PORTUGUESE CURATOR LUISA SANTOS SELECTED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE NETWORK CreArt FOR THE NEXT EDITION OF THE EUROPEAN EXHIBITION 2016.

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PORTUGUESE CURATOR LUISA SANTOS SELECTED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE NETWORK CreArt FOR THE NEXT EDITION OF THE EUROPEAN EXHIBITION 2016.

2015-10-01

The members of the CreArt Network have just selected the portuguese Luisa Santos, curator of the European Exhibition 2016 that will travel along Aveiro (PT), Kaunas (LT), and Kristiansand (NO). Luisa Santos (1980, Lisboa), got degree in Communication Design by the Faculty of Fine Arts in the University of Lisbon, has a Master Degree in Xurating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Arts in London and a PhD in Art, Cultural Studies and Project Management by the Humbold-Viadrina School of Governance in Berlin. Luisa Santos has collaborated as curator in museums and cultural institutions in Portugal (Biennial of Contemporary Art of Coimbra, Round the Corner Gallery in Lisbon), United Kingdom (Tate Britain, Biennial of Liverpool, Serpentine Gallery), Germany (Frankfurter Kunstverein) or Austria (Ok-Centrum de Linz).

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The CreArt European Exhibition 2016 will be titled "Notes on Tomorrow" and will be presented in Kaunas (Lithuania), Kristiansand (Norway), and Aveiro (Portugal)

Notes on Tomorrow reflects upon the Luhmannian idea of art as a social system. Generally neglected by arts institutions, the visual culture produced by social movements is a vital sector in the worlds of arts and activism. 

Following the thread of relational and activist art, we are now faced with a new trend in contemporary art practice, which addresses what can be done to improve the social, economical and political conditions we live in. With the emphasis on what is left to be done, trough questioning, experimenting and a spark of optimism, many contemporary artists are reflecting in personal stories and relationships as a means of addressing art and society, sightseeing possibilities rather than difficulties. In their work, they either invent completely new structures, or they switch expectations by altering existing media. 

Contemporary artists seek to engage the audience in an exploration of the world through metaphors and small stories. Such art production shows different perspectives of our lives bringing awareness to a world in constant transformation. Seeking a multiplicity of possibilities of better worlds, contemporary art makes us step aside from our own ideas of the world  and be faced with the uncanny and unusual.

Instead of showing the classical trend of works struggling unequivocally with the economic and political forces of contemporary society, this collective exhibition presents a series of alternative proposals that drift between a series of binomials as History and fiction; contemplation and creation; ephemeral and infinite; creation and interpretation. It is not about presenting definitive answers for contemporary society’s problems but more about looking into a series of questions, observations and experimentations. In other words, it is about visually translating small utopias at local levels through inventions, desires and propositions.

Notes on Tomorrow comes in different ways to dwell on positive answers to current social issues and will include drawings, notes, diagrams, video, performance and different kinds of situations.