Adelina Luft sees the first-ever Moldova Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale not simply as a national debut, but as a political and emotional act of resistance. In conversation with us, the curator reflects on Pavel Brăila’s On the Thousand and Second Night—an installation staged inside Venice’s Santa Veneranda chapel that confronts war, territorial violence, …
Read moreInterview with Adelina Luft, curator of the Moldova Pavilion
Dubravka Lošić’s presentation at the Venice Biennale is more than just another national pavilion—it is a concentrated reflection on how beauty, trauma, and cultural position intersect. Her installation Compelled by Fright and Beauty reveals the tensions beneath the Mediterranean idyll, while the curatorial perspective probes how Central and Eastern European experience is read within the …
Read moreAn Interview with Branko Franceschi, curator of the Croatian Pavilion
Artist: Marko TadićTitle: Funga RoboVenue: TROTOAR, ZagrebCurator: Martina Marić Rodrigues Exhibition text: Ana Devićphotos: Damir Žižić With his Funga Robo exhibition, Marko Tadić presents a cross-section of his recent works, in which he examines speculative visions of the city of the future from the perspective of artistic ecologies. The title, Funga Robo, refers to mushroom (fungal) …
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 …
Read moreAn Interview with Louise O’Kelly, curator of the Lithuanian Pavilion
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: Gala Alica Title: The Cabinet Curator: Tevž Logar Venue: UGM Kabinet, Kabinet Gala Alica’s artistic practice is rooted in precise, almost archaeological observation of the built environment. Through this approach, she examines how individuals navigate the shifting boundaries between private and public space, and how these boundaries shape experiences of belonging, safety, and identity. …
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: Šárka Koudelová Title: Sol Curator: Piotr Sikora Venue: Museum of Arts and Design Benešov, Czech Republic Photos: Silvie Heřmanská Time reflects itself in art with indifference. It slips through it like sand in an hourglass, leaving behind traces—more or less visible—that reveal the secret of its passage: relativity.Water represents a different measure of time: …
Artist: Radovan Čerevka Title: Heroes’ Prop Room Curator: Peter Megyeši Venue: Bratislava City Gallery The exhibition Heroes’ Prop Room presents the results of a long-term artistic research project focused on former and current military sites in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Through a complex multimedia installation composed of videos, objects, and paintings, Radovan Čerevka reflects …
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: 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 …
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 …
Artist: Anna Hulačová Title: Bucolica Curator: Thomas Häusle Venue: Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn Photos: Günter Richard Wett The exhibition “Bucolica” by Anna Hulačová (born 1984, Sušice, Czech Republic) at Kunstraum Dornbirn opens up a world that seems technologically futuristic and yet is steeped in ancient narrative tradition, mythological symbolism, and references to the history of images, …