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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Artists: Ines Matijević Cakić, Zlatan Vehabović, Nikola Vrljić Curator: Martina Rodrigues Title: UNRAVEL Venue: TROTOAR, Zagreb, Croatia Photos: Damir Žižić Not all moments can be overcome. Some wrap themselves around us and cling there – heavy and hardened. Some things pass, others do not; they settle in deep and ask us to endure. This exhibition is …
Artist: Andrius Arutiunian Curator: Sheida Ghomashchi Venue: eastcontemporary, Milan The world’s longest continuously running laboratory experiment, the pitch drop experiment, is a long-term experiment that measures the flow of a piece of pitch over many years. “Pitch”, most commonly bitumen. At room temperature, tar pitch flows at a very low rate, taking several years to …
Artist: Andreea AnghelTitle: The Blind ManVenue: 66P Subjective Institution of Culture, Księcia Witolda 66, WrocławCurator: Paulina Brelińska-GarsztkaPhotos: Małgorzata KujdaPostproduction of photography: Andreea Anghel Andreea Anghel’s exhibition “The Blind Man” treats the archive as a living, creative process. Its title alludes to the 1917 Dadaist magazine “The Blind Man”, founded in New York by Marcel Duchamp, …
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Artists: Sofie Tobiášová and Adam Vít Title: From A to X (too much love) Venue: UNA, Milan Photos: Michela Pedranti The exhibition unfolds as an investigation into movement, instability, and identity as a condition in flux, addressing the contradictions embedded in the contemporary search for meaning and belonging —to a place, a practice, or to …
Artists: Kateryna Aliinyk, Maithu Bùi, Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich, Forensic Architecture, Philipp Goll, Nikita Kadan, Lina Lapelytė, Bjørn Melhus, Deimantas Narkevičius, Henrike Naumann, Oleksiy Radynski, Indrė Rybakovaitė, Trevor Paglen, Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, Basma al-Sharif, Michael Stevenson, Hito Steyerl, Fedir Tetianych, Peter Wächtler, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Jan Eustachy Wolski, Tobias Zielony; and Berta Tilmantė, Neringa …
Artist: Maja Štefančíková Title: Spatial Sketches Performers: Silvia Bakočková, Viktória Malá, Nela RuskováCurator: Eliška MazalanováVenue: Gallery SUMEC, BratislavaProduction: Ľuboš Lehocký, Gallery SUMEC Technical support: Matej GavulaPhotos: Adam Šakový Before dust was rationally and scientifically explored, broken down by knowledge into ever smallerparticles, and revealed to contain an entire universe of parallel microworlds, it was imagined as thesmallest possible entity, …
Artists: Marina Abramović/Ulay, Luca Büchler, Nika Erjavec, Philipp Fleischmann, Hannah Koselj Marušič, Angelika Loderer, Mira Mann, OHO, and Josef Strau With performances by Luca Büchler, Hannah Koselj Marušič, and Mira Mann Title: Mobile Energy Curator: Hana O. O. Haas Venue: RAVNIKAR, Ljubljana Mobile Energy centres on the fleeting, the unstable, and the nomadic, placing emphasis on …
Artist: Tobias Izsó Title: The AccountantVenue: Kunstverein DresdenCurator: Eva Slabá In his installation for Kunstverein Dresden, Tobias Izsó (1997, Vienna) creates a sculptural environment that oscillates between material contradiction and social construction. Assamblages and objects are displayed throughout the exhibition space as if they had slipped out of someone’s diary – enigmatic items of personal …