You are the founder of the EDUART EXPERIENCE – a platform that helps new collectors navigate their way around the art world. How did you come up with this idea? Since relocating from London back to the Czech Republic in March of last year, it became clear from very early on that my peers were …
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Artist: Zuza Banasińska Title: Fix it in post Venue: The House of the Lords of Kunštát, G99 Gallery, Brno Curator: Ivana Hrončeková Due to the closing of the gallery, the exhibition was conceived as a window installation, with the sound playing outside, in the courtyard. The exhibition centers around the former limestone quarry at Hády …
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Artists: Lőrinc Borsos Title: Divide Et Impera Venue: VUNU Gallery, Kosice Curator: Peter Bencze Photo: all images copyright and courtesy of VUNU Gallery, Kosice and Everybody Needs Art, Budapest and the artist „Hell is the separation of paradise and Hell, the Devil is the bifurcation between God and the Devil, evil is the crossroads of …
Artists: Stach Szumski and Francesco Pacelli Title: Holobiont Rhapsody Venue: eastcontemporary, Milan, Italy Curated by eastcontemporary with accompanying text by Claudia Contu Introduction They are microscopic in size and invisible yet they possess a great power. They are always at work, acting discreetly in the shadows while forging unbreakable bonds and shaping all living beings. You …
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Artist: Ivana Bajec Title: August Venue: Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana Curator: Piera Ravnikar Photo: Mario Zupanov Ivana Bajec, an artist of the younger generation, presents herself for the first time in the RAVNIKAR GALLERY SPACE with the solo exhibition August. In an ambitious painting production prepared precisely for her première presentation, she continues, on the …
Artists: Zhanna Kadyrova and Jiří Kovanda Title: (Almost) Involuntary Sculptures Venue: ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava Curator: Elena Sorokina Photo: Leontína Berková This exhibition creates a space for an encounter between Jiří Kovanda and Zhanna Kadyrova, and a possibility for the two artists to exchange about fragility in sculpture. Coming from different contexts and different …
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Artist: Mark Fridvalszki Title: Future Perfect Venue: ICA-D Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary Curator: Barnabás Zemlényi-Kovács Text: Barnabás Zemlényi-Kovács “As I moved among these secret ruins, I found myself wondering what the inhabitants of that lost future would think of the world I lived in.”(Wiliam Gibson: The Gernsback Continuum, 1981) Future Perfect is a comprehensive …
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Easttopics: How did it all start? When did you decide to open a space dedicated to Eastern European contemporary art in Milan and what was the initial spark of this story? Agnieszka Fąferek: It’s been a long story. We’re both Polish based in Milan, where we’ve been working within the arts sector since many years. Here, …
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Artist: Vuk Ćuk Title: We have L.A. at home Venue: Eugster || Belgrade Photo: Ivan Zupanc We have L.A. at home Everyone’s first thought of Los Angeles must be that of sunlit boulevards laced with palm trees. However, the trees did not originate in Los Angeles. Even though the weather conditions allowed for it to …
Artists: Dustin Breitling, Alexandre Monnin, Reza Negarestani, Jozef Mrva Title: Diffractions Collective: Gaming the Aftermath Produced by: Diffractions Collective (Dustin Breitling, Vít Bohal) Venue: Pečnianska 7, Bratislava, Slovakia Curators: Diffractions Collective/APART Collective Text: Dustin Breitling Surveying a planet fraught with climatic, biodiversity, governance and social crises, this lecture series aims to understand how ‘gaming’ as the supreme …
Artist: Zuza Golińska Title: Red Giant Venue: Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław Curator: Joanna Kobyłt Photo: Małgorzata Kujda A red giant is a star in the last stage of stellar evolution, when it increases its radius and changes its colour to red hues. It has luminosity up to three thousand times that of other stars. In …
Artist: Mira Makai Title: Treasure Hunt Venue: Four Rooms Gallery, Budapest
Artist: Andrea Éva Győri Title: Space for dancing where no one sees it Venue: acb Gallery, Budapest Photo: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and acb Gallery, Budapest acb presents the first solo exhibition of Andrea Éva Győri with the Gallery. Andrea Éva Győri (1985) graduated in painting at the Hungarian University of …
Artist: Radek Brousil Title: There was a choir, there Venue: Glassyard Gallery, Budapest “I dont know if anything at all will be alright.” The main hero of Radek Brousil’s film is in a mental dialogue with a female hyperobject, discussing ’the end’, shame, guilt and the possibility of doing anything while wandering through the city and …
Artist: Piotr Skiba Title: Murmur over the body lobe Venue: Spazio ORR, Brescia, Italy The rain has stopped. The waterfall will roar like that all night. I have come out to take a walk and feed. My body–foot,that is–is wet and cold and covered with sharp gravel. It iswhite, the size of a dinner plate. I …