Artist: Vlatka Horvat Title: Echo Location Venue: Swimming Pool, Sofia Photos: Rosina Pencheva Echo Location is part of third edition of the Nine Elephants festival, titled “Everything We Do”. The theme connects the city to our actions—from everyday activities and micro-gestures, through the city as a place of work and learning, to the better things …
Artist: Magdalena Lazar Title: What Happens on Earth Stays on Earth Curator: Eva Slabá Venue: bliss Gallery, Warszaw In 2015, it was proposed that the Anthropocene (the current era in which human activity has become the dominant force on Earth) be referred to by an alternative term – the Carbocene. (1) This term emphasizes the …
Artists: Lucia Sceranková & Tatiana Takáčová Title: Common Reservoir Curator: Petra Housková Venue: Šopa Gallery, Košice Photos: Tibor Czitó The exhibition Common Reservoir brings together two artists whose work considers water, landscape, and the body as mutually interconnected systems. The title names a shared space of thoughts, images, and experiences that emerges in the dialogue …
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Artists: Agate Tūna, Emilija Povilanskaitė, Gedvilė Tamošiūnaitė, Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė, Inside Job (Ula Lucińska and Michał Knychaus,), Mónika Üveges Title: Ethereal Robes of Vulnerability Curator: Eglė Ambrasaitė Venue: Aikas Žado Laboratory, Žeimiai Manor House, Žeimiai, Lithuania Photos: Lukas Mykolaitis “Ethereal Robes of Vulnerability” is a group exhibition that engages the shifting ontology of the image …
Artist: Rafał Zajko Title: Organ Venue: Coulisse Gallery, Stockholm Photos: Coulisse Gallery If I open my iPhone and flick to social media, I can immediately see torsos, sometimes without heads – all different people, none of whom I could necessarily identify in the meat space. Some are lithe and lean; others are firm and processed, …
Artists: Artists: AntiGonna, Noor Abed, Szymon Adamczak, Željka Aleksić, Gleb Amankulov, David Apakidze, Yana Bachynska / Jan Bačynsjkyj, Jürgen Baldiga, Leila Basma & Zaher Jureidini, Rufina Bazlova / Stitch It Collective, Tina Bxtq, Michal Durda / Izbova teplota, Jan Durina, Fůd, Hana Garová, Ladislava Gažiová, Davyd Chychkan, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Adrián Kriška, kroužek intersekce, Nadia …
Artists: Ștefan Bertalan, Cezary Bodzianowski, András Cséfalvay, Nosrat Karimi, Seba Kayan, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Běla Kolářová, Isadora Neves Marques, Margaret Raspé, Alex Sihelsk*, Fedir Tetyanych, Liliana Zeic Title: Curator: František Fekete, Jakub Gawkowski, Jaroslava Tomanová Venue: Necessary wishes Photos: Jonáš Verešpej “Now in its fourth year, the Biennale Matter of Art is cementing its position …
Artists: Stella Koleszár and Eszter Metzing Title: I SURFACED FROM A DEEP, SWAMPY SLEEP Curator: Júlia Salamon Venue: Vajda Lajos Studio, Szentendre Photos: Balázs Deim Sound installation: Rozi Mákó In their exhibition at the basement gallery of the Vajda Lajos Studio in Szentendre (Hungary), lutum (Stella Koleszár and Eszter Metzing) continue their ongoing artistic research …
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Jelena Sofronijevic reflects on their experience of the framework of the eight Unschool of Curating, held in Timișoara and Cluj, Romania, between 19 – 26 June, 2026, led by Antonia Alampi (Spore Initiative) and organised by Art Encounters Foundation and Cluj Cultural Centre. καὶ τί δὲν κάνατε γιὰ νὰ μὲ θάψετε / ὅμως ξεχάσατε πὼς …
Read moreRepair as Practice: Notes from the Unschool of Curating
Title: Creak, Crash and Crow Artist: Samuel Kłoda Venue: UFO Art Gallery Curator: Michalina Sablik A bird hanging on a wire. A skull concealed within a still-life composition. Flies circling over a rotting bouquet. Spilled candles, masks, ashtrays, clocks, and flowers decomposing in a vase. Sticky traps for the gaze: individual symbols that begin to …
This interview took place within the framework of the Unschool of Curating, held in Timișoara and Cluj, Romania, between 19 – 26 June, 2026, organized by Art Encounters Foundation and Cluj Cultural Center. This program, now in its 8th edition, is developed collaboratively by the two organizations to strengthen curatorial networks in Romania and internationally. …
An interview with Luca Cserhalmi, curator of the Hungarian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, on Pneuma Cosmic, slowness as resistance, the crisis of scientific worldviews, and the possibility of building intuitive relationships with the world through art. If you had to distill your pavilion into a single idea, what would it be—and what does …
Read moreAn interview with Luca Cserhalmi, curator of the Hungarian Pavilion
At the 61st Venice Biennale, the Polish Pavilion’s Liquid Tongues explores alternative forms of communication, collective listening, and coexistence across human and more-than-human worlds. In conversation with curators Ewa Chomicka and Jolanta Woszczenko, we discussed Deaf culture, underwater communication, geopolitical realities, and the political potential of attentiveness itself. Moving between activism and poetic immersion, the …
Read moreInterview with Ewa Chomicka and Jolanta Woszczenko, curators of the Polish Pavilion
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
The Easttopics team spoke with Natalia Sielewicz, curator of the Estonian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, featuring artist Merike Estna. The interview touches on the politics of waiting as an artistic form, the relationship between care and painting, the contradictions of Eastern European identity, and what it means to make art amid ongoing geopolitical and …
Read moreAn Interview with Natalia Sielewicz, curator of the Estonian Pavilion