National Gallery Prague, Kinský Palace, Dec 17, 2008 – Feb 8, 2009 The Czech National Gallery is showing a photo exhibition, which is a reprise of an Austrian exhibition showed earlier last year in Vienna. The works on show are all taken from Bank Austria’s collection of photography. The show consists of a representative selection…
City Gallery Prague, Municipal Library Exhibition Space, Oct 22, 2008 – Feb 02, 2009 The exhibition focuses on an often neglected phenomenon of ‘classical’ academic painting in the twentieth century, which was surviving in the shade of all the ‘modern -isms’. Despised by art historians and ‘modern’ artists as shallow, meaningless and empty, yet still…
Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague, Sept 25, 2008 – Nov 28, 2008 The Chinese painting display in Rudolfinum was rather a disappointment. I want to stress that I mean the display. The featured superstar-artists names gave on show what you expected: Zhang Xiaogang’s existential portraits of individuals and families, drawing from recent Chinese historical experience, surrounded by…
The Third Guangzhou Triennial 2008 was taking place under the tagline “Farewell to Post-colonialism”. Here a short quote of the general concept: “The Triennial attempts to open new frontiers for creativity with a critical review of the role cultural discourses of Post-colonialism and Multi-culturalism has played in contemporary art. While affirming Post-colonialism’s achievements in exposing…
The topic of the Shanghai Biennale 2008 was “Translocalmotion” which should supposedly encompass ideas of urban development and globalization in a mega-city like Shanghai. So the topic was location-specific and social, as the city cannot be imagined without the people who live in it. The resulting exhibition was not very convincing. Three floors of the…
View Post 8 June – 15 September 2002 in Kassel, head curator Okwui Enwezor The Documenta seems to be considered as one of the most important art exhibitions in Germany, maybe even Europe. Documenta 11 was the first Documenta I’ve even seen. I’m writing about my personal impressions from the Documenta 11. If you want…