2023

Anne Wölk

Tican & Vizinada | Croatia
[September 2023]

Berlin painter “Anne Wölk” conducted an exclusive painting workshop at the observatory in Tican and Vizinada, Croatia.

Anne received a scholarship by ArtCircleResidence- Europe Connect to paint in Istria and connect to the local art community. During the week she visited the gallery of artist Ante Potočnik and connected to the local art scene. Painting in Vizinada and at the seaside in Novigrad added to her works. Visits to the observatory in Tican led to a meeting which opened the perspective to paint and exhibit her “space aestetics” works during the open night of the observatory on 21.June 2024.

www.annewoelk.com

ACR-Europe Connect – Düsseldorf

Oaktree Recording | Düsseldorf
[Song Workshops in Vizinada (Croatia) 2022  and Düsseldorf August 2023]

From concept to creation: In 2022 during  an Art Circle Residence event in Vizinada the Slovene song writer and singer Matjaz Ferenc presented one of his songs  to an  international audience.

Further to that Matjaz developed songs based on lyrics by Anna Prinz from Germany during a workshop in Vizinada in June 2023. The result inspired musicians from Düsseldorf who decided to take part in  the recording at the „Oaktree Studio“ of Andreas Böhmer in Düsseldorf in August 2023.

Collaboration:
Matjaz Ferenc received a travel grant from ArtCircleResidence- Europe Connect e.V. to develop the songs further during a two day residency workshop. Session at „Oaktree studio“, a non profit music studio run by Andreas Böhmer.  was kindly given free of charge. 

In addition to Andreas Böhmer (drums and recordings) his son Michael Kordon contributed as a drummer and  his daughter Natalie Kordon at the accordeon while his wife Irina Kordon photographed the event. 

The workshop was also joined by singer Andrea Ruth-Icking and guitarist Andreas Lorenz, as well as Anna Prinz as backing vocalist.

Please find more information on the artists here.

The result The outcome of the collaboration has resulted in demo versions of both songs: The “Robot” Song and the “Turn around” song, which you can find below.

Initially songs have been recorder and now require further development to produce final arrangements and production, accompanying video and promotion. ACR is looking for further collaboration. Please write  to “artcircleresidence@gmail.com” if you would like to take part in further developments of these demos. We would love to see these arrangements become hits!

Steinway&Sons

Düsseldorf August 2023

ArtCircleResidence cooperated with Steinway&Sons to invite for an evening with a concert on one of the innovative Spirio grand pianos.  Helene Dabur, Steinway&Sons Düsseldorf, presented the history and purpose of this brand new technology which enables pianists to give live concerts at various locations at a time, playing simultaneously and producing exactly the same sound at the same time.

At our event famous pianist Tim Alhoff was performing on a Spirio grand piano in Hamburg and on the Spirio grand piano in Düsseldorf at the same time. Luiz Passagli in Düsseldorf explained to us the amazing Steinway technology, which produces these
miracles.

ACR-Europe Connect – Vizinada

Croatia | Vizinada | 2023

ArtCircle Residence- Europe Connect was active again in the Istrian wine region around Vizinada connecting guests and artist from Germany, Slovenia, Croatia and Australia.

Vizinada is surrounded by 11 wineries. In a “vivo vino” walk in cooperation with the community of Vizinada, we could enjoy local wine and Istian live music. In addition the community brass banda played on 1. May. ArtCircleResidence invited guests from Germany, Slovenia and Australia to connect their activity in a workshop and book presentations.

Barbara Tanze, German-Swiss opera singer, breathing and voice specialist showed us in a workshop, how important it is to exhale and inhale correctly and presented her new book for children in English with beautiful paintings and graphic design. The book teaches children in a funny way, how to breathe correctly. It will be published in London this summer (ISBN below).

Steffi Kammermeier from Munich read from her book “was hamma gessn”, in which she describes the Bavarian traditions on big farms to a Croatian-German-Slovene-Australian audience and inspired taking note of still exisiting traditions and cultural similarities in Europe.