V4 AbstrACTION Interactive
An Interactive Exhibition featuring an educational programme designed for children aged 5-12, aimed at enhancing their ability to engage with and appreciate culture, while fostering an understanding of contemporary art.
The programme also focuses on deepening awareness of the rich artistic heritage shared by Slovakia, Poland, Czechia, and Hungary. In addition to promoting cultural awareness, it introduces young audiences to the innovative interactive technologies that are shaping the creation and experience of art today.
This immersive exhibition will be showcased across all four participating countries, offering a unique opportunity for children to explore the intersection of tradition and modernity in the arts. Through hands-on activities and engaging presentations, the exhibition will encourage curiosity, creativity, and a deeper connection to the evolving landscape of art and technology.
PARTNERS
POLAND
Project Coordinator
Non-profit association based in Wrocław / PL, devoted to the education and promotion of Abstract Film and Media Art in that country and the Visegrád region. It develops projects that actively engage communities in art experimentation and the creative process; it establishes networks of artists, institutions, and educators that seek to promote the genre and sensitise broader audiences, and it implements strategies to resignify local cultural heritage through Abstract Art in Motion.
The association is part of the international Punto y Raya Platform, with partners in Spain, Portugal and Bulgaria.
Project Partner
Krupa Art Foundation is a non-profit institution located dedicated to promoting contemporary art, with a particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe, through private patronage.
Located on Wrocław's Market Square, the Foundation hosts exhibitions by both Polish and international artists, as well as works from Sylwia and Piotr Krupa's collection of significant 20th- and 21st-century Polish art.
HUNGARY
Project Partner
The Hungarian Electrographic Art Association – HEAA, established in Budapest in 2001, is a community of 87 members: artists (visual art, music, live performance and new media), art professionals and art theorists, specialised in the electronic and new media art.
The association has its own space: MET Gallery in Budapest.
CZECH REPUBLIC
Project Partner
Karpuchina is a progressive gallery of contemporary art based in Prague. It is focused on presenting contemporary art trends with an emphasis on media and the visual language (painting, object, installation). The curatorial scope ranges from personal & philosophical issues through political & social commentary.
SLOVAKIA
Project Partner
Kino Úsmev (the Smile Cinema) is an independent and alternative cinema founded in 1922. It is located in the Old Town district on Kasárenský Square, and it is the only functioning stone cinema in Košice, with a capacity of 300 seats.
Since 2015, Kino Úsmev has been run by the non-profit association CINEFIL, whose members transformed the cinema into a Centre for Audiovisual Culture comprised of two screening rooms. The Center was completed in 2016 as the first of its kind in Slovakia.
SPAIN
Project Partner
International platform devoted to the promotion, education and production of audiovisual art in its purest state: Form, Colour, Motion and Sound.
The project was launched in 2007 by the non-profit association MAD (Barcelona /ES) with the first PUNTO Y RAYA FESTIVAL, event that has been taking place since then in the most relevant institutions of contemporary art and new technologies.