Artists: Dominika Trapp, Julia Gryboś & Barbora Zentková Title: Soilmates Curator: Jan Zálešák Photos: Michal Czanderle, Ondřej Polák, Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss, Benedek Regős Venue: Hunt Kastner, Prague Hunt Kastner is pleased to present the exhibition Soilmates, a collaborative installation featuring the current work of Dominika Trapp and the artist duo Barbora Zentková & Julia Gryboś. The …
Artist: DNLM Title: Go Big or Go Home Curator: Pia Miklič Venue: RAVNIKAR GALLERY, Ljubljana Photos: Marijo Zupanov The cultural policy of the domestic and broader art system emphasises the need for sustainable practises, accessibility of exhibition spaces and diverse yet coherent programmes; values towards which it continuously guides contemporary art production. On a theoretical …
Artist: Lesia Pcholka Title: Great Stone Text: Michaela Geboltsberger Photos: Lesia Pcholka Venue: hoast, Vienna For more than 30 years, Belarus has been ruled by a dictatorial regime whose power seems inexorable. Criticism from Europe, support from China! This is no coincidence, as Belarus is seen as an important, if not the most important, element …
Artist: Tadej Vaukman Title: San Lorenzo Curator: Tevž Logar Venue: RAVNIKAR GALLERY Photos: Marijo Zupanov Tadej Vaukman came onto the art scene over fifteen years ago when he took audiences aback with his candid photographs, which at first glance seemed to go on and on, but were discernible to the attentive viewer as extremely sensitive …
Artists: Željka Aleksić, Arbajt Kolektiv, Kemil Bekteši, Vuk Ćuk, Polina Davydenko, FaceOrFactory, Santa France, Kata Geibl, Lin Gerkman, Ieva Kraule-Kūna & Elīna Vītola, Nika Kupyrova, Pita Project, Maja Simišić, Barbora Šimková, Dorijan Šiško, Andrej Škufca, Tadej Vaukman, Linda Vilka, Katarzyna Wyszkowska, Rafał Żarski Title: Selling Out Curators: ETC. & Tīna Pētersone Venue: Former Midas department …
Artists: Tudor Ciurescu, Eliza Douglas, Viktor Frešo, Thilo Jenssen, Botond Keresztesi, Julian-Jakob Kneer, Tim PlamperTitle: TEXNOCurators: Niki Bernath & Michal StolarikVenue: VUNU Bratislava, Slovakia The incessant kick drum is no longer as rough as in the beginning. It is melting into softer registers, dictating the pace to a crowd of sweating bodies in the deluge of …
The fast approaching third edition of LJUBLJANA ART WEEKEND will be curated by ETC., an annual magazine committed to showcasing contemporary artistic expressions spanning from the Baltic to the Balkans. The theme of the third issue of the magazine, Selling Out, directly correlates to the overarching theme of Ljubljana Art Weekend. It delves into the …
Artists: Jan Kovářík, Jan SoumarTitle: The Impermanence of BeingCurator: Michal StolárikVenue: Pradiareň, Bratislava, SlovakiaPhotography: Isonative Physical cases break up into clusters of expressive elements flying across dimensions. Stable and concrete becomes dynamic and abstract. Uncontrolled bubbling sets into solid shapes, and endless experiments materialise into imaginative objects of indistinct purpose and origin. Forms, structures or …
Artist: Hanele Zane Putniņa Title: Linolejija Venue: 427, Riga Photos: Līga Spunde Originally formed from seismic chisel movements and colour eruptions. Eventually, it became inhabited by linoshavings, which evolved from chisel-cut beings. It is a place where the chisel doesn’t know how to stop, like the atmosphere enveloping the surface of a linoshavingsland, at times …
Artists: Natalia Domínguez Rangel, Filip Rybkowski, Stanislav Zábrodský Exhibition title: time-dip Curators: Agáta Hošnová, Karolína Voleská Venue: Berlinskej model, Prague Photos: Michal Ureš a drop of pigment blackens a still surface, a groove cuts through smooth, moving waves shape the texture of the sand into titillating dunes, dust settles on majestic marble in pastel …
Describe your studio/work practice. I don’t have a regular schedule although I try to go to the studio every day. Of course, before deadlines I get to work unfortunately almost around the clock. I share the studio with Șerban Savu who has a fixed schedule, working daily from 10 am to 7 pm. We are …
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Artist: Emir ŠehanovićTitle: THERE WILL BE BLISSVenue: TROTOAR, ZagrebText: Ivan Šuković „Why aren’t revolutions started by the most humane people? Because humane people don’t start revolutions, they start libraries… and cemeteries”.Jean-Luc Godard, Notre Musique There is a world of tangible objects. But there is also another reality, one that exists within us. It is shaped …
Artist: Bence Magyarlaki Title: AT SATURN’S CUSP Venue: Paris-B, Paris Text: Salomé Burstein Photos: Theo Baulig …To be utopia, it is enough that I be a body (Michel Foucault, 1966) The body and architecture are central to Bence Magyarlaki’s practice. Their works encapsulate the tensions within movement, questioning the patriarchal values reflected in our societal …
Describe your studio/work practice. My curatorial practice is research-based. Accordingly, I don’t always work with artists when producing exhibitions. For a long time, I have been building archives and then activating them through exhibition-making, amongst other modes of presentation. In doing so, I seek to create space for subjects that have previously been overlooked. Generally …
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Artist: András Király Title: Finestra Venue: Viltin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary Photos: Réka Hegyháti / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Viltin Gallery, Budapest ’Now, leaving other things aside, I’ll tell you how I do it when I paint. First of all, where I am to paint, I draw a rectangle of any size I …