Hong Kong, Mar 14, 2025, on-line, https://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk In this lecture, Pierson traced the development of blue ceramics in China. She started off with the first known appearances of blue pigment under preceding centuries, then Talked about Tang and ended up by adding a bit about the following dynasty, Song. Blue and white ceramic can be…
Hong Kong, Feb 27, 2025, on-line, https://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk Pierson is a professor of Chinese ceramics at SOAS London and currently a visiting professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong. This was a first lecture in a series of four. The topic of this lecture was (interior) architecture used for porcelain displays. She started from the most…
After the very problematic transmediale last year, that resulted in the quiet and early departure of director Nora O Murchu, I was quite worried how this edition will turn out. My worries increased when another anti-projewish message was posted on the tm web in November. Would the paying visitors be again taken innocent hostages to…
Prague, September 5, 2024 – January 5, 2025, https://www.galerierudolfinum.cz A very generous exhibition in the magnificent spaces of Rudolfinum Gallery. And by “generous” I mean primarily in terms of space. Each of the large rooms was basically reserved for one gesture, but this gesture was given space to unfold to its fullest. Additional materials like…
Prague, October 10, 2024 – January 1, 2025, https://www.kunsthallepraha.org The form was well mastered, but there was content too, relating to the global-digital-individual-data entanglement. The feeling of awe related to the vastness of the Earth and space, but equally to the vastness of variables recorded, calculated and transmitted through technical infrastructure networks. It was a…
Prague, November 28, 2024 – April 28, 2025, https://www.kunsthallepraha.org A reminiscence of Shiota´s exhibition that I saw in Sinclair-Haus Bad Homburg. Much bigger and more labour intensive, but essentially the same. While walking through the show, I had to keep thinking about the dozens of “collaborators” (likely minimum wage art interns or so called volunteers)…
Prague, October 25, 2024 – January 6, 2025, https://meetfactory.cz Politics and the impact thereof on individuals. Personal/political. Installation rather uninspiring, simply hanging/projecting on the white gallery walls. Photos arranged in a row. Paying an entrance fee (new in Meet Factory) for this was not really justified. Allowing me to enter the show with a beer…
Prague, October 25, 2024 – January 6, 2025, https://meetfactory.cz Looked like a theatre stage set. High, grey walls. Costumes/puppets with heavy boots and big heads. Human/nonhuman. Uncanny. Trash lying all around. A depressive feel. Well made.
Prague, 14 June – 29 September, 2024, https://matterof.art For this edition, the itinerant biennial moved to the large hall of the Trade Fair Palace (Veletrzni Palac) of the National Gallery. Another half of the show was in the City Gallery of Lidice outside of Prague. This linked into the theme of the show, which focused…
Frankfurt/Main, August 3 – 11, 2024, https://www.instagram.com/marsfrankfurt/ A group of befriended artists from Japan and Germany organised a show together. Different styles, different media, different gerenrations. The connecting point seems to have been some kind of residency program, and the motivation the obtaining of some Japanese artist mobility grants to enjoy a European summer culture…