Galerie Derouillon, Paris A proposition from Hugo VitraniInterview by Antwan Horfee A.H.: City – age – origin please? B.K.: I’m living and working in Budapest for 10 years now. I was born in Romania in a Hungarian majority, when I was 3 years old the whole family moved to Hungary. I raised up in a …
Curated by Nikola Nováková Kvalitar Gallery On view until 9th August, 2019 As you dreamt, you found yourself in a house with long translucent curtains, white walls and a ceiling that stretched very high. And everything that happened within those white walls was cyclical — it restarted after a certain amount of time. You fell …
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ŠÁRKA KOUDELOVÁ: OUR BODIES SO SOFT, OUR LIVES SO EPICCurated by Laura AmannJune 5 – August 17, 2019Fait Gallery, Brno In 2011, on average, one piece of Pandora jewellery was sold every second. At this point Pandora had already become the world’s third largest jewellery company, after Cartier and Tiffany & Co. Mainly thanks to …
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Interconnection: On Bodies of WaterSwimming PoolOn view: until 4th August Artists: Catherine Biocca, Valko Chobanov, Nona Inescu, Maria Nalbantova, Jakub Nepraš, Petr Nikl, Tabita Rezaire, Karolína Rossí, Pavel Sterec and Johana Střížková Curators: Veronika Čechová and Tereza JindrovaPhoto: Tomáš Souček The exhibition focuses on the motif of water as a condition for life, on circulation …
On view until: 01.06.2019. Photos: APART collective, Dávid Bíró “APART collective made a visit to the region of upper Nitra to film a short movie concerning coal mining and its impact on the living environment. It is our contribution, on how we try to approach ever so more growing threat of the climate change, …
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The In-Between State of Mind International Video Art Exhibition Curator: Yunnia Yang (TWN) Photos: Viktória Balogh Artists: Miloš Tomić (SRB) / Katrina Neiburga (LV) / AES+F (RUS) / Goran Radovanović (SRB) / Šejla Kamerić (BiH) / Nika Oblak & Primož Novak (SLO) / Vlad Buzaianu (RO) / Anastasija Piroženko (LT) / Boris Kozlov (SRB) …
What has become of the so-called West after the Cold War? After the tripartite division of the world into first, second, and third has been superseded? Why hasn’t the West simply become “former,” like its supposed counterpart, the “former East”? To propose a “former West” puts a conceptual challenge to artists, thinkers, and activists to …
The Art Biennial is an international event which has been taking place in Pancevo, continuously since 1981. In the absence of economic and institutional support, particularly in the Balkan Region, artists are often compelled to immigrate to countries of more developed culture, in order to enhance their chances of survival and success on the ultracompetitive …
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by Simon Hewitt How is East European art developing from a Western European point of view? Where do Western collectors look when they hunt in East? What is the next ‘big thing’ for Western collectors to look for in Eastern Europe? Which countries can become a market focus – and why? Those were the questions fired …
via Echo gone wrong The Harmony of Chaos is curated by Elīna Sproģe and it will be on view at Alma Gallery until 5th of August 2016. Artists: Camille Henrot (FR/USA), Daiga Grantiņa (LV/FR), Māra Brīvere (LV) The conceptual basis for the exhibition is shaped by a look back at the origins of the world. …
By Nicoleta Papp Aurora Király’s show at Calina Gallery describes a society that is in a continuous conflict, in which themes like “history, hope, trauma, memory, human relationships, the thoughts of a child, garden, the last snow” are strongly related to the language. The art show “Reality Check” takes from the immediate reality three situations that …
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The Baltic Triennial was established in 1979 as a periodic exhibition of young Lithuanian and later Baltic artists expressing non-conformist spirit. With its twelve consecutive stagings, it has grown to become one of the major contemporary festival exhibitions in Northern Europe. Mainly showing emerging art the Baltic Triennial now offers a wide range of activities …
By Georgiana Cojocaru Via Revista-ARTA Background (from left to right): Esra Oezen, Nachts versteck‘ ich mich im Moskitonetz [At night I hide in the mosquito net], photographs; Michele Bressan, photo archive, object, video (che cosa sono le nuvole, super 8, 1’33’’, 2010). Photo credits MNAC (photo by Larisa Sitar) The second chapter of the exhibition …
Q&A with exhibition’s curator Kati Ilves via Arterritory.com Kumu, 5th floor, the Gallery of Contemporary Art April 8 – August 28, 2016 Being the largest art museum in the Baltics, and one of the largest in Northern Europe, the KUMU Art Museum is seen as the region’s most notable buyer of contemporary art, as well …
Read moreKumu Hits. Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Art Museum of Estonia
The international contemporary art exhibition Lost in the Archive, organised by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in partnership with the Association of Culture Institutions of Riga Municipality, will be open from the 5th February at the exhibition hall Riga Art Space. The exhibition explores the archive of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA), …