Reaching Out

From 2023-2026 PTAB and its sister youth boards at Index (Stockholm) and PUBLICS (Helsinki) are working on the project Reaching Out. Each year the boards look at established ways that institutions communicate with publics. Board members gain new experiences, while also providing feedback and looking to develop their own ways of working. Each year the boards organise a conference where they come together to collectively explore ideas and to share perspectives with others. Experiments and suggestions are gathered through a series of outputs that use forms that relate to the topic the boards are addressing.

In 2025–2026, PTAB will explore the ways that books, magazines, pamphlets, and newspapers—both online and in print—are used by artists and arts institutions both as artistic media and formats for communication.

PTAB members 2025 are:

 Anahita Mollazehi
Ingrid Bjermeland Hesledalen
Sofia Orellana Gamboa
Bror Høgåsen-Hallesby
Auguste Karsokaite
Noah Visted
Assol Sokolova
Helen Ibrahimian
Hibo Nora Abbi

2024’s focus was on video and film, from vlogs and advertisements to video guides, artworks and more. The boards met with artists and institutions while developing their own responses to the question, how should institutions use video and film to reach young people?

PTAB members 2023-2024 were:

Kendrick Olemor Bedana Aguilar
Vivianné Bucio Bach 
Elwyn Bjerkan Mathiesen
Rue Mussé 
Matine Nisso Nusayrieva-Mitchell
Violetta Nechai 
Linnea Sahlberg 
Molly Scharffenberg
Laiba Shafiq
Rosa Horiat

Reaching Out is supported by Erasmus+ Aktiv Ungdom, Kulturrådet and Sparebankstiftelsen DNB