easttopics Cracow Gallery Weekend KRAKERS (22nd – 24th April 2016), organized for the 5th time this year, is a project promoting contemporary art in the space of the city of Krakow. Inspired by similar events around the world, the event has reached a new, absolutely individual quality, focused on discovering and facilitating the development of contemporary …
By Georgiana Cojocaru Via Revista-ARTA Background (from left to right): Esra Oezen, Nachts versteck‘ ich mich im Moskitonetz [At night I hide in the mosquito net], photographs; Michele Bressan, photo archive, object, video (che cosa sono le nuvole, super 8, 1’33’’, 2010). Photo credits MNAC (photo by Larisa Sitar) The second chapter of the exhibition …
Q&A with exhibition’s curator Kati Ilves via Arterritory.com Kumu, 5th floor, the Gallery of Contemporary Art April 8 – August 28, 2016 Being the largest art museum in the Baltics, and one of the largest in Northern Europe, the KUMU Art Museum is seen as the region’s most notable buyer of contemporary art, as well …
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The international contemporary art exhibition Lost in the Archive, organised by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in partnership with the Association of Culture Institutions of Riga Municipality, will be open from the 5th February at the exhibition hall Riga Art Space. The exhibition explores the archive of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA), …
Art Histories through the Exhibition The anthology under the title Curating ‘Eastern Europe’ and Beyond: Art Histories through the Exhibition comprises fifteen texts which have been commissioned and previously published. The aim of this collection of essays is to monitor how exhibition – as a medium which functions among curators, artists and visitors as well as …
Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the publishing of the book Revisiting Footnotes. Footprints of the Recent Past in the Post-Socialist Region. The publication aims to capture and analyse the persistent Soviet era traces and references in art, public space, architecture, society, the field of collective and individual memories. Similar to footnotes …
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A collection of writings on self-organization phenomenon in culture The current economic situation and society’s low confidence in its institutions has suddenly demanded that artists become more imaginative in the way that they organise themselves. If labels such as ‘alternative’, ‘non-profit’ and ‘artist-run’ dominated the self-organised art scene that emerged in the late 1990s, the …
The first museum dedicated to Lithuanian Modern and contemporary art is due open in Vilnius, the country’s capital, in early 2019. The 33,400 sq. ft concrete-and-glass building, designed by Daniel Libeskind, will act as a “gateway” between the Medieval and 18th-century parts of the city, according to the architect. Viktoras Butkus, the former director …
ABOUT THE PROJECT Easttopics is a non-profit initiative launched in 2013, led by young art professionals based in Hungary and Serbia and dedicated to the promotion of the Eastern European contemporary art field. Working as a think tank for the Eastern European art communities, Easttopics is a genuinely interdisciplinary cooperative which goal is to draw …