Show profile.
Artists present images, audio, video, genres, references, region and possible formats in their own profile.
Planned: artist profilesThought since 2004. Now rekindled.
A new world for Art and encounter.
ARTOPIA combines art and utopia: a digital home for artists and a direct booking platform for organizers. Profiles, searches, booking requests and mutual reviews are intended to make art visible, comparable and bookable.
Current status: concept and structure. Next expansion stage: profiles, search and direct booking requests.
Art + Utopia = ARTOPIA
What ARTOPIA actually is.
Art stands for the entire diversity of artistic expression. Utopia represents the idea of a world in which talent is discovered more easily and encounters do not fail because doors are closed. ARTOPIA aims to make this world digitally accessible.
ART+UTOPIA=ARTOPIA
A shared world for artists and organizers.
Not just a showcase and not just an agency: ARTOPIA is intended to connect portfolio, network and booking in one place - cross-divisional, personal and comprehensible.
Find targeted.
Organizers search by category, location, occasion and general conditions and also discover art beyond their own network.
Geplant: Suche & AuswahlBook directly.
A profile becomes a concrete request. Offers, queries and agreements should come together without unnecessary detours.
Planned: bookingEvaluate fairly.
After real collaboration, artists and organizers evaluate each other - transparently and on an equal footing.
Planned: trustNot at some point. Very specifically.
What later on ARTOPIA should be possible.
The first usable core should represent a complete path: discover, check, inquire, agree and then evaluate fairly.
- 1Discover
For example, an organizer is looking for a live act for a city festival in the region.
- 2Compare
Profiles show style, media, references, possible line-ups and key organizational data.
- 3Inquiries
Date, location and format will be requested directly. The artist responds with questions or offers.
- 4Collaborate
After the performance, both sides can comprehensibly evaluate their real experience.
At that time
Festival series and real stages.
ARTOPIA curated cross-disciplinary evenings, brought scenes together and made unusual places culturally visible.
Thinking further today
Platform and online booking agency.
The original mediation idea is to become permanently online: with your own profiles like on MySpace, targeted searches, direct bookings and mutual reviews.
From the first stage to the Kulturfahrschule.
ARTOPIA has places brought into motion.
ARTOPIA did not begin as a digital platform, but as a series of events: well-known and unknown artists, different disciplines and always new places on a common stage. From every evening a network grew - and from this experience the Kulturfahrschule ultimately grew.
- 2004Gedanke & Konzept
ARTOPIA was conceived as a combination of art and utopia: different arts, people and places should form a common world. - 09.09.2005Blaubeuren
The documented start made the basic idea real: art, music and performance meet in one evening. - 2006Blauinsel & Büchsenstadel, Ulm
Three events in two very different locations showed that the format could migrate, grow and enliven new spaces. - 2007–2008Club Action, Ulm
Participants included Pangea, Fast Mo Chile, Panoptico, Zarate, Manarun, Yangoo, Frank Heinkel, Carmen Schroll, Fuego Diavolo, the Capoeira group Pardais de Ulm and many others. - 10.–12.09.2010Festival of Light, Caponniere 4, Neu-Ulm
For three days, light, dance, theater, fire, music and visual arts transformed the historic building. Contributors included Backyard Tribe, Showbuddies, projections, Lucille, Maya, asbara, Lilith Milkyway, Ritti Soncco as well as Johanna Knöpfle and Virginie Vallat. - 2011ARTOPIA meets river management
Uli Dumschat & Jay F. You, Frank Heinkel & Claus Wengenmayr, PELZ, Los Meros, Richard Géczi, Birgit Theisges, Anna Lind und weitere führten Music, performance und Kunstnetzwerk zusammen. - from June 2012Kulturfahrschule & Info-Punkt, Ehinger Tor
The next step emerged from the ARTOPIA experiences: culturally activating vacancies. The Kulturfahrschule became a bridge towards the Universum Center; In 2012/13, more than 300 events and projects were created in just under seven months.
The idea continued.
ARTOPIA became the Kulturfahrschule.
ARTOPIA showed what happens when different scenes come together and unfamiliar places are culturally opened up. In the information point at Ehinger Tor, the Kulturfahrschule continued this impulse from 2012 as a meeting point, temporary use, workshop and stage. This also created a bridge to the Universum Center in terms of content: from a traveling art festival to an open cultural venue to today's vision of an international cultural center with ARTOPIA as a digital platform.
To the KulturfahrschuleRebuilding begins with people.
ARTOPIA needs Skills, network and financing.
ARTOPIA is now being reactivated and rebuilt little by little - in close connection with the development of the Universum Center. This requires capable people, sustainable financing and a network that brings together artists, organizers, cultural venues, technology and organization.
New team players are approached and sought gradually as soon as the respective tasks are ready. Until then, the foundation grows: securing history, reactivating relationships, building new partnerships and turning the idea back into a resilient shared structure.
ARTOPIA restarts.
Do you have a connection to ARTOPIA?
Did you take part back then, do you have pictures or stories, have an idea or would you like to accompany the reconstruction? Then we look forward to receiving a personal message.