Watching for exhibitions and happenings outside of the main stage.
ECHO by Klára Hosnedlová in White Cube Bermondsey
Within the capacious, post-industrial chambers of White Cube’s Bermondsey site, sprawling manmade structures appear abandoned to, or overtaken by, massive growths that are organic in kind.
MODERN LOVE (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) in The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST)
Explores the state of love and human bonds in the age of the Internet, social media, and high capitalism, probing how the digital sphere, the impact of technology giants, and neo-liberal practices have transformed love, social relations, and the way we interact with one another.
Telling The Bees by Kyriaki Goni at The Breeder Gallery, Athens
“Drawing equally from science fiction aesthetics and rural ingenuity, the Beeseeker’s attire evokes both survival gear and ceremonial costume”.
‘Credit History’ Off-site Show as part of the ‘Dirty Laundry’ by PLAGUE, Krasnodar
“The 20th century still haunts us
All ages haunt us”
- Arthur Golyakov
Spit Bite by Anastasia Sosunova at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga
Who’s Laughing Now? group exhibiton at Art Quarter Budapest
Brings together international artistic positions in which humor serves as a method for transforming reality.
POSTAPOCAPITALIST by Miklós Mécs, Miklós Mécs, Miklós Mécs and Miklós Mécs (+ Judit Fischer and the AMBPA) at Trafó Gallery, Budapest
Intermedia artist Miklós Mécs is constantly testing his own greed; he is very dedicatedly leaving his strongest ideas behind, he loves to ‘potter about, but only for a minute’ and ‘waste a lot of energy to demonstrate his indifference’.
SPY GIRLS by Mad Matrixx, Cyber Shadow, Void Vigilante at Vaba Lava Theatre, Narva
SPY GIRLS tells the story, based on true events, of three artists, involved in the fight on the cyber front gathering information. How far can one go in carrying out an online investigation?
SYNTHETIC SEDIMENT by SILVIA NORONHA at Museo for TheWrongBiennale
“Plasticglomerates constitute compelling evidence of human impact on geological processes, serving as a potential marker of a new geological era”.
SURFACE LATENCY by FELINA H.DB. in collaboration with Current Obsession at Museo for TheWrongBiennale
The project investigates how these substances express vitality, fragility, and resistance, operating as expressive surfaces, reflecting and representing both inner and outer states of glow.
Phantom Stories by Yelena and Viktor Vorobyev taking place simultaneously at Aspan Gallery and Social and Cultural Space DOM36, Almaty
"The ambivalence of our relationship with the past and its ghosts" - art historian Viktor Misiano on the exhibition.
Pharmacy Receipts by Katz Tepper at Prairie, Chicago
“The pharmacy receipts signal the body’s dependencies, its open and responsive systems, its interwovenness with hostile systems. Its situatedness in time and place and the attendant prevailing logics, beliefs, and value systems that govern “healthcare”, as in, people’s lives. Maybe I care so much about seeing an artist’s pharmacy receipts because I reckon with the mysterious impulse to make and re-assemble things with my hands, and having my (aching, swollen) hands full with pharmacy receipts”.
- Katz Tepper
Machines Complex by B. Ingrid Olson in Croy Nielsen, Vienna
“Changes can come from one or multiple points in the process. Differences in output from camera to development to scan to computer screen to printer to wall. This transference of information offers errors—or identifiable differences in the reproduction. In the marginalia, I am thinking of surgery, pulling a body apart, explosions, scattering of bodies, identities, information. Maybe that machines and systems, though not human, are a way of regathering and reconfiguring the image-info shrapnel.” - B. Ingrid Olson.
Red flags, Group exhibition curated by PLAGUE, fabula gallery, Moscow
Red Flags is the final exhibition in a three-year series of PLAGUE projects focused on exploring the relationship between art, design, and society. Each time, the curators draw on recognizable visual images or cultural phenomena associated with their production and circulation: design, fashion, pop art, etc.
In drawing, in remembrance by Shahana Rajani in Para Site, Hong Kong
‘In drawing, in remembrance’ follows communities in coastal Pakistan who employ various drawing practices to confront displacement and infrastructural violence.
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