Artist: Andrej Škufca Title: Black Market Venue: MGLC, Ljubljana Curator: Àngels Miralda Black Market by Andrej Škufca is a sculptural installation based on modular iterations. Its body represents a futuristic animal composed of our contemporary biotechnical debris – of oil pipelines, ocean fibre optic cables, eels, exoskeletons and the earliest forms of tubular multicellular micro-organisms. …
Foundation Tallinn Print Triennial (TPT) organises contemporary print-based art exhibitions every three years. The first TPT took place in 1968 with the participation of all three Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, TPT became more international, and it began dealing with more contemporary issues and testing the …
Read moreThe 18th Tallinn Print Triennial will take place in 2021 08.07.2020
2020.06.26. – 2020.09.19. Venue: Easttopics Photos: Dávid Bíró Easttopics is proud to present Adrian Kiss’ latest solo exhibition that features three new works created specifically for the occasion. As one of the most exciting figures of the young Hungarian art scene, Adrian Kiss has developed a boldly experimental approach to and use of different materials, …
Artists: Alice Hagenburch, Raluca Manaila, Denisa Štefanigova, and Lisann Lillevere and Johanna Ruukholm Title: Sheets of past and layers of reality Venue: Hoib Gallery, Tallinn Curator: Lilian Hiob Photo: Roman-Sten Tõnissoo On 29 May a new contemporary art gallery Hoib opens in Tallinn at Tehnika 15. The opening exhibition “Sheets of past and layers of …
Artist: Kornelia Dzikowska Title: Notes on the passage of time Curator: Magdalena Adameczek Venue: BWA – Municipal Art Gallery of Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Poland Photo: Maciej Landsberg, all images copyright and courtesy of the gallery, BWA – Municipal Art Gallery of Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Poland I In the experience of “time” running out, there is nothing magical …
Read moreKornelia Dzikowska at BWA – Municipal Art Gallery of Bydgoszcz
Artists: Eliška Konečná and Michael Nosek Title: More than two eyes Venue and Curator: Berlinskej Model, Prague Photo: František Svatoš; all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Berlinskej Model, Prague Alain Badiou talks about how it’s important for a philosopher to also be a lover as well as an activist, artist and scientist! …
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Artist: Rudolf Pacsika Title: Cytokine Storm Venue: Horizont Gallery, Budapest Photos: Dávid Bíró Rudolf Pacsika’s art is diverse and uncategorizable. His intentions are translated with the same directness and energy into complicated and sophisticated computer installations as into spontaneous pencil drawings. Accordingly, he alternates the media of his works with wondrous liberty, from sculptures, photos, …
Artists: Melanie Bonajo, Jakub Jansa, Priscilla Telmon & Vincent Moon Tite: Spiritualities: Three Contemporary Portrayals of Transcendence and Beliefs Venue: MeetFactory Gallery, Prague Curator: Tereza Jindrová Architecture: Jakub Červenka, Tereza Jindrová Production: Jan Vítek Date: 25. 5. – 16. 8. 2020 Text: Tereza Jindrová Within the framework of the long-term project Other Knowledge, which we …
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 …
Read moreIeva Kraule-Kūna and Anna Bernarde at Riga Circus Elephant Stables
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, …