easttopics 
Emerging from a years-long dialogue between Oradea’s cultural visionaries and its community, NOCA marks a bold new chapter in the city’s artistic identity. Housed in a striking glass pavilion beside the historic Black Eagle Palace, the center positions itself as a dynamic hub for contemporary creation, experimentation, and exchange. With a curatorial strategy that bridges …
Artist: Anna Ruth Title: Handed Unhanded Curator: Theo Carnegy-Tan Venue: Brooke Benington, London Hierarchies are present everywhere in our world. Perhaps this is because of one essential hierarchy that is often taken for granted despite its fiction: the superiority of the human above the animal and the material. Though this is not the place …
Artists: Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė Title: Incommunicability is itself a source of pleasures Venue: The Address Brescia, Italy Photos: Alberto Favara The Address is pleased to present Incommunicability is itself a source of pleasures, the first solo exhibition by Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė at the gallery. The exhibition brings together a body …
Artists: Ernest Borowski, Olaf Brzeski, Krystian Daszkowski, Arti Grabowski, Krzysztof Maniak, Dorota Nieznalska, Karol Radziszewski, Sonia Rammer, Aleksandra Ska, Magdalena Starska, Iza Tarasewicz, Sławomir Toman, Honza Zamojski Title: The Lumberjack. Storieas about Masculinity Curator: Przemysław Jędrowski Stereotypical, toxic, sensitive. What is masculinity today and how is it changing? What are itsnarratives and social roles? And do we even want to talk about it? An attempt to answer …
Artist: Aleksandra Liput Title: What the Lips of the Shadow Say Curator: Aleksandra Skowrońska Venue: Le Guern Gallery, Poland, Warsaw Photos: Kuba Mozolewski “Hiding is a primary function of life, a necessity bound up with its economy, that is to say with the laying-down of reserves. And since interiority so obviously exercises the function of …
Artists: Urszula Broll, Anna Sztwiertnia Title: Inner Sun Curator: Katarzyna Piskorz Venue: Bliss Gallery, Warsaw On a cloudless night over Warsaw, no more than two hundred stars are visible. Far from the glow of cities, the sky reveals nearly six thousand. Daily life is similar: in the thicket of stimuli, it is easy to miss …
Artist: Lenka Glisnikova Title: Sunken Streams Curator: Pavel Kubesa Venue: Galerie NoD, Prague Photos: Michal Ureš “Light and Time. The characters are trying to build structures through which they can escape from the limitations of self. You could say the sense of ourselves, of our physical bodies, that we all have is in itself a …
Artist: Szilvia Bolla Title: Preliminary Materials for a Neurogenesis of the Young-Girl Venue: Lower_cavity Preliminary Materials for a Neurogenesis of the Young-Girl is a project by Szilvia Bolla conceived and developed over the course of Bolla’s month-long residency at lower_cavity. Expanding on the artist’s central preoccupations with convergences of body, mind, affective labor, and psychopharmacology …
Artist: Lili Agg Title: Find T-6391/3 Curator: Lili Rebeka Tóth, Zsófia Kókai Venue: Torula, Győr Photos: Zsuzsi Simon Lili Agg’s solo exhibition Find T-6391/3 transforms the former Torula yeast factory into an imagined excavation site from the future. The present is unearthed as the past, in a future where the concepts of art, artwork, …
Artist: Kateřina Vincourová Title: Skin Care Curator: Denisa Kujelová Venue: Galerie Rudolfinum Photos: Martin Polák In her drawings, objects, and installations, Kateřina Vincourová brings together everything that interests her, including the exhibition space. She responds to it subtly and yet with great precision, gently disrupting order to draw attention to detail, to the …
Artist: Rita Süveges Title: Eight Minutes Until Sunlight Arrives Venue: acb Gallery, Budapest Photos: Dávid Tóth At her first solo exhibition at acb, Rita Süveges (1986) debuts with her new series of velvet paintings and a monumental steel drawing connected to this cycle. In addition to exploring retrofuturism – vision of the future from …
Artist: Urtė Janus Organiser: (AV17) Gallery Title: Flowing Bodies Venue: Underground Water Reservoir of Aukštaitijos Vandenys in Panevėžys, Lithuania Photos: Paulius Židonis Urtė Janus is a Lithuanian, London-based interdisciplinary artist who traces chemical flows across the landscapes, living and mineral bodies, using installations, texts, and moving image. Her work challenges the dualistic thinking that …
Read moreUrtė Janus at Underground Water Reservoir of Aukštaitijos Vandenys
Artist: Masha Silchenko Title: DROOM Venue: Salon by IMPORT EXPORT The exhibition will comprise Silchenko’s latest developments in painting and ceramics as well as an audiovisual installation. The exhibition is accompanied by “Three episodes, Red Eyes” – a short story by Rafael Moreno. RAFAEL MORENO: THREE EPISODES, RED EYES Every night she dreamt of being …
Artist: Barbora Lepši Title: ugly Venue: HYB4 GALERIE Curator: Michal Štochl Barbora Lepsi has created a series of monumental abstract paintings for the HYB4 Gallery exhibition space, works that directly respond to the venue and consistently develop her long-term theme of abstract expression. The resulting artworks are grounded in a confident gestural expression, spontaneity, …
Artist: Kris Lemsalu Title: NIRVANA Venue: Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn Photos: Anu Vahtra Dear Reader, On one of those lengthy walks, when your thoughts reach far because the sky is boundless, I heard a whisper in my ear – “You are a zen conceptualist”. Inclined to trust my subconscious, I accepted this with a …