Revista Apotheke

This theme, “Artist’s Atelier,” emerged in late 2024 during the regular meetings of the interinstitutional research group Chromatic Studies. From the very first reflections, the theme proved to be broad, interdisciplinary, and fertile for research. These characteristics were decisive in guiding this Dossier of Revista Apotheke. Its scope, as can be seen in the collection of texts presented here, encompasses artistic praxis and its transformations, educational procedures in art both in contemporary contexts and throughout history, as well as specific strategies of sociability within the artistic circuit.

An approach that focuses on the Atelier is necessarily interdisciplinary. It brings together fields of research and theories derived from Artistic Processes, Education, History, Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology of Art, among others. It is precisely this characteristic that allows the Atelier to be understood as a multiple space of production and creation, in which the architectural environment is not a norm, nor is it established exclusively as a place of solitude. The collection of texts presented here demonstrates this interdisciplinarity of approaches.

This is a fertile theme because it can be investigated from different perspectives, ranging from case studies of the atelier of a specific artist to comparative analyses aimed at typifying the atelier as a place of creation, as well as approaches that identify in the atelier analytical categories capable of, perhaps, coining new definitions for artistic propositions or suggesting interpretative pathways. This diversity of perspectives on the atelier can be found throughout this Dossier.