Platforms

Art platforms

Art platforms enable artists, collectors, and art enthusiasts to present, discuss, buy, and sell artwork, ranging from publications to artist-run spaces or galleries.

Eastern European & Balkan Art Platforms (active since 2020):

(non-exhaustive list)

• ARTALK, https://artalk.info/, an online, English language magazine about contemporary visual art with more than 26,000 active monthly readers, which deals with the reflection of the happenings on the art scene in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and neighbourhood, founded in 2008 in Brno, Czech Republic, by the Feminist Art Institute Collective.
• ART MARGINS, https://artmargins.com/, an online, English language contemporary art magazine focusing on , contemporary art across the evolving global peripheries, founded in 1999 by Comparative Literature Program at The University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, U.S.A.
• ARTERRITORY, https://arterritory.com/, an online, English and Latvian language contemporary art and culture website, which focuses on Baltic, Scandinavian, and Central Europe art, founded by the association Mākslas platforma.
• AWARE WOMEN ARTISTS, https://awarewomenartists.com/, an Englishs and French language contemporary art portal focusing on women artists, including women from Eastern Europe & Balkan area, founded in 2014 by Camille Morineau.
• BLOK, https://blokmagazine.com/, an online, English language contemporary art magazine focusing on Central and Eastern Europe, founded in 2018 by BLOK Foundation Warsaw, Poland.
• FLASH ART, https://flashart.cz/, an online Czech & Slovak language contemporary art magazine, being one of the most prominent periodical on contemporary visual arts in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, founded by Helena Kontová, Juraj Čarný and Lýdia Pribišová in 2006, in Czech Republic.
• KAJET Journal, https://kajetjournal.com/, an online, Romanian language contemporary art magazine that aims to bring unexplored Eastern European narratives to an English-speaking audience, founded in Bucharest, Romania.
• MAGAZYN SZUM, https://magazynszum.pl/, an online, Polish language contemporary art magazine, founded in Warsaw by Culture Places Foundation.
• OBIEG, https://obieg.pl/, an online, Polish language contemporary art magazine, with assessments of artistic phenomena which have often been perceived as the position of the founder, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski.
• REVISTA ARTA, https://revistaarta.ro/en/, a Romanian-English bilingual online and print contemporary art magazine, aiming to map the Romanian contemporary art scene, to document it and offer a critical evaluation of its manifestations, relaunched in 2024 in Cluj, Romania, published by the Romanian Artists’ Union.
• SECONDARY ARCHIVE, https://secondaryarchive.org/, an online, English language information portal, archiving women artists from Central and Eastern Europe, established in 2012 in Warsaw, by the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation.
• SEE CULT, https://www.seecult.org/, an online, English language Southeastern European cultural information portal, dedicated to following culture in Serbia and the neighbourhood region, founded in 2003 by Citizens' Association SEEcult.org, SEECULT, Serbia.
• TRANZIT.org, https://www.tranzit.org/, an English language portal of a network of civic associations working independently in the field of contemporary art in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania and across the borders of a wider Europe, founded in 2002 by Verein tranzit.at, Vienna, Austria.