Artist: Szilvia Bolla Title: Running Up That Hill Curator: Barnabás Zemlényi-Kovács Venue: Glassyard Gallery, Budapest Photos: Áron Lődi The art of Szilvia Bolla, which has started with abstract anti-photographs reacting against the depressive overconsumption of pictures, now arrived at a post-photographic praxis that tackles the subject of depression itself. As depression is both individual and …
Artist: Hanele Zane Putniņa Title: Linolejija Venue: 427, Riga Photos: Līga Spunde Originally formed from seismic chisel movements and colour eruptions. Eventually, it became inhabited by linoshavings, which evolved from chisel-cut beings. It is a place where the chisel doesn’t know how to stop, like the atmosphere enveloping the surface of a linoshavingsland, at times …
Artist: Emir ŠehanovićTitle: THERE WILL BE BLISSVenue: TROTOAR, ZagrebText: Ivan Šuković „Why aren’t revolutions started by the most humane people? Because humane people don’t start revolutions, they start libraries… and cemeteries”.Jean-Luc Godard, Notre Musique There is a world of tangible objects. But there is also another reality, one that exists within us. It is shaped …
Artist: Bence Magyarlaki Title: AT SATURN’S CUSP Venue: Paris-B, Paris Text: Salomé Burstein Photos: Theo Baulig …To be utopia, it is enough that I be a body (Michel Foucault, 1966) The body and architecture are central to Bence Magyarlaki’s practice. Their works encapsulate the tensions within movement, questioning the patriarchal values reflected in our societal …
Artists: Aleksandra Liput, Maciej Nowacki Title: You have to be in hell to see heaven Curator: Eleonora Bojanowska Venue: Łęctwo gallery Photos: Szymon Sokołowski “One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of …
Artist: András Király Title: Finestra Venue: Viltin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary Photos: Réka Hegyháti / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Viltin Gallery, Budapest ’Now, leaving other things aside, I’ll tell you how I do it when I paint. First of all, where I am to paint, I draw a rectangle of any size I …
Artist: Olbram Pavlíček Title: KORPSEPUNX: Stress Prosthetics Curator: Jiří Sirůček In dialogue with Mikuláš Medek Venue: GMU, Hradec Králové Photos: GMU, Olbram Pavlíček Olbram Pavlíček’s exhibition KORPSEPUNX: Stress Prosthetics at the White Cube of Hradec Králové’s Gallery of Modern Art presents the artist’s latest sculptures, prints, and drawings in which he subversively imitates the design …
Artist: Danai Anesiadou:Title: D POSSESSIONSCurator: Ioli Tzanetaki Venue: EΜΣΤ, Athen Photos: we document art, Paris Tavitian, Lynn Vanden Bossche Danai Anesiadou’s exhibition at EΜΣΤ entitled D POSSESSIONS invites visitors into an allegorical scenography consisting of sculptures, collages, and her own furniture, among others, referencing the rise of political, social and spiritual crises. In an attempt …
Artist: Áron Lődi Curator: Barnabás Zemlényi-Kovács Title: Metallurgia Venue: 1111, Budapest Just like smelting iron ore, the recently crisis-ridden iconic steel plant Dunai Vasmű – during its exactly seventy-year operation – could also smelt into itself the peculiar economic and political history of Hungary, from socialist industrialization through Post-Fordism to the recent reindustrialisation program, from …
Artists: Selma Selman, Jasmina Cibic, Šejla KamerićTitle: Her Barbaric LuxuryCurator: Martina Marić RodriguesVenue: Trotoar Gallery, Zagreb If you think you can grasp me, think againmy story flows in more than one directiona delta springing from the riverbedwith its five fingers spread– Adrienne Rich Text by Martina Marić Rodrigues: When Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Le Sacre du …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Artist: Janos BrucknerTitle: Hungarian People’s ActivitiesVenue: Longtermhandstand, BudapestCurator: Peter Bencze „I have tried to trace the useful and healthy spiritual process that ignores reality and turns obvious into victory, so that we can go on living. ”István Örkény: All my drama is both a continuation and a denial of the previous… In: Bátki Mihály, Film …
Title: Doctor OuchItHurts opens a hospital that cures any sickness from any animal Artist: Dan Beudean Venue: Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca Photos: YAP Studio / Mădălin Mărgăritescu I think he thought, and we thought, that he had beaten the addiction, but he hadn’t, and I think that’s the nature of the addiction. It came back, and …