OUT OF THE METROPOLIS - Art exchange across borders is a three-year project that aims to explore and support insight and innovation in the field of co-creation and circulation of visual art, and in particular contemporary photographic practices, across borders.
The project ‘Out of the Metropolis - Art exchange across borders’ is responding to Creative Europe’s Objective on Transnational creation and circulation: to strengthen the transnational creation of European works and artists. The project seeks to understand the changes that society will face regarding culture in the regions. Over recent years, the art world has been shifting from a few major hubs to multiple artistic communities in the peripheries around Europe. The art world is no longer defined only by the larger key cities but now by a multitude of diverse peripheral locations offering a different geographical take on contemporary art. Many of the areas in the peripheries where artists and art professionals are emigrating to, have links and interdependencies with larger urban settings and are often undergoing a form of transition as we head into the third industrial revolution. As artists and art professionals move to the peripheries, we see art and culture being used as an intervention to explore and challenge the notion of city development and what is possible when living outside an established metropolis.
