Connecting and growing together — from country to country

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Galerie Klatovy/Klenová (GKK), the City of Vilseck, the City of Schönsee and the Ladislav-Sutnar Faculty of Art and Design of the West Bohemian University (FDULS) have set themselves the goal of intensifying cross-border cooperation in the artistic field with the project “Connecting and growing together — from country to country”. Meetings of artists, students and art enthusiasts are planned and a more intensive cultural cooperation between the institutions and municipalities participating in the project is planned. As a result, they will be more closely linked, know-how exchanged and mutual contacts, which should be continued even after the project has ended. Priorities include building a network of artists with the same interests to understand, minimise, and stimulate dialogue between artists and the public. The project partners take on an intermediary role, organise 8 workshops, 4 lectures, 1 interactive tour, conduct discussions with multipliers and present the realised art actions in an extensive photo exhibition. Since its inception, the CCCT has focused on the cross-border cooperation and presentation of works by Czech and international artists, especially German artists. Like the other partners, the CCCT has so far paid special attention to the art genre Land Art. The cultural and artistic design of the landscape will meaningfully complement the activities of the gallery and its partners. Workshops will take place in Klenová, where FDULS students participate. In Schönsee, students of the FDULS will participate in a land art campaign in the deteriorated settlement of Bügellohe. The student’s task will be to create a land art work inspired by the history of the place in a building ruin. In Klenová as well as in Bügellohe, students will work under the professional responsibility of Prof. Jiří Beránek, one of the most important sculptors of the 20th and 21st centuries. Vilseck is expanding the International Art Trail in Vilsaue, which is continuously supplemented by the city with new works by German and international artists. As part of a symposium, artists will meet at the GKK and Vilseck. Vilseck is expanding the International Art Trail in Vilsaue, which is continuously supplemented by the city with new works by German and international artists. As part of a symposium, artists will meet at the GKK and Vilseck. In doing so, there is an opportunity to contrast views and artistic techniques. The end of the project will be a photo exhibition with high artistic standards and a trilingual exhibition catalogue. These documents document the works created in the project, in which students of FDULS and freelance artists participate. The project “Connecting and growing together — from country to country” enables encounters between students and artists whose Land Art works represent a sustainable partial result.

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