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Artists: Anna Ruth and Stanislav Zábrodský Title: Almost Time For a Bliss Curator: Světlana Malinová and Edita Štrajtová Venue: Studio PRÁM, Prague Photos: Anna Pleslová My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. My dry throat calls for attention, this time with greater intensity. I am not even halfway there. My wings are unspeakably …
Artists: Selma Selman, Jasmina Cibic, Šejla KamerićTitle: Her Barbaric LuxuryCurator: Martina Marić RodriguesVenue: Trotoar Gallery, Zagreb If you think you can grasp me, think againmy story flows in more than one directiona delta springing from the riverbedwith its five fingers spread– Adrienne Rich Text by Martina Marić Rodrigues: When Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Le Sacre du …
Describe your studio/work practice. I’m a curator, feminist theorist and art historian. My curatorial project are often based on collaboration – I enjoy an exchange of ideas and close collaboration. I’m also interested in a critical institutional practice, especially disability theories, in terms of what political demand we can make through a curatorial practice on …
Read moreCzech Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: An Interview with Curator Hana Janečková
Artist: Karlīna Mežecka Curator: Žanete Liekīte Title: Archive of Fragility Venue: Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga Turning to the poetics of regional space and human emotional experience within it, the artist Karlīna Mežecka reflects on categories of fragility. The images of the space “move in both directions: they are in us as much as we …
Artist: StonyTellers Curator: Anežka Januschka Kořínková Venue: Galerie 35M2, Prague Title: How to dream from nine to five Photos: Peter Kolárčik The exhibition project How to Dream from Nine to Five by the StonyTellers collective is the final contribution to the programme, working with the concept of radial happiness. Following on from the exhibitions devoted to analysing …
Artist: Maja Babič KoširTitle: Ciao AmoreVenue: Ravnikar Gallery, LjubljanaText and Curator: Michal Stolárik, Piera RavnikarSound and Photo: Śresta Das Ananda, Diana TamanePhotos: Mario Zupanov A deeply-rooted essential aspect of the human experience, a multi-layered emotion that is hard to define. An inexhaustible source of the philosophic, artistic and scientific examination. Attraction to people, animals or objects, …
What aspects of your cultural background do you draw the most inspiration from? I was born in Romania but grew up in Austria since I was very little, and for the past 17 years I have been living in France. All these cultural environments have had their impact on my development, but generally I feel …
Read moreWhen did you first realize that you could tell stories?- conversation with Maria Szakats
Artist: Kristi Kongi Title: The Past, the Present, the Future. It is Like Indigo, Lilac, and Magenta Venue: Karen Huber Gallery, Mexico City Text: Yes Escobar Photos: Ramiro Chaves What came first? The name or the fruit? – Derek Jarman, Chroma: A Book Of Colour Pure color talks, it has a language of its own …
Artist: Janos BrucknerTitle: Hungarian People’s ActivitiesVenue: Longtermhandstand, BudapestCurator: Peter Bencze „I have tried to trace the useful and healthy spiritual process that ignores reality and turns obvious into victory, so that we can go on living. ”István Örkény: All my drama is both a continuation and a denial of the previous… In: Bátki Mihály, Film …
Artist: Jakub Jansa Title: The Garden of Problems Curator: Sandra Baborovská Part of venue: Thinking Through Film Location: 1. floor of the the Stone Bell House,GHMP, Prague Photos: artists and GHMP, Prague,Jan Kolský The first floor of gothic Stone Bell House, is dedicated to Jakub Jansa’s Garden of Problems project, which for the first time …
Title: Doctor OuchItHurts opens a hospital that cures any sickness from any animal Artist: Dan Beudean Venue: Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca Photos: YAP Studio / Mădălin Mărgăritescu I think he thought, and we thought, that he had beaten the addiction, but he hadn’t, and I think that’s the nature of the addiction. It came back, and …
Artists: Barbora Zentková & Julia Gryboś Title: Undertones Between Serpentines Venue: Nová Cvernovka, Bratislava Text: Jiří Sirůček Photo: Adam Šakový When scientist and geologist James Hutton went to the rocky outcrops of eastern Scotland in the second half of the eighteenth century to investigate the history of the Earth, he remarked that he could not …
Read moreBarbora Zentková & Julia Gryboś at Nová Cvernovka, Bratislava
Artist: Hana GarováCurator: Silvia L. ČúzyováTitle: GatekeeperVenue: Gallery of Contemporary Art and Architecture – České Budějovice House of ArtPhotos: Silvia L. Čúzyová The 2023 exhibition season at the České Budějovice House of Art concludes with Gatekeeper, an exhibition of works by painter Hana Garová, who presents several previously unexhibited large-format red paintings (“Ravens”) alongside a …
Artist: Maria Szakats Title: Mon seul désir Photos: Grégory Copitet Venue: Galerie Chloé Salgado Daisy Dog Days I love you,a little, a lot, passionately, madly, not at allI love youa little, a lot, passionately, madly, not at allI love you, … Dressed in a white synthetic silk dress, Daisy makes her declaration against a backdrop …
RAD Art Fair is an overdue collaborative initiative that strengthens the core of the Romanian art scene, offers visibility to its artists and galleries, and builds a base for the growth of a healthy national art market over the next decade. Easttopics spoke RAD Art Fair co-directors Catinca Tăbăcaru, owner of Catinca Tăbăcaru Gallery, and …
Read moreHow the first art fair in Romania is bringing the industry together?