“A nation stays alive when its culture stays alive”
MaK develops partnerships between artists in the UK and Kosovo to provide increased strength and opportunity through collaboration. We also lead art projects that further our purpose including exhibitions (Fragile State) and the creation and installation of sculpture in the Manchester Peace Park in Kosovo.
This project seemingly drips water on a barren landscape. However Kosova is not barren. It is a hotbed of creativity. Its artists are passionately committed to supporting recovery. MaK arts involvement has encouraged artists, teachers and local and national leaders, stimulating innovation and creativity. Kosova has little industry. In the absence of manufacturing valuing intellectual property and developing its burgeoning creative industries as economic drivers could see Kosova thrive and blossom rather than collapse within itself – the ‘black hole’ of Europe.
The Manchester Peace Park will create spaces for play, exercise, dance, conversation, music, art and quiet reflection, and will inspire confidence and hope in the community for the future. The art project is an essential and integral part of the Manchester Peace Park in Kosova and of MaK.
For a summary of MaK’s art programme see MaK Art report 2004 -2011