An interview with Luca Cserhalmi, curator of the Hungarian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, on Pneuma Cosmic, slowness as resistance, the crisis of scientific worldviews, and the possibility of building intuitive relationships with the world through art. If you had to distill your pavilion into a single idea, what would it be—and what does …
Read moreAn interview with Luca Cserhalmi, curator of the Hungarian Pavilion
At the 61st Venice Biennale, the Polish Pavilion’s Liquid Tongues explores alternative forms of communication, collective listening, and coexistence across human and more-than-human worlds. In conversation with curators Ewa Chomicka and Jolanta Woszczenko, we discussed Deaf culture, underwater communication, geopolitical realities, and the political potential of attentiveness itself. Moving between activism and poetic immersion, the …
Read moreInterview with Ewa Chomicka and Jolanta Woszczenko, curators of the Polish Pavilion
Adelina Luft sees the first-ever Moldova Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale not simply as a national debut, but as a political and emotional act of resistance. In conversation with us, the curator reflects on Pavel Brăila’s On the Thousand and Second Night—an installation staged inside Venice’s Santa Veneranda chapel that confronts war, territorial violence, …
Read moreInterview with Adelina Luft, curator of the Moldova Pavilion
The Easttopics team spoke with Natalia Sielewicz, curator of the Estonian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, featuring artist Merike Estna. The interview touches on the politics of waiting as an artistic form, the relationship between care and painting, the contradictions of Eastern European identity, and what it means to make art amid ongoing geopolitical and …
Read moreAn Interview with Natalia Sielewicz, curator of the Estonian Pavilion
“The mole is no longer a figure of childhood imagination, but an instrument of invisible soft power” — this year’s project at the Czechoslovak Pavilion interprets silence not as passivity, but as a form of political resistance. According to the artists, the Biennale is not only about representation, but also about negotiating how art can …
Read moreAn Interview with Peter Sit, curator of the Czech and Slovak Pavilion
This interview with the Albanian Pavilion’s curator, Małgorzata Ludwisiak, explores A Place in the Sun through questions of cultural perception, the notion of the “unknown,” and the mechanisms of the exoticizing gaze, while also reflecting on broader geopolitical and artistic contexts. If you had to distill your pavilion into a single idea, what would it …
Read moreAn Interview with Małgorzata Ludwisiak, curator of the Albanian Pavilion
Artist: Laura Põld Title: Beautiful Pulsating Web Curator: Lilian Hiob-Küttis Venue: Kahan Art Space, Vienna Photos: Manuel Carreon Lopez / Kunstdokumentation In her new textile and ceramic works at the Eva Kahan Foundation, Laura Põld continues her longstanding exploration of alternative modes of knowing. Moving beyond the dominant assumption that thought begins and ends with …
Artist: Marko TadićTitle: Funga RoboVenue: TROTOAR, ZagrebCurator: Martina Marić Rodrigues Exhibition text: Ana Devićphotos: Damir Žižić With his Funga Robo exhibition, Marko Tadić presents a cross-section of his recent works, in which he examines speculative visions of the city of the future from the perspective of artistic ecologies. The title, Funga Robo, refers to mushroom (fungal) …
At this year’s Venice Biennale, one pavilion stands out not only for its aesthetic language but for the questions it raises about our relationship to each other and to the natural world. Eglė Budvytytė’s work draws on ancient animist worldviews while quietly pushing back against the logics of contemporary capitalism. We spoke with the curator …
Read moreAn Interview with Louise O’Kelly, curator of the Lithuanian Pavilion
At the 61st Venice Biennale, the Bulgarian Pavilion explores alternative models of collective existence that move beyond narratives of dominance, hierarchy, and fixed identities. Curated by Martina Yordanova, The Federation of Minor Practices foregrounds forms of interdependence, care, and subtle, often overlooked gestures as foundations for coexistence. Bringing together the works of Gery Georgieva, Maria …
Read moreAn Interview with Martina Yordanova, curator of the Bulgarian Pavilion
Artist: Dominika Łabądź Title: What Can We Not Think?Venue: 66P Subjective Institution of Culture, Wrocław Curator: Joanna Synowiec Photos: Małgorzata Kujda What Can We Not Think? is an exhibition on sensitivity to the world of capitalist ruins – both ecological and social. It resembles a ruderal garden: a site where disturbances wrought by human activity give …
Read moreDominika Łabądź at 66P Subjective Institution of Culture
Artists: Maja Djordjevic, Petros Efstathiadis, Elias Kafouros, Katelyn Ledford, Eva Papamargariti,Ally Rosenberg, Emily Ludwig Shaffer, and Aleksandar Todorovic Title: Weak Signal Venue: Dio Horia Gallery, Athens We do not simply live in an age of technology.We live in an age of new image regimes. The exhibition Weak Signal explores the relationship between digital culture, data systems, and …
Artist: Paula Tončić Title: Eyes without Face Text: Lea Vene Venue: Galerija Manuš The exhibition Eyes without Face is based on in-depth research into materials that carry the potential for magical and ritual manifestation. Each carefully selected material encapsulates multiple past lives, initiating a process of further transmutation. Unique organic histories are layered collage-like to …
Artist: Rafał Zajko and works from the collection of the Arsenal Gallery in Białystok: Zofia Artymowska, Artur Brunsz, Andrzej Dworakowski, Stanisław Fijałkowski, Krystyna Hierowska, Aleksandra Jachtoma, Anna Korybut-Daszkiewicz, Lech Kunka, Jerzy Lengiewicz, Izabela Marcjan, Eugeniusz Markowski, Maria Michałowska, Jerzy Nowosielski, Lech Okołów, Janusz Orbitowski, Erna Rosenstein, Wojciech Sadley, Henryk Stażewski, Anna Szpakowska-Kujawska, Antoni Szymaniuk, Jacek …
Artist: Magdalena Karpińska Title: Music for a Panic Attack Venue: Polana Institute Photos: Olga Tuz One of the inspirations for Magdalena Karpińska’s latest painting series is tarantism, a cultural and therapeutic phenomenon documented in rural southern Italy, particularly in Apulia, since the Middle Ages. Closely linked to the agricultural calendar and the harvest season, tarantism …