© Arts institute
Arts and Theatre Institute
Celetná 17
CZ-110 00 Praha 1
T +420/224 809 134
info@institutumeni.cz
About us
Arts Institute
The Arts Institute (Institut umění) was established in January 2005 as an independent department of the Theatre Institute (Divadelní ústav), an organization established and funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. Since the 10th April 2007 the Institute is part of the Arts Institute-Theatre Institute.
The Arts Institute is an information, advisory, educational and production centre for the arts, focused mainly on theatre, dance, music, visual arts and literature.
Aims
- To contribute to the promotion of public recognition of the role of the arts and its development
- To support the exchange of information and experience among individual artistic fields
- To provide information and advisory services for the national and regional public authorities, cultural organizations and public
- To encourage the participation of Czech individuals and organizations in international projects and networks
- To present and promote Czech arts abroad
- To attend to educational activities for artists and cultural operators, primarily in the field of the management
Activities
- maintains a complex Czech-English cultural portal that contains: information about current grants, scholarships, auditions, conferences, opportunities of co-operation, job opportunities, publications, etc. from the field of culture; a database of cultural operators; documents related to cultural policies and an overview of funding possibilities
- maintains Czech Music, a music portal in Czech and English
- maintains Czech Literature Portal (in Czech and English)
- provides consultations about drafting and preparing artistic and cultural projects and their financial support from domestic and foreign programmes and funds (with the emphasis on the resources of the European Union)
- works on different projects, mainly connected with topics related to cultural policies
- coordinates the Artist in Residency Programme designed for various fields of art (visual arts, literature, performing arts...)
The Czech CCP of the European Union’s Culture Programme and the secretariat of the Czech Music Council are also departments of the Arts Institute. The Institute was appointed the National Coordination Body for the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008.
The Head of the Arts Institute is Ms. Eva Žáková.
Celetná 17, CZ-110 00 Prague 1
T +420/224 809 134, 118-119
F +420/222 326 121
info@artsinstitute.cz
More in the the bilingual Arts Institute Brochure (2009).
Dance Section
provides conceptual, organizational, coordinative and consultative service for dance, co-ordinates the documentation of the field and organizes seminars, workshops, lectures, round tables and exhibitions. The Dance Section actively participates in the promotion of Czech dance abroad.
Jana Návratová
T +420/224 809 103
dance@artsinstitute.cz
Music Section
provides conceptual, organizational, coordinative, information and consultative service in the field of music; the Music Section is focused on the promotion of Czech music.
Lenka Dohnalová
T +420/224 809 195 a 603 584 218
F +420/224 811 452
music@artsinstitute.cz
Literary Section
promotes Czech literature abroad and in the Czech Republic (management of the multilingual Czech Literature Portal, www.czechlit.cz), administration of the membership of the Arts Institute in the European network of literary centres Halma (www.halma-network.eu) and collaboration with the Prague Literary House of Authors of the German Language on residencies of Czech poets, novelists and playwrights in Germany.
Viktor Debnár
T 224 809 119
viktor.debnar@institutumeni.cz
Artist in Residency Programme
rests upon the co-ordination and apprehension of reciprocal residencies for artists. The aim of the Programme is to link up the Czech authors to international communication in individual fields of art. In addition, the Institute is also concerned with coming artists including providing them with contacts on the Czech artistic scene.
Markéta Černá
Pavel Štorek
T +420/224 809 125
F +420/
residencies@artsinstitute.cz
Halma Project
Viktor Debnár
T +420/224 809 119
F +420/222 326 121
viktor.debnar@institutumeni.cz
Czech Music Council
is the national section of the International Music Council founded by UNESCO. The Council associates almost fifty important musical organizations, as well as individual and honourable members. Since 1994, the Council gives awards to outstanding individuals or organizations of the Czech music culture. The Council collaborates with the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and elaborates on the topics of the European and International Music Councils – cultural policies, support of present musical creation, optimizing the musical educational system and creative arts education.
Lenka Dohnalová
T +420/224 809 195 a 603 584 218
F +420/224 811 452
music@artsinstitute.cz
Analyses
Bohumil Nekolný
T +420/224 809 193
bohumil.nekolny@institutumeni.cz
Coordination of Projects
Marta Lajnerová
marta.lajnerova@institutumeni.cz
Database of Cultural Organizations a www.mezikulturnidialog.cz
Štěpán Matějka
stepan.matejka@institutumeni.cz, info@mezikulturnidialog.cz
News/E-newsletter
Viktor Debnár
T 224 809 119
viktor.debnar@institutumeni.cz