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…
Busan, May 8 – June 30, 2024, https://www.kukjegallery.com/ Na Kim is a well known Korean graphic designer who “made it” in New York. Capitalising on her fame in Korea, she now branched out into painting. The exhibits where classical acrylic-on-canvas or acryllic-on-wood paintings, taking up motives and assemblages from her scrapbook. One could clearly see…
Busan, May 1 – May 24, 2024, http://www.f1963.org An exhibit of many handcrafted paper dolls showing a scene of … I think it was a Japanese envoy visiting Korea? 300 hundred something years ago? It seems to be an important event in Busan, that is also regularly commemorated. Unfortunately all the text was in Korean…
Busan, December 8, 2023 – June 16, 2024, https://motorstudio.hyundai.com/busan Jimin Park curated show. A furtniture designer and curator. It was quite educational/illustrative. Artworks that show/explain something. Somehow more like a experiential sociological/marketing study about smart home target groups. Even though the intent behind individual artworks might have been different, maybe even opposite, the overall assembly…