6 Victor Basilli street, Alpharaana, Alazarita
Alexandria
Egypt
- Arts
- International/Cultural relations
Atelier aims at connecting artists from different horizons, at making it possible for artists from different fields and nationalities to share their experiences. The very dynamic team of this famous venue on the Egyptian artistic scene also strives to make the arts more accessible to the general public. They have organised several events including exhibitions, workshops, seminars, talks. They have been chosen to host part of the Alexandria Biennale of Arts in 2005, which was a great recognition of their cultural role. Since 1956, the Atelier has hosted many cultural events, both regional and international, with a wide variety of activities in the fine arts, poetry, music, history lectures as well as seminars. The Atelier of Alexandria is one of the most vital and active resources for contemporary culture and art in Egypt; its members represent the top intellectuals and thinkers. The Atelier is active in all of the modern movements in art and culture, giving many workshops and supporting established and emerging talents. Since 2005,This is an example of the most recent activities of the Atelier. international youth salon 2006, international workshop 2006, workshops through Alexandria Biennale 2005, running the “ON-ART” dance and multimedia performance workshop in partnership with the French Cultural Centre and the Biennale de Jeunes Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (based in Naples), and promoting RAMI: the Mediterranean Arts et Multimedia platform, a joint venture alongside partners in Beirut and Milan.
- International activities: international youth salon: Atelier of Alexandria organize international Youth Salon held each year on 16th of April. The Atelier gives opportunities to young artists under 35 years old to develop their experiences, talents and skills. Its aim to create interesting atmosphere to the youth artists for creation, discussion, share their experiences and develop the dialogue between youth artists whose comes from a different cultures, it was hold on 16th of April 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 for more information visit: http://www.atelieralex.com/InternationalActivities-YouthSalon.htm international artists workshop: Atelier of Alexandria organize international artists workshop held each two years is an intense two-week studio session for an international group of professional visual artists in Atelier, The workshop's mission is to create an environment designed to maximize exchange, stimulate new ideas and encourage experimentation. It is aim to working in the relation between arts and the dialogue of cultures, especially in the fields of visual arts and interdisciplinary work (with a cross over between performing and visual arts). The workshop gathering a group of artists to exchange their artistic work learn about their respective cultures and develop work together in a collective environment of intense dialogue and creativity. The first one was hold on 20-30 November 2006, and the second one was hold on 25 January – 8 February 2008 for women for more information visit the founding director of AAW projects is Moataz el Safty and Reem Hassan. http://www.atelieralex.com/InternationalActivities-Workshops.htm RAMI project workshops 2006 - 2007: International Encounters on Arts and Multimedia, The RAMI project is the result of a cooperation that began in 2001 between the following major partners: SHAMS-Beirut, ZINC/ECM-Marseilles, l’ATELIER of Alexandria and ASTAR-Milan. The RAMI project, initiated in September 2006 until December 2007, is a platform for experimentation and communication that will organize international meetings based on contemporary creation, digital tools and multimedia, it was hold in Marseille September 2006, in Beirut through May2007, in Alexandria through June2007, in Marseille through September2007, in Beirut through October2007, in Alexandria 8th November 2007 through the opening of Alexandria Biennale and through BJCEM biennale 25th November 2007. For more information http://www.atelieralex.com/RAMI.htm Photography festival the ECUME(s) Alexandria and Marseille in collaboration with Atelier of Alexandria organized the 3rd Mediterranean Photo Workshop of Alexandria. From April 7th to 17th, 10 photographers from France, Italy, Tunisia, Syria and Egypt came together in Alexandria. The pictures they took during these ten days exhibited at the Atelier of Alexandria until April 28th. Fore more visit: http://www.atelieralex.com/ECUME.htm BJCEM biennale: Atelier of Alexandria is a member of the board of BJCEM international association of the biennial of young artists from Europe and Mediterranean, each two years the Atelier select more than 32 Egyptian young artists under 30 years old in different fields of art – painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation, video, cinema, theatre, music, fusion, poetry, writer, modern dance, electronic music and gastronomy, to participate in the edition of the biennial, which hold on Napoli 2005 – Italy, Bari 2007 – Italy, Skopje 2009 – Macedonia, Thessaloniki – Greece and Rome – Italy 2011 and in Ancona – Italy2013. For more information visit: http://www.atelieralex.com/BJCEM.htm International conference: in 2004 the Atelier of Alexandria holds an international conference under the title the role of artistic NGOs in Arab worlds. - National activities: Exhibitions: each year through its artistic session from September to June, the Atelier gives opportunities to the Egyptian artists from any ages to exhibit their artworks in its halls, and help them to introduce their works to the Alexandrian society and to the world through publish their works on its website and send newsletter to its members. Workshops: from time to time the Atelier organize many workshops to public people, audience and child to develop their talents and to give them more experiences, its hold visual arts workshops, digital and editing workshops – to learn how you can work in computers with many of the software which used to product artworks, also Atelier did some workshops in Fusion and Jewelry design, also in hand made and recycling workshops. Studios: in all the artistic session of Atelier in summer and winter season, the Atelier is open its studios to public people, audience and child to introduce the different arts and to create interesting atmosphere to audients for creation and share their experiences and develop their talents and skills. Its gives a lot of opportunities to children, Audients and public people through its opening to the professional to organize a lot of workshops which is necessary for the Alexandrian Society. Conferences: Atelier organized many conferences under the title of files of modernism 1998, the meeting points of different forms of poetry 2000, the prospects future of Novels & literature 2002, first conference of art critics 2003 and forum for Arab poetry 2005, also in 2011 the atelier organized a first conference after the Egyptian revolution, 12 – 13 May 2011 it’s called the future of Culture .. Culture of the future.