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Czech Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: An Interview with Curator Hana Janečková

Describe your studio/work practice. I’m a curator, feminist theorist and art historian. My curatorial project are often based on collaboration – I enjoy an exchange of ideas and close collaboration. I’m also interested in a critical institutional practice, especially disability theories, in terms of what political demand we can make through a curatorial practice on …

Karlīna Mežecka at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre

Artist: Karlīna Mežecka Curator: Žanete Liekīte Title: Archive of Fragility Venue: Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga Turning to the poetics of regional space and human emotional experience within it, the artist Karlīna Mežecka reflects on categories of fragility. The images of the space “move in both directions: they are in us as much as we …

StonyTellers at Galerie 35m2

Artist: StonyTellers Curator: Anežka Januschka Kořínková Venue: Galerie 35M2, Prague Title: How to dream from nine to five Photos: Peter Kolárčik The exhibition project How to Dream from Nine to Five by the StonyTellers collective is the final contribution to the programme, working with the concept of radial happiness. Following on from the exhibitions devoted to analysing …

When did you first realize that you could tell stories?- conversation with Maria Szakats

What aspects of your cultural background do you draw the most inspiration from? I was born in Romania but grew up in Austria since I was very little, and for the past 17 years I have been living in France. All these cultural environments have had their impact on my development, but generally I feel …

Kristi Kongi at Karen Huber Gallery

Artist: Kristi Kongi Title: The Past, the Present, the Future. It is Like Indigo, Lilac, and Magenta Venue: Karen Huber Gallery, Mexico City Text: Yes Escobar Photos: Ramiro Chaves What came first? The name or the fruit? – Derek Jarman, Chroma: A Book Of Colour Pure color talks, it has a language of its own …

Jakub Jansa at GHMP

Artist: Jakub Jansa Title: The Garden of Problems Curator: Sandra Baborovská Part of venue: Thinking Through Film Location: 1. floor of the the Stone Bell House,GHMP, Prague Photos: artists and GHMP, Prague,Jan Kolský The first floor of gothic Stone Bell House, is dedicated to Jakub Jansa’s Garden of Problems project, which for the first time …

Hana Garová at České Budějovice House of Art

Artist: Hana GarováCurator: Silvia L. ČúzyováTitle: GatekeeperVenue: Gallery of Contemporary Art and Architecture – České Budějovice House of ArtPhotos: Silvia L. Čúzyová The 2023 exhibition season at the České Budějovice House of Art concludes with Gatekeeper, an exhibition of works by painter Hana Garová, who presents several previously unexhibited large-format red paintings (“Ravens”) alongside a …

Maria Szakats at Galerie Chloe Salgado

Artist: Maria Szakats Title: Mon seul désir Photos: Grégory Copitet Venue: Galerie Chloé Salgado Daisy Dog Days I love you,a little, a lot, passionately, madly, not at allI love youa little, a lot, passionately, madly, not at allI love you, … Dressed in a white synthetic silk dress, Daisy makes her declaration against a backdrop …

How the first art fair in Romania is bringing the industry together?

RAD Art Fair is an overdue collaborative initiative that strengthens the core of the Romanian art scene, offers visibility to its artists and galleries, and builds a base for the growth of a healthy national art market over the next decade. Easttopics spoke RAD Art Fair co-directors Catinca Tăbăcaru, owner of Catinca Tăbăcaru Gallery, and …

Ioana Nemeș at Between Bridges

Artist: Ioana NemeșTitle: Times CollidingVenue: Between Bridges, Berlin, GermanyPhotos: all documentation photos by Dan Ipp / images courtesy of Between Bridges Foundation, Berlin and Kilobase Bucharest / Ioana Nemeș Archive Between Bridges is delighted to present an exhibition by Romanian conceptual artist Ioana Nemeș (1979–2011), to date the first solo show of the artist in a non-commercial art …

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Eva Fajčíková at The White Room

Artist: Eva Fajčíková Title: MOON HARVEST Venue: The White Room, Prague Curator: Miroslava Urbanová   The power and force of the Moon including its lunar phases have fascinated mankind for centuries. The Moon has become an integral part of symbolism in different cultures, selected archetypes and continuously reinterpreted stories. The magical power of the moonlight is perhaps …

Inside Job at 66P Subjective Institution of Culture

Artist: Inside Job (Ula Lucińska, Michał Kynchaus)Title:There Are Flowers That Are Born of MudCurator: Joanna Kobyłt (BWA Wrocław Gallery)Venue: 66P Subjective Institution of Culture, Księcia Witolda 66, Wrocław, PolandPhotography: Małgorzata Kujda The industrial ovens that baked bread for the army have long since cooled down1. Besides, no fire could burn in an environment almost devoid of …

Julija Zaharijević, Tamara Grčić at Eugster || Belgrade

Title: Structure Artists: Julija Zaharijević, Tamara Grčić Venue: Eugster || Belgrade Curator: Natalija Paunić Tamara Grčić, Julija Zaharijević and I met in Berlin a year ago. Neither of their practices are concerned with the supernatural, quite the contrary — they are both deeply interested in reality – yet, I deemed that encounter mystical, knowing that …

Magdalena Sadlowska at Spectra Art Space

Artist: Magdalena Sadlowska Title: Drive my car Venue:Starak Family Foundation, Spectra Art Space, Warsaw, Poland Curators: Ania Muszyńska, Kama Kieremkampt Our understanding of reality is the result of inheriting emotional and sentimental fragments from previous generations. Those close to us pass on their experiences, sentiments, and feelings, which influence our understanding of history. Cultural empathy …

Eliška Konečná at Polansky

Artist: Eliška Konečná Venue: Polansky Gallery, Prague Title: Thirst Curator: Caroline Krzyszton What is fascinating about Eliška Konečná’s work is that it detaches itself from any chronological linearity to gradually approach a certain timelessness, a form of universalism mirroring the history of art.This interpretation finds its roots in Eliška Konečná’s relation to symbolism and the …