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Artists: Zhanna Kadyrova and Jiří Kovanda Title: (Almost) Involuntary Sculptures Venue: ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava Curator: Elena Sorokina Photo: Leontína Berková This exhibition creates a space for an encounter between Jiří Kovanda and Zhanna Kadyrova, and a possibility for the two artists to exchange about fragility in sculpture. Coming from different contexts and different …

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Artist: Mark Fridvalszki Title: Future Perfect Venue: ICA-D Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary Curator: Barnabás Zemlényi-Kovács Text: Barnabás Zemlényi-Kovács “As I moved among these secret ruins, I found myself wondering what the inhabitants of that lost future would think of the world I lived in.”(Wiliam Gibson: The Gernsback Continuum, 1981) Future Perfect is a comprehensive …

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Artist: Vuk Ćuk Title: We have L.A. at home Venue: Eugster || Belgrade Photo: Ivan Zupanc             We have L.A. at home Everyone’s first thought of Los Angeles must be that of sunlit boulevards laced with palm trees. However, the trees did not originate in Los Angeles. Even though the weather conditions allowed for it to …

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Artists: Dustin Breitling, Alexandre Monnin, Reza Negarestani, Jozef Mrva Title: Diffractions Collective: Gaming the Aftermath Produced by: Diffractions Collective (Dustin Breitling, Vít Bohal) Venue: Pečnianska 7, Bratislava, Slovakia Curators: Diffractions Collective/APART Collective Text: Dustin Breitling  Surveying a planet fraught with climatic, biodiversity, governance and social crises, this lecture series aims to understand how ‘gaming’ as the supreme …

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Artist: Zuza Golińska Title: Red Giant Venue: Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław Curator: Joanna Kobyłt Photo: Małgorzata Kujda A red giant is a star in the last stage of stellar evolution, when it increases its radius and changes its colour to red hues. It has luminosity up to three thousand times that of other stars. In …

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Artist: Andrea Éva Győri Title: Space for dancing where no one sees it Venue: acb Gallery, Budapest Photo: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and acb Gallery, Budapest acb presents the first solo exhibition of Andrea Éva Győri with the Gallery. Andrea Éva Győri (1985) graduated in painting at the Hungarian University of …

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Artist: Radek Brousil Title: There was a choir, there  Venue: Glassyard Gallery, Budapest “I dont know if anything at all will be alright.” The main hero of Radek Brousil’s film is in a mental dialogue with a female hyperobject, discussing ’the end’, shame, guilt and the possibility of doing anything while wandering through the city and …

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Artist: Piotr Skiba Title: Murmur over the body lobe Venue: Spazio ORR, Brescia, Italy The rain has stopped. The waterfall will roar like that all night. I have come out to take a walk and feed. My body–foot,that is–is wet and cold and covered with sharp gravel. It iswhite, the size of a dinner plate. I …

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Artist: Ieva Kraule-Kūna & Elīna Vītola Title: Artist Crisis Center II: Tact Gear Venue: P/////AKT Curator: P/////AKT and 427 Gallery Photo: Charlott Markus You can see Artist Crisis Center I here. The Space Conductors Are Among Us – Part 5 Under the title ‘Tact Gear’ you will find a portable version of ‘Artist Crisis Center’ …

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Artist: Klára Hosnedlová Title: Nest Venue: Kraupa–Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin Nest is the first solo exhibition in Germany by artist Klára Hosnedlová. The exhibition follows the artist’s extensive research on the historical site of Ještěd Tower in the Czech Republic, iconic architecture and model project from the 1970s built to combine high-end technology and leisure for …

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Artists: Pakui Hardware Title:  Absent Touch Venue:  carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany Photo:  all images courtesy of the artists and carlier | gebauer, Berlin carlier | gebauer is pleased to announce Absent Touch, the first solo exhibition with the gallery by artist duo Pakui Hardware. When Neringa Černiauskaitéė and Ugnius Gelguda founded Pakui Hardware in 2014, the …

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Artist: Maria Loboda Title: Her Dark Materials Venue: Wschód, Warsaw, Poland Photo: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Wschód, Warsaw Maria Loboda composes installations and sculptures to investigate cultural codes, represented by pictorial signs and the grammar of various materials. Throughout her work, Loboda engages with the historical narratives attributed to certain objects and juxtaposes …

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Artist: Kryštof Kaplan  Title: Corporeality Venue: Pragovka Gallery – The White Room, Prague Curator: Iva Mladičová Photo: Marcel Rozhoň KRYŠTOF KAPLAN’s sculptural signature is characteristic for its generally broad form and plasticity realized by basic physical laws, often combined with mechanic construction. His installations are, in a certain way, often scenically dramatic. We usually observe a …

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