Pia Bartsch | Artists in Residence | Kamov Residency

Pia Bartsch

Pia Bartsch has participated in various community art projects for about 10 years. She began to work as the community artist of the Saari Residence in the Spring of 2012. As an artist, Bartsch is particularly interested in the everyday life of people as well as in the meaning and significance that it holds. It is also important that a project allows people to encounter not only themselves but each other as well. In her community art projects, the artist and participants work together as equals. She is the mother of four adult children and the mollycoddling grandma of five grandchildren.

Misliti zajednicu

20.-31.03.2017.

Pia Bartsch will participate in the Misliti zajednicu (eng. Thinking Community) program which is part of the Građani svom gradu platform (eng. From the Citizens to Their City). The program will be held in Rijeka at Kamov Studio (March 20 – 28). The backbone of the program are guest performances of three Finnish artists - Pia Bartsch, Suvi Sinikka Solkio and Martii Tuomaala who collaborate with Finnish Kone Foundation which deals with social and artistic practices (so called community art). Bartsh, Solki and Tuomaala will run a student workshop and present their work. For more information about the program, visit Misliti zajednicu FB page.

From the Citizens to Their City

→ https://www.facebook.com/pg/Građani-svom-gradu-1191256687577269/about/?ref=page_internal

From the Citizens to Their City is the name of an open and growing community that gathers protagonists from artistic, cultural and educational circles of Rijeka. The name is taken from a wall plaque that bears the inscription From the Citizens to Their City / Rijeka 1983. This plaque, one of the many plaques of this kind in Rijeka, stands at the very beginning of Križanićeva Street. It speaks about a voluntary engagement by people who are our neighbors today, by people who used to live here – by the citizens of Rijeka, in the creation of common good. 
From the Citizens to Their City is a platform for mediation of artistic, cultural and educational programs, whose objective is to improve the development and cohesion of Rijeka's art scene on the national and international level, as well as to enlarge the audience and develop their cultural and artistic interests and engagement. The platform aims to support art productions that meet the specific needs of communities and public space, thereby developing strategies of community art practices on the local level. In the framework of mediation and production programs, the platform From the Citizens to Their City includes activities such public lectures, workshops, open discussions, art interventions in the city, exhibitions, publications, international and national collaborations… From the Citizens to Their City promotes the principles of openness, solidarity, participation, inclusion and interdisciplinarity, and supports the revitalization of the idea of community by producing an authentic artistic and interdisciplinary discourse.

The platform From the Citizens to Their City is created with the support from the Canadian foundation Musagetes and the Rijeka Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, and uses the space of Kamov Studio in Križanićeva Street as its base.