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Note: All courses will take place in class over the weekend, except for Margo Rejmar’s module. Two days will be held in class, while the other days will be flexible for individual work and collaboration with the mentor in the field.

Featured artwork in the background: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Perfect Lovers).

Criticism today is loud, instant, and everywhere! But real critique takes time, research, context, and responsibility.
At Fora, we believe in slowing down to think deeper.

Do you, think everyone is a critic today? Let’s talk!

Featured artwork in the background: Andrea Fraser - Official Welcome

Swipe to discover what you gain from AWCP!😋

Featured artwork in the background: Eugenio Merino - In God We Trust (everyone else pays in cash)

✨Growth doesn’t happen in isolation.
It happens when people, time, care, and intention come together. This program is built on all of that, and on you.

If cost stands in the way, we’re still here. Apply for a scholarship. We believe in making space, not closing doors.

Featured artwork in the background: Sislej Xhafa - “Y”

📢 Application Deadline Extended : Art Writing & Criticism Program

Do you want to deepen your understanding of contemporary art and develop your critical voice?

Apply now via the 🔗 in our bio and join a mentorship program where you can work with international art critics and publish your writing in Fora!

📅 Extended Deadline: 15 April 2026, 23:49 (CET)
📍 Eligibility: Writers 18+ from Albania, the Balkans, and beyond

✨What You’ll Learn with Our Mentors:

-The Foundations of Cultural Studies as a Method for Critical Writing with Francesco Scasciamacchia (IT), 25–26 April

-Writing and Reviews with Erka Shalari (AUT), 9–10 May

-Critical and Creative Writing for the Arts with An Paenhuysen (DE), 16–17 May

-Every Person Is a Story: An Interview as an Encounter with Margo Rejmer (PL), 23–30 May

-Art Critical Essays with Raino Isto (USA), 6-7 June

-Writing With Art: Between Criticism and Literature with Marta Cereda (IT), 13–14 June

-Theatre Criticism in Practice with Magda Piekarska (PL), 20–21 June

-Close Reading and Writing with Vera Zalutskaya (PL), 27–28 June

Discover our inspiring mentors and learn more about the program via the link. Follow us for updates and additional information

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Featured artwork for inspiration: Doris Salcedo – Shibboleth

Curious about what each module offers?

Explore the full details of the program and meet the people guiding the journey.

Select carefully the modules you want to be part of, each one offers a unique perspective on art writing and criticism.

MEET YOUR MENTOR:

Marta Cereda is a contemporary art curator working across institutional and independent contexts. Her projects often unfold in non-conventional settings, inviting artworks to engage in a precise dialogue with architecture and lived environments.

She is Artistic Director of Careof, one of Italy’s leading non-profit organizations devoted to artistic research and the production of new works, and home to one of the country’s most significant video art archives. Alongside her institutional role, she develops exhibitions, artist residencies and long-term curatorial projects in Italy and internationally, collaborating with public institutions, foundations and cross-disciplinary venues.

She curates Casasanvito, an artist residency housed in an 18th-century mansion in the Marche region, conceived as a space for concentration, process-based research and sustained engagement with context. She regularly contributes to “Il Giornale dell’Arte” and other art publications.

Her curatorial practice is grounded in close collaboration with artists and in a careful reading of spaces, approaching exhibition-making as a form of mediation between artwork, site and audience.

The module led by Marta Cereda for Art Writing and Criticism Program (AWCP) is supported by Italian Institute of Culture Tirana. I Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Tirana

Application Materials:

We encourage all applicants to carefully review the instructions and required materials before submitting their application.

Our goal is to select a thoughtful and committed group of participants with whom we can continue collaborating in the future. That is why we would like to get to know you better through your application.

Please make sure your submission reflects your interests, motivations, and engagement with contemporary art and critical thinking.

🔗 Find full details and submit your application through the link in our bio.

📌Take a moment to read the instructions thoroughly before applying.

More details about the Art Writing & Criticism Program

Due to the strong interest in specific modules, we have decided to offer the program not only as a full package, but also with the possibility to attend individual modules. This allows participants to focus on the topics most relevant to their interests and schedules.

Scholarships are available for participants in need. Priority will be given to applicants based outside Albania, but applications from all locations are welcome.

Apply now and be part of a dynamic learning experience in contemporary art writing and criticism.

Check the link in our bio for full details and application.

📢Applications Open: Art Writing & Criticism Program

🚨 Are you passionate about contemporary art and want to develop your critical voice? Join our mentorship program and have the opportunity to work with international art critics, and publish in Fora!

📅 Deadline: 5 April 2026, 23;49 (CET)

📍 Open to writers 18+ from Albania, the Balkans, and beyond.

Check our profile to discover the mentors of the program.

For more info, check the link:
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Since we are still confirming the other two mentors, and in order for you to get to know all the mentors before applying, we have decided to extend the deadline.

We will be announcing their names very soon. Follow us!

New deadline: April 5th at 23:59.

MEET YOUR MENTOR:

Vera Zalutskaya is contemporary art curator, writer, cultural manager, and editor born in Belarus but lives and works in Warsaw. She holds degrees from the European Humanities University in Vilnius and the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

Her research focuses on how decolonial and post-socialist thought can map shifting regimes of representation, attending to fluid identities, contested visibility, and the subtle image-operations through which subjectivity, belonging, and agency are produced and negotiated.
She was co-editor-in-chief of BLOK Magazine (2021–2024) and is a co-founder of MOST magazine (with Ewa Borysiewicz and Katie Zazenski). She serves as President of the
GESSEL Foundations for the National Museum in Warsaw (owning the XX and XXI century contemporary art collection deposed at MNW) and for Zachęta—National Gallery of Art
(awarding MA and PhD scholarships), and is a member of the Artistic Council of the Konrad and Paweł Jarodzki artist-in-residence programme (with Ruth Noack, Zbigniew Libera, and
Dorota Monkiewicz).

Since 2014, she has curated exhibitions and projects in Belarus, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia, including at the Museum of
Modern Art in Warsaw (MSN), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb (MSU), Copenhagen Photo Festival, CPH:DOX, and M HKA Antwerp. She is a co-founder of the Identity Crisis Network, a research platform connecting artistic practices and discourses that challenge established notions of identity and subjectivity. She has taught at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts (with Małgorzata Mirga-Tas), the POST MA programme at the Art Academy of Latvia in Riga, the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, UL ALUO and SCCA–Ljubljana, and KU Linz.

The module led by Vera Zalutskaya for Art Writing and Criticism Program (AWCP) is supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (IAM), which is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.

Thanks to the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Albania (Ambasada RP w Tiranie/Ambasada e Republikës së Polonisë në Tiranë) for making this collaboration possible!