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The Intourist-Zakarpattya Hotel1 looms over Uzhhorod, Ukraine’s westernmost city. Anchoring Cyril and Methodius Square, the brutalist behemoth built in 1979 neighbors…
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The Baltic Bubble
This was arguably the most unusual spring and summer as I had not traveled outside the Baltics for more than…
Yiddish Contemporary Art
Roughly since the 1970s, a new and largely post-vernacular Yiddish culture (Jeffrey Shandler) has started to develop in many, often…
If you wanted to do something radical, you would just stop
Hana Janečková talks to British feminist art historian and writer Katy Deepwell about feminist writing, women’s visibility in the…
Calling in Sick
Taraneh Fazeli is a curator, editor, and educator from New York. Her practice emerges from legacies of radical pedagogy and…
Engaged Tbilisi
In this account of his visit to the 3rd Tbilisi International Triennial in Georgia (1 October – 1 November 2018,…
The Migration of Experiences
The magic carpet that features in One Thousand and One Nights allows its user to travel instantaneously from one place to…
Magic Carpets 2018: The Heterotopia of Place and The Context of Textiles
In her reflections upon the residency undertaken by by two artists for Contextile 2018, the textile art biennale, which took…
Homo Novus – In the City of Abandoned Buildings
Drawing on her personal experience with the local scene in Latvia, Apolena Vanišová introduces us to the international festival of…
Urban Skanzen: Bizarre transformations of cities
The exhibition Urban Skanzen (Urban Open-Air Museum) in the Clam-Gallas Palace in Prague was about the city and its changing…
Magic Carpets 2018: Images from Slon, Bucharest and Roșia Montană
Michal Kindernay spent his creative residency as part of the project Magic Carpets in the idyllic countryside of Romania in…
Oto Hudec Ecological Insights and Planetary Perspectives
It might seem paradoxical that an artist who is committed to ecological thinking has a work about the pollution of…
DANUVIUS 1968
“The aim of the exhibition Danuvius 1968 is to present works of art reflecting the broad range of contemporary viewpoints, with…
Does What If Exist?
IT EXISTS Vít Havránek: Does something like a beginning exist? Boris Ondreička: Does it or did it? An infinite number…
Milan Adamciak Thinking and Seeing Sound, Making the Body Resound
In 2012 and 2013 a small Košice publishing house, Dive Buki, launched two publications presenting the work of the musicologist…
Štefan Klein “Design can function even without art, but then it would lose its soul.”
Štefan Klein was my teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. In his class, I drew…