The prize is passed as a gesture of younger generations of artists and theorists to the older generation of artists. It is about recognition, which is mediated to the selected artist whose election involving more than 100 people across the Czech Republic, who at the time of voting is 35 years old and nominating two artists over 35 years.
“These Krasný Czechs” by Paula Delgado is a new series of work in the artist’s ongoing project “How Come You Are So Beautiful”, which was realized as part of the 2nd year Micro Residenicas program organized by Galería parásito/… in Prague.
A live art and video event across three venues. Standpoint Gallery, Hoxton Square and the Bedroom Bar, alongside the exhibition opening of Shamanimal at Standpoint. It is an eclectic take on the traditional ritual of the British bonfire night, using the accessibility and celebratory exuberance of the time.
Streets, squares, parks, supermarkets, Internet portals, and other sites have become stages of urban life that allow us to display our everyday actions and behaviors. Many artists today work with the theatrical aspect of staging the self in everyday life.
In Daisy Richardson’s paintings, displaced forms supplant themselves confidently into contexts and situations that they have supposedly no right to be. Despite these trespasses, the pictorial outcome is convincing; paint describes and models discernible objects (albeit ones that are ambiguous in intent) and through their figurative allusion, they invite curiosity about what exactly they are and why they are there. A fictional world is asserted, where objects are not justified according to a perspectival regime – rather there is a dream-like order where objects have a metaphoric /metonymic existence according to a hypothetical or surreal logic
In his exhibition „Visions of Macbeth”, Markus Selg concentrates the classic tragedy of Shakespeares´ Macbeth into a scenario of memories and dreams. Using filmprojections, music, fog, wind, light and minimalistic requisites Selg creates a dreamscape throughout the MeetFactory Gallery which tells the story of Macbeth from a point of no return. From a point, where all hope is lost, euphoria is gone and destiny is certain.
A “Ladies Almanack*“ builds the parenthesis for the exhibition of the three artists at tranzitdisplay. The title is borrowed from the famous book “Ladies Almanack” by Djuna Barnes about a predominantly lesbian circle in Paris of the late 1920s, full of obscure language, inside jokes and ambiguity.
New York based Japanese artist Hiroki Otsuka’s first solo show in Europe featuring drawings and murals.
Exhibition Pythagoras’ descent of Petra Feriancová (1977) is characterized by the same radicalism that is present in several of her aspects.
Prize EXIT nationwide competition for students of art schools in the Czech Republic is announced by the Faculty of Arts and Design UJEP in Usti nad Labem.