Sarajevo International Culture Exchange

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Sarajevo International Culture Exchange ( SICE ) was an art project that took place annually between 2003 and 2007 in Sarajevo ( Bosnia and Herzegovina ) under the patronage of the German and Japanese embassies in Sarajevo. SICE is considered to be the largest artistic exchange project in Sarajevo after the Balkan War .

General

SICE emerged from a failed cooperation between the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Sarajevo . The Japanese artist Sohei Iwata started the project in 2003. In collaboration with Willem Besselink (artist), Elodie Evers (curator), Sanna Miericke (photographer) and Masaru Iwai (artist), Tino Mager and Damir Kulo , around two dozen artists from Asia and Europe were invited to work together on site for a month to deal artistically with the city of Sarajevo. The choice of location was mainly based on the special situation in Sarajevo since the Balkan War . From the artistic preoccupation with the reality of life in Bosnia-Herzegovina after the end of the war and in close contact with the residents of Sarajevo, the participants initiate workshops, film screenings, discussion events and exhibitions independently of the few existing art and cultural institutions.

Leitmotifs

  • 2003 - The first year of the project was under the motto "Field Works".
  • 2004 - “The Sarajevo Living Room” dealt with the renewed use of a tool factory destroyed in the war as an exhibition space.
  • 2005 - “Re_Cultivation” took place in the Skenderija city ​​cultural center .
  • 2006 - "Transition Compound" took place in Sarajevo, Tokyo and Berlin.
  • 2007 - “Mo Bar” took place in the Museum of Modern Art Sarajevo .

Exhibitions

Outside Sarajevo, exhibitions of the project took place in the Galerie Nord in Berlin (SICE - Transition Compound Berlin May 5, 2006 - May 24, 2006), as well as in Asahi Art Square Tokyo (February 14, 2006 - February 21, 2006).

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