Artist: Dominika Trapp Title: Power must grow, if it doesn’t grow it rots Venue: Karlin Studios, Prague Curator: Caroline Krzyszton In 1964, on his TV show Zur Person, the German journalist Günther Gauss asked Hannah Arendt if she wanted to exert influence with her work, she replied: “To be perfectly honest, I will say that when …
Artist: Milica Mijajlović Title: Through trepidations of her soul, her passion and torments You are sitting on the bus, listening to random tracks thinking basically about everything and nothing at the same time. Landscape is changing and suddenly you hear that one song, the one you were listening to twenty years ago, and you didn’t …
Artists: Igor Antić (Serbia/France), Radoš Antonijević (Serbia), Katarina Alempijević (Serbia), Jaka Babnik (Slovenia), Igor Bošnjak (BIH), Žaneta Vangeli (North Macedonia), Zlatan Vehabović (Croatia), Natalija Vujošević (Montenegro), Igor Grubić (Croatia), Danica Dakić (BIH/Germany), DiStruktura (Serbia), Uroš Đurić (Serbia), Pravdoliub Ivanov (Bulgaria/Austria), Irwin (Slovenia), Vladimir Perić Talent (Serbia), Dalibor Martinis (Croatia), Radenko Milak (BIH), Mladen Miljanović (BIH), …
Artist: Lucia Sceranková Title: Drinking Salty Water Does Not Help Venue: ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava Curator: Jen Kratochvil How far are we from the protagonists of the Ancient Greek myths? Or how close they actually are? All those characters, all those stories.You see Mark Zuckerberg delivering a bleak burst of repetitive statements in front …
Artists: Edith Karlson, Kris Lemsalu, Jaanus Samma, Jaan Toomik Title: Roots and Ruins Venue: Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn Curator: Rael Artel Roots and Ruins ponders the processes in which, by existing, we all play a part. It talks of our ancestors and how we ourselves become someone’s forebears, tells of the times past that …
Artist: Renata Poljak Title: Future Venue: Kranjcar Gallery, Zagreb In the exhibition Porvenir or (the) Future, the cutting-edge Croatian artist Renata Poljak continues her parallel researches into visual media and into current issues in sociology that include the phenomenology of migration, the abandonment of the native soil, departure and journeying. Drawing on a family narrative (her great grandfather was forced by poverty to emigrate to Chile), Renata has formed a …
Artists: Agata Ingarden and Agnieszka Polska Title: The Future in Reverse Venue: eastcontemporary Gallery, Milan Text: Attilia Fattori Franchini ‘I am convinced that the future is lost somewhere in the dumps of the non-historical past; it is in yesterday’s newspapers, in the jejune advertisements of science-fiction movies, in the false mirror of our rejected dreams. …
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Artist: Péter Puklus Title: You told I had beautiful hands Venue: Artkartell projectspace, Budapest Curator: Gábor Rieder Photo: Dávid Bíró Artkartell projectspace is happy to present the first individual exhibition of paintings of the young, emerging photographer and fine artist, Péter Puklus. The huge and expressive paintings and sketches were created during the last two …
Artist: Lenka Černota’s Title: A Wolf transformed into Planet and then became a stain Venue: Pragovka Gallery Curator: Edita Mikolášková The exhibition displays the ways of presentation and other dimensions of interpretation offered by Lenka Černota’s works. It seems that Lenka’s life theme, which is variously modified according to the interest and current state of …
Artist: Aleš Novák Title: Rám naruby Venue: Studio PRÁM, Prague The landscape is a vigilant observer: the disintegration of a cloud, converging spots of light, the ebb of autumn rain.Aleš Novák’s landscapes are not only a perceptive witness of the visible and the tangible, but even more so of whatlies beyond one ́s line of …
Artists: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Andreas Fogarasi, Roman Štětina, Imogen Stidworthy Title: Agency of Undernotes Venue: Trafó Gallery, Budapest Curator: Borbála Szalai Photo: Dávid Bíró My only weapon is listening. Listening, in which the power of silence meets the potential of attention to the audible layers. Listening, which is able to reveal what extends beyond the …