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Nika Kupyrova and Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair at Ravnikar

Artists: Nika Kupyrova and Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair Title: Otherwordly Venue: Ravnikar Gallery Space, Ljubljana Text: Domen Ograjenšek Photo: Jaka Babnik What sort of visual language should emerge when the eye is no longer in touch with the conditions of its contemporaneity — when the material surfaces of our everyday life appear too fast, increasingly eclectic, autonomous …

Eglė Kulbokaitė and Dorota Gawęda at Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg

Artists: Eglė Kulbokaitė and Dorota GawędaTitle: MouthlessVenue: Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fribourg, SwitzerlandFebruary 1 – March 29, 2020Photo: Guillaume Baeriswyl / all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg For their first monographic exhibition in a Swiss institution, Eglė Kulbokaitė and Dorota Gawęda transform Fri Art into a place of reception sensitive to the most contemporary fears. The environment created …

Oskar Felber at Berlinskej Model

Artist: Oskar Felber Title: Ancient Skinwalker Curator: Nikolas Bernáth Venue: Berlinskej Model, Prague I was here before your very ancestorsI’ll be here after your very speciesMy mongrel soul darker tThen Timothy Morton’s chocolateCrawling in my skinThese wounds they will not healStill, I, will surviveIn a very single cell of an ArchaeaOrder my old friendWake me …

Petra Feriancová at Significant Other

Artist: Petra Feriancová Title: Lebenswelt Venue: Significant Other, Vienna Photo credits: kunst-dokumentation.com 13.12.2019 – 15.02.2020 Anyone unfamiliar with the biology of the venomous Portuguese man-of-war would likely mistake it for a jellyfish. Not only is it not a jellyfish, it’s not even an “it,” but a “they.” The Portuguese man-of-war is a siphonophore, an animal …

Jakub Glinski at Town Culture Centre, Gorzów Wielkopolski

Artist: Jakub Glinski Title: Taken and martyred by strangers Venue: Town Culture Centre, Gorzów Wielkopolski As long as I live I will stay, ok?I do hope, I will stay for long.Later dilute me and pour me into the ground. Town Culture Centre in Gorzów Wielkopolski presents a new cycle of paintings by Jakub Gliński, known …

Group show at Haus N Athen

Artists: Dimitris Dokatzis, Kyle Dunn, Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Eva Papamargariti, Theodoulos Polyviou & Kiss the Architect, Spyros Rennt, Korallia Stergides, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki, Leontios Toumpouris and Marina Xenofontos Title: It moves and it shouts Curator: Panos Giannikopoulos Venue: Haus N Athen, Athens 5.12.19 — 5.1.20 It moves and it shouts. In my head. Shhhhhhhhh, writes queer French …

Ieva Kraula-Kúna at Creative Studio of the ARSENĀLS

Artist: Ieva Kraula-Kúna Title: HOT BABAS Venue: Creative Studio of the ARSENĀLS, Riga 13.12.19 — 23.2.20 Three old babas, old ugly babas. One fat as bulging porridge – bulging porridge that children reluctantly eat at the breakfast. Dumpy bumpy – so large that birches part, so large that birds leave in autumn as there is …

Milica Mijajlović at City Surfer Office

Artist: Milica Mijajlović Title: You Smell of Sleep and Tears Venue: City Surfer Office, Prague You smell of sleep and tearsIt blooms but it stabsWith its sharp peaks and edgesit scratches, and slits and shearsand unexpectedly caresses.It pulls you apart,and tears your flesh,It slashes and slits and cuts,and ties your wounds with orchids.You lie there …

Group show at Futura

Artists: O.B.De Alessi, Michael Salerno, Thomas Moore, Dennis Cooper, Laura Gozlan, Radek Brousil a Darja Bajagić Title: When the Time Swirls, When it Turns into a Black Hole Curator: Maija Rudovska Venue: FUTURA, Prague 3/12/2019 – 16/2/2020 The walls are pulsingHaunting desires of strangersBodies start to merge The itching, uncomfortable, alien feeling in your body, when …

Lucia Tallová at Peter Michal Bohun Gallery

Artist: Lucia Tallová Title: Islands Curator: Lucia Miklošková Venue: The Peter Michal Bohúň Gallery, Liptov November 27, 2019 – February 1, 2020 The exhibition represents the artworks of Lucia Tallova assembled into a whole of a space installation. The boundaries between the artefacts do not matter, because one artwork finishes the other and together, they …

Ilona Németh and Lucia Tkáčová at SODA Gallery

Artists: Ilona Németh and Lucia Tkáčová Title: Time Solidifies Elsewhere Venue: SODA Gallery, Bratislava December 10, 2019 – January 31., 2020 Ilona Németh and Lucia Tkáčová chose to work with objects which, despite not being artworks, inhabited the exhibition spaces, ambiguous in their placement and purpose. These objects, perceived as materialised deposits of time, embody …

Habima Fuchs at SVIT

Artist: Habima Fuchs Exhibition title: The Great Ocean Continuously Creating Venue: SVIT, Prague, The Czech Republic Date: November 13, 2019 – January 18, 2020 Photography: Tomas Soucek / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and SVIT, Prague Nature can be graceful, beautiful, or violently sublime, yet it seems that only at the cost of self–denial does she allow …

David Možný at JOEY RAMONE

Artist: David Možný Exhibition title: Together We Stay * Divided We Fall Organized by: JOEY RAMONE and NEVAN CONTEMPO Venue: JOEY RAMONE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Date: November 16, 2019 – January 11, 2020 Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and JOEY RAMONE, Rotterdam David Možný’s art work is characterized by his long-term thinking about the impact of the …

Lukas Hofmann at Art in General

Artist: Lukas Hofmann Title: Skin Come Leather Venue: Art in General, New York Curator: Karina Kottova November 24, 2019–January 31, 2020 Water of Death Ingredients:Alcohol denat, Aqua, Achillea millefolium, Cupressus sempervirens, Boswellia carterii, Citrus aurantium. Water of Life Ingredients:Sphagnum, Aqua, Alcohol denat, Nardostachys jatamansi, Aquilaria malaccensis, Matricaria chamomilla, Acacia dealbata,Tilia cordata, Resina myrrhae, Myrtus communis, …

“EAST CALLED AND WE ANSWERED” – EastCall

Two weeks of professional opportunities to understand the complexity of the contemporary art scene in Hungary, examined in the broader context of the CEE region as well; organized by Easttopics (Budapest), the East Call residency program creates an exciting framework for gaining new insights into the region. We asked curators participating in the 2019 edition …