Author: easttopics
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What comes to your mind in connection with contemporary art when you hear the word “exhibition concept”?
What you are doing right now? My curatorial practice has mostly evolved through the institution – first through Swimming Pool, and for a year now, also through the Center for Social Vision. I’ve been increasingly relying on the conversation format – I first used it with educational platforms, then it was an important part of…
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Nepheli Barbas, Martin Herold at Berlinskej model
Artist: Nepheli Barbas, Martin Herold Title: Water of Mars – Couples 7 Curator: Richard BakešVenue: Berlinskej model, Prague Photos: František Svatoš The Arago tobacco bar is an abandoned and familiar place, indifferent and intimate, where one wishes to forget the seasons of Mars and the sulphurous breath of the glass doorways. The wandering customers bathe…
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Kristina Õllek at Kogo Gallery
Artist: Kristina Õllek Title: Waters of Hypoxic Slime and Tropic Lime Venue: Kogo Gallery, Tartu 3.5 billion years ago, being present then and now,the oldest known organism is living among us. The catalyst and the changer of Earth’s life forms,creating the oxygenic atmosphere as we know and breathe.Breathe breathe breathe, say hello to cyanobacteria. At…
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Eva Kot’átková, Jiří Kovanda, Karolína Liberová at Tschechisches Zentrum
Artist: Eva Kot’átková, Jiří Kovanda, Karolína LiberováTitle: LenkaCurator: Anezka JabůrkováVenue: Tschechisches Zentrum, WienPhotos: Jan Stehule Car seats, chairs, shoes, jackets, and gloves—objects around us designed to serve us best. Clothes keep us warm, ergonomically designed car seats allow us to travel for long hours, shoes make running easier, gloves protect us from injuries, and chairs…
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Dominika Olszowy at Gdansk City Gallery
Artist: Dominika Olszowy Title: The Bare BellyVenue: Gdansk City GalleryCurator: Gabriela Warzycka-Tutak Photos: Tomasz Koszewnik My house, my ass, my rules. Two years ago, when I was at my friends’ summer house, I was looking for a tea mug. I opened a cupboard overflowing with cups, mugs, glasses, wineglasses and whatnot, and noticed a large spider…
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Judita Levitnerová at Galerie mladých
Artist: Judita Levitnerová Title: Head to Presser Venue: Galerie mladých, Brno Curator: Ivana Hrončeková Judita Levitnerová takes interest in textiles in a wide range of meanings. Through a handmade paraphrase of industrial automated production, she explores the phenomenon of gendered labor, the influence of hard manual labor on identity formation and the tradition of artistic…
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Lucia Sceranková at ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
Artist: Lucia Sceranková Title: Heart seas Venue: Zahorian & Van Espen, Bratislava Text: Hana Buddeus Water is fluid, it does not respect boundaries, it overflows, it seeps, it represents a frightening depth, but also a soothing float on a calm surface. We can be inspired by water, and feel the power of its flow in…
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OPEN CALL – Puja Journal
For its very first issue, Puja Journal seeks written and visual contributions that contemplate the theme of feeding. About the Journal Puja Journal works with, through, and for independent thought and emotion in and between Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. The journal seeks to form bonds and networks alternative to the idea of centre-periphery dichotomy.…
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Gábor Pap at Artkartell Projectspace
Artist: Gábor Pap Title: Notebook of escape ideas Curator: Gábor Rieder Venue: Artkartell Projectspace, Budapest Photos: István András Juhász Artkartell projectspace is happy to present the season opening solo exhibition of Gábor Pap: Notebook of escape ideas. As a member of the youngest generation of Hungarian artists, in his collection of extraordinary sincerity Pap mixes…
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Honza Zamojski at MGLC
Artist: Honza Zamojski Title: Middleman Curator: Nevenka Šivavec and Yasmín Martín Vodopivec Venue: MGLC, Ljubljana In Honza Zamojski’s latest exhibition, the eponymous Middleman plays various roles. He is a viewer who, upon entering the exhibition space, stands in the middle of the symmetrical architecture. He is also an author who mediates between the world of…
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Gideon Horváth at Glassyard Gallery
Artist: Gideon Horváth Title: Myths of Vulnerability Text: Lívia Páldi Venue: Glassyard Gallery, Budapest ‘That’s your speciality, telling people stories they never imagined – and convincing them it’s reasonable to want to see them come true’ – writes feminist activist writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes in the foreword to An Apartment on Uranus.The book is…
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Klára Hosnedlová at Kestner Gesellschaft
Artist: Klára Hosnedlová Title: To Infinity Curators: Adam Budak and Alexander Wilmschen Venue: Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover Photo: Zdenek Porcal – Studio Flusser For her first institutional solo exhibition, Klára Hosnedlová metamorphoses the Kestner Gesellschaft’s halls into labyrinthian interiorities, laboriously modeling spatialities of voyeuristic surfaces—oblique mirrors of humanoid selves. Her monumental performative sculptures, suspended like clouds…
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Curator’s Table w Vesselina Sarieva
What you are doing right now? Currently I’m curating Rudi Ninov’s exhibition ‘Voice Lines’ for his solo booth at the Art Brussels fair. We’re creating an artist catalogue which will represent his works and visions. This works evoke a variety of associations that can be related to written language, symbols, heard sounds or simple musical…
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Group show at META Spatiu
Artists: Dona Arnakis, Mathias Bar, Cătălin Bătrânu, Szilard Gaspar, George Roșu, Sergiu SasExhibition title: GAME ONCurator: Mirela VlăduțiVenue: META Spațiu, Timișoara, RomaniaPhotos: ©Cătălin Bătrânu & Josepha Blanchet/ all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and META Spațiu gallery “GAME ON” exhibition, currently on view at META Spațiu contemporary art gallery in Timișoara (Romania), curated…
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Asztrid Csatlós at Pécs
Artist: Asztrid Csatlós Title: Nocturnal predators Venue: Művészetek és Irodalom Háza, Pécs I started the Nocturnal Predators series in 2022. The basic concept of the series started from a previous photo documentation, which dealt with the wave of migration that started in 2015. The location is a dirt road near my place of residence. This…