A model project for co-creative collaboration between artists and organisations.
Inside Artists
A model project for co-creative collaboration between artists and organizations.
With Inside Artists, Beethovenfest Bonn and Liz Mohn Foundation are initiating a model project as part of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes’s (Federal Cultural Foundation) »tuned – Network for Contemporary Classical Music« that tests new forms of collaboration between artists and institutions. To this end, five selected artists have been working intensively with the Beethovenfest team in a year-round process since January 2024, developing extraordinary projects for the festival. The process will be closely accompanied by Prof. Dr. Martin Zierold, who, as a coach for organizational development, will develop forms of cooperation between artists and Beethovenfest employees in several workshops spread over the year 2024 and critically reflect on them together with all project participants.
In a competitive process, the following artists were selected for 2024 from over 50 applications:
Rethinking existing forms of production and presentation in the classical music business
The current production conditions for art projects in many classical cultural institutions are increasingly leading to a loss of the ability to establish relationships between cultural institutions and artists. This is especially true in the strongly ›product-oriented‹ classical music landscape: most artists give guest performances with prefabricated programmes, which results in a homogenisation of cultural offerings. At the same time, the potential for creative and organisational cooperation between artists and institutions remains unused.
Promoting creative forms of work between artistic practice and institutional music education
The aim of Inside Artists is, on the one hand, to offer the artists optimal framework conditions to develop and realise an extraordinary art project together with the Beethovenfest team during the festival seasons 2024 and 2025. On the other hand, valuable starting points for organisational development within the institution are to be developed through the closely interlinked content-related cooperation and various coaching sessions. New forms of cooperation between artists and institutions will be made possible and the best possible production conditions and freedom for intensive artistic co-creation will be offered. We are looking for artists who can develop unique and free projects together with the teams in the areas of programme planning (incl. education), development (incl. discourse) and communication. Examples at these interfaces could be: artistic content creators in the communication department, discursive artists in the development department or co-curators from another musical genre working within the programme department.
