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: Øleg&KaśkaTitle: Frightened by The Red MoonCurator: Šárka KoudelováVenue: Studio PRÁM, PraguePhotographer: Anna Pleslová Until the 17th century, art and science were one, identically understood discipline, combining mastered ‘skill’ to understand and to create. If we adopt this stance, we will see in renaissance and baroque cabinets of curiosities not only exoticizng collections of artisanally …
The third edition of the international gallery exchange SUMO Prague 2022 brings exhibitions, performances, and lectures that have developed through cooperation between international partners in the field of contemporary art. SUMO Prague 2022, subtitled CO-EXIST, will take place from September 1 to October 14, 2022, in Prague. In this year’s edition of the project, which …
Leading curator: Lucie Nováčková ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF THE FUTURECurator: Monika Szűcsová, Kryštof Brůha, András Cséfalvay, Michal Mitro, Andrea Uváčiková MYCELIUMCurator: Kamila ŽenatáJana Babincová, Jakub Grosz, Marie Ladrová, Lucie Nováčková, Kateřina Strach Tichá, Magdalena Šlajchová, Pavel Tichoň, Jiří Vyskočil, Pavla Zábranská, Kamila Ženatá DISSONANCECurators: Kristýna Řeháčková a Daniela ŠiandorováMaroš Belák, Filip Hauer a Philipp Kolychev, Klaudie …
Artist: Iva Krupicová, Pavel ŠimíčekTitle: Paradox of the Simply DisciplineCurator: Šárka KoudelováVenue: Studio PRÁM, Prague The works of Iva Krupicová and Pavel Šimíček are typical for their non-figural expression. It even seems that certain disinterest is part of the aim of both artists. As if they were both looking for a form that denies any …
Artist: Stach SzumskiTitle: IPS TYPOGRAPHUSCurator: Piotr SikoraVenue: Berlinskej Model, Prague The story you are about to read – or perhaps rather be swallowed by – is written on the walls of the gallery space. The intervention was conducted by Stachu in collaboration with legions of bugs as a part of a long-lasting psychedelic therapy session. …
Artist: Grzegorz DemczukTitle: SlapstickCurator: Lukas HofmannVenue: Karlin Studios As they say, there are lessons to be found in failure. The need to intellectually process and define everything that contemporary art often exerts can become a consuming errand – failing then poses as a therapeutic device. Likewise, in this show, failure acts as a process of …
Artist: Vytenis Burokas, Tarek Lakhrissi, Maria Loboda, Liv Preston, Anastasia Sosunova, Alexandra Sukhareva, Virgilijus Šonta Curators: Dina Akhmadeeva, Adomas Narkevičius Title: Avoidance Venue: Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA, Prague Photo: Jan Kolský In the midst of the second lockdown, towards the end of 2020 (when this exhibition was conceived) you find yourself absorbed in thought as …
Artist: Antonie Stanová Title: I Tried to Tell Ya Something Through the Phone Venue: Kvalitář Gallery, Prague Curator: Monika Čejková Photo: Studio Flusser The exhibition I Tried to Tell Ya Something Through the Phone presents the artistic output of Czech painter Antonie Stanové, accompanied by the auditory work of Bohumila Grögerová, a writer, translator, and creative figure from …
Title: In the Other World 17. 9. – 17.10. Venue: Pragovka Gallery Entry Curator: Tereza Špinková Photos: Marcel Rozhoň In the science fields, an effort is being put to acknowledge more senses among the 5 basic ones generally known. One of the new senses could be proprioception. It literally means “feelings of own body“. It is about …
Artist: Ondřej Basjuk, Karolina Bielawska, Filip Dvořák, Nikolaj Moskal Exhibition title: Stranger Danger Curator: Laura Amann Venue: Stone Projects, Prague, Czech Republic Date: August 30 – October 8, 2019 Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the Stone Projects and Tomáš Souček ‘I hate travelling and explorers’ are the famous first lines of Claude Lévi-Strauss ‘Tristes Tropiques’, …
Title: Tomorrow we’re one, my friend Venue: Berlínskej model, Prague Text by Michal Jalůvka Darkened premises of the building are not as deserted as they may seem. Seemingly empty rooms with quietly whirring servers and cups with remains of cold coffee have come to life over the past several nights. Surely an attentive visitor wouldn’t miss …
Zhanna Kadyrova | Resistance of Mattercurated by Elena Sorokina31 Aug – 4 Oct 2019ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN Prague The exhibition features a selection of projects by Zhanna Kadyrova and explores the relationship between architecture and mosaic in Ukraine and other countries. Monumental mosaic panels often decorated the concrete “grey cubes” of socialist housing projects, institutions and …
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Title: Burn My Tent Till the Rent Curator: Kristýna PéčováJuly 17 – September 10, 2019 Venue: Pragovka Gallery Entry, Prague Atmosphere outlining an open plot, time to picnic in the internals of a construction site. Finally wander into a different structure, behind the shimmering veneer. To be in the place after the ending, with no …
