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Petra Feriancová AT ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN Bratislava

Artist: Petra FeriancováTitle: Domain: WaterVenue: ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN Bratislava Domain: WaterTell me about those Antigone’s eyes. Grieving, yet set to seeher intention through.For a year, the isolation grew.Only those pages kept heron track.Almost as Francesca da Rimini,but with a lot of Cassandra’s style sentiment. Old those men of the olden days.Byron, Shelley, Stendhal,or Winckelmann.And …

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Inside Job at Lily Robert, Paris

Artist: Inside JobTitle: In FlamesVenue: Lily Robert, ParisText: Indira BéraudPhotos: Aurélien Mole At a galloping pace, raging fires mark the landscape like a red-hot iron. Soils are scorched, skies painted with toxic smoke. With this before us, no one can ignore the impact of climate change. An upward trend of conflagration risk rings loud and …

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STRABAG Artaward International 2022

STRABAG SE is a European-based technology group for construction services, a leader in innovation and financial strength. Its services span all areas of the construction industry and cover the entire construction value chain. The STRABAG Kunstforum serves an international art sponsorship with the organisation of STRABAG Artaward International, the exhibition activities in the STRABAG Artlounge …

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Šárka Koudelová at Karlin Studios, Prague

Artist: Šárka KoudelováGuests: Néphéli Barbas, Nika Kupyrova, Merav Kamel & Halil Balabin, Eliška Konečná, Jan Matýsek, Marie Raffn, David Pinkava, Monika ŽákováVenue: Karlin Studios, PraguePhoto: Anna Pleslová The exhibition project II: The Meek One is the second chapter in a three-part series that aims to capture themes that resonate today, as well as presenting an …

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Curatorial residency

Period: 9 – 22 May Length: 2 weeks Location: Budapest, Hungary / Bratislava, Slovakia Application deadline: 27 February 2022 The East Call Curatorial Residency offers a unique opportunity for emerging curators to gain a comprehensive insight in the Hungarian and Slovakian contemporary art scene by examining its characteristics and understanding them in a broader, regional …

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Grzegorz Demczuk at Karlin Studios, Prague

Artist: Grzegorz DemczukTitle: SlapstickCurator: Lukas HofmannVenue: Karlin Studios As they say, there are lessons to be found in failure. The need to intellectually process and define everything that contemporary art often exerts can become a consuming errand – failing then poses as a therapeutic device. Likewise, in this show, failure acts as a process of …

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Tanja Muravskaja at Kogo Gallery, Tartu

Artist: Tanja MuravskajaTitle: Abstract GardenVenue: Kogo Gallery, TartuText: Elnara TaidrePhoto: Tanja Muravskaja The last exhibition of the year at Kogo Gallery, based in Tartu, Estonia is Abstract Garden, a solo show of Tanja Muravskaja, an Estonian photo, video and installation artist. In the current polarised society, the artist, who is known for her earlier political …

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Julia Gryboś and Barbora Zentková at TIC gallery, Brno

Artists: Julia Gryboś and Barbora ZentkováTitle: Tea Bags on EyelidsVenue: TIC gallery, BrnoText: Ivana Hrončeková and Marika KupkováPhoto: Polina DavydenkoSound Performance: Jan Tomáš Another exhibition in the exhibition cycle by Barbora Zentková and Julie Gryboś focuses on the theme of collective fatigue and exhaustion. Each following exhibition carries clues from the previous one. Rather than …

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Merike Estna at Bosse & Baum, London

Artist: Merike Estna Title: The House of the Tragic Poet Venue: BOSSE & BAUM, London Exhibition text: Caterina Avataneo Photos: Damian Griffiths The House of the Tragic Poet is one of the most famous Roman dwellings of Pompeii. Despite its modest size it still preserves some of the finest mosaics of the archeological site, among …

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Sári Ember at Šopa Gallery

Artist: Sári Ember Title: They’re all poses, adequate to different ends* Curator: Borbála Soós Venue: Šopa Gallery The content of this class shall be bodies, animate and inanimate…– Yvonne Rainer, Lecture on Moving from Three Distributions Our own bodies, which are primarily composed of water, elucidate the problemof thinking about bodies in binaristic terms as …

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Stach Szumski at Studio of the Young Artist’s Association

Artist: Stach Szumski  Title: Splittertown Venue: Studio of the Young Artist’s Association, Budapest Curator: Useless Galeri Photo: Digitaliskepmuhely The show titled Splittertown is realized in FKSE (The Studio of Young Artist’s Association) and is based on the paintings of Zbigniew Ralicki, the great-uncle of Stach Szumski. The architectonical landscape that Zbigniew Ralicki called to life …

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Adrian Kiss at Nyolcésfél

Artist: Adrian Kiss Title: Dunyha Tomorrow Venue: Nyolcésfél, Budapest Photos: Dávid Bíró The hybrid character of the works created by Adrian Kiss (1990) in recent years has evolved from the synthesis of the sensuality of his artistic approach and the rationality of his creative process conceived of as design. While the former presupposes a contemplative, …

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STANO FILKO AT FAIT GALLERY

Artist: Stano Filko Title: REGISTRATION OF STANO FILKO Curator: Boris Ondreička Venue: Fait Gallery, Brno Photo: Martin Polák Stanislav (from now on Stano) Filko remains undoubtedly one of the most important figures of (Czecho-)Slovak art in all of its history. At the same time he is one of our most internationally active artists – whether by participation in important international …

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