Prague, April – June 2021, Bezručovy sady (park opposite of the address Slovenska 23), https://ctyridny.cz Galerie Proluka is in fact a green lawn in a small city park, that is used for outdoor installations, and seems to be related to the yearly 4+4 dny v pohybu art and performance festival in Prague. I saw the…
Prague, January 13 – May 6, 2021, https://www.meetfactory.cz This exhibition, split into three equal parts in three rooms, dealt with the topic of disabilities. Who decides who is “normal” and who not? The first room was dedicated to a large scale installation that looked a bit like a construction site. All across the site, over-sized…
Prague, January 13 – June 6, 2021, http://www.meetfactory.cz A narrative interactive animation about the education and reading habits of women with rich husbands in India.
Prague, May 5, 2020* – June 20, 2021, http://futuraprague.com Joey Holder constructed a total environment where one is at once overwhelmed. It was a world of dark fluorescence, enshrouded in ambient bubbling sounds. There were mysterious sea creatures floating in the virtual 3D world of the videos on display. The walls were covered in an…
Prague, May 5 – June 20, 2021, https://futuraprague.com My first impression of this exhibition was like walking into an empty space. There was some art, but somehow scattered, and not that self-explaining. I passed through the whole show, and somehow could not get it. After the show, back home, I read through the curatorial text.…
Prague, May 5 – June 20, 2021, https://futuraprague.com Poniatowski works with old carpets, artificial leather etc. He “upcycled” these materials into weird three-dimensional shapes, that somehow remind furniture or… sculpture. A sculpture that satisfies the stereotypical dustiness of post-communist Eastern Europe even 30 years after the regime changed. Old interior textiles with out of fashion…
Prague, May 3 – July 4, 2021, http://www.meetfactory.cz Oliver Torr is a Czech electronic music artist and sound designer. The showcase in one room at Meetfactory was a presentation of his sound project done last year in the context of the SHAPE platform “for Innovative Music and Audiovisual Art from Europe” that is co-financed from…
Prague, July 22 – November 15, 2020, https://matterof.art/ I have visited the show right during the opening week. The show is spread across two main sites, the Prague City Gallery on the top floor of the Municipal Library Prague, and a couple of industrial style ex-market halls in the Holesovice (Prague) Market. The visitor guidebook…
Frankfurt am Main, July 7 – September 6, 2020, https://www.portikus.de Hajra Waheed´s installation in Portikus consists of an empty room with a white carpet, where all visitors are required to take their shoes off. From above an array of speakers is suspended in the space. A mellow soundtrack of humming voices is played back. The…
Suwon, November 26, 2019 – March 8, 2020, https://suma.suwon.go.kr Another two years passed, and another visit to the Suwon Museum of Art appeared on my schedule. First of all a pleasant formal change, the “Ipark” name (Suwon Ipark Museum of Art) disappeared from the museum’s name. Ipark is the name of a prominent apartment brand…