OtherNetwork
About

OtherNetwork

OtherNetwork is a new type of cultural institution that connects independent art spaces worldwide. At its core are hundreds of projects that are strongly rooted in their local context, responding to the needs of artists directly. OtherNetwork is guided by a firm belief that independent cultural venues can offer urgent counter-narratives to those of larger institutions. This online platform visualises many of the creative collaborations happening organically between artists, curators and cultural producers worldwide that make this possible.

OtherNetwork has been developed in collaboration with an international research team responding to the cultural contexts of Accra, Bogotá, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Santiago and São Paulo. Artists, curators and cultural producers across the spectrum are invited to add themselves or a space that they represent to the database to help the platform grow.

Editorial

OtherNetwork commissions original essays, interviews and other editorial content from writers and researchers in different contexts. Rooted in a sense of place, each text looks at the issues shaping cultural production in one or more locations and how they relate to wider discourse.

Productions [New!]

OtherNetwork produces a regular international cultural programme. The research team have hosted panel discussions and other events in partner cities across Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, in parallel to an ongoing curatorial project conceptualised in the form of an exhibition relay. OtherNetwork Conversations is a podcast series that highlights some of the cultural projects reshaping the art world today.

Itinerary [New!]

OtherNetwork offers worldwide visibility to the programmes of independent project spaces by inviting users to add upcoming exhibitions and events to the Itinerary. The itinerary can be sorted by location or date, allowing visitors to get an overview of what is happening in their own city or to understand the art scene of somewhere that may have been missed off their cultural radar.

OtherNetwork is a project initiated by Cookies together with ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. Additional project support from Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie and Between Bridges.

Team

ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen

About
ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen promotes a peaceful and enriching coexistence between people and cultures worldwide. ifa supports artistic and cultural exchange in exhibition, dialogue and conference programmes, and it acts as a centre of excellence for international cultural relations. It is part of a global network and relies on sustainable, long-term partnerships. ifa is supported by the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, the state of Baden-Württemberg and its capital Stuttgart.

Cookies

About
Cookies is a design and architecture studio founded in 2016 by Alice Grégoire, Federico Martelli, Clément Périssé and Antonio Barone. Cookies is a catalyst for art and architecture; a polyphonic dialogue between research and production. Using exhibition-making as a medium, Cookies dismembers and re-articulates the relation between art, display, curation and space, diving into projects that require a critical approach and multidisciplinary collaboration.

F451

About
F451 is a design studio founded by Quentin Creuzet and Domitille Debret. From design to programming, they experiment with the standards and conventions of the web, with a focus on information structure. They work on commissioned design projects and also investing in researched based projects

Colin Keays

About
Colin Keays (1994) is a spatial designer, writer and editor based in Rotterdam, working across a number of international cultural projects. He was commissioned by Nieuwe Instituut to curate the Dutch Pavilion at the 2023 London Design Biennale, which was awarded with a special mention from the professional jury. He has worked closely with architecture and design studio Cookies since 2021 and is editor of OtherNetwork. Colin holds a BA in Architecture with First Class Hons. from the Manchester School of Architecture (2016) and an MA in Contextual Design from Design Academy Eindhoven (2019).

Samantha Modisenyane

About
Samantha is a project coordinator, curator and installation designer from Polokwane, Limpopo. In 2016, Samantha began her tenure at the Goethe-Institut Sub-Saharan office with a focus on touring exhibitions, managing funding applications for the Goethe Project Space, as well as working with notions of fashion as a language and cultural asset. Samantha completed her studies in Art History at the University of South Africa. She co-found the collective Lema Management in 2018, and is Orientation Manager for the Hammerl Arts Rights Transfer, a residency program for African artists, journalists and creatives at risk. Samantha is ambassador for OtherNetwork in South Africa, and part of the core research team.

Abraham Tettey

About
Abraham Tettey is an Accra-based cultural producer focusing on exhibition curation/design, art handling, public art programming, and capacity-building initiatives. His medium of choice is exhibition-making, which he uses to deconstruct the interplay between curation, art, space, display, and audience with a multidisciplinary approach. Through this practice, Abraham aims to create spaces for dialogue and reflection to foster inclusion and collaboration while creating meaningful and impactful experiences. Abraham is the ambassador for OtherNetwork in Ghana, and part of the core research team.

Camila Alegría Z.

About
Camila Alegria is a researcher, visual artist, independent curator and teacher. Camila studied a masters' degree in Contemporary Art at the University of Barcelona, and has been trained academically and humanly in other independent courses focused on gender issues and gender perspectives. Camila runs an instagram account dedicated to the visibility of women artists and dissidents of Art History called @reescribirlahistoria (which means "rewrite history"), and is a member of the OtherNetwork research team.

Matheus dos Reis

About
Matheus dos Reis (Researcher for OtherNetwork in São Paulo) is an Amazonian Art dealer, Editor and Producer based in São Paulo. After study Administration and Public Relations, he started to collaborate with production, fundraising and sales for art spaces and projects such as Pivô, VOTE LGB, VIVA Projects and museu do louvre pau-brazyl. He edits Fort Magazine since 2016. As an Art dealer and Liaisons, worked for the Brazilian galleries Simões de Assis, Millan, Central and Sé galeria.

Camilo Quiroga

  • Location
    Bogotá
  • Role
    Researcher / Academic
About
Camilo Quiroga is a lawyer and political scientist that works as an independent researcher on arts and culture. His work includes research, press review and archiving, writing, and content creation and editing for various types of projects: editorial, curation, exhibitions, podcasts, and web platforms like Other Network. He has worked as a Coordinator at the Banco de la República Museums of Art in Bogotá and occasionally makes mediation of museum spaces and art exhibitions.

Between Bridges

About
Between Bridges is a foundation (est. 2017) committed to humanism, solidarity, and the advancement of democracy. It supports the arts, LGBT+ rights and anti-racism work.

Creative Industries Fund NL

About
The Creative Industries Fund NL is the Dutch cultural fund for design, architecture, digital culture and any crossovers between them. As one of the six national cultural funds, we finance special and innovative projects, research and activities of designers, makers and cultural institutions in the creative industry.