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Interview with Vít Havránek, Member of the Jury, STRABAG Artaward International 2021–2023

What makes the CCE regions’ art scene unique? Each region that shares a past, common milestones, exchanges and traumas is specific. Central and Eastern Europe is interlinked by the fact that it was part of the policies of the multi-ethnic Habsburg monarchy, in addition to being a recourse to it. In the nineteenth century, modernization …

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Inside Job at Šopa Gallery

Artists: Inside Job / Ula Lucińska & Michał Knychaus Title: Whispers from the Cracked Horizon Venue: Šopa Gallery,  Košice Curator: Michal Stolárik Photos: Tatiana Takáčová Indistinct whispering gradually merges into background noise. Only familiar references, shapes, colours and materials remain, activating memories, ambiguous emotions and flashbacks of nostalgia for situations yet to be experienced. An …

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Klára Hosnedlová at Lyon Biennale 2022

Artist: Klára Hosnedlová Title: 16th Lyon Biennale manifesto of fragility Curators: Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath Venue: Lyon Biennale, Fagor Factories, Lyon, France Photos: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and ©Lyon Biennale Klára Hosnedlová’s corporeal, immersive installations address utopian visions and imagine our future, post-nature selves. Interweaving architectural elements with performance, sculpture and also …

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Laura Põld and Andres Tolts at Kogo Gallery

Artists: Laura Põld, Andres ToltsCurator: Šelda Puķīte Title: Common Threads, Polar Bear and Elephant Venue: Kogo Gallery, Tartu Photos: Marje Eelma This year’s final exhibition at Kogo Gallery is by Laura Põld and the late Estonian art classic Andres Tolts (1949–2014). Although they represent two different generations and the histories attached to them, both seem …

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Nika Kupyrova at Bildraum

Artist: Nika Kupyrova Title: Woman in Green Text by Kathrin Heinrich Photography by Janine Schranz Video installation by Gerald Zahn and Nika Kupyrova Venue: Bildraum, Vienna Crime and Embellishment A scene is set: the swimming pool glistening in the fractured sunlight of an unsettled autumn day, leaves strewn about the cobblestone ground, the doors of …

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Group show at Pragovka Gallery

Artists: Veronika Šrek Bromová, Petra Čížková, Viktor Fuček, Julia Gryboś a Barbora Zentková, Eliška Hanuš a Haštal Hapka, Vendula Chalánková, Petra Janda, Pille-Riin Jaik a Nazira Karimi, ka3ka3, Maud Kotasová, Tomas Kotík a Daniel Vlček, Judita Levitnerová, Petr Lysáček, Kristýna Manchart, Martina Nosková, Lucie Nováčková, Martin Pondělíček, Pavel Příkaský, Eva Rotreklová, Tomáš Samek, Denisa Půbalová, Ladislav …

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7th Vilnius Biennial of Ceramic Art “(Al)chemy”

Title: The (Al)chemists of time or a monumental wordBiennial’s artistic director: Agnė Šemberaitė.Coordinators: Rūta Šipalytė, Eglė Einikytė-Narkevičienė, Evelina Juncienė, Rasa Justaitė-Gecevičienė, Solveiga Gutautė, Jurga Jasinskaitė, Valdas Pukevičius.Biennial selection committee: Rita Mikučionytė, Monika Patuszyńska, Evelina Januškaitė, Rūta Šipalytė, Rytas JakimavičiusAuthor of the exhibition: Milena PirštelienėOrganizer: Lithuanian Artists’ Association’s Arka GalleryDesign: Mantas Ramanauskas No matter what you …

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Lilith’s Legacy at Easttopics

Artists: Andrea Júlia Fajgerné Dudás and Orsolya Oláh Title: Woman Flat Venue:  Easttopics, Budapest Photos: Dávid Tóth Woman Flat not only marks ten years of the group’s existence, but also celebrates the 50th anniversary of American feminist artist Judy Chicago’s cult feminist exhibition, installation and performance entitled Womanhouse(1972). Judy Chicago’s and Canadian feminist artist Miriam …

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Group show at eastcontemporary

Artists: Ania Bąk, Jakub Czyszczoń, Piotr Bury Łakomy, Inside Job (Ula Lucińska and Michał Knychaus), Daniel Koniusz, Mateusz Sadowski  Title: Minimo uno. Massimo due Venue:  eastcontemporary, Milan Photos: Tiziano Ercoli 1. Fragment (definition): a small separate entity that has been broken off from a larger unity. 2. The existence of a fragment implies the loss …

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Katarína Hrušková and Lucie Rosenfeldová at Cursor Gallery 

Artists: Katarína Hrušková and Lucie Rosenfeldová  Curator: Jan Zálešák Venue:  Cursor Gallery, Prague Photos: Filip Beranek Here we are, in the gallery. Crouched on the floor, painted coral red, where a lightly rippling metal ellipse held together by hundreds of welds and lifting two tiny bronze shells at the furthest open ends at eye level, we …

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Kris Lemsalu at Temnikova & Kasela gallery

Artist: Kris Lemsalu Title: Angels Gone Pissing Venue: Temnikova & Kasela gallery List the heart slipped bysummer slipped bynothing appeared toalight the miller slipped bythe sails were put byin the dim cellarlight grandpa watchedgrandma watchedjoy came to eyeson closing father was takenmother was takenhome went aloneand howling Juhan Viidingtranslated by Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov

Sári Ember at Pablo’s Birthday 

Artist: Sári EmberTitle: All is disappearingVenue: Pablo’s Birthday , New YorkPhotos: Sage M. Elder and Claire Zenith Text: Linnea West In my previous projects I tried to capture my relation to death and grief through individual and collective narratives, and the longing for leaving a reminder of us behind in personal and in historical scale. In …

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Mari Männa at Draakon gallery, Tallinn

Artist: Mari MännaTitle: Let’s live in friendship!Venue: Draakon gallery, TallinnPhotos: Mari Männa, Anna Mari Liivrand “Let’s live in friendship!” refers to a text that was found on a blackboard of a schoolhouse in Novyi Bykivin Chernihiv Oblast in Ukraine after the pillage by Russian soldiers. The exhibition is presented across the street from the Russian …

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Group show at WONNERTH DEJACO

Artists: Apparatus 22, Anatoly Belov, Ștefan Botez, Irina Bujor, Robert Gabris, Alex Horghidan, Barbora Kleinhamplová, Sebastian Moldovan, Ioana Nemeș, Elisa SighicelliCurator: KILOBASE BUCHARESTTitle: JOY ~ JOY ~ JOY ON THE PEPPERSIDE OF SUPRAINFINITVenue: WONNERTH DEJACO Gallery, Vienna JOY ~ JOY ~ JOY ON THE PEPPERSIDE OF SUPRAINFINIT works like a chant on many voices conjuring dreams of futurity. Even though the exhibition highlights …

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Group show at Kunstverein Eisenstadt

Artists: Thean Chie Chan, Iris Dittler, Sophie Dvořák, Mark Fridvalszki, Erich Gruber, Julia Haugeneder, Magdalena Kreinecker, Franza Maier, Evelyn Plaschg, Mathias Pöschl, Christian Schwarzwald, Šimon Sýkora, Marie Vermont, Letizia WerthCurator: Barbara HorvathSzenography: Johannes LakingerTitle: The crowded world of GHOSTS in dialogue with the lost here and nowVenue: Kunstverein EisenstadtPhotos: Alfredo Barsuglia, Christian Schwarzwald The ghostly …

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