Eastern european art life

Maja Štefančíková at Gallery Sumec

Artist: Maja Štefančíková  Title: Spatial Sketches  Performers: Silvia Bakočková, Viktória Malá, Nela RuskováCurator: Eliška MazalanováVenue: Gallery SUMEC, BratislavaProduction: Ľuboš Lehocký, Gallery SUMEC  Technical support: Matej GavulaPhotos: Adam Šakový Before dust was rationally and scientifically explored, broken down by knowledge into ever smallerparticles, and revealed to contain an entire universe of parallel microworlds, it was imagined as thesmallest possible entity, …

Tobias Izsó at Kunstverein Dresden

Artist: Tobias Izsó Title: The AccountantVenue: Kunstverein DresdenCurator: Eva Slabá In his installation for Kunstverein Dresden, Tobias Izsó (1997, Vienna) creates a sculptural environment that oscillates between material contradiction and social construction. Assamblages and objects are displayed throughout the exhibition space as if they had slipped out of someone’s diary – enigmatic items of personal …

Anna Hulačová at Kunstraum Dornbirn

Artist: Anna Hulačová Title: Bucolica Curator: Thomas Häusle Venue: Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn Photos: Günter Richard Wett The exhibition “Bucolica” by Anna Hulačová (born 1984, Sušice, Czech Republic) at Kunstraum Dornbirn opens up a world that seems technologically futuristic and yet is steeped in ancient narrative tradition, mythological symbolism, and references to the history of images, …

Group Show at PRÁM

Title: PRÁM XArtists: Néphéli Barbas, Dominik Běhal, Veronika Bělská Durová, Martin Herold, Monika Hniková, Jindřiška Jabůrková, Josefína Jonášová, Pavlína Kvita, Roman Kvita, Anna Kyjovská, Radek Mužík, Jakub Roztočil, Magdaléna Roztočilová, Anna Ruth, Tomáš Skála, Adam Trbušek, Jakub TytykaloCurator: Iva MladičováVenue: PRÁM, PraguePhotos: Anna Pleslová A community of paintings, sculptures and objects as a tangible product …

Group show at Pragovka Gallery

Title: Breaking the Course of the European Boomerang Artists: Alma Gačanin, Alicja Rogalska, Áron Lődi & Víctor Santamarina, Aterraterra, The lilky_60200 collective, Good Praxis, Jens Masimov, Jumana Manna, Lesia Vasylchenko, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Monika Janulevičiūtė, Nikita Kadan, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, Pilvi Takala Curators: Una Mathiesen Gjerde, Krisztián Gábor Török Venue: Pragovka Gallery, …

Anna Ruth at Brooke Benington

Artist: Anna Ruth Title: Handed Unhanded Curator: Theo Carnegy-Tan Venue: Brooke Benington, London Hierarchies are present everywhere in our world. Perhaps this is because of one essential hierarchy that is often taken for granted despite its fiction: the superiority of the human above the animal and the material. Though this is not the place …

Aleksandra Liput at Le Guern Gallery

Artist: Aleksandra Liput Title: What the Lips of the Shadow Say Curator: Aleksandra Skowrońska Venue: Le Guern Gallery, Poland, Warsaw Photos: Kuba Mozolewski “Hiding is a primary function of life, a necessity bound up with its economy, that is to say with the laying-down of reserves. And since interiority so obviously exercises the function of …

Urszula Broll, Anna Sztwiertnia at Bliss Gallery

Artists: Urszula Broll, Anna Sztwiertnia Title: Inner Sun Curator: Katarzyna Piskorz Venue: Bliss Gallery, Warsaw On a cloudless night over Warsaw, no more than two hundred stars are visible. Far from the glow of cities, the sky reveals nearly six thousand. Daily life is similar: in the thicket of stimuli, it is easy to miss …

Kateřina Vincourová at Galerie Rudolfinum

Artist: Kateřina Vincourová Title: Skin Care Curator: Denisa Kujelová Venue: Galerie Rudolfinum Photos: Martin Polák In her drawings, objects, and installations, Kateřina Vincourová brings together everything that interests her, including the exhibition space. She responds to it subtly and yet with great precision, gently disrupting order to draw attention to detail, to the …

Barbora Lepši at HYB4 GALERIE

Artist: Barbora Lepši Title: ugly Venue: HYB4 GALERIE Curator: Michal Štochl Barbora Lepsi has created a series of monumental abstract paintings for the HYB4 Gallery exhibition space, works that directly respond to the venue and consistently develop her long-term theme of abstract expression. The resulting artworks are grounded in a confident gestural expression, spontaneity, …

Joanna Wierzbicka at Project Octagon

Artist: Joanna Wierzbicka Title: Earthworm Fantasies Curator: Urte Janus Text: Urte Janus Venue: Project Octagon, Anglican Chapel, Nunhead Cemetery, London The ground beneath the city is warped with tunnel systems, some likely begun in prehistoric times, connecting to medieval passageways and intersecting with modern sewage networks and underground train tracks. During heavy rainfall, parts of …

Sabīne Vernere at Meduza, Vilnius

Artist: Sabīne Vernere Title: Bestiaries Curator: Žanete Liekīte Venue: Meduza, Vilnius Photos: Reinis Hofmanis Sabīne Vernere’s solo show Bestiaries draws on the medieval compendium of beasts to examine how a shifting set of prejudices clings to female forms. The artist takes cultural anxiety as her starting point, exploring female sexuality as a historically politicized …

Julia Gryboś & Barbora Zentková at Galerie Parterre,

Artist: Julia Gryboś & Barbora Zentková Title: Routine Ravers Venue: Galerie Parterre, Berlin Curator: Björn Brolewski Exhibition Text: Laura Seidel & Kira Dell Sound performance: Jan Tomáš, Erik Netušil and Mariana Hradílková Photos: Katarzyna Kaleta and Mariorje Brunet Plaza The exhibition walls are veiled and the floor is lined with fabric. The atmosphere is soft. …

Piotr Bury Łakomy at Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius

Artist: Piotr Bury Łakomy Title: Garden Exit Venue: Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius Curator: Edvardas Šumila Photos: Andrej Vasilenko Garden Exit – a solo exhibition by Piotr Bury Łakomy taking place in the central exhibition space of the Contemporary Art Centre – presents works produced by the artist specifically for this show. The title subtly references …

Group show at GAMPA

Title: III: Bodies of Dust Participating artists: Jenny Ȧkerlund (SWE), Jindřiška Jabůrková (CZ), Noa Kurnick (IL), David Střeleček (CZ), Anetta Mona Chişa (RO/SK/CZ), Dagmar Šubrtová (CZ), Jaroslav Kyša (SK), Nela Pietrová (CZ), Matěj Liška (CZ), Šárka Koudelová (CZ) Curator: Šárka Koudelová Venue: GAMPA / City Gallery Pardubice Photos: František Svatoš The exhibition title and its …