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Group show at CK ZAMEK, POZNAN

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 …

Aleksandra Liput at Le Guern Gallery

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 …

Urszula Broll, Anna Sztwiertnia at Bliss Gallery

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 …

Lenka Glisnikova at Galerie NoD, Prague

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 …

Szilvia Bolla at lower_cavity

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 …

Lili Agg at Torula

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, …

Kateřina Vincourová at Galerie Rudolfinum

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 …

Rita Süveges at acb Gallery

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 …

Urtė Janus at Underground Water Reservoir of Aukštaitijos Vandenys

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 …

Masha Silchenko at Salon by IMPORT EXPORT

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 …

Barbora Lepši at HYB4 GALERIE

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, …

Kris Lemsalu at Temnikova & Kasela

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 …

Questions Before Conclusions: Inside RAVNIKAR Projects

She watched potential go unrealised under rigid frameworks, saw her generation overlooked, and decided to build what was missing: a porous, hybrid platform putting people before products, questions before conclusions. From Ljubljana, Piera Ravnikar is reimagining what a gallery can be—part institution, part community, part act of care. – An interview with Piera Ravnikar, Founder …

Group Show at Kosicke Kulturne Centra

Exhibition Title: TRANSPEED Artists: Andrej Dúbravský, Róza El-Hassan, Stanislav Filko, Botond Keresztesi, Réka Lőrincz, Gábor Pintér, Selma Selman, Milica Tomic, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Dorottya Vékony Curators: Niki Bernath, Péter Bencze Venue: Kosicke Kulturne Centra, Kosice Slovakia Photos: Tibor Czito / VUNU & Everybody Needs Art Text: Niki Bernath “Whoever controls a territory owns it not …

Mari-Leen Kiipli at Draakoni Gallery

Artist: Mari-Leen Kiipli Title: Plastic Ways, Salty Stones Venue: Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn Photos: Anna Mari Liivrand Salty seawater polishes coastal stones to a smooth gloss, erodes shorelines, and gives rise to clay and sand. Metamorphic rocks, erratic boulders, stones embedded within other stones – all formed in the heat of the earth’s crust, from once-pliable …