Research Catalogue

The EU4ART Alliance was created by four art academies in Dresden, Rome, Budapest and Riga. The Alliance is convinced that there is a great need for further strengthening the perspectives of fine arts as a culturally, socially and scientifically engaged approach towards a transdisciplinary discourse on society, sciences and humanities, and knowledge and thinking in general. The EU-funded EU4ART_differences project will work to raise each partner’s research profile and promote a high-level culture of artistic research in developing new programmes for postgraduate students and artistic researchers. It is guided by two pillars: knowledge transfer, and building artistic research units and graduate schools that will become part of the shared doctoral and postgraduate research community. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101016460.

"well told stories" places the fountain at the center of an artistic and narrative exploration. Drawing on historical events and stories that have unfolded at fountains in Dresden and Saxony since the 16th century, the project generates sculptural works that reinterpret these occurrences and translate them into a contemporary formal language. The double meaning of the title refers both to the fountain (well) as a site of origin, encounter, and memory, and to the act of telling a compelling story (well told). This artistic inquiry approaches the fountain not merely as an architectural artifact, but as a cultural, political, and mythological symbol. From the pilgrimage chapel once associated with the Queck Fountain, to the mining feat of the basalt well in Stolpen, to Friedrich Kracht’s concrete fountains at Dresden’s Neustädter Markt, a multifaceted panorama of meanings emerges: sites of faith, tragedy, representation, and everyday life. Situated at the intersection of historical research, literary and mythological references, and contemporary sculpture, the project opens a poetic space of reflection on Dresden’s past and present. It highlights how fountains, as urban markers, sites of memory, and aesthetic objects, shape collective narratives and invites us to retell these stories anew.

EU4ART_differences project is delighted to present the A.Re Days program. Three days dedicated to artistic research will celebrate the core projects developed by EU4ART_differences alliance through the course of the last three years, culminating in the European Researcher’s Night, on September 29, 2023.