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Lucia Sceranková & Tatiana Takáčová at Šopa Gallery

Artists: Lucia Sceranková & Tatiana Takáčová Title: Common Reservoir Curator: Petra Housková Venue: Šopa Gallery, Košice Photos: Tibor Czitó The exhibition Common Reservoir brings together two artists whose work considers water, landscape, and the body as mutually interconnected systems. The title names a shared space of thoughts, images, and experiences that emerges in the dialogue …

Tina Bxtq at Šopa Gallery

Artist: Tina Bxtq Title: Obstacles As Wings Curator: Štefánia Ďuricová Venue: Šopa Gallery, Košice The future of posthuman and queer imagination unfolds through hybrid bodies, monstrous and angelic beings that resist stable categorisation. They dismantle entrenched ideas of the body and identity. The angelic fragments presented in the exhibition are remnants of a performance in …

Katalin Kortmann-Járay and Karina Mendreczky at Šopa Gallery

Artists: Katalin Kortmann-Járay and Karina Mendreczky Title: Mingle and Fuse Venue: Šopa Gallery, Košice Curator: Krisztián Gábor Török Photos: Tibor Czito “All things mingle and fuse. All things are moisten and dry. All things flower and bloom in the bowl-shaped altar.” — Zosimos of Panopolis Alchemy is a continuous cycle of transformation, where matter, …

Inside Job at Šopa Gallery

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 …

Sári Ember at Šopa Gallery

Artist: Sári Ember Title: They’re all poses, adequate to different ends* Curator: Borbála Soós Venue: Šopa Gallery The content of this class shall be bodies, animate and inanimate…– Yvonne Rainer, Lecture on Moving from Three Distributions Our own bodies, which are primarily composed of water, elucidate the problemof thinking about bodies in binaristic terms as …