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Julia Gryboś and Barbora Zentková at Ján Koniarek Gallery

Title: Lethargy Blanket Artist: Julia Gryboś and Barbora Zentková Venue: Ján Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, Koppl Villa, Slovakia Curator: Lýdia Pribišová Sound performance: Jan Tomáš & Michal Ondrička Photography: isonative The artistic practice of the duo Julia Gryboś and Barbora Zentková has been evolving within the framework of sustainability, anchoring within exploring various material …

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Artists: Lorena Cocioni, Stol Collective (Ioana Mincu & Mara Verhoogt), Florina Coulin, Adrian Ganea, Nadja Kracunovic, Cătălina Milea, Claudia Moraru Curator: Daniela Custrin Venue: Zina Gallery, Cluj-Napoca Photos: YAP Studio / Mădălin Mărgăritescu The portrait, usually commissioned, was one of the most popular expressions in the art world — a claim to identity and a …

Group show at Gallery Berlinskej

Artists: Szilvia Bolla, Christophe Gilland, Zu Kalinowska , Emir Šehanović, Veronika Švecová Title: Double Cast Curators: Agáta Hošnová & Karolína Voleská Text: Agáta Hošnová & Karolína Voleská Venue: Gallery Berlinskej Model Photo: Tomáš Souček Imagine a mirror that is neither flat nor convex—reflecting not just what’s in the space in front of it, but marking …

Macedonian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: An Interview with Curator Ana Frangovska

Pavilion of North Macedonia Describe your studio/work practice. My curatorial practice is based on a direct communication with the artists, almost always from the very essence of formulation of the idea, through discussions, sharing context understanding, explaining different aspects and multilayered approaches on a particular topic, constant following of the production process, or collective selection …

Aleksandra Liput, Maciej Nowacki at Łęctwo gallery

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 …

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Kosovo Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: An Interview with Curator Erëmirë Krasniqi

Describe your studio/work practice. My curatorial practice is research-based. Accordingly, I don’t always work with artists when producing exhibitions. For a long time, I have been building archives and then activating them through exhibition-making, amongst other modes of presentation. In doing so, I seek to create space for subjects that have previously been overlooked. Generally …

Olbram Pavlíček at GMU

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 …

Montenegro Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: An Interview with Curator Ana Simona

Describe your studio/work practice. My practice was for several years parallelly doing solo projects and working in a contemporary art gallery – Novembar Gallery in Belgrade where I worked as a curator and art director. In solo projects, I work mostly with artists whose practice I have followed for years, and with whom I have …

Greek Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: An Interview with Curator Panos Giannikopoulos

Describe your studio/work practice. I am a curator and researcher based in Athens. My curatorial practice revolves around thematic cycles, each delving into diverse yet interconnected areas of inquiry. At the core of my exploration lies a fascination with the notion of the archive. This involves examining how archives shape our understanding of history, memory, …

Edith Karlson. Photo: Alana Proosa / Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art

Estonian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: An Interview with Artist Edith Karlson

Describe your studio/work practice. I’ve created a system for myself, where I need to be in the studio as much as possible. Physical contact with material is important to me. I need to experiment with material, to touch and play around with it. Sometimes it’s almost like a fight, where mostly I’m the loser. Not …

Tina Hrevušová at Pragovka Gallery

Artist: Tina HrevušováTitle: Unexpected ExistenceVenue: Pragovka Gallery Curator: Tea Záchová Dystopia or the near future? What if we woke up the next day from uneasy dreams and found ourselves transformed in our bed into an exotic insect which you could not yet control or define through other body functions. But you would see many changes …

Marta Czyż & Оpen Group (Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, Anton Varga), Warszawa, Poland 2024, Photo by Piotr Czyż.

Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: An Interview with Curator Marta Czyż

Describe your studio/work practice. My practice draws on archives and recent developments in art history to influence culture and social movements. I research the history of exhibitions in Poland and the profession of curator. In 2015 I published a book, together with Julia Wielgus “In the frame of the exhibition – interviews with curators” where …

Group show at Trotoar Gallery

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 …

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 …

Maja Babič Košir at Ravnikar Gallery

Artist: Maja Babič KoširTitle: Ciao AmoreVenue: Ravnikar Gallery, LjubljanaText and Curator: Michal Stolárik, Piera RavnikarSound and Photo: Śresta Das Ananda, Diana TamanePhotos: Mario Zupanov A deeply-rooted essential aspect of the human experience, a multi-layered emotion that is hard to define. An inexhaustible source of the philosophic, artistic and scientific examination. Attraction to people, animals or objects, …