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Artist: Kornelia Dzikowska Title: Power Play Venue: Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland Curator: Ewa Kozik Photo: Maciej Landsberg Setting to work for the Project Room, Kornelia Dzikowska decides against staging an exhibition. Instead, she creates a site-specific installation, all elements of which comprise a single work. Despite claiming the whole space, it …

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Artists: Barbora Zentková & Julia Gryboś Title: Tiredness Quotes Venue: Karlin Studios, Prague 7.3.2020. – 12.4. 2020 Text: Miloš Hroch Tiredness Quotes The temperature dropped to twenty degrees below zero on that day. It happened at the beginning of the turbulent year 1972, when the Red Army Faction gunshots could be heard around West Germany, …

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Artists: Martin Lukáč and Marek Meduna (feat. Grottup & Roel Van der Linden) Title: Galactic Love Venue: SVIT, Prague Photo: Tomas Soucek

Artist: Marcin Dudek Title: Trans Hooligans Venue: LETO, Warsaw Photo: Bartosz Górka The scorching summer days of 1995. Marcin was no more than 16 years old at the time. He and his brother were on a bus from Krakow, along with a group of young football fans on their way to a match in Bialystok. …

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Artist: Iza Tarasewicz Title: VARIABLES Venue: Loggia, Munich, Germany Date: January 30 – March 15, 2020 Photo: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Loggia, Munich a logic of resemblance and of difference, of contradiction and identity, even of continuity and discontinuity, in short a naive logic of two choices, such as true/false, even if …

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Artist: Nika Kupyrova Title: A difficult weekend Venue: hoast, Vienna Photo: Nika Kupyrova Text: Tereza Záchová Showing Woman in Green, a film by Nika Kupyrova and Gerald Zahn For the next half hour she worked in a kind of fury. Clay smeared itself on her forehead, clung to her hair, as she pushed an impatient …

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Artist: Márk Fridvalszki Title: Homeless Between Yestermorrows Venue: Horizont Gallery, Budapest Date: 19 February – 1 April, 2020 Photo: Dávid Biró In Homeless Between Yestermorrows, Fridvalszki continues his (an)archeological quest for utopian eras, started in his exhibition series An Out of this World Event, this time penetrating all the way to the deep strata of …

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Artist: Agata Bogacka Title: Compositions of Dependencies Venue: Glassyard Gallery, Budapest Photo: Zsuzsanna Simon Date: 07. 02. – 28. 03. 2020 Agata Bogacka (born in 1976, Warsaw where she lives and works) is one of the most important painters in Poland who is present in the art scene from the early 2000. Graduated from the …

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Artist: Kristián Németh Title: Monument of Possible Fall Venue: At Home Gallery, Šamorín, Slovakia Curator: Michal Stolárik Date: November 23, 2019 – February 25, 2020 The exhibition project Monument of Possible Fall is Kristian Nemeth’s latest piece of work. Kristian, who is currently finishing his doctoral studies at Martin Piacek’s Studio vvv at the Academy of Fine Arts and …

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Artist: Veronika Romhány Title: White Heaven Venue: MŰTŐ Photo: Fanni Papp 14.02.2020- 28.02.2020 ‘White Heaven’ is an explanatory, educational group of works. It is a subjective definition with limited validity, or rather speculation. The video animation illustrates a text of a topic-specific interview.And what the video talks about is a collection of definitions: a definition …

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Artists: Katarina Hudačicová, Filip Kopecký, Matěj Kos Title: What is ours Venue: Pragovka Gallery Entry Curator: Michal Jalůvka Photo:  Katarína Hudačicová “Everything to the right and to the left will henceforth belong to us!” exclaims the Spanish conquistador Aguirre in Werner Herzog’s film, as he drifts down the Amazon river. Like him, we can feel …

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Artists: Tymek Bryndal, Piotr Marzec, Agnieszka Mastalerz, Michał Szaranowicz, Weronika Wysocka  Title: Below Zero Curator: Anna Königová Venue: Industra Art Space, Brno, Czech Republic 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘮 𝘶𝘱𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦, 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘪𝘧 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥.: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘳 :𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘦. 𝘓𝘦𝘵’𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵.: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 …

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Artists: Nika Kupyrova and Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair Title: Otherwordly Venue: Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana Text: Domen Ograjenšek Photo: Jaka Babnik What sort of visual language should emerge when the eye is no longer in touch with the conditions of its contemporaneity — when the material surfaces of our everyday life appear too fast, increasingly eclectic, autonomous …

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Artists: Eglė Kulbokaitė and Dorota GawędaTitle: MouthlessVenue: Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fribourg, SwitzerlandFebruary 1 – March 29, 2020Photo: Guillaume Baeriswyl / all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg For their first monographic exhibition in a Swiss institution, Eglė Kulbokaitė and Dorota Gawęda transform Fri Art into a place of reception sensitive to the most contemporary fears. The environment created …

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