Galerie Derouillon, Paris A proposition from Hugo VitraniInterview by Antwan Horfee A.H.: City – age – origin please? B.K.: I’m living and working in Budapest for 10 years now. I was born in Romania in a Hungarian majority, when I was 3 years old the whole family moved to Hungary. I raised up in a …
Curated by Nikola Nováková Kvalitar Gallery On view until 9th August, 2019 As you dreamt, you found yourself in a house with long translucent curtains, white walls and a ceiling that stretched very high. And everything that happened within those white walls was cyclical — it restarted after a certain amount of time. You fell …
Read moreIt’s Oh So Quiet | Antonie Stanová at Kvalitar Gallery, Prague
ŠÁRKA KOUDELOVÁ: OUR BODIES SO SOFT, OUR LIVES SO EPICCurated by Laura AmannJune 5 – August 17, 2019Fait Gallery, Brno In 2011, on average, one piece of Pandora jewellery was sold every second. At this point Pandora had already become the world’s third largest jewellery company, after Cartier and Tiffany & Co. Mainly thanks to …
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Interconnection: On Bodies of WaterSwimming PoolOn view: until 4th August Artists: Catherine Biocca, Valko Chobanov, Nona Inescu, Maria Nalbantova, Jakub Nepraš, Petr Nikl, Tabita Rezaire, Karolína Rossí, Pavel Sterec and Johana Střížková Curators: Veronika Čechová and Tereza JindrovaPhoto: Tomáš Souček The exhibition focuses on the motif of water as a condition for life, on circulation …
On view until: 01.06.2019. Photos: APART collective, Dávid Bíró “APART collective made a visit to the region of upper Nitra to film a short movie concerning coal mining and its impact on the living environment. It is our contribution, on how we try to approach ever so more growing threat of the climate change, …
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The In-Between State of Mind International Video Art Exhibition Curator: Yunnia Yang (TWN) Photos: Viktória Balogh Artists: Miloš Tomić (SRB) / Katrina Neiburga (LV) / AES+F (RUS) / Goran Radovanović (SRB) / Šejla Kamerić (BiH) / Nika Oblak & Primož Novak (SLO) / Vlad Buzaianu (RO) / Anastasija Piroženko (LT) / Boris Kozlov (SRB) …
What has become of the so-called West after the Cold War? After the tripartite division of the world into first, second, and third has been superseded? Why hasn’t the West simply become “former,” like its supposed counterpart, the “former East”? To propose a “former West” puts a conceptual challenge to artists, thinkers, and activists to …
The Marinko Sudac Collection based in Zagreb encompasses a large number of artworks of progressive Avant-Garde, Neo-Avant-Garde, and Post-Avant-Garde art, including morphologically and conceptually similar artistic developments, as well as various practices of experimental art across Europe and beyond from the beginning of the 20th century until the fall of the Berlin Wall. At the occasion of the exhibition Non-Aligned Modernity. Eastern-European Art and …
Discover the 108 International Artists Who Are Revolutionizing Painting Today At last – the next instalment in the popular Vitamin series – the world’s hottest painters, selected by international experts Since the publication of the first Vitamin P in 2002, painting has continued to evolve and excite, with new generations responding to its historic importance …
The Art Biennial is an international event which has been taking place in Pancevo, continuously since 1981. In the absence of economic and institutional support, particularly in the Balkan Region, artists are often compelled to immigrate to countries of more developed culture, in order to enhance their chances of survival and success on the ultracompetitive …
Read more17th Art Biennial, Pancevo “SEE Art Gates: States of Reality”
If we want to be able to understand what Ukrainian art is about and how it has been a driving force for civil society throughout the last 30 years, now is the time to remember. by Björn Geldhof Coming to Ukraine about seven years ago and living here ever since has been a journey filled with …
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Photography provided a guaranteed witness to the burgeoning genre of performance art in the 1960s, when restrictions in Socialist societies sometimes created a far different relationship between performance and documentation than in the West. Art historian Amy Bryzgel highlights several key works of Central and Eastern European performance art from the MoMA Collection. by Amy …
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by Simon Hewitt How is East European art developing from a Western European point of view? Where do Western collectors look when they hunt in East? What is the next ‘big thing’ for Western collectors to look for in Eastern Europe? Which countries can become a market focus – and why? Those were the questions fired …
via Echo gone wrong The Harmony of Chaos is curated by Elīna Sproģe and it will be on view at Alma Gallery until 5th of August 2016. Artists: Camille Henrot (FR/USA), Daiga Grantiņa (LV/FR), Māra Brīvere (LV) The conceptual basis for the exhibition is shaped by a look back at the origins of the world. …
By Nicoleta Papp Aurora Király’s show at Calina Gallery describes a society that is in a continuous conflict, in which themes like “history, hope, trauma, memory, human relationships, the thoughts of a child, garden, the last snow” are strongly related to the language. The art show “Reality Check” takes from the immediate reality three situations that …
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