Artist: Laura Põld Title: Translating and Co-labouring Venue: (AV17)GALLERY, Vilnius Photos: Evgenia Levin Laura Põld works in the fields of interdisciplinary crafts and sculpture-based practice. The artist’s work continuously explores the environmental history, fundamental human and more-than-human skills and needs, including community, safety and shelter. A great emphasis in Põld’s work falls on her choice …
Artists: Argišt Alaverdyan, Jozef Mrva Venue: stone projects, Prague Text: Peter Sit Title: Spambot Fiction Spambot Fiction is the second co-exhibition of Argišt Alaverdyan and Jozef Mrva. The materially different approaches connect common themes, which the authors approach differently. Alaverdyan’s paintings, whose figures emerge from the unconscious in a collage of the reality of life …
Artist: Evelīna Deičmane Title: Tanzorgan Curator: Zane Onckule Venue: kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia Photography: Ansis Starks / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga At the heart of Evelīna Deičmane’s third solo show at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre lies a deeply personal/sensitive concern – which nevertheless remains …
Artist: Apparatus 22 Title: Of Pleasure: The Learnings and Strange Fortunes of Atletica Ideal Venue: Suprainfinit Gallery , Bucharest, Romania The solo exhibition of the art collective Apparatus 22 at Suprainfinit Gallery is a truly daring proposal for a major leap into the future ~ the unknown ~ utopia, in order to bring into dialogue fresh …
Artists: Karolina Jabłońska Title: Cold Venue: Raster Gallery, Warszaw Cold. Cold prevails outside. Snow has even fallen, and when we open our lips, our breath turns into clouds of fog, quickly rising in the wintry air. When it blows harder, locks of hair stick to the face. Snowflakes fall over the head, hair, eyebrows, and …
Artists: Inside Job / Ula Lucińska & Michał Knychaus Title: Whispers from the Cracked Horizon Venue: Šopa Gallery, Košice Curator: Michal Stolárik Photos: Tatiana Takáčová Indistinct whispering gradually merges into background noise. Only familiar references, shapes, colours and materials remain, activating memories, ambiguous emotions and flashbacks of nostalgia for situations yet to be experienced. An …
Artist: Klára Hosnedlová Title: 16th Lyon Biennale manifesto of fragility Curators: Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath Venue: Lyon Biennale, Fagor Factories, Lyon, France Photos: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and ©Lyon Biennale Klára Hosnedlová’s corporeal, immersive installations address utopian visions and imagine our future, post-nature selves. Interweaving architectural elements with performance, sculpture and also …
Artists: Laura Põld, Andres ToltsCurator: Šelda Puķīte Title: Common Threads, Polar Bear and Elephant Venue: Kogo Gallery, Tartu Photos: Marje Eelma This year’s final exhibition at Kogo Gallery is by Laura Põld and the late Estonian art classic Andres Tolts (1949–2014). Although they represent two different generations and the histories attached to them, both seem …
Artist: Nika Kupyrova Title: Woman in Green Text by Kathrin Heinrich Photography by Janine Schranz Video installation by Gerald Zahn and Nika Kupyrova Venue: Bildraum, Vienna Crime and Embellishment A scene is set: the swimming pool glistening in the fractured sunlight of an unsettled autumn day, leaves strewn about the cobblestone ground, the doors of …
Artists: Veronika Šrek Bromová, Petra Čížková, Viktor Fuček, Julia Gryboś a Barbora Zentková, Eliška Hanuš a Haštal Hapka, Vendula Chalánková, Petra Janda, Pille-Riin Jaik a Nazira Karimi, ka3ka3, Maud Kotasová, Tomas Kotík a Daniel Vlček, Judita Levitnerová, Petr Lysáček, Kristýna Manchart, Martina Nosková, Lucie Nováčková, Martin Pondělíček, Pavel Příkaský, Eva Rotreklová, Tomáš Samek, Denisa Půbalová, Ladislav …
Title: The (Al)chemists of time or a monumental wordBiennial’s artistic director: Agnė Šemberaitė.Coordinators: Rūta Šipalytė, Eglė Einikytė-Narkevičienė, Evelina Juncienė, Rasa Justaitė-Gecevičienė, Solveiga Gutautė, Jurga Jasinskaitė, Valdas Pukevičius.Biennial selection committee: Rita Mikučionytė, Monika Patuszyńska, Evelina Januškaitė, Rūta Šipalytė, Rytas JakimavičiusAuthor of the exhibition: Milena PirštelienėOrganizer: Lithuanian Artists’ Association’s Arka GalleryDesign: Mantas Ramanauskas No matter what you …
Artists: Ania Bąk, Jakub Czyszczoń, Piotr Bury Łakomy, Inside Job (Ula Lucińska and Michał Knychaus), Daniel Koniusz, Mateusz Sadowski Title: Minimo uno. Massimo due Venue: eastcontemporary, Milan Photos: Tiziano Ercoli 1. Fragment (definition): a small separate entity that has been broken off from a larger unity. 2. The existence of a fragment implies the loss …
Artists: Katarína Hrušková and Lucie Rosenfeldová Curator: Jan Zálešák Venue: Cursor Gallery, Prague Photos: Filip Beranek Here we are, in the gallery. Crouched on the floor, painted coral red, where a lightly rippling metal ellipse held together by hundreds of welds and lifting two tiny bronze shells at the furthest open ends at eye level, we …
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Artist: Kris Lemsalu Title: Angels Gone Pissing Venue: Temnikova & Kasela gallery List the heart slipped bysummer slipped bynothing appeared toalight the miller slipped bythe sails were put byin the dim cellarlight grandpa watchedgrandma watchedjoy came to eyeson closing father was takenmother was takenhome went aloneand howling Juhan Viidingtranslated by Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov
Artist: Sári EmberTitle: All is disappearingVenue: Pablo’s Birthday , New YorkPhotos: Sage M. Elder and Claire Zenith Text: Linnea West In my previous projects I tried to capture my relation to death and grief through individual and collective narratives, and the longing for leaving a reminder of us behind in personal and in historical scale. In …