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Exhibition title: Softshell ArchipelArtists: Sasha Auerbakh, Jason Bunton, Vasco Costa, Bögdana Kosmina, Wolfgang Obermair, Lesia Pcholka, Ekaterina Shapiro-ObermairCurator: hoastVenue: Gallery FÜNFZIGZWANZIG, SalzburgPhotographer: Andrew Phelps Buffet An anecdote about the coincidental convergence in the works of three artist friends stands at the beginning of the exhibition “Softshell Archipel”. The shared story can be read as the …
Artists: Ines Matijević Cakić, Zlatan Vehabović, Nikola Vrljić Curator: Martina Rodrigues Title: UNRAVEL Venue: TROTOAR, Zagreb, Croatia Photos: Damir Žižić Not all moments can be overcome. Some wrap themselves around us and cling there – heavy and hardened. Some things pass, others do not; they settle in deep and ask us to endure. This exhibition is …
Artist: Maria Stoica Title: CLUJ afterSCHOOL: On the Curator–Artist Dichotomy // A World Slightly Elsewhere Curator: Xenia Tinca Venue: Sabot Gallery, Cluj Napoca Photos: YAP Studio There are worlds that do not reveal themselves through abrupt assertion but through a gradual gliding, through a subtle shift in the perception (or definition) of reality. These are …
Artist: Andrius Arutiunian Curator: Sheida Ghomashchi Venue: eastcontemporary, Milan The world’s longest continuously running laboratory experiment, the pitch drop experiment, is a long-term experiment that measures the flow of a piece of pitch over many years. “Pitch”, most commonly bitumen. At room temperature, tar pitch flows at a very low rate, taking several years to …
Artists: Adéla Janská, Paulina Olowska, Caroline Walker Curator: Mira Macík Venue: Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, Czech Republic The exhibition Za PultemBehind the Counter explores diverse interpretations of femininity, tracing both the real and symbolic presence of women in the public sphere. It adopts a historical lens, reflecting on archetypal female figures of Socialist Modernism and the period of …
Artist: Andreea AnghelTitle: The Blind ManVenue: 66P Subjective Institution of Culture, Księcia Witolda 66, WrocławCurator: Paulina Brelińska-GarsztkaPhotos: Małgorzata KujdaPostproduction of photography: Andreea Anghel Andreea Anghel’s exhibition “The Blind Man” treats the archive as a living, creative process. Its title alludes to the 1917 Dadaist magazine “The Blind Man”, founded in New York by Marcel Duchamp, …
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Artists: Sofie Tobiášová and Adam Vít Title: From A to X (too much love) Venue: UNA, Milan Photos: Michela Pedranti The exhibition unfolds as an investigation into movement, instability, and identity as a condition in flux, addressing the contradictions embedded in the contemporary search for meaning and belonging —to a place, a practice, or to …
Artists: Kateryna Aliinyk, Maithu Bùi, Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich, Forensic Architecture, Philipp Goll, Nikita Kadan, Lina Lapelytė, Bjørn Melhus, Deimantas Narkevičius, Henrike Naumann, Oleksiy Radynski, Indrė Rybakovaitė, Trevor Paglen, Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, Basma al-Sharif, Michael Stevenson, Hito Steyerl, Fedir Tetianych, Peter Wächtler, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Jan Eustachy Wolski, Tobias Zielony; and Berta Tilmantė, Neringa …
Artist: Maja Štefančíková Title: Spatial Sketches Performers: Silvia Bakočková, Viktória Malá, Nela RuskováCurator: Eliška MazalanováVenue: Gallery SUMEC, BratislavaProduction: Ľuboš Lehocký, Gallery SUMEC Technical support: Matej GavulaPhotos: Adam Šakový Before dust was rationally and scientifically explored, broken down by knowledge into ever smallerparticles, and revealed to contain an entire universe of parallel microworlds, it was imagined as thesmallest possible entity, …
Artists: Marina Abramović/Ulay, Luca Büchler, Nika Erjavec, Philipp Fleischmann, Hannah Koselj Marušič, Angelika Loderer, Mira Mann, OHO, and Josef Strau With performances by Luca Büchler, Hannah Koselj Marušič, and Mira Mann Title: Mobile Energy Curator: Hana O. O. Haas Venue: RAVNIKAR, Ljubljana Mobile Energy centres on the fleeting, the unstable, and the nomadic, placing emphasis on …
Artist: Tobias Izsó Title: The AccountantVenue: Kunstverein DresdenCurator: Eva Slabá In his installation for Kunstverein Dresden, Tobias Izsó (1997, Vienna) creates a sculptural environment that oscillates between material contradiction and social construction. Assamblages and objects are displayed throughout the exhibition space as if they had slipped out of someone’s diary – enigmatic items of personal …
Artist: Anna Hulačová Title: Bucolica Curator: Thomas Häusle Venue: Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn Photos: Günter Richard Wett The exhibition “Bucolica” by Anna Hulačová (born 1984, Sušice, Czech Republic) at Kunstraum Dornbirn opens up a world that seems technologically futuristic and yet is steeped in ancient narrative tradition, mythological symbolism, and references to the history of images, …
Title: PRÁM XArtists: Néphéli Barbas, Dominik Běhal, Veronika Bělská Durová, Martin Herold, Monika Hniková, Jindřiška Jabůrková, Josefína Jonášová, Pavlína Kvita, Roman Kvita, Anna Kyjovská, Radek Mužík, Jakub Roztočil, Magdaléna Roztočilová, Anna Ruth, Tomáš Skála, Adam Trbušek, Jakub TytykaloCurator: Iva MladičováVenue: PRÁM, PraguePhotos: Anna Pleslová A community of paintings, sculptures and objects as a tangible product …
Artists: Øleg&Kaśka Title: The Food of Life Curator: Eva Slabá Man was created of the Earth, and lives by virtue of the Aire; for there is in the Aire a secret food of life, which in the night we call dew; and in the day rarified water, whose invisible, congealed spirit is better than …
Title: Breaking the Course of the European Boomerang Artists: Alma Gačanin, Alicja Rogalska, Áron Lődi & Víctor Santamarina, Aterraterra, The lilky_60200 collective, Good Praxis, Jens Masimov, Jumana Manna, Lesia Vasylchenko, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Monika Janulevičiūtė, Nikita Kadan, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Pilvi Takala Curators: Una Mathiesen Gjerde, Krisztián Gábor Török Venue: Pragovka Gallery, …