Konstantinos Kessaris recognizes the role of art and culture in fostering social change and sustainable development. The social impact of art, based on the notion of Joseph Beuys’ “social Sculpture”, is constantly gaining ground in contemporary critical art discourses. Sculpture and especially public, as a public good and political act, has always had a profound importance for the collective memory and flow of ideas. Inevitably Interwoven with politics, religion and power, public sculpture spans a millennia-old effect on societies and aesthetics. Nowadays, beyond its aesthetic dimension, sculpture represents a powerful tool for raising global awareness on pressuring social issues and environmental challenges, whilst cultivating ethics and democratic ideals of freedom and peace. The mandate to renegotiate the role of art for advocating social change, is embedded in all international cultural policy, the new European agenda for culture and UNESCO’s conventions.
To this end, the studio maintaining a wide network of partner experts, provides services on consultation on EU cultural cooperation projects, from conceptualization to cultural project engineering and local development initiatives. Thematic areas include but are not limited to: public art projects, sculpture symposiums, art residencies, visual ethnographic missions, heritage valorization actions, inter-cultural dialogue art events, material and intangible culture research projects.
Projects in Development
