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Artist: Vytenis Burokas, Tarek Lakhrissi, Maria Loboda, Liv Preston, Anastasia Sosunova, Alexandra Sukhareva, Virgilijus Šonta Curators: Dina Akhmadeeva, Adomas Narkevičius Title: Avoidance Venue: Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA, Prague Photo: Jan Kolský In the midst of the second lockdown, towards the end of 2020 (when this exhibition was conceived) you find yourself absorbed in thought as …
Artist: Michal Mitro Title: SAD Light Therapy Venue: Tabacka Gallery, Kosice Do you suffer from fall and winter depression or even notice signs of depression during prolonged periods of cloudy or rainy weather during other seasons? Chances are you are experiencing symptoms of SAD Seasonal Affective Dissoreder. Could a small tabletop box be the solution to …
Artist: Lukas Hofmann Performers: Mirabella Paidamwoyo Dziruni, Dourane Fall, Lukas Hofmann, Scott Hopper, Nicole Walker, Marat Zakirov Title: Into the Unknown Venue: Moderna Museet, Malmö Photo: Iryna Drahun Playing with rites of passage that are wrapped in brands and ideas of the 21st century, Lukas Hofmann acts as a kind of a modern sorcerer. His performative …
Artist: Ciprian Muresan Venue: Plan B, Berlin Ciprian Muresan’s exhibition is a critical exploration into the collections that art institutions inheritafter radical shifts in the political systems or socio-political (even aesthetical) changes ofparadigms, when museum storages become repositories of “junk“. These collections-as-containers could be the subject of TV shows such as Storage Wars, where participants …
Artist: Anastasia Sosunova Title: Jubilee Venue: Britta Rettberg, Munich Photo: Dirk Tacke On occasion of her first solo show in Munich, Lithuanian artist Anastasia Sosunova presents a multilayered installation combining sculpture, video, vinyl and woodcut prints with the intent to explore acts of worldbuilding and critically understand the structure behind collective ideals and their dissemination. The …
Artists: Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman, Anetta Mona Chișa, Haseeb Ahmed Title: Earthlings III: Patterns Curators: Lukáš Likavčan, Caroline Krzyszton Venue: Karlin Studios, Prague Photos: Tomáš Souček The third part of the main exhibition of Fotograf Festival 11: Earthlings explores the possibilities of overcoming the cycle of violence and healing, extraction and growth. …
Artist: Peter Kašpar Title: Liquid Being Venue: A Promise of Kneropy, Bratislava Curator: Ema Hesterová & Denis Kozerawski (APART Collective) The complexity of the development pace of technological progress and artificial intelligence forces us to often resort to simplification, categorization and to understand the current situation through binary optics. We have the impression that humans and technologies …
Artist: Pakui Hardware Title: THE HOST Venue: eastcontemporary, Milan Curator: eastcontemporary Photo: courtesy of the artist, carlier The night before I was supposed to meet Pakui Hardware I had a strange dream. Perhaps it would be better to call it an extrasensory experience. I was staying in a modern hotel in the city centre of Vilnius. …
Artist: Maja Babič Košir Title: TURNMEON Venue: Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana Curator: Piera Ravnikar Photo: Mario Zupanov Visual artist Maja Babič Košir, sculptor and painter, curiously blurs the boundaries between mediums in her new series of artworks, which includes paintings, drawings and large-scale collages, as well as sculptural works and spatial installations. The artist’s intuitive creative …
Artist: Antonie Stanová Title: I Tried to Tell Ya Something Through the Phone Venue: Kvalitář Gallery, Prague Curator: Monika Čejková Photo: Studio Flusser The exhibition I Tried to Tell Ya Something Through the Phone presents the artistic output of Czech painter Antonie Stanové, accompanied by the auditory work of Bohumila Grögerová, a writer, translator, and creative figure from …
Artist: George Crîngașu Title: Fear of Sunsets Venue: Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca Photo: YAP Studio / Pavel Curagău The dust has settled. And with it, a certain ritualization of a new breeding medium begins, on land and inland as well. Here things can be named and placed. It is from here that one can see how far …
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 context. East Call is an intensive 2-week program that focuses on the status and practice of artists, contemporary curatorial …
Tell us a bit about your artistic background. What influenced you to be creative and become a serious artist? In my very classic childhood I have attended creative courses and it has always symbolized a safe space where it is possible to forget or alleviate all the difficulties I experienced. I would say that my …
Artist: Svetlana Fialová Title: BLOOMING CHERRY, INDEFINITE CLOUDS Venue: Sopa Gallery, Kosice Curator: Petra Housková Photo: Tatiana Takáčová Svetlana Fialová has for a long term and continuously developed her work in the medium of drawing while trying to push the usual boundaries and speculations about its exhaustibility. At the exhibition entitled Blooming Cherry, Indefinite Clouds, …
