Artists: Viktorie Langer and Hana Garová Title: Fucking Painting Venue: ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN Prague Curator: Terezie Nekvindová They met few years ago at Vladimír Skrepl’s and Jiří Kovanda’s studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. They’re not only generationally close, but also have the same sense of delicacy, similar basis and comparable …
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Artist: Øleg&Kaśka Title: The Sleep of Reasons Venue: Berlinskej Model, Prague Photo: František Svatoš Looking from the window shellWe can see a starry nightLots of tales of past and futureinsideour foundations, statues of our heroes and monstersHome is becoming kind of a mirror. Isn’t it?When earth is in sleepsneaky monsters are awakened.***Some may say- it’s …
Artist: Dia Pintér Title: Everything Starts Somewhere Venue: Horizont Gallery, Budapest Photo: Dávid Bíró The exhibition gives insight into the psychodynamics of a fictional person who reacts to conflicts with defence mechanisms. The images are intended to visually collect some of the self-protective behavioral motifs that. They all share the negative capacity of distorting our perception of …
Artist: Eva Koťátková Title: Interview with the Monster Vene: MeetFactory Gallery, Prague Curator: Tereza Jindrová Photo: Studio Flusser 25 January 2021, Praha – The MeetFactory Gallery introduces a new, rich project by the internationally recognized artist Eva Koťátková. The exhibition, named Interviews with the Monster, takes the form of the de- and re- construction of …
Artist: Szabolcs Bozó Title: Home Again Venue: L21 Gallery, Mallorca, Spain Photo: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and L21 Gallery, Mallorca Perhaps we should start with the beginning to explain the meaning of this exhibition by Szabolcs Bozó… Then we could recount how the screen of the mobile phone was illuminated with …
Artists: Rada Boukova, Mariana Vassileva, Ventsislav Zankov, Pravdoliub Ivanov, Vikenti Komitski, Stefan Nikolaev, Kalin Serapionov, Dimitar Solakov, Kamen Stoyanov, Samuil Stoyanov, Krassimir Terziev Title: GLASS, GAS AND ELECTRICITY Venue: SARIEV Gallery, Plovidv, Bulgaria Curator: Vesselina Sarieva Photo: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and SARIEV Contemporary, Plovidv Neon (AG: νέον, „new“) is a …
You’ve been working as an artist duo since 2008. I’ve always wondered: what it’s like to work as a duo. What are the advantages or the disadvantages that you’ve been experiencing over the past 12 years? Being together 24/7. I think this is an answer to both the advantages and disadvantages. You merge into one …
Artist: Jakub Choma Title: Gears of Life Venue: PLATO Ostrava, Czech Republic Curated and organized by Jindřich Chalupecký Society The works by Jakub Choma are rooted in painting and his realizations still allude to this medium, despite their essential shift towards spatial object installation. Nevertheless, his works still include fragments of graphic art, use of …
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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