TIRANA ARCHITECTURE WEEK

Open City Balkani, a project by Claudia Zanfi 

'OPEN CITY' means to identify the city as an open space, a place of exchange and encounter, of freedom and equity, a crossroads of cultures.

 

 

 

The first edition of Tirana Architecture Week, organized by Polis University, presents a full calendar of exhibitions, conferences, urban interventions and a competition for young artists and designers. At the exhibition participates the cultural organization aMAZElab from Milano, in the frame of the program  Revival of City Squares in the Balkan Cities, with the display 'OPEN CITY', works on paper by 30 artists from the Balkans (Pavel Braila, Calin Dan, Danica Dakic, Oliver Musovik, Anton Petrov, Tadej Pogacar, Igor Sovilj, Zaneta Vangeli, Shoba, ect…). Open City Balkani means to identify the city as an open space, a place of exchange and encounter, of freedom and equity, a crossroads of cultures.
This program explores the borderlands between city and community, featuring eyewitnesses and researchers into narration and its links with the oral tradition, as well as international artists committed with installations in public space. Open City Balkani is therefore an arena of potentiality and interdisciplinarity.

Open City Balkani, a project by Claudia Zanfi
In collaboration with:  EU Commission, Art and Culture Program

Opening 9-15 October 2012, Polis University and Tirana Ekspres Space, TIRANA
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