Vienna, March 15 – April 29, 2017, Kunsthalle Extergasse Link The exhibition was an iteration of an artwork selection that has been previously exhibited at the DDR-Radiozentrum in Berlin, a place with a specific architecture and history (East German Radio Studio). Now the artworks have been moved over and setup again in one large exhibition…
Vienna, November 25, 2016 – April 17, 2017 (Koller), March 17 – June 18, 2017 (Black), March 17 – October 22, 2017 (Knebl), http://www.mumok.at Attending the opening of the “Oh..” show was well worth it. It was astonishing to what lengths a museum can go in attempting to attract audiences, especially the younger generations. The…
Vienna, February 21–May 14, 2017, http://www.tba21.org Oceans as a metaphor for the immateriality and fluidity of labor in global capitalism – this could be the tagline of the exhibition. Allan Sekula was from the 1960’ generation, and kept his critical leftist position throughout his career as an artist employed in academia. His territory of choice…
Vienna, March 10 – May 14, 2017, http://www.akbild.ac.at Two shows opened simultaneously and appeared to be intertwined in some way. One declared to be about feminism and the body, the other about the post-human condition and the sea metaphor. Before writing on, please allow for a short critical interlude: Does it need any comment? Is…
Berlin, November 17, 2016 – February 26, 2017, http://www.discursus.info/ The two rooms of the gallery (front and back) were each given to one of the artists. It felt like a double solo show with two spatially separate gallery zones. Each of the works was quite different. Peter Vink’s large scale installation in the front room…
Berlin, January 20 – February 11, 2017, http://www.nonberlin.com The exhibition, curated by Ido Shin, contained 4 video-based artworks by 4 artists: Akim, Chan Sook Choi, Fabian Bechtle and Konrad Mühe. The title of the show remained a bit mysterious. I connected “dual use” in my mind with materials, appliances or infrastructure that serves more than…
Berlin, February 2 – March 5, 2017, http://www.transmediale.de This was a very nice new media art exhibition. Everything was perfectly set up, with theatrical spot lighting in a dimly lit spacious hall. There was a perfect balance of different media, as well as artwork sizes. There were some screens with videos, but not too many,…
Prague, National Gallery, Trade Fair Palace, October 5, 2016 – February 2, 2017 (Jiri Kovanda), October 5, 2016 – February 19, 2017 (Moving Image + Megan Clark), http://www.ngprague.cz
Prague, February 1 – March 7, 2017, http://www.dscgallery.com Entering Viktor Freso’s show felt not like being in Prague, but rather at some international art fair location, somewhere, someplace on the annual trajectory followed by the nomadic art crowd of gallerists, dealers, curators and collectors. The sculptures were large, bright and assertive, pointing to a capital-intensive…
Prague, November 8, 2016 – March 12, 2017, https://www.galerietancicidum.cz/ Jan Kaplicky is a Czech emigree architect and designer who spent most of his life in the UK. He is mostly known for buildings that he did not build, and a retrospective showcase of these comprised the core of the exhibition. In the latter part of…