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CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

Continental Breakfast (CB) is an international co-curatorial and multidisciplinary project mainly dedicated to investigate the creativity and the innovation in the field of contemporary visual art, proposed by the Trieste Contemporanea Committee during the ‘First CEI Venice Forum’ (June 2003). It is a joint activity of the partner institutions leading to a series of exhibitions, conferences and events spread around Europe.  CB is under the auspices of the regional intergovernmental organisation ‘Central European Initiative’ (www.cei.org) and aims to contribute to the development of future cultural networks in the new Europe. It is composed at present by a number of institutions and museums in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey and United Kingdom.
 
The project deals with the perception of the ‘other’ in and beyond the new Europe. It is based on a joint approach to the study of the cultural intangible heritage of Europe identifying, in the different European regions, existing elements that can enhance the richness of a common and original cultural identity. Hence the title of the project that defines a type of breakfast that is common throughout Europe but in fact acquires diverse tastes and values through local cultural variations.

 

Accomplished CB Activities

  1. Continental Breakfast Warsaw
    The social relevance of contemporary art in Europe, international symposium
    (March 26 - 27, 2004 – Warsaw, Poland; organisers: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Austrian Cultural Forum)
  2. Warsaw CB Working Group (WG) meeting
    (March 27, 2004 – Warsaw, Poland)
  3. Venice CB WG meeting
    (July 10, 2004 – Venice, Italy)
  4. Continental Breakfast Belgrade – 45th October Salon, international exhibition
    (September 10 - October 31, 2004 – Belgrade, Serbia; organiser: Belgrade Cultural Centre, the City Assembly of Belgrade)
  5. Continental Breakfast Belgrade – Symbolic and Personal Geographies of Contemporary Art, international conference
    (September 11-12, 2004 – Belgrade, Serbia; organiser: Belgrade Cultural Centre, the City Assembly of Belgrade)
  6. Belgrade CB WG meeting
    (September 12, 2004 – Belgrade, Serbia)
  7. Continental Breakfast Trieste – European Cultures at work, international conference on literature
    (December 2, 2004 – Trieste, Italy; organiser: Trieste Contemporanea)
  8. Continental Breakfast: The expanded Map – Second CEI Venice Forum for Contemporary Art Curators
    (June 7-8, 2005 – Venice, Italy; organiser: Trieste Contemporanea)
  9. Venice CB WG meeting
    (June 8, 2005 – Venice, Italy)
  10. Continental Breakfast Ljubljana, international conference
    (September 2-3, 2005 – Ljubljana, Slovenia; organiser: Muzeum Ljubljana)
  11. Continental Breakfast Ljubljana – Memory W(h)ole, international exhibition
    (September 3-20, 2005 – Ljubljana, Slovenia; organiser: Muzeum Ljubljana)
  12. Ljubljana CB WG meeting
    (September 4, 2005 – Ljubljana, Slovenia)
  13. Continental Breakfast Tallinn – Nu Performance Festival
    (November 2-24, 2005 – Tallinn, Estonia; organiser: Kunsthalle Tallinn)
  14. Continental Breakfast Maribor – Places of Transition, international exhibition with 4 accompanying projects
    (December 4, 2005 - March 12, 2006 – Maribor, Slovenia; organiser: Umetnostna Galerija Maribor)
  15. Continental Breakfast Maribor in London – Young Artists from Slovenia 46N34 15E38
    (December 1 – 18 2005 – London,U.K.; organisers: Umetnostna Galerija Maribor, Seven Seven Contemporary Art London)
  16. Continental Breakfast London in Maribor, international exhibition
    (January 31 – February 21, 2006 – Maribor, Slovenia; organisers: Umetnostna Galerija Maribor, Seven Seven Contemporary Art London)
  17. Continental Breakfast Friuli Venezia Giulia 1 – Fuori dal West (Outside the Western World), round table
    (December 9, 2005 – Trieste, Italy; organiser: Trieste Contemporanea)
  18. Continental Breakfast Friuli Venezia Giulia 1 – Chocolate Grinder n° 3
    (December 9, 2005 - February 28, 2006 – Trieste, Italy; organiser: Trieste Contemporanea)
  19. Continental Breakfast Friuli Venezia Giulia 2 – Pawel Althamer for ‘Sculptures in the Park’
    (April, 2006 – Passariano, Italy; organiser: Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art)
  20. Continental Breakfast Budapest – a series of lectures
    (2006-2007 – Budapest, Hungary; organiser: Ludwig Museum for Contemporary Art)
  21. Read Art – a meeting on contemporary art publications
    (April 24-25,2007 – Zagreb, Croatia; organiser: Institute for Contemporary Art Zagreb)
  22. Continental Breakfast: Outposts 2007 – Third CEI Venice Forum for Contemporary Art Curators
    (June 7-8, 2007 – Venice, Italy; organiser: Trieste Contemporanea)
  23. Venice CB WG meeting
    (June 8, 2007 – Venice, Italy; organiser: Trieste Contemporanea)
  24. Continental Breakfast Istanbul: After All..., international conference
    (22-23 September 2007 – Istanbul, Turkey; organisers: BM Contemporary Art Centre, European Cultural Association)
  25. Istanbul CB WG meeting
    (September 23, 2007 – Istanbul, Turkey; organisers: BM Contemporary Art Centre, European Cultural Association)