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 …
Artist: Peter Kašpar Title: Liquid Being Venue: A Promise of Kneropy, Bratislava Curator: Ema Hesterová & Denis Kozerawski (APART Collective) The complexity of the development pace of technological progress and artificial intelligence forces us to often resort to simplification, categorization and to understand the current situation through binary optics. We have the impression that humans and technologies …
Artist: Pakui Hardware Title: THE HOST Venue: eastcontemporary, Milan Curator: eastcontemporary Photo: courtesy of the artist, carlier The night before I was supposed to meet Pakui Hardware I had a strange dream. Perhaps it would be better to call it an extrasensory experience. I was staying in a modern hotel in the city centre of Vilnius. …
Artist: Maja Babič Košir Title: TURNMEON Venue: Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana Curator: Piera Ravnikar Photo: Mario Zupanov Visual artist Maja Babič Košir, sculptor and painter, curiously blurs the boundaries between mediums in her new series of artworks, which includes paintings, drawings and large-scale collages, as well as sculptural works and spatial installations. The artist’s intuitive creative …
Artist: Antonie Stanová Title: I Tried to Tell Ya Something Through the Phone Venue: Kvalitář Gallery, Prague Curator: Monika Čejková Photo: Studio Flusser The exhibition I Tried to Tell Ya Something Through the Phone presents the artistic output of Czech painter Antonie Stanové, accompanied by the auditory work of Bohumila Grögerová, a writer, translator, and creative figure from …
Artist: George Crîngașu Title: Fear of Sunsets Venue: Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca Photo: YAP Studio / Pavel Curagău The dust has settled. And with it, a certain ritualization of a new breeding medium begins, on land and inland as well. Here things can be named and placed. It is from here that one can see how far …
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 context. East Call is an intensive 2-week program that focuses on the status and practice of artists, contemporary curatorial …
Tell us a bit about your artistic background. What influenced you to be creative and become a serious artist? In my very classic childhood I have attended creative courses and it has always symbolized a safe space where it is possible to forget or alleviate all the difficulties I experienced. I would say that my …
Artist: Norbert Delman Title: Eden Venue: POGODA, Stocznia Cesarska Curator: Jacek Sosnowski for Kolektyw Pogoda and Propaganda PRPGND. Norbert Delman’s “Eden” is a garden of new life born on the ruins of a forgotten world. However, this life does not resemble the one we know so well – it is artificial, it imitates organic forms, …
Artist: DENIGOVA (Denisa Štefanigová) Title: Remind me what it means to feel alive Venue: Easttopics Gallery, Budapest Photo: Dávid Bíró Easttopics is proud to present DENIGOVA’s first solo exhibition in Hungary as a result of the young artist’s residency in Budapest. Featuring her most recent paintings on canvas as well as collages and a sound …
Artists: Tomasz Armada, Olaf Brzeski, Ewa Ciepielewska, Andrzej Onegin Dąbrowski, Wojciech Fangor, Jerzy Flisak, Krzysztof Gil, Zuza Golińska, Günter Grass, Władysław Hasior, Marcin Janusz, Kunegunda Jeżowska, Stanisław Kałuziak, Tadeusz Kantor, Leszek Knaflewski, Edgar Kovats, Ignacy Krieger, Dawid Mazur, Jan Młodożeniec, Joanna Piotrowska, Tadeusz Rolke, Stanisław Rychlicki, Adam Rzepecki, Walery Rzewuski, Feliks Sadowski Feliko, Slavs and …
Artist: Nora Turato Title: don’t tell me where this is going, i loooo-ooooo-ooove surpris-es Venue: LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina, Kosovo Photo: Marcel Köhler Nora Turato is a punchline critter. There is no phrase of hers I haven’t heard before so I am left with the question as to why they’re punchlines. Sure, her words are common, even if …
Artist: Adam Vačkář Title: Farmakon Venue: Šopa Gallery, Košice Curator: Václav Janoščík The Garden “The living conserves within itself a permanent activity of individuation. It is not only the result of individuation, like in the case of the crystal or the molecule, but it is the theatre of individuation.” Gilbert Simondon I haven’t always been …