. On this occasion, we would like to express our immense gratitude to everyone for their continued support, engagement, and participation. Thank you! #KRAK #KRAKCentar #CentarKRAK #CuratingThePeriphery #Bihac #ArtExplora #EuropeanAward #AudienceDevelopment #ArtForAll
KRAK - Centre for Contemporary Culture
Higher Education
Bihać, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 265 followers
Alternative and independent space in the field of contemporary culture and art.
About us
KRAK wants to position itself as the platform of alternative learning, collaboration and coexistence with a focus on contemporary artistic strategies and inventive cultural protocols. The name KRAK has emerged as an acronym for "Kombiteks Workers' Club" and is pointed at the importance of cultivating local industrial heritage and workers' culture of Yugoslav self-management socialism. KRAK was conceptualised within the Revizor Foundation for Science and Arts based in Bihać and completed in cooperation with the Administration of the City of Bihać, as the owner of the premises, and the key sponsor Open Society Foundation and its branch office in Sarajevo, Open Society Fund of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Although Bihać has several cultural premises that are all organised as public institutions, the launch of an alternative and independent space in the filed of culture represents a necessity of the city of Bihać and its urban life. KRAK would be oriented and focused on contemporary cultural practices such as visual arts, architecture, design, alternative education and ecology, with interaction with the most diverse types of citizens. The idea and motive for launching such a centre, stems for the specific political, social and cultural conditions in the country in the past two or three decades. KRAK wants to be tested as an incubator of a new social life.
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http://krak.ba
External link for KRAK - Centre for Contemporary Culture
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- Higher Education
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- 2-10 employees
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- Bihać, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Educational
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- 2020
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Hamze Hume
Bihać, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 77000, BA
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We are delighted to announce that KRAK is one of the shortlisted projects of the 2024 Art Explora – Académie des beaux-arts European Award! 🖤 The European Award encourages new forms of audience engagement and participation in arts and culture, across all art forms and sectors. #KRAK #ArtExplora #EuropeanAward #AudienceDevelopment #ArtForAll
📣 Nous sommes ravis d'annoncer les 10 premiers projets présélectionnés pour le Prix Européen Art Explora - Académie des beaux-arts 2024 dans la 1ère catégorie (organisations culturelles ayant un budget annuel inférieur à 500 000 €) : • “Diaries : Lindart and the Albanian Women Artists Association” par Bulevard Art and Media Institute • “Promouvoir l’accès universel à l’art et au bien-être” par Institut Mindfulness - Mindful Art • “Curating the Periphery” par KRAK - Centre for Contemporary Culture • “Go on With the Story” par Udruga Skribonauti • “The Significance of Art at Work” par Kunst På Arbejde • “Objective : Independent Lives” par Concomitentes • “KORAL” par Association Arts Convergences • “Libraries on Prescription” par Comicdom Press • “FilmSight” par Osvěta z.s. • “Hear My Voice” par London Bubble Theatre Company Le Prix soutient les pratiques innovantes en matière d’accès, de participation et d’engagement des publics qui peuvent être partagées partout en Europe. 🤝 🏆 Le projet gagnant dans cette catégorie remportera la somme de 50 000 €. En parallèle, vous pourrez participer au Prix du Public à partir du 29 octobre en votant pour l’initiative de votre choix ! . 📣 We’re delighted to announce the first 10 names of this year’s shortlisted projects for the Art Explora - Académie des beaux-arts 2024 European Award in the 1st category (cultural organisations with up to €500,000 annual expenditures) The European Award encourages new forms of audience engagement in arts and culture, supporting innovative projects that can be shared across Europe 🤝 🏆 The winning initiative in this category will receive €50,000. You can also take part in the Audience Choice Award starting October 29 and vote for your favorite project! Bruno Julliard Agnès de T'Serclaes Emilie Boucheteil Léane INES Marjan Abadie Irfan Hošić Luiza Bouharaoua Tanya Lindkvist Fran Quiroga Elisa Mounier Laurence Dupin Dr Lida Tsene Lucy Bradshaw
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Announcing that our artistic director, Irfan Hošić, is one of this year's Igor Zabel Award Grant Recipients! — Irfan Hošić, curator, critic, and artistic director of KRAK, Center for Contemporary Culture, Bihać (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in recognition of his inspirational ability to connect art, education, and community-building as well as his ability to propose new initiatives, manage them, and give them the necessary impetus to thrive and have an impact on the societies in which they operate. Edit András receives 2024 Igor Zabel Award for Culture and Theory. Irfan Hošić, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu and Natalie Vujošević receive Igor Zabel Award Grants. Join us in Ljubljana on 29 November for the Award Ceremony: https://lnkd.in/dsA-vxCS #KRAK #IrfanHosic #IgorZabelAward ERSTE Foundation
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Tonight, the Kosmonauci are landing in KRAK from southern Poland! Rooted in the compositional logic of jazz, they expertly navigate through styles like hip-hop and drum & bass, playing with polyrhythmic structures, deconstructing them, breaking them down, and recombining them into cohesive and dynamic pieces. We believe the Kosmonauci will infuse the space at KRAK with their energy and progressive spirit. Join us for an unforgettable evening with Miłosz Pieczonka on saxophone, Bartłomiej Lucjan on bass, Tymon Kosma on vibraphone, and Jan Pieniążek on drums and percussion. This concert is supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Sarajevo. #KRAK #Kosmonauci
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KRAK was recently in Ljubljana, at the invitation of BIG SEE - opening perspectives The event is a design festival focused on the exchange of knowledge and experiences with other representatives who reflect on issues of architecture, design, art, and media within their communities. We had the opportunity to discuss and present more about shaping public perception of KRAK through social media platforms, strategies for integrating traditional and new media, areas of development, design, print, as well as opportunities and challenges. Photo: Nejc Velkavrh for BIG Design Ljubljana
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Mural Surreality is more than just decoration and embellishment of a dilapidated facade. It reflects a belief that culture knows no boundaries and that citizens possess the tools for actively creating and shaping their city according to their needs – both in Detroit and in Bihać. This large mural stands as a monument to freedom and tolerance at a time when they are most needed.
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Sheefy McFly. Surreality, 2024 SPO-IIC Ozimice I, Bihać #KRAK #SheefyMcFly #Surreality
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Sheefy McFly has held a lecture today at KRAK to convey his knowledge, strategies and experience of art practice to students of Nusret Keskin - Braco Art School, Textile Department of University of Bihać and the public. This events also served as an opportunity for conversation about origins and creation of mural Surreality in the local community of Ozimice l.
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Join us tomorrow at 12:00 at KRAK for a lecture by our resident artist, Sheefy McFly. This is an opportunity to explore and learn more about his artistic practice, Detroit, and how it has been shaped through contemporary art.
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ZVONO 2024 — Suit of Fire The exhibition Suit of Fire encompasses works by the finalists of the ZVONO Award, including artists Kemil Bekteši, Vildana Hermann, and Milena Jandrić. The exhibition addresses issues of identity and home – constructs that accompany and shape us throughout our lives. Through works created between 2022 and 2024, the artists aim to map acquired and lived memories, creating a dynamic space of internal and physical home – offering the audience an opportunity for a mental dialogue through communication of the lived, acquired, and imagined. Exhibition opening: Saturday, 12 October 2024, at 7pm. Curator: Isidora Branković #KRAK #ZVONO2024 #SuitOfFire
Suit of Fire | KRAK
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