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Nekázanka 16, Prague 1
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The Arts Institute is dedicated to the promotion of the arts and providing information, education, and consultation and performing research in this field. It encourages a strategic approach to culture, and it supports and connects culture professionals and artists across different disciplines, while it also contributes to their professional growth on the national and international scene.
The Arts Institute (AI) was founded a separate department of the Arts and Theatre Institute in 2005. It organises activities, projects and programmes that reflect current needs in the contemporary arts and culture, thereby supporting the advancement and status of the arts and culture in society. It collaborates with other departments in the Arts and Theatre Institute, the Creative Europe Desk Czech Republic – Culture Office and other organisations and bodies at the national and international level so that its activities can have the widest possible impact.
Residencies
The Arts Institute runs a creative residencies programme in which it coordinates and arranges residencies for artists from different fields; as well as Residencies Abroad, the institute also sees to the needs of artists from abroad in the Czech Republic, including organising contacts for them in the Czech arts scene. The institute also organises a programme of Residencies at the Egon Schiele Art Centre in Český Krumlov that targets young Czech artists, Residencies for Writers and other activities. Check out the latest calls for applications.
Professional Development
The institute organises educational programmes and events designed to support the professional Development of cultural organisations, culture professionals, and artists. It employs top external lecturers, collaborates with specialised professional networks, and with other organisations and bodies. It seeks to spread and promote trends and examples of best practices in the field of cultural policy. It provides consultation to the professional community, public administration, the academic sphere, and international bodies. Since 2016 it has been running the educational Arts Institute Academy and it also organises other educational activities as part of its Focal Point project.
Research
The institute’s research focuses primarily on cultural policy. It collaborates with other professional organisations and centres on its projects. Since 2015, when the long-term research project Mapping Cultural and Creative Industries in the Czech Republic was completed, the institute has focused largely on individual issues and topics in this area. The aim is to address concrete needs in individual cultural and creative industries and in the arts and culture as a whole. In response to demand we implement projects and provide consultation for administrative bodies, the academic sphere, and other organisations.
International Promotion
The institute implements projects that are designed to promote Czechs arts abroad and to foster international cooperation, especially in the fields of contemporary and classical music, dance, literature, the fringe arts, and the visual arts. It collaborates on export showcases in the Czech Republic, arranges participation in international festivals and fairs, and publishes promotional materials. Currently its biggest project is the export-oriented music office SoundCzech, which performs a broad range of activities aimed at promoting Czech music in the Czech Republic and its export abroad.
Networking
The institute’s expert staff cultivate ties and contacts with organisations abroad and international networks and follow trends and cultural policy developments, and they are able to organise a programme or project in any discipline – such as study stays for professionals abroad.
Networking
Naši odborní pracovníci udržují kontakty se zahraničními organizacemi a sítěmi a sledují obsahové trendy i kulturní politiku. Jsme schopni připravit odborný program napříč obory, např. ve formě studijních pobytů odborníků ze zahraničí. Tradiční součástí networkingu jsou střediska nevládních organizací se sídlem v IDU: UNIMA, ITI, OISTAT, ASSITEJ, AICT a Česká hudební rada.
Information
The institute operates portals and platforms that offer information various cultural subjects and sectors. Culturenet is a portal that presents information about support, developments, employment, specialised literature on management and cultural policy, a directory of cultural organisations and exemplary international projects. The English version serves as a directory for all areas of cultural and provides international users with information about important events and successes. The institute also operates a portal and platform dedicated to intercultural dialogue and another one that focuses on the cultural and creative industries. There is also a portal that is intended to support international artistic mobility.
Projects and Information Portals
Events
10. 11. 2022
COMPLEX IMPACT OF MUSIC ON PEDAGOGICAL PROCESSES
In recent years, there has been increasingly visible research documentation of the impact of music cultivation on the development and condition of the human brain and psyche. In recent years, a large part of the professional public is also aware of the need for harmonious development of the personality of the young...
22. 9. 2022 - 22. 9. 2022
Focal Point: the Status of the Artist
The Theatre Institute in cooperation with the Czech Ministry of Culture invites you to the international conference Focal Point: the Status of the Artist, which will present examples of measures for establishing the status of the artist in some European countries.
19. 9. 2018 - 19. 9. 2018
Focal Point: Czech Dance in Data
Since 2016 the ATI has performed extensive research of Czech dance and related fields. It publishes the data in the “Czech Dance in Data” edition. Many interesting findings was the impulse for the authors to organize a conference where figures of ballet, contemporary dance, nonverbal theatre and contemporary...
22. 9. 2017
Focal Point: ART CRITICISM – A PUBLIC AFFAIR?
International seminar on the current state of art criticism. Organised by the Arts and Theatre Institute (ATI) in cooperation with the Arts Council Norway and supported by the EEA/Norway Financial Mechanism.
Research Projects
Post Covid Adaptation Models in Culture
Department
Institut umění
Arts Institute
Term
2022 - 2024
Evaluation of ATI programmes for export promotion and international cooperation
Department
Institut umění
Arts Institute
Term
2019 - 2023
Status of the artist
Department
Institut umění
Arts Institute
Term
2019 - 2023
Mapping Independent Theatre
Department
Institut umění
Arts Institute
Term
2019 - 2023
Labour applicability of artists on the labour market in classical music in the EU context
Department
Institut umění
Arts Institute
Term
2019 - 2023
Czech Dance in Data
Department
Institut umění
Arts Institute
Term
2017 - nyní
Potential of the fashion sector in the Czech Republic: fashion design - status and needs
Department
Institut umění
Arts Institute
Term
2017 - 2018
International Management in Music Sector
Department
Institut umění
Arts Institute
Term
2017 - 2018
Support for cultural and creative industries from EU funds 2015-2020
Department
Institut umění
Arts Institute
Term
2016
Changes in the Music Sector Under the Influence of New Technologies
Department
Institut umění
Arts Institute
Term
2015
Mapping the Cultural and Creative Industries in the Czech Republic
Department
Institut umění
Arts Institute
Term
2011 - 2015
Study of the state, structure, conditions and financing of the arts in the Czech Republic
Department
Institut umění
Arts Institute
Term
2006 - 2011
Contacts
Viktor Debnár
CULTURENET.CZ, literature
+420 728 396 667
viktor.debnar@idu.cz
viktor.debnar@kreativnievropa.cz
Magdalena Müllerová
Head of the Creative Europe Desk Coordinator of ATI Academy
+420 602 838 491
magdalena.mullerova@kreativnievropa.cz
magdalena.mullerova@idu.cz
International projects, Coordinator of the project Theatre Night, SECRETARY OF CZECH ASSItej centre, ATI Academy's Production
Monika Klementová
SoundCzech, Project Coordinator
+420 224 809 104
+420 602 695 929
klementova@soundczech.cz
Radek Pavlovic
Soundczech, PR
pavlovic@soundczech.cz
+420728848583
Aneta Brejchová
SoundCzech, administration
brejchova@soundczech.cz