Contemporary art across the evolving global peripheries
This exhibition took place in the Saint Sofia underpass in the shops and pedestrian zones between the Central Universal Shop and the Sheraton Hotel, June, 20-24, 2001.
“The 8th of March” women’s group has existed in the cultural horizon of Bulgaria since 1997 when a few female artists got together to react against the “Erotica” exhibition in which only male artists were invited to take part. Little by little, spontaneity gave way to organized work and, since then, eight exhibitions, a few international projects, catalogues, brochures, and a CD have been issued.
“The 8th of March” carries all … Read more
NSK: Retro-Spection, Halsey Gallery at the College of Charleston Charleston, South Carolina. May 11 to June 9, 2001
In 1989, the same year that British artists were responding to Thatcherite Britain the art collective NSK-Neue Slowenische Kunst (New Slovene Art,) was formed in 1983 when the music and ideological group Laibach joined with the fine arts group Irwin and the theater group Red Pilot (later- Sester Scipion Nascine Theatre and most recently Noordung Cosmokinetic Theatre). Prior to the formation of NSK, Laibach also created its own visual artwork under the name of Laibachkunst. The only previous showings … Read more
Group exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia. April-June, 2001.
By definition, “small talk” refers to those seemingly insignificant things that we say in between the periods of discussions concerned with important, universal matters. Small talk may not change the world, but it reveals the concerns of our daily lives, it may be about a small idea, a small problem, a small joy, a small disorder, a small defeat, or a small victory.
We actually engage in small talk all the time, with friends and colleagues, family members and people we know well but only meet on the … Read more
“Actual Infinity”, The Prague City Gallery – Municipal Library, 2nd floor. Marianske Square 1, Prague 1 110 00, Czech Republic.
The baroque period in Bohemia was a time of universal education and cultural practice, and it showed a tendency toward individuality, sensuality, freedom, and imagination. Both art and architecture reflected these changes, and due to the dramatic developments in science and mathematics, The Prague Museum Mathematicum was established in 1722. This Prague version of the Roman Museum Kircheranium included natural objects and scientific instruments in its vast collection. A recent exhibition at the Prague City Gallery unveiled the conflicts and … Read more
The New Connection, curated by Lubomira Slusna. Opened February 1, 2001 at the World Financial Center, New York City. Includes works by Jiri Cernicki, Anton Cierny, Michal Gabriel, Vanesa Hardi, Robo Kocan, Vladimir Kokolia, Patrik Kovacovski, Marek Kvetan, Martin Mainer, Ilona Nemeth, Michal Nesazal, Petr Nikl, Petr Ondrusek, Jiri Prihoda, Lukas Rittstein, Dorota Sadovski, Frantisek Skala, Emoeke Vargova, Katerina Vincourova, Dusan Zahoranski.
It has been more than seven years since Czechoslovakia split into two independent countries, and no matter how many international links the artists in both countries have established since, their once common connections and mutual interests have … Read more
Ilya Kabakov: 50 Installations. Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland: www.kunstmuseumbern.ch
“For Kabakov, art remains an inevitable, existential need and a therapy for survival. The artist loves the museum not merely as an institution, but as a personal refuge,” Svetlana Boym argues in her recent essay for this publication, The Soviet Toilet and the Palace of Utopias. In his retrospective exhibition, 50 Installations, Ilya Kabakov has turned his refuge into his playground. The tripartite exhibition itself displays many of the features of Kabakov’s “total installations.” This is most evident in “The Children’s Hospital,” a hospital ward with two beds, on the … Read more
Amateur–variable research initiatives 1900 & 2000. Göteborgs Konstmuseum, 20 May – 17 September 2000.
Curators: Charles Esche (SCO), Mark Kremer (NL), Adam Szymczyk (PL). Artists exhibited: Eija-Liisa Ahtila (FIN), Pawel Althamer (PL), Tacita Dean (GB), Maria Eichhorn (D), Hreinn Fridfinnsson (IS/NL), GLOBE (DK), Jens Haaning (DK), Susan Hiller (GB/USA), Job Koelewijn (NL), Edward Krasinski (PL), Maria Lindberg (S), Kirsten Mosher (USA), Dan Peterman (USA), Børre Saethre (N), Gregor Schneider (D), Anika Ström (S), Jörgen Svensson (S), Kathy Temin (AUS), Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson (IS), Richard Wright (SCO).
The exhibition entitled Amateur – variable research initiatives 1900 & 2000, held at … Read more
Peripheric 4, Iassy, Romania (May 18-24, 2000)
Peripheric was brought to life only four years ago, on the initiative of artist Matei Bejenaru. Iassy had until then been an isolated and conservative town with regard to the visual arts, in spite of its long and important literary tradition. Since Peripheric, this situation is completely changed: a whole new group of young artists has sprung up, hoping to focus attention on this yearly event. This year, the festival included three great exhibitions of international art, a symposium dedicated to “Strategies for Promoting Contemporary Art” that gathered artists from both … Read more
Monika Duda. Unmade. Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland. 10 March-30 April 2000.
Monika Duda, born in Lublin, Poland, in 1967, lives and works in London. Duda studied art history at the ATK University in Warsaw, 1986-1992, and at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, 1991-1992. Solo exhibitions: The Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, 1999; selected group exhibitions: “What Difference Does It Make”, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge, 1998; “Le Jardin”, Stockwell Studios, London, 1998.
Monika Duda’s Unmade, a series of several dozen photographic self-portraits made over a period of six months (from January … Read more
Die Sanft-Mutigen. Moscow metaphysical painters of the 60’s – 90’s: Mikhail Shvartsman, Vladimir Vaisberg, Eduard Steinberg, Ilya Tabenkin, Dmitry Krasnopevcev. 11/17/99 – 12/16/99, Russisches Haus der Wisenschaft und Kultur, Friedrichstrasse 176, 10117 Berlin.
Neues Moskau (New Moscow). Art from Moscow and St. Petersburg: Andrei Chlobystin, Vladislav Mamyshev, Timur Novikov, Inspection “Medical Hermeneutics”/Pavel Pepperstein, Yevgeniy Yufit. 11/12/99-1/9/00, ifa gallery, NeustŠdtische Kirchstrasse 15, 10117 Berlin. Open daily (except mondays, 12/23-12/27 and 12/31-1/1) 2-7pm. 4/7/00-5/27/00 ifa gallery Stuttgart, Charlottenplatz 17, 70137 Stuttgart 6/20/00-8/5/00 ifa gallery Bonn, Welckerstrasse 11, 53113 Bonn http://www.ifa.de
For Russian 20th Century Art, Berlin has proven to be quite a … Read more
Conceptual Reflection in Polish Art – Experiences of Discourse: 1965-1975, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. May 31 – September 5, 1999
Conceptual Reflection in Polish Art. Experiences of Discourse, 1965-1975, exhibiting at Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw from May 31 until 5 September, 1999, is the most comprehensive review of the achievements of Polish conceptual art until now. It features works created between the end of the 1960s and the first half of 1970s. The exhibition attempts to sum up an artistic tendency which still exerts a considerable influence on the development of art … Read more
Sprengel-Museum, Kurt-Schwitters-Platz, Hannover, Germany. 14 March – 16 May 1999. Catalogue DM 25,–.
This is not an ordinary Kabakov exhibition. Since his emigration from Russia in 1988, Ilya Kabakov has been known mainly for his “total” installations, in which he creates little parallel universes that possess their own artistic logic, or rather, stage the context in which the objects on display make sense. In this and other contexts, Kabakov has produced a large number of drawings. The Hannover exhibition, however, is dedicated not to drawings that would be part of some particular context, but to the “autonomous” drawings that Kabakov … Read more
Gallery Foto/Graphik Kaethe Kollwitz; Kollwitzstrasse 58, Berlin, Germany, until 8 June 1999
This open-air gallery at the site of the former home of German artist Kaethe Kollwitz regularly shows new works by various artists. It is a dynamic medium commemorating Kaethe Kollwitz’s deep social and human concern that made her one of Germany’s foremost expressionist artists. Playing on Berlin’s location between East and West, Prigov’s drawing “The Bridge” falls into the genre of his “newspaper drawings” and is open to various interpretations.
Rubinshtein Mix. . . This time, we’ll start like this (Lev Rubinshtein, “This time”, 1987): There is another … Read more
The Quest for Freedom. Moscow Artists of the 1950’s – 1970’s. Die Suche nach der Freiheit. Moskauer Künstler der 50er – 70er Jahre.
Berlin, Russisches Haus, Friedrichstrasse 176-179. Until 2/14/99, open daily 2-7 pm.
Lauenburg (Germany), Zündholzfabrik, Elbstrasse 2 (2/21/99 – 4/21/99, open mondays to fridays 10 am – 4 pm, saturdays, sundays 10 am – 1.30 pm. Closed over Easter. The full-color catalogue costs DM 35,–.
During the years following Stalin’s death, freedom in the Soviet Union first of all meant personal and political freedom. Artistic freedom from the norms of Socialist Realism, however, was more than a side … Read more
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