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the Milena principle is a ‘think tank’ in which people from several countries and disciplines come together. The group is made up of artists, people from alternative health therapies, poets, art historians and participants from a diverse background.

We work as an European organisation and we realized art events in countries all over Europe. Within the projects of the Milena principle various international artists, writers, scientists come together and cooperate, create with a multi- and interdisciplinary attitude and reflect about the border crossing aspects of culture, art, science, ecology and health. One of the important aspects of the Milena members is their individual research in various fields such as art, philosophy and science.

Our events are processes, laboratories of a feeling thinking in which instruments of art are as well instruments of science and knowledge. It are human fields, meeting places in an intimate atmosphere open to participation of the public and community. A humanist attitudes merges as well with an artistic one. We refer the nomadic aspect of renaissance artists, who did not only travel with their work through Europe but also made connections with all the places they visited. Renaissance artists, scientists and philosophers found each other via their common interest for a new philosophy. Through exchanges of ideas with artist and friends, whom they visited during their continuious journeys, they created a network of solidarity and affinity. Our art projects have an explicit utopian and human dimension.

The vision of the body as an instrument of art and knowledge and guidelines as serenity, silence, intimacy, enchantment, inspiration are defining our way of working.

The Milena principle has already organised some international events during the Friedrich Nietzsche Seminar in Weimar (Germany 2005). The group realized some performances in the Dom of Naumburg (Germany 2005), the park of Bellevue and in the Grunewald in Berlin (Germany 2006), the SMAK in Ghent (Belgium 2004), the Museo Goldoni in Venice (Italy 2005), in Amsterdam (the Netherlands 2006), Clube Literario in Porto (Portugal 2009 & 2010), Velha-a-Branca in Braga (Portugal 2009 & 2010), the Nogueira da Silva Museum in Braga (Portugal 2010), Biscainhos Museum In Braga (Portugal 2010), Show Me Gallery in Braga (Portugal 2010), Pedroremy Gallery in Braga (Portugal 2010), Serralves Foundation in Porto, (Portugal 2010), the Bolyai Art Festival in Transylvania, (Romania 2010). Some more travelling projects are to be launched in Portugal, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Romania and France. The exhibitions contain a number of activities: lectures, workshops…

Alfred Dürer [1471-1528] visited Antwerp in 1520: the Milena wants to actualize this old tradition. These great renaissance persons found each other via their common interest and thinking. Through their travels they moved boundaries, they travelled with and via ideas. Through exchanges of ideas with artist friends, whom they visited during these long journeys, they created a network of solidarity and affinity.