Twenty years of supporting the arts
1990
1991
October, Amsterdam: Founding Conference
Imagination and Diversity, Europe’s richness;
co-operation on Education in the Arts
5 October: ELIA is born!Carla Delfos becomes Executive Director,
Patrick Talbot elected fi rst ELIA President
(1990-1992)
October: Budapest,
Crossroads of Art
and Politics in the
merging Europe
April: European show of work of art
students at De Zonnehof, Amersfoort
November: Strasbourg: 2nd Biennial
Connecting with others: being different,
living, creating and dreaming together
Johan Haarberg elected President
(1992-1994)
June: Amsterdam,
Seminar on Voice teaching
in the performing arts
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1994September: theatre masterclass in Amsterdam and Berlin, Towards a multidisciplinary approach to acting
September: Berlin, 3rd Biennial‘taken at the fl ood’ – Art in our TimesMartin Rennert elected President (1994-1996)
1996 May: Symposium in Graz
Confrontation and Confl ict - the Challenge
to the Arts in Times of Human Turmoil
June: Masterclass New music for
ensembles
October: start of the fi rst Thematic Network
for Higher Arts Education in Europe
(1996-2000)
November: Lisbon, 4th ELIA Biennial
Refl ections on the Human Face
Chantal de Smet elected President
(1996-2000)
First issue of InterELIA
June: Seminar - The management of
International projects in arts education
(Amsterdam)
1995
May: students paint Panorama London
October: exhibition of Panorama London
in Barcelona
June: London, The Artist in the Community
O2 at the Roundhouse CD
Making a Living from the Arts, Exploring
ways of improving employability of artists in
Europe, with meetings in Berlin, Helsinki,
Dublin, and Amsterdam
Thematic Network publication: Toolkit for
Innovation
October: Barcelona, 6th Biennial
“A bounty, boundless as the sea…”
– Art’s generosity
John Butler elected President (2000-2004)
March: Amsterdam,
European cultural networks: between two stools?
October: students paint Panorama Athens
November: Athens,
New Developments in Fine Art
Higher Education
First issue of European Journal of Arts
Education
May: Sofi a, Strangers and Brothers.
Present, Past and Future & Interrelated and
Estranged Societies in Europe
November: Helsinki, 5th Biennial …Where
are we going? The Artist as Communicator
in the Third Millennium
1998
1999
May: Rotterdam,
Survival Skills for
Arts Graduates
September: Warsaw,
drama workshop
Physical sources of
the word
October: Montpellier,
Economies Politiques
de l’Art
2000
2002
2001April: Gent,
WillHigher Arts
Education survive
2010?
Thematic Network
Bologna:
Innovation in Higher
Arts Education
(2001-2004)
Artemisia: Equal
Opportunities
in Higher Arts
Education, with a
seminar in Lisbon
(8-9 June) and a
handbook (2002)
April, Vienna:
A European Dialogue
on the Bologna
Process in the Arts
May, Prague: On the
European dimension
in Quality Assurance
in Higher Arts
Education
July, Barcelona: fi rst
Teachers’ Academy
On the Move!
publication
December, Los
Angeles: Leadership
Symposium in Getty
Center
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Learning abroad in
the Arts (2002-2003)
October 2003,
Tilburg: Quicksilver
October: Dublin, 7th
Biennial “Comhár”
2004
2007April: Chicago, Claiming Creativity
May: Porto, Peer Power! Final conference
of artesnetEurope
Publication: Peer Power! The Future of
Higher Arts Education in Europe
3rd edition of Languages through Lenses
October: Nantes, NEU/NOW Festival
11th ELIA Biennial
HEARTH: l’art au coeur du territoire
March: Cluj-Napoca,
‘Brilliant’
April: Lisbon,
‘Vitality’
May: Ljubljana,
‘Opportunity’
September: Essen,
‘Prologue’
Re:Search - in and
through the arts
(2004-2005)
Thematic Network
inter}artes
(2004-2007)
November: Luzern,
8th Biennial
Challenging the
Frame
Maarten Regouin
elected President
(2004-2006)
2005
2006
Bloom! Students paint murals in 300
hotel rooms, Brussels (2006-2008)
April: Tbilisi, Bologna and Art Education
September: Budapest, inter}artes
mutual learning workshop
October: Gent, 9th Biennial
Art, Engagement & Education
Chris Wainwright elected President
(2006-2010)
artesnetEurope
(2007-2010)
Film project …I see
you. The Language
of the Arts and
Intercultural Dialogue
Meetings in Kassel
and Berlin, première
in Torino
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First edition of
Languages through
Lenses
October: Berlin,
Prese nted at Prix
Europa Festival
2008
July: Sofi a, 4th
Teachers’ Academy
September:
Glasgow, EUFRAD
European Forum for
Research Degrees
in Art and Design
2nd edition of
Languages through
Lenses
2010
April: Rotterdam,
2nd Teachers’
Academy
October: Berlin,
Re:Search in and
through the arts
conference
November: London,
2nd Leadership
Symposium
April: Tallinn,
Towards Strong
Creative Disciplines
in Europe
July: Brighton, 3rd
Teachers’ Academy
Published as Teachers’
Academy Papers
December:
Hong Kong,
3rd Leadership
Symposium
2009
Inter}artes: Tapping
into the potential
of Higher Arts
Education in Europe
…I see you
publication
October:
Gothenburg,
10th Biennial
November: Vilnius,
NEU/NOW Festival
Virtual at
www.neunow.eu
December: Zurich,
4th Leadership
Symposium
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Since its founding in 1990, ELIA advocates the arts and
higher arts education on a European level and is recognised
as an important voice in the cultural realm, bringing
together expertise in all artistic disciplines.
Looking back at dramatic social and political changes
in our societies and at what has been achieved, looking
forward to new challenges, and standing at the point where
we are now, we have put these snapshots and milestones
together to cherish this moment: 20 years ELIA.
The end is in the beginning,
and yet we go on…(Samuel Beckett)
Carla Delfos
Founder and Executive Director
Assorted images from Bloom! Students
paint murals in 300 hotel rooms, Brussels
(2006-2008)