Description

Romanian NGO founded 2015 that operates with Art, Culture and Education through culture for children, youth and adults.

Contrasens Cultural Association is a hub for local and emergent contemporary art and artists, a platform for education, training and growth through culture. We support and document the production of Romanian contemporary art and promote it in Romania as well as abroad and act as an interface between artists, public and sponsors in order to make the cultural space accessible, inclusive and to engage new publics with contemporary art.

Competence and Expertise Offered

In the past years Contrasens has trained young graduates in cultural management, cultural criticism and journalism. Our expertise is in mediation and art-based non-formal education programs, incuding critical thinking through art, in curating and producing visual art projects with a declared political and social dimension built on art as shaped and shaping the social and the political. ART AS POLITICAL PRAXIS.

Expertise sought

Our organization aims to engage in projects that focus on socially engaged art, on education through art and on new approaches to engaging diverse audiences with contemporary art, that are built on the synergy between local & international cultural society, between art, research and education, between public and private stakeholders.