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Beáta Istvánkó
Beáta Istvánkó (born 1987) is a Budapest-based art historian and curator. After finishing her studies she worked as the project coordinator of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and the Studio of Young Artists’ Association, and has curated numerous independent projects. In 2017 she founded the contemporary art publication store and gallery, ISBN books+gallery. This is the first independent bookstore focused on contemporary art publications in Budapest.
Ladislava Gažiová
Ladislava Gažiová is a painter, curator and activist from Slovakia and has been living in Prague for some years. Her early work is characterized by the inspiration of graffiti, using of stencils and sprays, and work with social topics. In recent years, however, Gažiová has been focusing on curatorial work, in which social themes, particularly the topic of the Roma minority, are at the heart of her work.
Dalibor Knapp
Jussi Parikka is a writer, a media theorist and Professor in Technological Culture and Aesthetics at Winchester Art School (University of Southampton). He is concerned mainly with contemporary culture theory, philosophy, contemporary art, cyber-culture and digital culture. He has contributed significantly to the field of materiality of media, which he analyzes from the viewpoint of philosophy of new materialism. He deals with the relationship between nature and technologies using the term medianatures, which is a clear reference to naturecultures of Donna Haraway.
Gábor Palotai
Reflecting Gábor Palotai's expanded understanding of graphic design, in his consistently formulated oeuvre, besides conventional formats and media, other, hardly classifiable or less common genres are present; such as conceptual photography, graphic design novel, printed textiles, non-narrative digital motion pictures or even public plaques.
Irena Lehkoživová, Barbora Špičáková, Nikola Brabcová + 4 more
VI PER Gallery focuses on architecture in the broadest sense, together with its relations and points of intersection with contemporary art, urbanism, design and media, as well as the political, legal, social, economic and ecological contexts which help to shape architecture and the built environment.
Jan Boháč
At present Jan Boháč is a doctoral student in the studio of sculpture led by Edith Jeřábková and Dominik Lang at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. His work deals with topics related to communication, speach, messages and possibilities of understanding,which have been present in his work for a long time and are closely related to his job of an emergency call handler.
Nikola Brabcová, Barbora Švehláková, Tereza Jindrová + 1 more
Tereza Stejskalová is one of the most prominent feminist and critical voices on the Czech art scene. At present, she works as a curator in the initiative tranzit.cz and in the long term focuses on art critique.
As a curator, Stejskalová often works through postcolonial and feministic prism and her curatorial practice is typically an outcome of a long term research.
Zach Blas
Zach Blas, an American artist, writer and filmmaker, deals with topics such as politics, contemporary technologies, or queer theories. As part of his artistic work, he moves from theoretical research to conceptualism to science fiction. He has been working on Internet and Information Technology for a long time and on how these resources are used to track or manage individuals and companies.
Barbora Klímová
In the long term the author focuses on several related topics: live art and the possibilities of its mediation; communities emerging around artistic activities of selected artists and through their work; she is interested in motives and personal memories of artists; she focuses on overlooked or difficult to grasp aspects of local cultural history, mostly in Moravia during the normalization era.
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