While We Rise from the Ground pastel and acrylic on fabric, wood 500 x 230 cm 2022 Photo: Zuzana Jakabová

Czech and Slovak Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: An Interview with Curator Lýdia Pribišová

Describe your studio/work practice From 2020 till March 2024 I had been working as a curator at Kunsthalle Bratislava, where I have been developing the A Plant programme for the last two years. In my actual curatorial praxis I am mostly focused on environmental issues. The aim of the program was to highlight the importance …

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The Echoing Silences of Metal and Skin_Doruntina Kastrati_Photo_Majlinda Hoxha

Kosovo Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: An Interview with Curator Erëmirë Krasniqi

Describe your studio/work practice. My curatorial practice is research-based. Accordingly, I don’t always work with artists when producing exhibitions. For a long time, I have been building archives and then activating them through exhibition-making, amongst other modes of presentation. In doing so, I seek to create space for subjects that have previously been overlooked. Generally …

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András Király at Viltin Gallery

Artist: András Király ​Title: Finestra Venue: Viltin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary ​Photos: Réka Hegyháti / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Viltin Gallery, Budapest ’Now, leaving other things aside, I’ll tell you how I do it when I paint. First of all, where I am to paint, I draw a rectangle of any size I …

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Olbram Pavlíček at GMU

Artist: Olbram Pavlíček Title: KORPSEPUNX: Stress Prosthetics Curator: Jiří Sirůček In dialogue with Mikuláš Medek Venue: GMU, Hradec Králové Photos: GMU, Olbram Pavlíček Olbram Pavlíček’s exhibition KORPSEPUNX: Stress Prosthetics at the White Cube of Hradec Králové’s Gallery of Modern Art presents the artist’s latest sculptures, prints, and drawings in which he subversively imitates the design …

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Montenegro Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: An Interview with Curator Ana Simona

Describe your studio/work practice. My practice was for several years parallelly doing solo projects and working in a contemporary art gallery – Novembar Gallery in Belgrade where I worked as a curator and art director. In solo projects, I work mostly with artists whose practice I have followed for years, and with whom I have …

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Danai Anesiadou at EΜΣΤ

​Artist: Danai Anesiadou:​Title: D POSSESSIONSCurator: Ioli Tzanetaki ​Venue: EΜΣΤ​, Athen Photos: we document art​, Paris Tavitian​, Lynn Vanden Bossche Danai Anesiadou’s exhibition at EΜΣΤ entitled D POSSESSIONS invites visitors into an allegorical scenography consisting of sculptures, collages, and her own furniture, among others, referencing the rise of political, social and spiritual crises. In an attempt …

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Tina Hrevušová at Pragovka Gallery

Artist: Tina HrevušováTitle: Unexpected ExistenceVenue: Pragovka Gallery Curator: Tea Záchová Dystopia or the near future? What if we woke up the next day from uneasy dreams and found ourselves transformed in our bed into an exotic insect which you could not yet control or define through other body functions. But you would see many changes …

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Group show at Trotoar Gallery

Artists: Selma Selman, Jasmina Cibic, Šejla KamerićTitle: Her Barbaric LuxuryCurator: Martina Marić RodriguesVenue: Trotoar Gallery, Zagreb If you think you can grasp me, think againmy story flows in more than one directiona delta springing from the riverbedwith its five fingers spread– Adrienne Rich Text by Martina Marić Rodrigues: When Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Le Sacre du …

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Inside Job at 66P Subjective Institution of Culture

Artist: Inside Job (Ula Lucińska, Michał Kynchaus)Title:There Are Flowers That Are Born of MudCurator: Joanna Kobyłt (BWA Wrocław Gallery)Venue: 66P Subjective Institution of Culture, Księcia Witolda 66, Wrocław, PolandPhotography: Małgorzata Kujda The industrial ovens that baked bread for the army have long since cooled down1. Besides, no fire could burn in an environment almost devoid of …

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Eliška Konečná at Polansky

Artist: Eliška Konečná Venue: Polansky Gallery, Prague Title: Thirst Curator: Caroline Krzyszton What is fascinating about Eliška Konečná’s work is that it detaches itself from any chronological linearity to gradually approach a certain timelessness, a form of universalism mirroring the history of art.This interpretation finds its roots in Eliška Konečná’s relation to symbolism and the …

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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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