Artistic practice strategizing

Theory-based approach to build your contemporary art career

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Theory-based approach to build your contemporary art career

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You’ll build strong foundation for

Your artistic research

01

Your distinctive visual language

02

Your personalized
artistic strategy

03

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Duration
Estimated 10 weeks

Tilda Publishing

Congratulations! You’ve got the strategy and the skill of applying it.

How it works

Your practice strategizing

Then we put it all together so your in-depth theoretical foundation becomes the basis of your personalized artistic strategy

Your personalized artistic strategy

Finally, you strategize! At the end of the course you plan your next step, be it an artwork, a body of work or an exhibition, applying the components of artistic practice strategizing (form, content, expected functionality, artists’ role).

Third, we study many examples of the best contemporary art practices of the past 30 years. You put together a coherent map of contemporary art, find somebody to lean upon, identify who is your kindred spirit. You position yourself on the map and can move around consciously.

Map of contemporary art and your place on it

First, you build your art ecosystem. This concept means a rather closed and balanced system that assembles into a holistic framework the variety of ideas, topics and techniques which ignite your passion. Your art ecosystem benefits your artistic research and generates references for your further artistic practice.

Your art ecosystem

You combine your ecosystem and the map of contemporary art and reveal the major theme that unites everything you do in art.

Topic of your artistic research

Second, you learn 27 scenarios of artistic strategies. One after the other. We study dozens of examples of their implementation. You learn to identify these scenarios in the works of other artists and in your own existing projects. You pick up the scenarios of artistic strategies which suit you best and will be peculiar to your own visual language.

Your distinctive visual language

Congratulations! You have the strategy and skill of applying it.

As a result

You STRATEGIZE YOUR ARTISTIC PRACTICE!

Each work matches, complements and reveals your concept and artistic research. You are moving confidently in the right direction.

You have a distinctive visual language recognizable to a contemporary art audience and feel free to use any media, materials and visual solutions.

All your favorite topics and techniques are now assembled into a cohesive body of work.

You are involved in the contemporary art scene and can describe what you are doing to your audience, collectors, dealers.

What’s inside

14 hours of lectures

Practical assignments

Weekly updates

Weekly Q&A uploads

Project team support

Do the task

Move on to the next lesson

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TESTIMONIALS

Thanks to working with Caroline Pes, my entire artistic practice has been reassembled in its meaning and re-stitched strategically without being destroyed, but strengthened! I became aware of the key points of my artistic research and was able to see the broadest perspective of my development. Where I was going intuitively, she helped me gain a theoretical and semantic foundation. It gives me such confidence!I was dreaming of having a theoretical mentor who could guide me personally and strengthen the professional basis of my practice. I was always in doubt about my next works and exhibitions. Caroline revealed to me and pointed out contemporary relevance and philosophical trends. I am immensely grateful to our collaboration for expanding my horizons 🖤
Yulia Bas
@yulia__bas
This course is good for me because the information is presented in a well-concentrated format and at the same time in an accessible, non-fatiguing way. I do not have enough time to collect and process all these facts and data on my own and to turn it all right away into an effective formula for myself. I also like the way Caroline presents the material, a lot is immediately remembered and there is no need to pore over the notes or engage in cramming. As a lecturer Caroline is very charismatic and I am pleased to listen to her, this is already very energizing and inspiring. Thanks!!!
Costa Gorel
@costagorel
Together with Caroline, we’ve made quite a journey on expressing and summarizing in words what I do in material as an artist. It was a truly great experience! The best thing strategizing can give is a clear vision and understanding of what you have already done, where you are right now and which direction to move further. It gives an impulse to find inspiration and motivation within your own artistic practice instead of looking for those things somewhere around. It encourages to feel confident at your own path and to be focused on developing your ideas instead of questioning them again and again.
Kristina Okan
@kristinaokanstudio
I want to say a million thanks to Caroline for her course “Artistic practice strategizing” that I completed at the beginning of this year. I am glad that I got on the course at the very beginning of my artistic career. The course gave me confidence in what I was doing and became a starting point. It has changed my vision, and now I can see how contemporary artists build their practice when I watch their artworks in museums and galleries. Lectures were very inspiring, full of examples and careful explanations; while listening to them I got many fresh ideas for my future projects. I liked the structure of the course with a clear schedule and timing and relevant home tasks.
Elen Alien
@elen_alien
Курс "Стратегирование художественной практики" стал для меня отправной точкой в мир искусства, своего рода бездонным колодцем, к которому я могу подойти в любое время и утолить жажду идей. Поначалу мне было трудно понять, как и почему я могу использовать художественные стратегии. Но прошло уже больше года после курса, за это время я прошла несколько этапов, создала несколько проектов, сейчас они имеют законченную форму, и я не чувствую панического опустошения, потому что понимаю, что буду ходить к тому колодцу под названием "Художественные стратегии" и собирать столько идей, сколько смогу унести. Курс Каролины дал мне неисчерпаемый инструмент, которым я умело пользуюсь, и мое путешествие как художника стало более интересным, глубоким и захватывающим.
Lena Romanovskaya
@el_rom_art

Thanks to working with Caroline Pes, my entire artistic practice has been reassembled in its meaning and re-stitched strategically without being destroyed, but strengthened! I became aware of the key points of my artistic research and was able to see the broadest perspective of my development. Where I was going intuitively, she helped me gain a theoretical and semantic foundation. It gives me such confidence!I was dreaming of having a theoretical mentor who could guide me personally and strengthen the professional basis of my practice. I was always in doubt about my next works and exhibitions. Caroline revealed to me and pointed out contemporary relevance and philosophical trends. I am immensely grateful to our collaboration for expanding my horizons 🖤
Yulia Bas
@yulia__bas
This course is good for me because the information is presented in a well-concentrated format and at the same time in an accessible, non-fatiguing way. I do not have enough time to collect and process all these facts and data on my own and to turn it all right away into an effective formula for myself. I also like the way Caroline presents the material, a lot is immediately remembered and there is no need to pore over the notes or engage in cramming. As a lecturer Caroline is very charismatic and I am pleased to listen to her, this is already very energizing and inspiring. Thanks!!!
Costa Gorel
@costagorel
Together with Caroline, we’ve made quite a journey on expressing and summarizing in words what I do in material as an artist. It was a truly great experience! The best thing strategizing can give is a clear vision and understanding of what you have already done, where you are right now and which direction to move further. It gives an impulse to find inspiration and motivation within your own artistic practice instead of looking for those things somewhere around. It encourages to feel confident at your own path and to be focused on developing your ideas instead of questioning them again and again.
Kristina Okan
@kristinaokanstudio
I want to say a million thanks to Caroline for her course “Artistic practice strategizing” that I completed at the beginning of this year. I am glad that I got on the course at the very beginning of my artistic career. The course gave me confidence in what I was doing and became a starting point. It has changed my vision, and now I can see how contemporary artists build their practice when I watch their artworks in museums and galleries. Lectures were very inspiring, full of examples and careful explanations; while listening to them I got many fresh ideas for my future projects. I liked the structure of the course with a clear schedule and timing and relevant home tasks.
Elen Alien
@elen_alien
The “Artistic practice strategizing” course has become for me a starting point into the art world, a kind of bottomless well that I can approach at any time and quench my thirst for ideas. Initially it was hard to understand how and why I could use artistic strategies. But it's been more than a year after the course, during this time I went through several stages, created several projects, now they have a complete form and I do not feel panic devastation, because I understand that I will go to that well called "Artistic Strategies" and gather as many ideas as I can carry. Caroline's course has given me an inexhaustible tool that I use skillfully and my journey as an artist has become more interesting, deep and exciting.
Lena Romanovskaya
@el_rom_art

Caroline Pes

I help artists to conceptualize and strategize their artistic practice.

Искусствовед из Петербурга, лингвист, автор лекций и курсов по истории искусства, методолог и преподаватель МГУ им. Ломоносова

18 years of lecturing and contemporary art research

Artist mentor. I help to build the strategy and get involved into the contemporary art scene.

Art historian, lecturer, methodologist, university tutor. I educate art professionals.

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Caroline Pes, 2022

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