CologneOFF 2011 in April – Focus: Balkan

CologneOFF 2011 in April – Focus: Balkan

Videoart by Boris Sribar (Serbia)
Boris Sribar, video artist of April 2011

The geographical focus is directed in April 2011 to the Balkan countries, in special Serbia, Greece, Croatia, Slovenia and Romania.

From Serbia comes Boris Sribar, who is videoartist of the Month April 2011 featured in a solo presentation at Arad Art Museum on
CologneOFF 2011 ARAD – 31 March – 2 April 2011 – the solo feature can be found via the main menu on http://coff.newmediafest.org
the site carying the solo feature –> http://www.newmediafest.org/, but also VAD – Videoart Database – is presenting the individual videos of this solo feature on http://vad.nmartproject.net/?page_id=2301

Croatia was featured via two compilations at Arad Art Museum –> http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=953
a) provided and curated by Darko Fritz –> http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=838
b) provided by VideoChannel –> http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=1234

Slovenia was represented by a selection by Kolektiva (Vesna Bukovec & Metka Zupanic) –> http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=785
was also presented first at Arad Art Museum

Romania by also represented at Arad Art Museum via a selection from 40 Years Kinema Ikon, an initiative of experimental film & videomakers from Arad, curated by Calin Man
—> http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=844

Besides the place Arad located in the Balkan country Romania, also another place is responsible for a CologneOFF 2011 manifestation in Romania – Timisoara (12 April) –> see CologneOFF 2011 Timisoara I , there is also a 2nd part taking place between 4 and 8 May 2011 in the framework of TimiShort – Timisoara International Shortfilm Festival in form of a presentation of CologneOFF 2011, entitled: Art & the City – a cooperation with the German Cultural Center Timisoara.

Deutsches Kulturzentrum Temesvar (Rumänien)