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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?
Title: Anna, the Jester et les monstroplantesArtists: Anna Hulačová, Julie BénaCurator: Alice MotardVenue: Centre européen d’actions artistiques contemporaines (CEAAC), Strasbourg,Photos: Émilie Vialet Marking the 10th anniversary of the Strasbourg <> Prague exchange programme, organised in partnership with MeetFactory and Institut français de Prague, this double exhibition by Anna Hulačová and Julie Béna (born in 1984 …
Artist: Pakui Hardware Title: Inflammation Exhibition Environment and Landscape Architects: Išora x Lozuraitytė studio (Petras Išora-Lozuraitis and Ona Lozuraitytė-Išorė) Curator: Valentinas Klimašauskas Project Coordinator: Evaldas Stankevičius Venue: The Lithuanian National Museum of Art Light Artist: Eugenijus Sabaliauskas Design: Vytautas Volbekas Translation: Alexandra Bondarev A scorched landscape emerges on the retina strained by twilight. On the …
Read morePakui Hardware at The Lithuanian National Museum of Art
Artist: Ioana NemeșTitle: Times CollidingVenue: Between Bridges, Berlin, GermanyPhotos: all documentation photos by Dan Ipp / images courtesy of Between Bridges Foundation, Berlin and Kilobase Bucharest / Ioana Nemeș Archive Between Bridges is delighted to present an exhibition by Romanian conceptual artist Ioana Nemeș (1979–2011), to date the first solo show of the artist in a non-commercial art …