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COLLABORATIVE RESIDENCIES
Our collaborative residencies invite and challenge participants to explore a more synergetic approach to art making.
You may walk in as one, but you might walk out as many.
WORKSHOPS & EXPERIENCES
We believe that creativity has the power to lend a hand, and that’s what we do in our workshops and retreats. Inner growth, community building and personal wellbeing are our main themes.
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EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
We love the process of exhibiting and organizing as much as the process of creation; as a matter of fact we see the whole thing as one.
For us, it requires special care and it comes as an intimate gesture shared with the world.
The ECUMENE Project approaches art as a shared experience & also uses it as a medium for inner exploration.The word ecumene is a Greek term dating from antiquity and it indicates the portion of earth known and inhabited by man; "the house where we all live".
In ECUMENE we perceive art as a universal dialogue that can enrich the community and as a source of energy able to provide inputs to everyone. We believe that art should be a collective thought, able to move values and souls.
get in touch the.ecumene.project@gmail.com
Eni Derhemi / co-founder
(1992, Tirana, Albania) is an Albanian artist and curator. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Design Arts from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (2014) and a Master Degree in Visual Arts from the University of Bologna (2020). Since 2010 she has lived, studied and worked in the creative sphere between Albania, Italy and Germany. In 2022, she was asst. Curator and Production Manager of the Albanian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennale. Taking as a starting point her own life, her research is based in thematics such as memory, identity, belonging and at the same time nomadic existence, highlighting a form of expression coherent to our position in the world as human beings: always looking for the identification and the definition of who we are. Her approach is at core poetic: an essence she likes to attribute to all the things around us as an infinite exploration. She uses these little discoveries as the basis for different forms of artistic expression such as poetry, photography, video and painting.
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Giulia Dongilli / co-founder
(1991, Tenno, Italy) is a visual artist who works with photography and video. She studied Design and Arts at the University of Bolzano, graduating in 2015. In 2017, she collaborated on the project "Lying in Between" inside the Samos hotspot, offering visual arts workshops to refugees and collecting testimonies at the camp. In 2018, the works produced in Samos were exhibited at the Sandretto Foundation in Turin, in the exhibition "Today, Tomorrow and the day after Tomorrow." That same year, she graduated from the Master in Contemporary Image at Fondazione Fotografia Modena. Giulia's research focuses on social and cultural issues and on the human being. She uses a metaphorical language and a multidisciplinary approach to find archetypal, mythological, and dreamlike images. In 2022, she started her studies of Art Therapy at Artedo (Trento, Italy) to further deepen her interest in art as a tool for inner exploration and for psychological/social well-being.
COLLABORATIVE RESIDENCIES
Our collaborative residencies invite and challenge participants to explore a more synergetic approach of art making.
You may walk in as one, but you might walk out as many.
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WORKSHOPS & EXPERIENCES
We believe that creativity has the power to lend a hand, and that’s what we do in our workshops and retreats. Inner growth, community building and personal wellbeing are our main themes.
↑
EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
We love the process of exhibiting and organizing as much as the process of creation; as a matter of fact we see the whole thing as one. For us, it requires special care and it comes as an intimate gesture shared with the world.
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The ECUMENE Project approaches art as a shared experience & also uses it as a medium for inner exploration.The word ecumene is a Greek term dating from antiquity and it indicates the portion of earth known and inhabited by man; "the house where we all live".
In ECUMENE we perceive art as a universal dialogue that can enrich the community and as a source of energy able to provide inputs to everyone. We believe that art should be a collective thought, able to move values and souls.
get in touch the.ecumene.project@gmail.com
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Eni Derhemi / co-founder
(1992, Tirana, Albania) is an Albanian artist and curator. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Design Arts from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (2014) and a Master Degree in Visual Arts from the University of Bologna (2020) where she graduates with a research thesis on post-90s Contemporary Albanian Art and the influence migration and post-dictatorship had on it. Since 2010 she has lived, studied and worked in the creative sphere between Albania, Italy and Germany. Taking as a starting point her own life, her research is based in thematics such as memory, identity, belonging and at the same time nomadic existence, highlighting a form of expression coherent to our position in the world as human beings: always looking for the identification and the definition of who we are. Her approach is at core poetic: an essence she likes to attribute to all the things around us as an infinite exploration. She uses these little discoveries as the basis for different forms of artistic expression such as poetry, photography, video and painting.
Giulia Dongilli / co-founder
(1991, Tenno, Italy) is a visual artist who works with photography and video. She studied Design and Arts at the University of Bolzano, graduating in 2015. In 2017, she collaborated on the project "Lying in Between" inside the Samos hotspot, offering visual arts workshops to refugees and collecting testimonies at the camp. In 2018, the works produced in Samos were exhibited at the Sandretto Foundation in Turin, in the exhibition "Today, Tomorrow and the day after Tomorrow." That same year, she graduated from the Master in Contemporary Image at Fondazione Fotografia Modena. Giulia's research focuses on social and cultural issues and on the human being. She uses a metaphorical language and a multidisciplinary approach to find archetypal, mythological, and dreamlike images. In 2021,she started her studies of Art Therapy at Artedo (Trento, Italy) to further deepen her interest in art as a tool for inner exploration and for psychological/social well-being.
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