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Roger Diener
Diener has a long-term interest in the reconstruction of monuments and is a member of several foundations and commissions dedicated to this topic. The studio’s main projects include, for example, the completion of the eastern wing of the Natural History Museum in Berlin or the local Swiss embassy.
Maja Fowkes, Reuben Fowkes
Oil Rocks was a magnet for artists who in the 1950s made the strenuous journey to witness the heroism of oil workers in their battle with the elements to extract Caspian “black gold”. This presentation considers the representations of Oil Rocks in socialist art as an exception to the general invisibility of the petroleum industry in modern literature and art. How can we account for the prominence of oil drilling imagery in Soviet Azerbaijani art and what does it tell us about the petroleum imaginary of the Socialist Anthropocene?
Bernie Reid, Jan Boháč, Linda Dostálková + 14 more
The exhibition is not a historical cross-section of Ester Krumbachová's work (although it does reflect it), but rather an extensive network of original material, numerous texts, images, and artifacts that Krumbachová dealt with and surrounded herself with throughout her life. It primarily presents Ester Krumbachová's archive/estate in thematically interconnected blocks, revealing her thinking about costume design, particularly the role of detail and the use of color, the interconnection of meaning, artistic form, and the overall atmosphere of a film, her work with text that copies spoken language and folk storytelling rather than high literary style, her relationship to magic, realism, subjectivity, male and female polarity, and the hierarchy of species and social and professional positions.
The waves of the so called “color revolutions” in former soviet republics like Georgia (“rose revolution”) and the Ukraine (“orange revolution”) are types of uprisings for just and democratic presidential elections. The spirit of color revolution, characterized by the unsatisfactory state of the institution of elections and by struggles to establish it, is present in almost all the post-Soviet countries, but here we reserve the term color revolution for those countries where special early presidential elections took place.
Stanislava Karbušická, Linda Dostálková, Antonín Jirát + 12 more
The concept of the exhibition stems from a dialogue between historical works presented in 1993 by a group of emerging artists from Ústí nad Labem at two editions of the exhibition NARUŠENÁ ROVNOVÁHA (DISTURBED BALANCE) at the Municipal House in Prague and the Emil Filla Gallery in Ústí nad Labem, and completely new projects by younger artists born in the 1980s, who had the opportunity to experience the atmosphere of Ústí nad Labem, especially during their university studies, and this experience led them to develop their authentic creative attitudes.
Jiří Anger, Veronika Hanáková
The online environment often appears to us as a space of timelessness. A space where artifacts of the past accumulate regardless of their original context and where they disappear again after satisfying immediate demand. But can the (post)digital landscape be used to revive lost, missing or displaced media, objects, actors or interfaces? A thematic collection of audiovisual essays allows us to understand the online space as a labyrinth of fragments and traces of analogue and digital histories that can be speculatively ''reconfigured'' to play out surprising exchanges between ''then'' and ''now'' as well as to create alternative or unrealized futures.
Anton Vidokle
Anton Vidokle is the type of artist who might not seem to be a very prolific author, at least not in the classical, material sense of art production. Vidokle is interested in art as a means to learn as much as possible about the world we live in, to explore it.
Ana de Almeida
For over a century, the factory in Střekov has influenced the structure of the city and the quality of life of its inhabitants. During the period of industrial development, Johann Schicht and his descendants built civic amenities in the city – a health center, spas, nurseries, a library, and residential buildings for their workers. After the company was nationalized, production continued and continued to employ a large number of newly settled residents. The national company Setuza also brought its employees together and enabled them to participate in "extracurricular activities," primarily in events organized by the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement, which included the organization of International Women's Day celebrations, St. Nicholas Day gifts, and children's camps.
Anna Tesařová
The word "wee" is a Scottish synonym for "little." The title A Wee Bit of Heritage represents an attempt to provide at least a small glimpse into the cultural heritage of the northern Scottish town of Wick, with a population of nearly 9,000. The town used to be a strategic fishing spot and the main port of northern Scotland. However, the situation has changed in recent years. Herring stocks have been depleted for decades, crab fishing is no longer as profitable as it used to be, the nuclear power plant has been shut down, and one of the few things that still operate here and are attractive to tourists are the distillery, the nuclear archive, and The Wick Heritage Museum.
Nikita Kadan
The lecture by the internationally known Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan at the Academy of Fine Arts was introduced and accompanied by a debate with the Russianist and semiotician Tomáš Glanc. Kadan lives and works in Kiev. He works with various media, including installation, sculpture, painting and collage.
Ákos Moravánszky, Andrea Deplazes
Hungarian architectural historian and pedagogue Ákos Moravánszky speak at the lecture entitled Flows of ideas, flows of matter, together with the prominent Swiss architect and theorist Andre Deplazes, co-founder of Bearth & Deplazes Architekten. It outlines the transformation of ideas and forms in architecture.
Edit András
Edit András mainly follows engaged, socially sensitive and critical works of Hungarian art. She is interested in the changing social position of art and the ways in which it adapts to or resists the current situation. She looks at how post-socialist culture deals with its own past, the gendered aspects of Hungarian art, the relationship between culture and power, and how easily cultural and historical issues can be exploited politically.
Milan Kozelka
Conceptual artist, performer, and writer Milan Kozelka (1948‒2014) left an indelible mark on Czech art, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. He devoted himself to poetry from the 1960s onwards, and his poems are now considered part of the Czech response to American Beat literature. At the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, he turned his attention to action art.
Jaro Varga, Catherine Radosa
The concept of the exhibition is based on the ideological convergence of the work of Catherine Radosa and Jaroslav Varga, which consists in revealing the physical and symbolic traces of the past. Both artists examine these relics of bygone times and eras from the perspective of collective memory and the mechanisms of its storage. A vacant lot is an empty space, a gap left by a past situation that can be filled again. The installation Colonne / Révolution captures the constant cycle of the monument in a triple projection. The period of the revolutionary Paris Commune is still a problematic period in France, similar to the period of socialism in our country: it has been and continues to be reinterpreted, tabooed, or marginalized.