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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
Artists: Zuza Golińska, Iza Tarasewicz Title: Them / One Venue: Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko Curator: Stanisław Małecki Photos: Błażej Pindor For several decades now, one of the main reasons for the escalating effects of climate change has been the failure of multinational corporations and national governments to take real action. For those at the top, …
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PRAGUE ART WEEK is an open platform for the cooperation of the most important institutions in the Prague art scene and an annual art festival with the aim of connecting galleries, museums, exhibition halls, as well as art collections and other art-oriented organizations. The vision of PRAGUE ART WEEK is to make Prague stand out …
Artists: Botond Keresztesi, Stach Szumski Title: Dungeon Keepers Venue: Piana Gallery, Krakow A joint Polish-Hungarian exhibition by two friendly artists will be their first show in Krakow. The space of the Piana gallery on Wrocławska Street will be transformed into a multi-threaded, narrative environment that will bring together important themes in the work of these …
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Artists: Katarzyna Depta-Garapich, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas Title: YOU ATE THREE HUNDRED DEVILS curator: Marta LisokVenue: galeria SKALA, Poznan Due to the great power attributed to it, the name of this species was shrouded in taboo. It was replaced by terms imitating the ferocious sound it made or words referring to its special status in beliefs. It …
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Exhibition Title: Clear like the shape of memoriesArtist: Attila BagiCurators: Peter BenczeVenue: ENA Viewing Space, BudapestDuration: 1 July – 4 August 2023Photo: Áron Weber Attila Bagi’s paintings and mural compositions are fragile, ethereal mosaics evoking the infinite transformation of perception into memory and experience. The fragments, eternally distorting and decomposing, suddenly surfacing or sinking, are …
Title: Summertime Sadness Artists: Joanna Bocheńska, Ten Cza, Kamila Maria Kamińska, Weronika Minias, Weronika Nowak, Michał Pańczyk, Katarzyna Sporn, Kacper Tomaszewski, Agata Włodarczyk Curator: Aleksandra Liput Venue: Solatorium Text: Aleksandra Liput, Ten Cza Holiday sorrows, gusts of passion, melancholy, broken hearts, sudden elation, long kisses. Summer goes by so fast. The days are getting shorter. …
Title: I may have bitten off more than I can chewArtists: Natalia Janula & Joanna WierzbickaCurator: Amelie MckeeVenue: Generation and Display Gallery, London “Mom says you become what you eat. Hence, I used to lick the meat off the fishbones of mackerel and reassemble them into the shape it was in. The immortal world that I believe with many alternatives. Ways of living, farmed to table, nursed for education, production for consumption, meal per person, collective living. Making sense, making asss sensing. ‘Think, dream and act according to what you eat and drink.’ Recognized by futuristic movement, cooking and eating became subservient to the aesthetic experience, fetishized and fantasized upon layers of reality, a camera obscurain a moving castle. Life moments await me to capture, to preserve, to ferment, for digestion. Good gut material. Good cut bacteria. Good Gut bacteria “text by Ada Hao I may have bitten off more than I can chew comes from an ongoing dialogue between artists Natalia Janula …
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