Berlin, 6pm-8pm, February 3, 2017, https://2017.transmediale.de
_Writing about, Berlin, Europe, Germany, Lecture/Performance/Event
transmediale: Gabriele Gramelsberger, Gerald Nestler, Jutta Weber “New Paradigms”
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Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Feb 3, 2017, https://transmediale.de Felix Stalder (moderator): Tracing Information Society Timeline exhibited at NGBK. If we feel that a new paradigm is “here”, isn’t it already too late to think about it? Doesn’t it mean we are already right in the middle of it? Jutta Weber: Technosecurity, globalization of…
_Writing about, Czech Republic, Europe, Exhibitions, Prague
National Gallery: “Third Mind. Jiri Kovanda and the (Im)Possibility of Collaboration” + “Moving Image Department: 6th Chapter” + “Introducing Megan Clark: Somatic”
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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
_Writing about, Czech Republic, Europe, Exhibitions, Prague
DSC Gallery: Viktor Freso “Now”
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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…
_Writing about, Czech Republic, Europe, Exhibitions, Prague
Dancing House Gallery: Jan Kaplicky “JKOK”
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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…
_Writing about, Budweis, Czech Republic, Europe, Exhibitions
Budweis House of Art: Ales Cermak, Janek Rous: „We Do Not Name Anyone, Everyone Knows Who We Are Talking About“
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Budweis, January 10 – February 11, 2017, Dům umění České Budějovice, http://dumumenicb.cz/ Czech title: Aleš Čermák, Janek Rous: „Nikoho nejmenujeme, každý ví, o kom je řeč.“ On entering the gallery, one was surrounded by a large empty dimly lit space with smoothed out walls. The most prominent element visible at first sight has been a…
_Writing about, Czech Republic, Europe, Exhibitions, Prague
Trafo Gallery: Mark Ther “Zeichnungen 1928-“
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Prague, December 7 – January 15, 2016, http://trafogallery.cz Trafo Gallery is located within a warehouse and street market district (Holesovicka trznice). The way there leads past street stalls selling cheap clothes, food and other daily necessities. Mark Ther is a well-known face of the Czech art scene. A few years ago he has been awarded…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Seoul, South Korea
Slow Slow Quick Quick “In the Monkey Monkey Shake Shake”
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Seoul, October 21 – 30, http://slowslowquickquick.net/ Slow Slow Quick Quick (SSQQ) is an independent space in the Jongro/Euljiro area. The area consists of old small alleys of metalwork, woodwork and electric appliance workshops. SSQQ is located in one separate building, 3 floors tall with a small courtyard and separate room within it. It is not…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Seoul, South Korea
MMCA Seoul “Korea Artist Prize 2016” + “Korean Air Box Project: Yangjiang Group” + “VOID” + “Craft Narrative: The Place, Process, Perspective”
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Seoul, autumn 2016, http://www.mmca.go.kr The autumn constellation of exhibitions at MMCA Seoul is rather pleasurable. There is the Korea Artist Prize, a yearly recurring show. The big central space has a new mega-installation. There is an exhibit addressing the architectural space of the MMCA Seoul building itself, and there is a quite unusual art and…
Asia, Seoul, South Korea, Studio Visits
Studio Visit: Kim Kyoungho 김경호
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Seoul, October 31, 2016, http://kyounghokim.com/ My first encounter with Kim Kyoungho’s work took place at his solo exhibition Magic Bullet Broadcasting Network at Art Space Pool in 2013. That exhibition investigated the production process of news reporting and broadcasting across international borders. I saw his work again at the Real DMZ Project 2015. Here he…