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Andreea Anghel at 66P Subjective Institution of Culture

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, …

Sofie Tobiášová and Adam Vít at UNA

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 …

Group show at CAC

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 …

Maja Štefančíková at Gallery Sumec

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, …

Group show at Ravnikar Gallery

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 …

Tobias Izsó at Kunstverein Dresden

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 …

Anna Hulačová at Kunstraum Dornbirn

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, …

Group Show at PRÁM

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 …

Øleg&Kaśka at Polansky Gallery, Prague

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 …

Group show at Pragovka Gallery

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, …

A Glass Pavilion for a New Vision

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 …

Anna Ruth at Brooke Benington

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 …

Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė at The Address

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 …

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 …