Berlin, January 29 – February 1, 2029, https://transmediale.de The two new curators – Neema Githere, Juan Pablo García Sossa – gave a new and different feel to the festival compared to prior editions. This was the first edition of a new mode of operation for transmediale, where curators only receive a temporary contract and change…
Frankfurt, September 25, 2025 – January 4, 2026, https://www.schirn.de Filipino-Canadian artist, presenting a couple of video installations and some related object-based art merchandise. Thematically, it all seemed a bit like “in search of one’s own (Comilang’s) identity: The video works were anchored in interviews she conducted with people that were somehow like her, either a…
Prague, Troja Chateau, September 20-21, 2025, https://www.ghmp.cz Troja Chateau is one of the multiple locations of the Prague City Gallery (GHMP) on the outskirts of Prague, next to the Zoo and Botanical Gardens. It is a beautiful baroque manor house, surrounded by a well maintained garden. This place was the site of the recent GHMP…
Basel, June 13 – 22, 2025, https://www.pf25.org/ I do not remember any more how I met Chan, but it was definitely during the time when he still lived and worked in Hong Kong. It was likely at some local art fair or opening. I also remember that since that time I had him connected with…
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…