Artist: Patrik Kriššák Title: GLOBAL WEIRDING Venue: Marslab PoPup gallery, Prague Text: Ivana Pavlíčková Photo: Tomáš Souček Every known biological species comes withan expiration date. Homo sapiens is no exception. Lukáš Likavčan, Spectral Earth1 Certain imaginary about the end of the world is depicted in our minds already as an archetype. End of the world or so called …
Artist: Iza Tarasewicz Title: Full Circle Ahead! Venue: Gunia Nowik Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Photo: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Gunia Nowik Gallery The self-reference of signs, the self-applicability of principles, the self-justification and self-refutation of propositions and inferences, the self-creation and self-destruction of legal and logical entities, the self-limitation and self-augmentation …
Artist: Norbert Delman Title: Eden Venue: POGODA, Stocznia Cesarska Curator: Jacek Sosnowski for Kolektyw Pogoda and Propaganda PRPGND. Norbert Delman’s “Eden” is a garden of new life born on the ruins of a forgotten world. However, this life does not resemble the one we know so well – it is artificial, it imitates organic forms, …
Artist: DENIGOVA (Denisa Štefanigová) Title: Remind me what it means to feel alive Venue: Easttopics Gallery, Budapest Photo: Dávid Bíró Easttopics is proud to present DENIGOVA’s first solo exhibition in Hungary as a result of the young artist’s residency in Budapest. Featuring her most recent paintings on canvas as well as collages and a sound …
Artist: Máté Dobokay Title: Aggregation Venue: PINCE, Budapest Curator: Lili Horváth Photo: Máté Dobokay & Áron Kútvölgyi-Szabó The use of direct paraphrases is not unknown to Máté Dobokay’s artistic practice; following his works dedicated to Simon Hantai in 2013, the artist now reinterprets for the second time the oeuvre of a determining figure of the …
Artist: Daniela Krajčová Title: Tin Can Venue: Schemnitz Gallery, Banská Štiavnica Curator: Jana Babušiaková The title of this exhibition is derived from the name of a women facebook group based in Banská Štiavnica. Its initial goal was sharing – not selling or exchanging things (which was added along the way) but free will to offer excess …
Artists: Tomasz Armada, Olaf Brzeski, Ewa Ciepielewska, Andrzej Onegin Dąbrowski, Wojciech Fangor, Jerzy Flisak, Krzysztof Gil, Zuza Golińska, Günter Grass, Władysław Hasior, Marcin Janusz, Kunegunda Jeżowska, Stanisław Kałuziak, Tadeusz Kantor, Leszek Knaflewski, Edgar Kovats, Ignacy Krieger, Dawid Mazur, Jan Młodożeniec, Joanna Piotrowska, Tadeusz Rolke, Stanisław Rychlicki, Adam Rzepecki, Walery Rzewuski, Feliks Sadowski Feliko, Slavs and …
Artist: Lucia Gašparovičová Title: Something she has to do Venue: HotDock Project Space, Bratislava Curator: Ján Skaličan introspection> observation> empathy In the current project Something she has to, the author deals in more detail with the issue of self-observation, the study of her own self, from which she further gets to the observation of the …
Artist: Katarina Balunova Title: Personal Utopia Venue: MŰTŐ Group Gallery, Budapest Photo: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and MŰTŐ Group Gallery, Budapest The exhibition deals with the idea of utopia as a search for an ideal form of architecture and society, childhood memories, paradise garden, New Age as a mix of different …
Artist: Matyáš Maláč Title: Love Your Data: The Life of Paranormie Venue: Karpuchina Gallery, Prague Curator: František Fekete 00:00:00 i am afraid of the future. Events, deeds, things are reaching out their hand, but I am avoiding their gaze. Finally, I shake their hand with my back to them, and I have to bend like …
Artists: Merike Estna, Jaime Lobato, Hasanlu Armastajad Title: Borderlessness Venue: Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn Photo: Hedi Jaansoo At the heart of the exhibition by Merike Estna, Jaime Lobato and Hasanlu Armastajad are borders, borderlessness and their multiple meanings. Borders can act as a separators, limiters and definer of worlds – they divide but also protect. …
Artists: Kaja Redkie, Tomasz Mróz, Filip Rybkowski, Małgorzata Biłuńska, Karolina Jarzębak, Inside Job (Ula Lucińska, Michał Knychaus), Aleksandra Liput, Waldemar Borowski, Maciej Nowacki Title: Pure Crystal Venue: Promocyjna Gallery Curator: Dzidy (Aleksandra Liput, Michalina Sablik) Photo: Bartosz Gorka The story of the lost Atlantis is present in numerous cultural texts. It served Plato as a …
Artist: Nora Turato Title: don’t tell me where this is going, i loooo-ooooo-ooove surpris-es Venue: LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina, Kosovo Photo: Marcel Köhler Nora Turato is a punchline critter. There is no phrase of hers I haven’t heard before so I am left with the question as to why they’re punchlines. Sure, her words are common, even if …
Artist: Adam Vačkář Title: Farmakon Venue: Šopa Gallery, Košice Curator: Václav Janoščík The Garden “The living conserves within itself a permanent activity of individuation. It is not only the result of individuation, like in the case of the crystal or the molecule, but it is the theatre of individuation.” Gilbert Simondon I haven’t always been …
Interview with Richard Bakes, one of the owners of Berlinskej Model, Prague and managing director of SUMO. This autumn, Prague contemporary art galleries will be hosting exhibitions in cooperation with partner institutions from abroad. The SUMO international gallery show will open on the first weekend of September with a series of openings and related programs. …