East Contemporary

Category: Exhibitions

Asia Art Archive: “15 Invitations: Udlot-Udlot” exhibition and talk

Hong Kong, December 14, 2015 – January 23, 2016, http://www.aaa.org.hk A chamber exhibition within the AAA library space, looking at Filipino musician and composer Jose Maceda as an associative starting point for collecting a range of artworks and materials. It was good to see it together with the curator’s (Inti Guerero) guidance. Listening to his…

Para Site: “The world is our home. A poem on abstraction”

Hong Kong, December 12, 2015 – March 06, 2015, http://www.para-site.org.hk Artists: Robert Motherwell, Bruce Nauman, Tomie Ohtake, and Tang Chang, Curators: Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero My first reaction upon entering the show was: Finally a dignified display of Robert Motherwell’s works! This exclamation came mainly as a reaction to the previous ‘home’ of these…

Ferdinand Baumann Gallery: Martin Lukac & Martin Groch “Prima Tunes”

Prague, December 14, 2015 – ?, http://fbgallery.cz The exhibition combines sculptural elements and graphic design: Two fans animate some dry cut straws enclosed in the large display of the gallery, creating a permanently mutating configuration of parts. The front glass is covered by a black flat shape, reminiscent of a drapery of a baroque sculpture.…

DOX Centre for Contemporary Art: Marek Schovanek “Propaganda”

Prague, October 30, 2015 – January 11, 2016, http://www.dox.cz The exhibition statement introduced Marek Schovanek as “the best unknown artist in the world”. The word “best” is of course very elusive and subjective, but maybe it was used to elucidate Schovanek’ attempts to cover a range so vast that the endeavor proved superhuman, and thus…

DOX Centre for Contemporary Art: “Brave New World”

Prague, September 11, 2015 – January 25, 2016, http://www.dox.cz Artists: Barbora Balkova (CZ), Zarko Baseski (MKD), Denis Beaubois (AUS), William Betts (USA), Hans Jürgen-Burkard (GER), Bureau d’Etudes (FR), Michal Cimala (CZ), Paolo Cirio & Alessandro Ludovico (USA/IT), Sylvie Fleury (CHE), Farma v jeskyni / Farm in the Cave (CZ), Jason Florio (UK), Douglas Gordon (UK),…

Ilmin Museum “Crossing Plane: Unit, Layer, Nostalgia”

Seoul, November 27 – January 31, 2015, Ilmin Museum of Art Suki Seokyeong Kang 강서경 (, Eve Kwak 곽이브, MeeNa Park 박미나, Rahm Parc 박아람, Junghae Park 박정혜, Kyungho Baek 백경호, Nakhee Sung 성낙희, Hyangro Yoon 윤향로, Seungean Cha 차승언, Seung-Hye Hong 홍승혜 Without directly stating it, it seems that the exhibition focuses on identifying…

KMU Fineart Graduation Exhibition 국민대학교 회화전공 졸업전시

Seoul, December 3 – 22, 2015, http://kmufineart.com As the title says, this was the graduation exhibition of the Kookmin University Fine Arts Department. Each student received a roughly equal space, a small art fair booth-like compartment in which s/he presented his/her works. There has been a lot of paintings, many of them trying to develop…