Trondheim Academy of Fine Art invites students to take part in the KUNO Biennial 2025 in Trondheim. This nomadic biennial continues its journey from the Vilnius edition Shared imaginations in 2023, and now proposes to embark on a Venture Collective. By deliberately playing with associations to the start-up term Venture Capital, which evokes economic playgrounds of risk investment and speculation, we want to twist the understanding of the capitalist value system and instead emphasize a value creation fostered through social cooperations. To frame a space that faces the economic realities we are living in, including the art world, while imagining alternative and collaborative ways of venturing. We call for proposals that take the risk of being open, complex and sensible to a place, an environment, uncertainty and collective processes. That are seeking for an artistic and transformative responsivity towards the worldly challenges of our time. This can and should take multiple forms.

VENTURE COLLECTIVE

KUNO BIENNIAL 2025 TRONDHEIM 09-19 OCTOBER

By deliberately playing with associations to the start-up term Venture Capital, which evokes economic playgrounds of risk investment and speculation, we want to twist and challenge the understanding of the capitalist value system and instead emphasize a socially ventured value creation. To frame a space that faces the economic realities we are living in while imagining alternative and collaborative ways of venturing, seeking for an artistic and transformative responsivity towards the worldly challenges of our time.

With Denis Kudrjašov (Estonian Academy of Arts), Mari Skousen (Funen Art Academy), Katja Kristola & Viola Johansson (HDK-Valand), Shannon Felländer-Tsai (HDK-Valand, Anna Filippa Moberg (Malmo Art Academy), Ida Silfverdal (Tromsø Academy of Fine Arts), Ronja Sinisalo & Tiia-Unia Moisio & Esteri Lovisa Suomalainen (Turku University of Applied Sciences), Linus Starbäck (University of Bergen), Gustė Kripaitė (Vilnius Academy of Arts), Vladimiras Mackevichius (Vilnius Academy of Arts), Yangyang Zhou (Umeå Academy of Fine Arts), Marie E. Preston (Trondheim Academy of Fine Art), Tor-Ada Solberg (Trondheim Academy of Fine Art), Yi Ten Lai & Sara Björg (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts & The Iceland University of the Arts). Hosted by students and staff of the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art / NTNU.

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KUNO BIENNIAL 2025 TRONDHEIM 09-19 OCTOBER