Prague, May 11 – 21, 2023, https://ctyridny.cz 4+4 days in motion is an annual art festival that takes place at a different location in Prague every year. The location of the art exhibition is usually an unused building prior to a new redevelopment. It seems that the Golf Center Erpet in Prague Smichov was the…
Category: Exhibitions
_Writing about, Czech Republic, Europe, Exhibitions, Prague
Pop-up Galerie AVU: Anezka Abrtova “Stabbed her with knife”
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Prague, April 14 – May 13, 2023, https://avu.cz/oddeleni/galerie-avu The exhibition combines sculptures and drawings. The sculptures consist of hard skeletons made from large wooden branches which are wrapped in layers of soft material like wax, textiles and animal skins. This gives them a slightly uncanny nature of a large piece of meat in a butcher’s…
_Writing about, Europe, Exhibitions, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Portikus: Lap See Lam “Tales of the Altersea”
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Frankfurt am Main, March 11 – May 28, 2023, https://www.portikus.de/ A daughter of Hong Kong emigrants wanders around her new homeland in Sweden and is plagued by nostalgic memories of her parents. The Chinese restaurant of her parents as well as other Chinese restaurants she encounters serve as a kind of medium connecting her to…
_Writing about, Asia, Daegu, Exhibitions, South Korea
Daegu Art Museum: Kim Taek-sang, Yoon Hee, Hwang Ho-sup “Water Fire Body”
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Daegu, January 31 – May 14, 2023, http://daeguartmuseum.or.kr It was quite a lucky occurence that I visited DAM right after two new exhibitions opened. One was the Lee Kun-hee collection and the other one was this one, a trio-show, which was in fact more like three separate solo shows next to each other. A bit…
_Writing about, Asia, Daegu, Exhibitions, South Korea
Daegu Art Museum “Welcome Home Blossom Lee Kun-hee Collection”
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Daegu, February 21 – May 28, 2023, http://daeguartmuseum.or.kr The immensely wealthy Samsung CEO Lee Kun-hee was kept alive on hospital machines for five years so that his heirs can prepare for the inheritance of the huge business empire that is said to contribute up to 20 % to South Koreas GDP. When the family business…
_Writing about, Czech Republic, Europe, Exhibitions, Prague
National Gallery Prague: „Jindrich Chalupecky Award 2022: All that is solid melds in the air“
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Prague, September 23, 2022 – January 9, 2023, https://www.ngprague.cz The Jindrich Chalupecky Award is the most established Czech art prize for emerging artists (up to 35 y.o.). It exists since 1990. In recent years, the mode of operation has changed. In the past, a winner was chosen among five finalists. In the last three years…
_Writing about, Czech Republic, Europe, Exhibitions, Prague
Kunsthalle Praha: „Invisible Forces“ + Gregor Hildebrandt „A Blink of an Eye and the Years are Behind Us“
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Prague, Sep 29, 2022 – Feb 13, 2023, https://www.kunsthallepraha.org Kunsthalle Praha is a new institution in the city. It is private and was founded by Petr Pudil and his wife Pavlina. Pudil is one of the Czech businesspeople, who succeeded amassing a fortune during the rather murky and lawless times of the 1990s political and…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Incheon, South Korea
Incheon Art Platform: Jung Jihyun 정지현 „가우지(GOUGE)“
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Incheon, July 15 – September 11, 2022, https://inartplatform.kr A solo exhibition of an artist who I encountered nor long ago within the „Kak“ group show at Hite Collection. Different materials, different sculpting methods… somehow it all related to the city environment and the materials used in constructing or designing the city space. However the shapes…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Seoul, South Korea
Hite Collection „Kak“
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Seoul, May 28 – July 17, 2022, https://hitecollection.com “Kak” is a survey exhibition about sculpture today in Korea. Exhibited artworks span a period of about 25 years. In all cases, the positions are forward-looking positions of artists who were thinking about what the next step could be or how to reinterpret sculptural traditions with new…
_Writing about, Czech Republic, Europe, Exhibitions, Prague
Pragovka „Dira ve stazi / Blasts Cries Laughter“
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Prague, Jan 20th – Apr 19th, 2022 With Pragovka, Prague has a small but nice industrial factory art zone similar to the likes of M50 in Shanghai or 798 in Beijing. The scale is large for Prague but of course little compared to the Chinese megacities. The concept is similar: A large high-end property development…