Peer Critic Tilburg

In the autumn of 2018 Kunstpodium T started a peer critique group, consisitend of professionl artists from different disciplines and other art and culture professionals, that get together on a regular basis to talk about each other’s work. This group arose from the need from many artists to get deep and artistic feedback about their work. Together with artist Jeroen Offerman, that previously started the peer critique group The Attic in Eindhoven, Kunstpodium T started a similar group in 2018 to meet the demands from these artists.

The group consists of twelve to fifteen people. They get together about once a month to talk about one work from each artist per time. The aim of each conversation is to go in-depth about what can be seen: judgements of value are being avoided, background information is being omitted and the artist does not give any information about the work for the first half hour. The group is being formed by Kunstpodium T to ‘match’ the participants. The more diverse the group, the better: ideas that clash, opposite artistic media and abrasive opinions are being encouraged. By seeking these tensions in the participants and their ways of thinking, opinions and experience, the borders of one’s thinking are constantly being pushed and the artist whose work is being discussed gets new information that is outside their comfort zone or knowledge. By this, the spectrum of interpretation is being widened as far as possible about how the work can be interpreted. The artist can put this into practise later.