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Five Hungarian artists present their work in short profiles with stand-in seconding them in parallel videos. In separate portraits takes this stand-in charge of artworks explanation with a sovereignty of an author. He presents five various forms of his art production in various media or creative foci (painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation).
Josef Bolf, Petr Malina, Pavel Kappel + 23 more
The curators displayed in glass show-cases toys belonging to forty artists, art theoreticians and architects who grew up in the 1970s and 80s. When we look back we realize that the exhibition was partly a serious and partly an ironic commentary of this kinship and an advance signal of the advent of the period of normalization which became a basic source for the work of a number of Czech artists after the year 2000.
Boris Buden, Keti Chukhrov, Milena Bartlová + 2 more
Symposium wants to reflect the current cultural and political situation characterized by the rise of nationalistic politics, populism, Euro-scepticism and anti-immigration attitudes in Central Europe from the perspective of contemporary art and theory. This tendency can be observed not just locally but in the whole of Europe. We will foster an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas discussed in a group of art historians, sociologists, philosophers, and art theoreticians.
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.
Markéta Mansfieldová
Confrontations in public space are becoming more virulent. Protests gain traction, social tension is on the rise. Tension as a reaction to threat, an emotional roller coaster of strong convictions. The truth of convictions is shored up by shared emotional experience. Anger, loss of hope, feelings of remorse, anxiety; the emotional ties of mutuality.
Kateřina Komm
Kateřina Komm's artistic work to date clearly reveals her intention to layer, compose, and continuously transform countless images, texts, and records of events, inspiring experiences, and impressions from various places, times, and spaces. The author's reflections on vividly resonant moments open up space for further associative ideas, which form richly branched lines of meaning in the resulting sculptures, objects, drawings, and installations. Some of the works were created based on inspiration from a specific object, work of art, or architecture, while others may be a direct imprint of a found object, or even a magical experience of a symbolic nature.
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.
Jiří David
Marilyn Monroe comes back to life in the form of her frisky doppelganger. According to David, the slowed-down Arabic music that accompanies the video is “a kind of willful act, an Arabesque, perhaps like that ficus tree or whatever that thing is behind ‘Marilyn’, or like the naïve movements of her hands and body.” It can also be interpreted as a counterpoint highlighting the contrast between our view of woman and the Muslim view.
Rudolf Samohejl, Pavel Baňka, Aleksandra Vajd + 8 more
The exhibition Late Intimacy responds to the pressure to disclose private matters that intimacy currently faces. This pressure is evident in both the mass media and social networks, which are programmed to exploit our need for social acceptance and reward, and is also present in the hidden monitoring and analysis of our behavior in physical and digital space. We are increasingly aware that the ultimate goal of this pressure is to obtain material that can be exploited for commercial or political gain.
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.
Lizaveta Hridzyushka, Šimon Kadlčák, Alex Sihelská + 4 more
In the poetics of identities, it is important to return to a certain point of zero, which is also a breaking point. My self is breaking through certain limitations and constantly fighting against itself. It is always in the process of becoming, and this process is always accompanied by a certain disjointedness. I am nobody and at the same time I am everybody. I belong to the anywheres, to those who are at home everywhere and nowhere at the same time. I don’t know if that is a reason to be sad.
Minh Thang Pham
In the video They Read, he gradually and casually introduces several intergenerational pairs. Fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters speak about their origins and ability to speak their “native” languages. Members of the younger generation admit, in fluent, natural Czech or Slovak, that they’re not so confident when speaking the language of their parents – that it’s the “kitchen” dialect of the second generation of immigrants. And it’s these linguistic shifts that the artist sees as a symbol of the rift that appears between him and his parents.
Lizaveta Hridzyushka
We are unsure whether the words spoken are a monologue or a dialogue. And actually, it probably doesn’t matter much. Sometimes we are telling someone something and we are actually saying it more to ourselves. The other person acts as a mirror, a mere part of the process in which we reveal ourselves to ourselves in a new form. The difference between monologue and dialogue is blurred.
Kateryna Khramtsova
Kateryna Khramtsova filmed a short documentary about a non-binary performer and soldier entitled Qirim (2023), which has been screened at many film festivals, both here and abroad. In the accompanying essay, Kryštof Kočtář presents the film in the context of Khramtsova's artistic work.
Surrounding Fucker Sam and Sam83 Gallery there sprung up and operates a space for critical and free thinking covering a lot of activities. I follow the origins, meaning and the operation of the space in the first part of NJME.
Alex Sihelská
Alex constructs and, in turn, deconstructs a fluid identity that defines itself through ephemeral contributions, the power and anxiety inherent in the possibility of breaking down the boundaries between subject and object. Bold yet light-hearted, we trust the work unreservedly for its emotion and the vulnerability of the artist’s personal input.
Natália Sýkorová
Brood – Stranger’s Vial – Womb is a “game that has forgotten its own rules” and “a story without an ending.” Instead of a clear, linear fantasy, it offers a fantasy space that we view through several layers of material and media abstraction. It makes everyday objects and (in)human identities special. It invites us to notice the affects of humanity in the midst of the climate crisis, which can only be glimpsed through peripheral vision, somewhere at the edge of gilded metal. Just beware: The sides will be reversed.