The School of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and the I2ADS – Research Institute of Art Design and Society are hosting ICOCEP, 2nd Edition of the INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN PAINTING.

After the successful edition of 2017, where we had the opportunity to received more than 70 researchers from different countries, this new edition intend to be a plural reflexion on painting as dialogical process.

The ICOCEP aims to be a platform for reflection about painting as a central phenomenon, and this year edition will be focus on the dialogical perspective of painting. Studying painting as process, painting and teaching, and the relation between painting and different contemporary contexts.

This event will also try to stimulate an interdisciplinary conversation on the production and practice of European painting, connecting a critical engagement and examination between teaching and learning, studios and classrooms, museums and galleries.

The second edition of ICOCEP will be held at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Porto from April’s 8th to 11th of 2019.

+ info: https://icocep.fba.up.pt