We are publishing a record of an exciting debate „Common development – Three Seas Art Festival debate”, co-organized and hosted by the International Cultural Center in Krakow.
We invited outstanding experts in the field of Central European culture to talk about the common heritage and contemporary times of the region. We asked about common denominators and the state of cooperation between institutions and cultural circuits of the Three Seas Initiative countries, as well as about the legacy of 25 years of the Visegrad Fund. The debate was opened by: Łukasz Galusek, Program Director of the International Cultural Center in Krakow and Łukasz Murzyn, Chief Curator of the Three Seas Art Festival.
The opening speech entitled: „The Central European Pendulum” was given by Richard Gregor, Director of the Peter Michal Bohúň Gallery in Liptov, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia.
The first panel: „International Cultural Cooperation in Central Europe – Heritage and Present” was attended by:
Maja Wawrzyk, Deputy Executive Director of the International Visegrad Fund,
Paweł Szczepanik, Plenipotentiary of the Mayor of Krakow for Culture,
Łukasz Galusek, Program Director of the International Cultural Centre in Krakow,
Ciprian Mureşan – Curator, artist, Romania,
moderator: Rafał Solewski.
The second panel: „Common development – 25 years of the Visegrad Fund” was a discussion of experts in the field of public support for cultural institutions. The following people took part in the conversation:
Nina Vrbanová, Head of the Department of Culture of the City of Bratislava,
Małgorzata Kaźmierczak, President of AICA International,
Barbora Kundračíková – Curator of the Olomouc Museum of Art-SEFO,
Péter Inkei – Budapest Observatory: Regional Observatory of Cultural Financing in Central and Eastern Europe,
moderator: Martyna Nowicka-Wojnowska.
We hope that the conversation will provoke further reflection and activity for the cooperation of the scientific and artistic communities of the Three Seas Initiative countries and the entire region. The debate showed both the potential for cooperation and the scale of the challenges that the possible rapprochement of our artistic circuits brings.