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Endoambivalenz Weihnachten

Just 350 km and 4 hours on Autobahn into a different world, from the genuine Disneyland to the city of constant newness. While traveling often there and back, we easily agreed on numerological mirroring: 2 curators, 2 x 6 artists from Berlin and Prague, 2 galleries. Two exhibitions, which are almost identical, but slightly different by context and content.
However, the shared oppressive darkness of the season, both mental and metabolic, has to be redeemed with gifts, lights and sharing. Xmas is a cheap dream we wish to believe in, while it turns out to be more and more artificial and tiring. How to answer all the greed and sickness? We are old enough to know that we must make the best of Xmas by ourselves, true or fake…

artistsKrištof Kintera, Lukáš Jasanský, Hannu Prinz, Philip Topolovac, Matyáš Chochola, Vert Viron Erol, David Böhm, Martin Polák, Petr Strouhal, Pavla Malinová, Moo Stumm, Brecht Vandenbroucke, Nik Nowak
curatorsPeter Lang, Pavel Vančát
placeBerlínskej model
tags
castPeter Lang, Pavel Vančát
cameraRadim Labuda
soundRadim Labuda
editingRadim Labuda
interviewRadim Labuda
categoryReports
published27. 11. 2014
languageČesky / English
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Endoambivalenz Weihnachten
The traveling exhibition Rituals of Solitude, conceived during the global lockdown, explores the spread of fake news, the reversal of the traditional relationship between private and public space, the paradoxical rituals that populate homes, the ways in which visual technologies are domesticated into tools of self-presentation and connection, the accumulation, fetishization, and display of objects in home interiors; and, in addition, the states of loneliness that arise as a result of forced isolation.
Michal Novotný is a curator of contemporary art, who is known for his group exhibitions focusing on a particular theme, which is a genre quite difficult to prepare and not very common on the Czech art scene. The question which arises is about the relationship between individual works of art and the topic of the exhibition which they are incorporated in.
Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, 1984, Grace Samboh lives in between Yogyakarta and Medan, Indonesia. Due to questioning (a little bit) too many things all at once, she does curatorial work as well as research. She truly believes that every person needs at least three copies of themselves.