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Meet Factory: Michele Gabriele “Walking Our Distance”

Prague, December 1, 2023 – January 28, 2024, http://www.meetfactory.cz The central figure of the exhibition, both in metaphorical and spatial terms, was an humanoid fish-like alien with an afro-asian face. Numerous pencil-drawn portraits of this creature were lined up along the walls of the main exhibition hall. Some portraits were very precise and detailed, others…

Meet Factory: Lenka Glisnikova “Moment of Seclusion Over the Horizon”

Prague, December 1, 2023 – January 28, 2024, http://www.meetfactory.cz The installation in one large spacious room contained mysterious objects that looked like a real-life materialization of computer 3D simulations of liquid flows and biological forms. Partially hanging on thick metal ropes from the ceiling, partially placed on the floor. The objects were made of two…

Meetfactory: Eva Kotatkova “Interviews with a Monster”

Prague, January 13 – May 6, 2021, https://www.meetfactory.cz This exhibition, split into three equal parts in three rooms, dealt with the topic of disabilities. Who decides who is “normal” and who not? The first room was dedicated to a large scale installation that looked a bit like a construction site. All across the site, over-sized…

Meetfactory: Oliver Torr “Trans Europe Postal Express”

Prague, May 3 – July 4, 2021, http://www.meetfactory.cz Oliver Torr is a Czech electronic music artist and sound designer. The showcase in one room at Meetfactory was a presentation of his sound project done last year in the context of the SHAPE platform “for Innovative Music and Audiovisual Art from Europe” that is co-financed from…

Kostka Gallery @ Meetfactory: Adrien Giros “The Guards”

(12/19/2013 – 1/12/2014) Ke sklárně 3213/15, Prague 5, http://www.meetfactory.cz Kostka Gallery is an exhibition space within the Meetfactory building complex, closely linked to the studio and residency program they are running. Adrien Giros was one of the artists-in-residence at Meetfactory. The show presented one large scale installation, overall quite theatrical in its effect: A strong…

Meetfactory Gallery: Emmeline de Mooij & Adriaan Mellegers “After The Future”

(11/29/2013 – 1/12/2014) Ke sklárně 3213/15, Prague 5, http://www.meetfactory.cz Meetfactory is a place on the outskirts of Prague in between a highway and a rail track. There are artist’s studios, two exhibition spaces and a large screening/concert hall. It has an industrial feel. It’s another of the places in Prague which is worth a visit,…

Meet Factory: Lukáš Machalický, Jan Pfeiffer “Private Distance”

Meet Factory (www. meetfactory.cz), Prague, June 6 – July 23 2009 Machalicky and Pfeiffer did a short-term exhibition in one of the studios of Meet Factory, a studio and exhibition space located on the outskirts of Prague. The general idea dealt with in the exhibition was the perception of architecture and urban space. The first…