Artforum Culture Foundation

The Artforum Culture Foundation (ACF) is a private and independent nonprofit organization (NGO) from Europe, with legal seat in Thessaloniki, Greece, and branches in Athens, Cologne, Paris, New York. Its major tasks include the independent promotion and exchange of art and culture in Greece and the regions of the Greek Diaspora in the world. The Foundation brings contemporary art to a wider audience and establishes a dialogue between generations through different cultural activities.

The exhibition centre, "Artforum-Vilka near the harbour" was initiated in 1996 with a retrospective by the attending Helmut Newton.

Aims

The Artforum Culture Foundation operates primarily as an international institution. A main target of the Foundation is to deliver contributions for cultural authenticity and against cultural uniformity. A main basis of the Foundation's philosophy is the value of the human and the application for peace, for social cohesion and for the renewal of culture. With its exhibition program the foundation promotes emerging as well as established artists.

Projects

A large priority of the Artforum Culture Foundation is to initiate projects (European Cultural Centre (EEC), Network Project) and to give artists space where they can show their pieces and receive creative valuation according to their own aesthetics. The foundation works on the promotion of gifted artists from all disciplines.

In addition, the Artforum Culture Foundation operates as a partner for cultural activities of interest to artists, galleries, collectors, local authorities and companies.

Artists

Research on important contemporary artists is one of the of aims of Artforum Culture Foundation. In the field of photography, the Foundation has given significant attention to the artistic estates of Heinz Günter Mebusch (The Mebusch Estate) and the complete works of Vera Isler-Leiner. The Foundation also gives support to the work of Joe Brockerhoff, Sheila Elias, Michael (Mike) Jansen, Chryssa, Michalis Manoussakis, Stanislav Marijanovic, Mahmood Mirzaie, Masaaki Noda, Manolis Polymeris, Vangelis Pliaridis, Stefan Runge, Theodoros (Papadimitriou), Panayiotis Tanimanidis, Helmut Tollmann, and Heinz Zolpers, among others.

Exhibitions

More than sixty art exhibitions with contemporary works of painting, sculptures, photographs and performance-art have been hosted by the Artforum Cultural Foundation, mostly in co-operation with the Tsatsis-Projects. Most of these are documented in catalogues and brochures.

Source

*www.artforum-culture-foundation.org
* and catalogues

External links

* [http://www.artforum-culture-foundation.org/ "Artforum-Culture-Foundation" website]