about duplex
"Art is what makes life more interesting that art."
Robert Filliou
The Duplex is a contemporary arts centre with international perspective. It is essentially dedicated to the creations of young artists and managed by artists, for artists and for their audience. The place is set in Stakleni Grad, downtown Sarajevo, between Mula Mustafe Baseskije street and the Ferhadija pedestrian street (download map).
The Duplex is approximately 150m2 and has two floors (download level 0 plan).
The Duplex is a venue of the DADADA NGO, a non-profit, a-political organisation which was created in Paris in September 2008. DADADA also manages the Sarajevo Galerija 10m2 (created in 2004), as well as its first branch, the Zagreb Galerija 10m2 (created in 2007), and soon to come, the Belgrade branch.
The Duplex is dedicated to exhibiting and promoting artistic projects that spring from a variety of media (sculpture, painting, drawing, video, installation, sound, photography, performance, books, etc.), and that are carried by innovative artists from Sarajevo, the Balkans, and the international stage.
Twice a year, the Duplex presents the first exhibition of a young Bosnian artist. It gives carte blanche to guest curators, organises monographic, collective and thematic exhibitions, as well as specific projects and public interventions related to other artistic activities such as theatre, music and dance.
The Duplex hosts exhibitions that confront regional, national and international creation. It is building a documentation resource on contemporary art (research on artistic creation, history and theory of contemporary art) and has a strong editorial policy (first and foremost, exhibition catalogues), as well as a policy aimed at sensitising audiences (communication and pedagogical workshops). It also carries out mediation activities that accompany exhibitions, and manages cultural and social projects in the heart of the local community.
The Duplex also aims at accompanying young artists in developing their professional careers: introducing them to commercial galleries, presenting their work at contemporary art fairs, integrating them to the internation art networks. It connects and brings together the various actors of the contemporary art scene – artists essentially – from various backgrounds and with different approaches, giving the impetus for new projects and staging a platform for these energies to meet and connect. The goal is also to give art classes to very young members of the local community and to give them a sense for contemporary art.
The Duplex also develops numerous “relocated” events with its partners in France, Germany, Poland and elsewhere in Europe, depending on the opportunities that open up.
The Duplex is a living space, it is open, flexible and committed to exploration and discovery.
Behind each representation, there is an underlying uncertainty, that of not having chosen the right scenario. Or to be more specific, there lies the idea that our lives are only worth living if we accept our dreams and choose to thrust ourselves, once and for all, into the exhuberance and contradictions of our time.
"Umjetnost je ono što život čini zanimljivijim od umjetnosti."
Robert Filliou
Duplex je centar suvremene umjetnosti internacionalne namjene, prvenstveno posvećen stvaranju mladih umjetnika, a koji su umjetnici namjenili umjetnicima i široj publici. Nalazi se u Staklenom gradu, u centru grada, između ulica Mula Mustafe Bašeskije i Ferhadija (download mape).
Duplex raspolaže prostorom povrsine otprilike 150m2, raspodjeljene na dva nivoa (download plana nivoa 0).
Duplex je dio asocijacije DADADA, apolitične i neprofitabilne organizacije nastale u Parizu, u septembru 2008. DADADA podjednako upravlja Galerijom 10m2 u Sarajevu (osnovanom 2004), prvim kružokom Galerijom 10m2 u Zagrebu (nastalom 2007), a ubrzo će upravljati i onom u Beogradu.
Duplex je prostor rasprostiranja i promocije umjetnički radova proizašlih iz različitih medija (skulpture, slikarstva, crtanja, videa, instalacije, zvuka, performansa, knjiga, itd.), a koje donose umjetnici inovatori – oni koji tek sad izbijaju na scenu ili koji su već etablirani, a stižu iz Sarajeva, sa Balkana i sa internacionalne scene.
Duplex, dva puta godišnje predstavlja prvu ličnu izložbu nekog mladog bosansko-hercegovačkog umjetnika, omogućava kritičarima i gostima slobodnu interpretaciju izložbe, organizuje monografske, kolektivne i tematske izložbe, performanse, posebne projekte i javna sudjelovanja povezana sa drugim umjetnostima (teatrom, muzikom, plesom).
Duplex priređuje izložbe koje spajaju regionalno, nacionalno i internacionalno stvaranje, prikuplja dokumentaciju o suvremenoj umjetnosti (o istraživanju likovne umjetnosti, kao i teorije i historije suvremene umjetnosti), ugošćava publiku (senzibilnost i pedagogija) i podstiče ih na razmišljanje u okviru samih izložbi i na društveno i kulturno animiranje u samom srcu grada.
Duplex također želi pratiti mlade umjetnike u njihovim profesionalnim podvizima (u vidu predstavljanja u galerijama komercijalnog tipa, učestvovanja na sajmovima suvremene umjetnosti, uključivanja u krugove internacionalne scene), povezivati sudionike suvremene umjetnosti, etablirane umjetnike, različitih pogleda i praksi, kako bi nastali novi projekti i uspostavila se jedna platforma umjetničkih susreta, a želi i organizovati časove likovne umjetnosti mladoj lokalnoj publici, i stvoriti kod njih senzibilitet za suvremenu umjetnost.
Duplex realizira i mnoge projekte van svojih prostorija sa partnerima u Francuskoj, Njemačkoj, Poljskoj, kao i u drugim dijelovima Evrope, zavisno od toga gdje se prilika ukaže.
Duplex je živ, fleksibilan prostor otvorenog tipa, angažiran u istraživanju i otkriću.
Iza svakog predstavljanja leži sumnja, i to ona da nije izabran dobar scenarij ili, tačnije misao da naši životi vrijede da budu proživljeni samo pod uslovom da prihvatimo naše snove i da zauvijek zaronimo u bujicu i proturječje našeg doba.
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