Period: 9 – 22 May Length: 2 weeks Location: Budapest, Hungary / Bratislava, Slovakia Application deadline: 27 February 2022 The East Call Curatorial Residency offers a unique opportunity for emerging curators to gain a comprehensive insight in the Hungarian and Slovakian contemporary art scene by examining its characteristics and understanding them in a broader, regional …
Artist: Grzegorz DemczukTitle: SlapstickCurator: Lukas HofmannVenue: Karlin Studios As they say, there are lessons to be found in failure. The need to intellectually process and define everything that contemporary art often exerts can become a consuming errand – failing then poses as a therapeutic device. Likewise, in this show, failure acts as a process of …
Artist: Tanja MuravskajaTitle: Abstract GardenVenue: Kogo Gallery, TartuText: Elnara TaidrePhoto: Tanja Muravskaja The last exhibition of the year at Kogo Gallery, based in Tartu, Estonia is Abstract Garden, a solo show of Tanja Muravskaja, an Estonian photo, video and installation artist. In the current polarised society, the artist, who is known for her earlier political …
Artists: Julia Gryboś and Barbora ZentkováTitle: Tea Bags on EyelidsVenue: TIC gallery, BrnoText: Ivana Hrončeková and Marika KupkováPhoto: Polina DavydenkoSound Performance: Jan Tomáš Another exhibition in the exhibition cycle by Barbora Zentková and Julie Gryboś focuses on the theme of collective fatigue and exhaustion. Each following exhibition carries clues from the previous one. Rather than …
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Artist: Merike Estna Title: The House of the Tragic Poet Venue: BOSSE & BAUM, London Exhibition text: Caterina Avataneo Photos: Damian Griffiths The House of the Tragic Poet is one of the most famous Roman dwellings of Pompeii. Despite its modest size it still preserves some of the finest mosaics of the archeological site, among …
Artist: Sári Ember Title: They’re all poses, adequate to different ends* Curator: Borbála Soós Venue: Šopa Gallery The content of this class shall be bodies, animate and inanimate…– Yvonne Rainer, Lecture on Moving from Three Distributions Our own bodies, which are primarily composed of water, elucidate the problemof thinking about bodies in binaristic terms as …
Artist: Stach Szumski Title: Splittertown Venue: Studio of the Young Artist’s Association, Budapest Curator: Useless Galeri Photo: Digitaliskepmuhely The show titled Splittertown is realized in FKSE (The Studio of Young Artist’s Association) and is based on the paintings of Zbigniew Ralicki, the great-uncle of Stach Szumski. The architectonical landscape that Zbigniew Ralicki called to life …
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Artist: Šimon ChovanTitle: Wings in motion Venue: Nitrianska Galéria Curator: Barbora GeržovPhoto: Viliam Ondo
Artist: Adrian Kiss Title: Dunyha Tomorrow Venue: Nyolcésfél, Budapest Photos: Dávid Bíró The hybrid character of the works created by Adrian Kiss (1990) in recent years has evolved from the synthesis of the sensuality of his artistic approach and the rationality of his creative process conceived of as design. While the former presupposes a contemplative, …
Artist: Stano Filko Title: REGISTRATION OF STANO FILKO Curator: Boris Ondreička Venue: Fait Gallery, Brno Photo: Martin Polák Stanislav (from now on Stano) Filko remains undoubtedly one of the most important figures of (Czecho-)Slovak art in all of its history. At the same time he is one of our most internationally active artists – whether by participation in important international …
Artist: Vytenis Burokas, Tarek Lakhrissi, Maria Loboda, Liv Preston, Anastasia Sosunova, Alexandra Sukhareva, Virgilijus Šonta Curators: Dina Akhmadeeva, Adomas Narkevičius Title: Avoidance Venue: Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA, Prague Photo: Jan Kolský In the midst of the second lockdown, towards the end of 2020 (when this exhibition was conceived) you find yourself absorbed in thought as …
Artist: Michal Mitro Title: SAD Light Therapy Venue: Tabacka Gallery, Kosice Do you suffer from fall and winter depression or even notice signs of depression during prolonged periods of cloudy or rainy weather during other seasons? Chances are you are experiencing symptoms of SAD Seasonal Affective Dissoreder. Could a small tabletop box be the solution to …
Artist: Lukas Hofmann Performers: Mirabella Paidamwoyo Dziruni, Dourane Fall, Lukas Hofmann, Scott Hopper, Nicole Walker, Marat Zakirov Title: Into the Unknown Venue: Moderna Museet, Malmö Photo: Iryna Drahun Playing with rites of passage that are wrapped in brands and ideas of the 21st century, Lukas Hofmann acts as a kind of a modern sorcerer. His performative …
Artist: Ciprian Muresan Venue: Plan B, Berlin Ciprian Muresan’s exhibition is a critical exploration into the collections that art institutions inheritafter radical shifts in the political systems or socio-political (even aesthetical) changes ofparadigms, when museum storages become repositories of “junk“. These collections-as-containers could be the subject of TV shows such as Storage Wars, where participants …
Artist: Anastasia Sosunova Title: Jubilee Venue: Britta Rettberg, Munich Photo: Dirk Tacke On occasion of her first solo show in Munich, Lithuanian artist Anastasia Sosunova presents a multilayered installation combining sculpture, video, vinyl and woodcut prints with the intent to explore acts of worldbuilding and critically understand the structure behind collective ideals and their dissemination. The …