Open Place

Platform for Interdisciplinary Practice Open Place (Open Place) is an artistic initiative that aims to facilitate discussions and exchange of opinions, ideas, and experiences between artists, curators, and various social groups across Ukraine and other countries. The platform organizes meetings and conducts joint events to foster the development of art, politics, and socio-cultural transition. Open Place supports artists and their outreach to various social groups across Ukraine and abroad. Embracing the diversity of ideas, methods, and actions in visual arts, design, performance, media art, architecture, research, social action, and economics, Open Place has been developing grassroots and social engagement practices since 1999. Art residencies are an important part of Open Place’s activities. Open Place supports interdisciplinary projects aimed at the expansion of art-making concepts and the engagement of new groups of people in the creative process. They are interested in the experience of international colleagues working with socially minded practices and how they use participatory art and engage different social groups. Open Place works on researching practices of collective coexistence, building horizontal structures, and peer-to-peer learning. A significant part of Open Place’s activities is aimed at building connections between different social and professional groups, different contexts, and different types of knowledge. The goal of the residency is to exchange knowledge and practical experience, examine the specifics of various local contexts, and develop new methods in the field of socially engaged art. Open Place is attentive to the ideas and practices of its residents. For its part, the residency program helps artists to explore the context and forge links with the artistic and research milieu upon their needs. They are particularly looking for applications from artists and curators who are interested in development and transformation of contemporary interdisciplinary practices, focused on working with communities, and the topic of inclusion.