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Arts and Social Transformation Lab
For the second year the Living Room invited artists, art educators, researchers, and cultural practitioners to join a five-day laboratory on art and social transformation. The laboratory is designed as a learning and experimenting space for 12 participants to discuss and develop artistic practices engaging with displaced communities, encouraging them to take control of their…
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Advisory Board Meeting March 2025
On March 28 and 29, we met with members of our advisory board at the Zurich University of the Arts. Among others, Gwen Burnyeat from the University of Edinburgh (center) gave insights into her research and activism in connection with the peace process in Colombia, Jarosław Lubiak from the Academy of Art in Szczecin (right)…
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Roundtable Discussion “Art and Peace”
FR., 28. 03. 2025, 17:00, Toni Areal, Gallery 1 (room 4. K13), Pfingstweidstr. 96, 8005 Zurich This roundtable is organised within the framework of the research project Contemporary Art, Popular Culture, and Peacebuilding in Eastern Europe as part of our advisory board meeting under the umbrella of the Center for Art and Peacebuilding.We are delighted…
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Der Westen liegt am Schwarzen Meer: Eine Apologie des Dazwischens am Beispiel Osteuropas
New article by Jörg Scheller in the Journal “Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie“, 2024/1.
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Counter-intuitive Peacebuilding: An Encounter with Artist Daniel Rycharski in Rural Poland
In 2024, Jörg Scheller met Rycharski in his home town of Sierpc and interviewed him. The artist, who is openly gay and an activist for queer rights, but also a devout Christian, lives and works in rural Poland amidst the electorate of Poland’s national conservative PiS party. Through long-term cooperation with the local population, especially…
The research project Contemporary Art, Popular Culture and Peacebuilding in Eastern Europe is financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation and based at Zurich University of the Arts. The project examines the potential and limitations of contemporary art and popular culture for peacebuilding in three (Central) Eastern European countries: Poland, Moldova, and Armenia. Recognising a gap in peace studies, which often overlook Eastern Europe, the project aims to connect the arts with peacebuilding by exploring three different types of conflict.
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