Artist: Laura Põld Title: Translating and Co-labouring Venue: (AV17)GALLERY, Vilnius Photos: Evgenia Levin Laura Põld works in the fields of interdisciplinary crafts and sculpture-based practice. The artist’s work continuously explores the environmental history, fundamental human and more-than-human skills and needs, including community, safety and shelter. A great emphasis in Põld’s work falls on her choice …
Artists: Argišt Alaverdyan, Jozef Mrva Venue: stone projects, Prague Text: Peter Sit Title: Spambot Fiction Spambot Fiction is the second co-exhibition of Argišt Alaverdyan and Jozef Mrva. The materially different approaches connect common themes, which the authors approach differently. Alaverdyan’s paintings, whose figures emerge from the unconscious in a collage of the reality of life …
What comes to your mind in connection with contemporary art when you hear the word “budget”? The word “budget” contains all of this; there has always been and always will be a shortage of financial budgets. I don’t question that it’s just how it is. But what bothers me in the current context is the …
Artist: Evelīna Deičmane Title: Tanzorgan Curator: Zane Onckule Venue: kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia Photography: Ansis Starks / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga At the heart of Evelīna Deičmane’s third solo show at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre lies a deeply personal/sensitive concern – which nevertheless remains …
Artist: Šimon Sýkora Title: Outskirts Venue: Polansky Gallery, Prague Often we are told that our information technologies alienate us. Go offline, take a walk in the forest, leave the city for the weekend, or a month if you can afford it, find authentic connections with nature, with other people, with yourself. Just put your phone …