Category: interview
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Curator’s Table w Lenka Bakes
What comes to your mind in connection with contemporary art when you hear the word “budget”? The word “budget” contains all of this; there has always been and always will be a shortage of financial budgets. I don’t question that it’s just how it is. But what bothers me in the current context is the…
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Interview with DENIGOVA (Denisa Štefanigová)
Tell us a bit about your artistic background. What influenced you to be creative and become a serious artist? In my very classic childhood I have attended creative courses and it has always symbolized a safe space where it is possible to forget or alleviate all the difficulties I experienced. I would say that my…
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Mine is yours – Interview with Richard Bakes
Interview with Richard Bakes, one of the owners of Berlinskej Model, Prague and managing director of SUMO. This autumn, Prague contemporary art galleries will be hosting exhibitions in cooperation with partner institutions from abroad. The SUMO international gallery show will open on the first weekend of September with a series of openings and related programs.…
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Interview with Y? project
Yugo was the studio – an interview with the members of Y? project, Toni Poljanec, Danilo Milovanović, Neža Knez, Luka Erdani. Y? is a project based on the artistic research of a historical connection between the USA and former Yugoslavia. The main protagonist of this project is the Yugo, also marketed as the Zastava Koral…
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Interview with Lőrinc Borsos artist duo
You’ve been working as an artist duo since 2008. I’ve always wondered: what it’s like to work as a duo. What are the advantages or the disadvantages that you’ve been experiencing over the past 12 years? Being together 24/7. I think this is an answer to both the advantages and disadvantages. You merge into one…
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Interview with Barbora Půlpánová, founder of EDUART EXPERIENCE
You are the founder of the EDUART EXPERIENCE – a platform that helps new collectors navigate their way around the art world. How did you come up with this idea? Since relocating from London back to the Czech Republic in March of last year, it became clear from very early on that my peers were…
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eastcontemporary by Agnieszka Fąferek and Julia Korzycka
Easttopics: How did it all start? When did you decide to open a space dedicated to Eastern European contemporary art in Milan and what was the initial spark of this story? Agnieszka Fąferek: It’s been a long story. We’re both Polish based in Milan, where we’ve been working within the arts sector since many years. Here,…
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AIR DIOR x EJTECH
Artists: EJTECH (Esteban de la Torre and Judit Eszter Kárpáti) Interview from artmagazin online. Written by Róza Tekla Szilágyi. EJTECH (Esteban de la Torre and Judit Eszter Kárpáti) is a polydisciplinary studio working with unstable media, experimental interfaces, electronic textile, and augmented materials. Recently they had a quite grand-scale collaboration with Dior so we interviewed…
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“I see many futures and no future at all at the same time” – Interview with Milica Mijajlovič
Dear Milica, you were living and working in Prague when the pandemic broke out and you had to return to Montenegro in your family. How are you doing now? Hello Easttopics, I am always happy to return back to you after our little cooperation last summer. Yes, when the pandemic broke out I was in…
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But, Am I? – Interview with Honza Zamojski
Meeting Honza Zamojski, one of the most innovative artists of the younger generation in Poland, and whose works are characterized by bold visuals that act as sharply indulgent and sarcastic comments of contemporary culture, we talked about this and that. Honza Zamojski was born in 1981, lives and works in Poznan. Active as artist, designer,…
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Interview with Marinko Sudac
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…
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Why We Build a Research Hub on Ukrainian Contemporary Art
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…