ARTPEACE: Investigating and Strengthening Grassroots Cultural and Creative Practices for Conflict Transformation in Europe and Beyond
ARTPEACE is a European project funded by the Horizon Europe programme, running from 2026 to 2029. Its aim is to study how different artistic practices emerging from civil society can contribute to conflict transformation and peacebuilding in contexts marked by violence and its consequences.
WHY DOES IT ORIGINATE
The project starts from a simple question: what happens when art makes it possible to tell what has happened, listen to memories that do not always find public space, and open conversations that are difficult to hold through conventional language.
GERNIKA GOGORATUZ’S PARTICIPATION
Gernika Gogoratuz participates in ARTPEACE by contributing its situated experience in the Basque Country. From this context, the project will make it possible to analyse artistic and cultural practices connected to the legacy of political violence and to the ways in which society continues to work through, transmit and contest the past.
Gernika Gogoratuz’s participation will focus especially on identifying relevant experiences, engaging in dialogue with cultural, educational and social actors, and bringing the Basque case into conversation with other international contexts where art also becomes a way of working with memory, harm and coexistence.
NEWS
PROJECT PRESENTATION
9 June 2026
Gernika Gogoratuz took part in the ARTPEACE kick-off meeting in Berlin, together with the other organisations that make up the international consortium.
PARTNERSHIPS
PROJECT FUNDED BY
ARTPEACE is developed by an international consortium of academic, cultural and social organisations, coordinated by the Berghof Foundation. The consortium includes University of Manchester, In Place of War, Universidade de Coimbra, University of Durham, CYENS Centre of Excellence, STAN and Youth Initiative for Human Rights Kosovo.
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