International Studio for Mail Art (2015)

Launched in 2015 at the initiative of Goran Risteski, the International Studio for Mail Art represents CSLU – Prilep’s embrace of participatory and network-based art movements. It is rooted in the global phenomenon of Mail Art — the act of sending small-scale artworks through the postal system as a democratic and deeply personal form of artistic exchange.

This studio transforms envelopes, stamps, postcards, and packages into canvases, enabling artists to bypass traditional institutions and engage directly with each other and the public. Through its global outreach, CSLU has received and sent hundreds of works from dozens of countries, creating an ever-growing, decentralized archive of creativity.

More than just correspondence, mail art is resistance to elitism, to uniformity, to silence. It allows the artist’s voice to arrive unexpectedly, unfiltered, and often provocatively. The studio stands as a living monument to connection, expression, and subversion through the most human tools the message.