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)

• APPARATUS, https://www.apparatusjournal.net/, on online, English, French and Russian scholarly journal on film, media and digital cultures of Eastern, Central and South-Eastern Europe.
• ART EAST CENTRAL, https://journals.phil.muni.cz/arteastcentral/, an online, English language open access, peer reviewed international journal publishing articles on architecture, design and the visual arts in central Europe from 1800 to the present day, founded by the Department of Art History, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• IDEA, ARTA si SOCIETATE, https://idea.ro/revista/ro, an online, bilingual English and Romanian language contemporary art magazine, founded in 1992 in Cluj, Romania.
• 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.
• KOOPERATIVA, https://platforma-kooperativa.org/, a regional network of organizations and national networks working in the field of independent culture and contemporary art in Southeast Europe (SEE), jointly founded by 21 independent cultural organizations from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia; the platform currently has 40 active members, active in all areas of contemporary cultural and artistic practices.
• KRYTYKA, https://feminist.krytyka.com/ua, an Enlish and Ukrainean contemporary art magazine on feminist and queer studies, founded in 1997, in Kyiv, Ukraine.
• KONTRADIKCE, https://kontradikce.flu.cas.cz/en, a language scholarly journal, assessing radical intellectual traditions of Central and Eastern Europe, bringing them to bear on the historical present and bringing them into international discussions of emancipatory social change, founded in 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic.
• MAGAZYN SZUM, https://magazynszum.pl/, an online, Polish language contemporary art magazine, founded in Warsaw by Culture Places Foundation.
• NEW EAST, https://neweast.art/, a network that aims to connect and expand the visibility of cultural institutions from post-socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe, initiated in 2018 by Kunstverein Ost – KVOST, Berlin.
• 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.
• PROFIL, https://www.profilart.sk/, an online, Slovak language contemporary art magazine specialising in contemporary art in Slovakia, peer-reviewed, that focuses on the analysis of key issues in visual art practice, founded in 1990 in Slovakia.
• RED THREAD, https://red-thread.org/, an online, Turkish and English language contemporary art magazine, disseminating knowledge about socially engaged art practices in a wide geopolitical context, challenging the predominance of Western narratives in official art histories and exhibition making, founded by WHW (what, how and for whom) and Osman Kavala in 2009 as part of 11th Istanbul Biennial.
• 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.
• SUM, https://www.sum.si/, an online English language and Ljubljana-based platform and a collective of agents operating between art, theory, and fiction, founded in 2013.
• 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.
• VANIS, https://vanis.ipu.hr/, Visual Artists Network Information System, created in 2025 as an open, extensible resource infrastructure for the study of modern and contemporary art, on of the first publicly accessible database in the field of modern and contemporary visual art in this part of Europe, equipped with a series of data visualization interfaces.
• VVP AVU, https://vvp.avu.cz/, Notebook for Art, Theory and Related Zones, is an English and Czech language contemporary art magazine issued annually, peer-reviewed, published by the AVU Research Centre, that reflects upon recent and contemporary visual art on the Czech scene, within a broader cultural and theoretical context.