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Artist: Gala Alica Title: The Cabinet Curator: Tevž Logar Venue: UGM Kabinet, Kabinet Gala Alica’s artistic practice is rooted in precise, almost archaeological observation of the built environment. Through this approach, she examines how individuals navigate the shifting boundaries between private and public space, and how these boundaries shape experiences of belonging, safety, and identity. …
Artist: Paula Tončić Title: Eyes without Face Text: Lea Vene Venue: Galerija Manuš The exhibition Eyes without Face is based on in-depth research into materials that carry the potential for magical and ritual manifestation. Each carefully selected material encapsulates multiple past lives, initiating a process of further transmutation. Unique organic histories are layered collage-like to …
Artist: Milica Živković Title: The Roots of Small Fires Curator: Astrid Peterle Venue: MQ Freiraum, Vienna Photos: photo: Simon Veres In her first institutional solo exhibition in Vienna, Milica Živković presents a large-scale installation of new works. The artist has been exploring motifs from The Roots of Small Fires for several years, but here they …
Artist: Rafał Zajko and works from the collection of the Arsenal Gallery in Białystok: Zofia Artymowska, Artur Brunsz, Andrzej Dworakowski, Stanisław Fijałkowski, Krystyna Hierowska, Aleksandra Jachtoma, Anna Korybut-Daszkiewicz, Lech Kunka, Jerzy Lengiewicz, Izabela Marcjan, Eugeniusz Markowski, Maria Michałowska, Jerzy Nowosielski, Lech Okołów, Janusz Orbitowski, Erna Rosenstein, Wojciech Sadley, Henryk Stażewski, Anna Szpakowska-Kujawska, Antoni Szymaniuk, Jacek …
Artist: Tina Bxtq Title: Obstacles As Wings Curator: Štefánia Ďuricová Venue: Šopa Gallery, Košice The future of posthuman and queer imagination unfolds through hybrid bodies, monstrous and angelic beings that resist stable categorisation. They dismantle entrenched ideas of the body and identity. The angelic fragments presented in the exhibition are remnants of a performance in …
Artist: Šárka Koudelová Title: Sol Curator: Piotr Sikora Venue: Museum of Arts and Design Benešov, Czech Republic Photos: Silvie Heřmanská Time reflects itself in art with indifference. It slips through it like sand in an hourglass, leaving behind traces—more or less visible—that reveal the secret of its passage: relativity.Water represents a different measure of time: …
Title: The Cake is a LieVenue: Galerie AVU, PragueArtists: Anna-Marie Berdychová, Valentýna Janů, Tereza Kalousová, Bety Krňanská, Markéta Slaná, Nik TimkováCurators: Lamija Čehajić and Jirka SkálaPhoto documentation: František Svatoš The exhibition The Cake is a Lie presents works by six Czech and Slovak artists: Anna-Marie Berdychová, Valentýna Janů, Tereza Kalousová, Bety Krňanská, Markéta Slaná, and Nik Timková. …
Artist: Radovan Čerevka Title: Heroes’ Prop Room Curator: Peter Megyeši Venue: Bratislava City Gallery The exhibition Heroes’ Prop Room presents the results of a long-term artistic research project focused on former and current military sites in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Through a complex multimedia installation composed of videos, objects, and paintings, Radovan Čerevka reflects …
Artist: Magdalena Karpińska Title: Music for a Panic Attack Venue: Polana Institute Photos: Olga Tuz One of the inspirations for Magdalena Karpińska’s latest painting series is tarantism, a cultural and therapeutic phenomenon documented in rural southern Italy, particularly in Apulia, since the Middle Ages. Closely linked to the agricultural calendar and the harvest season, tarantism …
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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