Tangente – Festival für Gegenwartskultur, St. Pölten, Österreich, 01.05.–06.10.2024
Von 1. Mai bis 6. Oktober 2024 sind entlang der Gewässer St. Pöltens 23 künstlerische Positionen nationaler und internationaler Kunstschaffender zu erleben, die aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven in einen Dialog mit dem Wasser treten.
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Die Existenz aller lebenden Organismen hängt vom Wasser ab. Wenn wir ein Glas Wasser trinken, fließt dieses Wasser durch uns zurück in die Welt. Mit jedem Schluck treten wir in einen artenübergreifenden Austausch mit verschiedenen Lebewesen, aber auch mit meteorologischen, kulturellen, ökologischen und geophysikalischen Technologien. Unser Körper besteht zum größten Teil aus Wasser; es ist Lebensquelle und tödliches Element zugleich, bringt Rettung und Gefahr. Es kann auch eine Grenze markieren oder ein Zeichen für [...]
Stone Bell House, Prague City Gallery, Prag, Tschechien, 26.04.–11.08.2024
Deutsche Telekom is the donor of an extensive collection of Eastern European art created over the last two decades. The collection was founded in 2010 and is based in Bonn. The GHMP has also managed to assemble a rather large collection of contemporary art from the 1990s to the present day over the past ten years. Contrary to the initial proposal by Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher, the curators of the collection, to exhibit a selection from this remarkable collection, we have decided after mutual discussions to opt for a more active collaboration between our institutions. In the forthcoming project, we present a comparison of the two collecting approaches and attempt to confront the artists and their themes from our side and theirs. We also turn our attention to what both institutions reflect or pursue in their collecting strategies.
Deutsche Telekom works with the entire Eastern European area, while Czech artists are only [...]
MAC VAL - Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, Frankreich, 26.04.–22.09.2024
Exploratory and forward-looking, the programme of temporary exhibitions continues to focus on the processes by which contemporary identities and bodies are constructed, in an attempt to reflect on reality and, ultimately, to propose new scenarios and new ways of inhabiting the world. It is in this context that MAC VAL is hosting the fourth episode of the ‘Humain Autonome’ touring project, curated by Marianne Derrien, Sarah Ihler-Meyer and Salim Santa Lucia.
Car, crate, sleeper, tank, jalopy, banger, wheels – the automobile is a paradoxical object. While some adore it, others condemn it. It is, at the very least, an ambiguous symbol, the cause and symptom of many of the crises we are going through (economic, societal, climatic, philosophical). Facilitating the movement of bodies and goods, exploration but also conquest, an instrument both of freedom and control, its use has shaped landscapes, bodies and minds. As the focus of many economic [...]
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Vereinigte Staaten, 17.04.2024–15.09.2024
Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s is a survey of experimental art made by almost 100 artists from six Central-Eastern European nations, including East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia. The exhibition traces how a generation of artists with distinct experiences of locally specific state-sanctioned control embraced experimentation and interdisciplinary practices to confront at times harsh conditions of everyday life, while circumventing and eluding the very systems that sought to surveil and silence them.
The exhibition features rarely seen and newly reconstructed works. It draws on the visual arts, performance, music, and material culture to demonstrate the conceptual and formal innovation practiced by Eastern Bloc artists of the era, who were daily forced to negotiate and adapt their artistic practices within societies that enforced restrictions on how art could [...]