Dear Milica, you were living and working in Prague when the pandemic broke out and you had to return to Montenegro in your family. How are you doing now? Hello Easttopics, I am always happy to return back to you after our little cooperation last summer. Yes, when the pandemic broke out I was in …
The first Tallinn Biennial kicks off on 2 July and aims to fill the gap, geographically and institutionally, between the Kaunas, Riga and Helsinki Biennials. Tallinn Biennial will attract international attention to the local scene, present the work of artists to a broader public and through a curatorial standpoint will speak of issues relevant for …
Artist: Dávid Bíró Title: Do You Accept Cookies? Venue: Trapéz Gallery, Budapest Text: Vanda Sárai Photo: Dávid Bíró 9 June – 18 September, 2020 There are only a few things, which we can consider so exclusively our own as our faces. One of the most basic elements of our identity is our most intimate, yet …
Artists: Ieva Kraule-Kūna and Anna Bernarde Title: Happy 8th March! Venue: Riga Circus Elephant Stables, Riga, Latvia Photo: Līga Spunde / all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Riga Circus Elephant Stables Wilt tulips, wither rosesyour beauty fades awayas a bouquet in Czech crystalin a standardised sunlit room Home like thousand others, walls so thin I hear …
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Artists: Øleg&Kaśka Title: Ashes to Ashes Venue: Skala, Poznań Photo: Tomasz Koszewnik Text: Daria Grabowska Øleg&Kaśka, a Poznań duo who identify themselves as an individual and singular superorganism, was founded in the summer of 2018, at a time, when Greta Thunberg organized her first protest under the Swedish parliament, and the ecological disaster was ignorantly …
Artist: Botond Keresztesi, Ádám Ulbert, Tom Volkaert Title: Neopangean Nest Curator: Peter Bencze Venue: Keep Showing Club, Neopangea It’s the year 3000 in the great southern forest of Neopangea, where animal-machine-human hybrids form a graceful community. The earth’s population is now at approx. 1 billion, due to multiple waves of pandemics starting in the 2020s. …
Artists: Milica Mijajlovic and Sybil Montet Title: Radiance Blast Venue: VUNU Gallery, Košice Text: Domenico de Chirico Zang Tumb Tumb is the title of the literary piece of Italian futuristic writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. This onomatopoeic words-in-freedom poem accompanied by bold and resonating visual character, published in Milan in 1914 by Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia, …
Meeting Honza Zamojski, one of the most innovative artists of the younger generation in Poland, and whose works are characterized by bold visuals that act as sharply indulgent and sarcastic comments of contemporary culture, we talked about this and that. Honza Zamojski was born in 1981, lives and works in Poznan. Active as artist, designer, …
Artists: Agnieszka Mastalerz, Michał Szaranowicz Title: Primary Swarm Venue: MOS, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland Text: Anna Ptak translated from the Polish by Anna Shimomura Swarm in (Non-)Motion The exhibition Primary Swarm comprises two audiovisual installations by Agnieszka Mastalerz and Michał Szaranowicz: Sluice (2018), a graduation work created by the duo, and Primary Swarm (2019), made for the City Art …
Artists: Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė Title: RYXPER1126AE Venue: Trafó Gallery, Budapest Text: Ella Plevin ‘This enclosed container houses something we cannot perceive, a memory to the past or an illusion. It is enclosed here in its image and its form, flattened akin to a 19th century diorama. A camera establishes the way of seeing …
Artists: Vitaly Bezpalov, Vladimir Chernyshev, Collective Actions Group, Genevieve Goffman, Dima Gred, Dasha Kuznetsova, Christopher Brodie Peckham, Ilya Smirnov Title: Smile, angry lamb Venue: Daipyat, Voronezh Curator: Ilya Smirnov The city of Voronezh was a place of exile for a Russian-Jewish Acmeist poet Osip Mandelstam. On Jan. 2, 1937 he wrote Smile, angry lamb—a semi-accurate description …
Artist: Kornelia Dzikowska Title: Power Play Venue: Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland Curator: Ewa Kozik Photo: Maciej Landsberg Setting to work for the Project Room, Kornelia Dzikowska decides against staging an exhibition. Instead, she creates a site-specific installation, all elements of which comprise a single work. Despite claiming the whole space, it …
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Artists: Barbora Zentková & Julia Gryboś Title: Tiredness Quotes Venue: Karlin Studios, Prague 7.3.2020. – 12.4. 2020 Text: Miloš Hroch Tiredness Quotes The temperature dropped to twenty degrees below zero on that day. It happened at the beginning of the turbulent year 1972, when the Red Army Faction gunshots could be heard around West Germany, …
Artists: Martin Lukáč and Marek Meduna (feat. Grottup & Roel Van der Linden) Title: Galactic Love Venue: SVIT, Prague Photo: Tomas Soucek
Artist: Marcin Dudek Title: Trans Hooligans Venue: LETO, Warsaw Photo: Bartosz Górka The scorching summer days of 1995. Marcin was no more than 16 years old at the time. He and his brother were on a bus from Krakow, along with a group of young football fans on their way to a match in Bialystok. …