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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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What aspects of your cultural background do you draw the most inspiration from? I was born in Romania but grew up in Austria since I was very little, and for the past 17 years I have been living in France. All these cultural environments have had their impact on my development, but generally I feel …
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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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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 …
The 28th STRABAG Artaward International has just announced the winning artists. The award, which focuses on painting and drawing, is one of the country’s most highly endowed private art prizes. Initially limited to Austrian artists, it expanded in 2009 to include international participants. The prize consists of a main prize and four recognition awards, totalling …
The 28th STRABAG Artaward International has just announced the winning artists. The award, which focuses on painting and drawing, is one of the country’s most highly endowed private art prizes. Initially limited to Austrian artists, it expanded in 2009 to include international participants. The prize consists of a main prize and four recognition awards, totalling …
The 28th STRABAG Artaward International has just announced the winning artists. The award, which focuses on painting and drawing, is one of the country’s most highly endowed private art prizes. Initially limited to Austrian artists, it expanded in 2009 to include international participants. The prize consists of a main prize and four recognition awards, totalling …
The 28th STRABAG Artaward International has just announced the winning artists. The award, which focuses on painting and drawing, is one of the country’s most highly endowed private art prizes. Initially limited to Austrian artists, it expanded in 2009 to include international participants. The prize consists of a main prize and four recognition awards, totalling …
The 28th STRABAG Artaward International has just announced the winning artists. The award, which focuses on painting and drawing, is one of the country’s most highly endowed private art prizes. Initially limited to Austrian artists, it expanded in 2009 to include international participants. The prize consists of a main prize and four recognition awards, totalling …
Viktoria Draganova is a curator and writer living between Frankfurt am Main and Sofia. In 2014, she founded Swimming Pool, a non-profit project space in Sofia focused on artistic and curatorial research, collaborative approaches, art education and art community politics. Her personal research relates to present and future of micro organizations and institutional inventiveness. Since …
What you are doing right now? Currently I’m curating Rudi Ninov’s exhibition ‘Voice Lines’ for his solo booth at the Art Brussels fair. We’re creating an artist catalogue which will represent his works and visions. This works evoke a variety of associations that can be related to written language, symbols, heard sounds or simple musical …
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 …
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 …