Category: Eastern european art life
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Botond Keresztesi and Stach Szumski at Piana Gallery
Artists: Botond Keresztesi, Stach Szumski Title: Dungeon Keepers Venue: Piana Gallery, Krakow A joint Polish-Hungarian exhibition by two friendly artists will be their first show in Krakow. The space of the Piana gallery on Wrocławska Street will be transformed into a multi-threaded, narrative environment that will bring together important themes in the work of these…
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Group show at Solatorium
Title: Summertime Sadness Artists: Joanna Bocheńska, Ten Cza, Kamila Maria Kamińska, Weronika Minias, Weronika Nowak, Michał Pańczyk, Katarzyna Sporn, Kacper Tomaszewski, Agata Włodarczyk Curator: Aleksandra Liput Venue: Solatorium Text: Aleksandra Liput, Ten Cza Holiday sorrows, gusts of passion, melancholy, broken hearts, sudden elation, long kisses. Summer goes by so fast. The days are getting shorter.…
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Natalia Janula & Joanna Wierzbicka at Generation and Display Gallery
Title: I may have bitten off more than I can chewArtists: Natalia Janula & Joanna WierzbickaCurator: Amelie MckeeVenue: Generation and Display Gallery, London “Mom says you become what you eat. Hence, I used to lick the meat off the fishbones of mackerel and reassemble them into the shape it was in. The immortal world that I believe with many alternatives. Ways of living, farmed to table, nursed for education, production for consumption, meal per person, collective living. Making sense, making asss sensing. ‘Think, dream and act according to what you eat and drink.’ Recognized by futuristic movement, cooking and eating became subservient to the aesthetic experience, fetishized and fantasized upon layers of reality, a camera obscurain a moving castle. Life moments await me to capture, to preserve, to ferment, for digestion. Good gut material. Good cut bacteria. Good Gut bacteria “text by Ada Hao I may have bitten off more than I can chew comes from an ongoing dialogue between artists Natalia Janula…
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Meet the Winning Artist: Samira Homayouni
The 28th STRABAG Artaward International has just announced the winning artists. The award, which focuses on painting and drawing, is one of the country’s most highly endowed private art prizes. Initially limited to Austrian artists, it expanded in 2009 to include international participants. The prize consists of a main prize and four recognition awards, totalling…
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Meet the Winning Artist: Grzegorz Siembida
The 28th STRABAG Artaward International has just announced the winning artists. The award, which focuses on painting and drawing, is one of the country’s most highly endowed private art prizes. Initially limited to Austrian artists, it expanded in 2009 to include international participants. The prize consists of a main prize and four recognition awards, totalling…
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Eliska Konecna at eastcontemporary
Artist: Eliska Konecna Title: ‘A Dry Place to Fall’ Venue: eastcontemporary, Milan Photography: Tiziano Ercoli What is fascinating about Eliška Konečná’s work is that it reflects both tendencies and concerns of the young generation of Czech artists (she graduated from the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 2020) while detaching…
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Trin Alt & Zuza Golińska at RAVNIKAR GALLERY SPACE
Artists: Trin Alt & Zuza Golińska Venue: RAVNIKAR GALLERY SPACE, Ljubljana Curator: Lara Mejač Title: Scorching Photos: Mario Zupanov Visual artists Trin Alt and Zuza Golińska create site-specific environments which often refer to post-apocalyptic fantasies and aesthetics, while reflecting on the possible destinies of our planet in the light of accelerating capitalism, climate change, and…
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Group Show at tranzit.sk
Artists: Eglė Budvytytė (LT/NL), Kasha Potrohosh (UA/SK), Viktória Revická (SK), Jura Shust (BY/DE), Ádám Ulbert (HU), Alicja Wysocka (PL/NL)Curator: Flóra Gadó / HUVenue: tranzit.sk, Bratislava Photos: isonative The exhibition is inspired by recent interest in spiritual worldviews and the revival of ancient knowledge in contemporary art. In times of crisis such as the current one, it…
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Group Show at C U AT SADKA
Title: SKIN DEEP Venue: C U AT Sadka, Krakow artists: Jakub Gliński, Kornel Leśniak, Marcjanna, Ola Nenko, Monika Przygodzka, Mateusz Sarzyński, Stach Szumski curator: Michalina Sablik performance curator: Kornel Leśniak I know that you have a fragile heart. I promise to touch it carefully. I promise that my hands will be warm, he whispered tenderly…
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Kristina Õllek at Kogo Gallery
Artist: Kristina Õllek Title: Waters of Hypoxic Slime and Tropic Lime Venue: Kogo Gallery, Tartu 3.5 billion years ago, being present then and now,the oldest known organism is living among us. The catalyst and the changer of Earth’s life forms,creating the oxygenic atmosphere as we know and breathe.Breathe breathe breathe, say hello to cyanobacteria. At…
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OPEN CALL – Puja Journal
For its very first issue, Puja Journal seeks written and visual contributions that contemplate the theme of feeding. About the Journal Puja Journal works with, through, and for independent thought and emotion in and between Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. The journal seeks to form bonds and networks alternative to the idea of centre-periphery dichotomy.…
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Honza Zamojski at MGLC
Artist: Honza Zamojski Title: Middleman Curator: Nevenka Šivavec and Yasmín Martín Vodopivec Venue: MGLC, Ljubljana In Honza Zamojski’s latest exhibition, the eponymous Middleman plays various roles. He is a viewer who, upon entering the exhibition space, stands in the middle of the symmetrical architecture. He is also an author who mediates between the world of…
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Klára Hosnedlová at Kestner Gesellschaft
Artist: Klára Hosnedlová Title: To Infinity Curators: Adam Budak and Alexander Wilmschen Venue: Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover Photo: Zdenek Porcal – Studio Flusser For her first institutional solo exhibition, Klára Hosnedlová metamorphoses the Kestner Gesellschaft’s halls into labyrinthian interiorities, laboriously modeling spatialities of voyeuristic surfaces—oblique mirrors of humanoid selves. Her monumental performative sculptures, suspended like clouds…
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Asztrid Csatlós at Pécs
Artist: Asztrid Csatlós Title: Nocturnal predators Venue: Művészetek és Irodalom Háza, Pécs I started the Nocturnal Predators series in 2022. The basic concept of the series started from a previous photo documentation, which dealt with the wave of migration that started in 2015. The location is a dirt road near my place of residence. This…