What does S.O.L.I.D. mean?
S.ustained
O.rientated
L.iving
I.nternationally
D.esigned
Who is S.O.L.I.D.?
S.O.L.I.D. was started by Christian and Savina Georgiev-Fries, two disgruntled artists, curators, and cultural workers, who where tired of the way Schools and Cultural Institutions approach and treat the way aspiring artists and cultural workers are educated and taught how to "make it" in the art world. This is their brainchild.
What is S.O.L.I.D?
S.O.L.I.D is an art and cultural agency/collective. We work with the public, artists,
Universities, cultural institutions, private and public companies from around the world in Vienna, Austria. We consult and offer a meditation between artists and business owners, to create personalized art projects or a "brand" that can be bought, sold, traded, or collected on a local and global scale.
We aim to educate one-another about the sensitive roll that the Arts and Humanities has on society. We aim to promote your ideas and goals so you can one day become a professional artist and cultural worker, to help others understand the roll one must play in creating art and ideas that influnce productivity, so we can become socially aware memebers of an ever changing global art world.
Our goals that we offer through S.O.L.I.D.
We want you to learn how to be self-sustained in creating and understanding art and cultural actions that occour in the public and private sectors of the world, at your work place, or in the comfort of your studio or home.
To one day become your own professional business owner/artist and or cultural manager/worker.
To become competent in writing project proposals for galleries and state funded grants.
To organize your own shows or events and possibly sell your art works.
To create press releases and marketing campaigns for better b2b inter-actions.
To create curatorial statements, manage small and large budgets, and bring together groups of people that are interested in your ideas and art works.
Negotiate deals with galleries and hopefully one day museums or places of high cultural significance.
How does S.O.L.I.D. do this?
We instruct our clients about the production of art and its impact on us as a social organism.
We help you to understand the art market/world about its socially intellectual and spiritual value and all its key terms and conditions.
We give you valuable tools on how to “make it” in the art industry by hands on experience, through lectures, studio time, and excursions into the art world in Vienna, Austria, and abroad.