Category: Past

During the lecture, Nikola Ivanov will present his artistic research focused on the biopolitics of sleep and the colonisation of nighttime. In both topics, the key concept is “24/7 society” denoting the current state of a continuous flow of information, data and capital, which erases the differences between day and night, and forms from sleep the last biological resistance before the complete application of this system. Is it possible to destroy both sleep and the darkness of night?

At the next open studios night, you will have the chance to meet our two newest artists – Markéta Dlouha and Anna Kryvenko.     Markéta Dlouhá is a Czech artist whose work focuses on personal narratives and ecology through the creation of books, graphics, poetry, drawings, embroidery and light installations. Her eco-friendly approach to […]

With her captivating painting, Olena Pronkina draws us into stories in which scenes from her real life intertwine with parallel dream worlds. Color, a painting technique reminiscent of a fresco and suggestive environments or compositions will attract our curiosity with positive anticipation. But the melancholy-emptied faces and the inquisitively almost longingly lengthening limbs of the monumental shapeless figures indicate the experience of other stories

Natalia Revko is a curator and researcher from Odesa, who participated in a two-month KAIR residency. During this time Natalia was researching the topography and landscape of Kosice tracing city flows, the influence of public art objects on routes as well as how citizens overtake the city by walking. 

On February 22, we are going to have an artist talk with Olena Pronkina, who will introduce you to her work and the topics she focuses on. She is primarily interested in figurativeness through anthropomorphism, which for her is an inexhaustible source of visual possibilities through which she creates and seeks a place in the world for herself.

We cordially invite you to the lecture The City and the City with Natalia Revko, who will introduce you to modern and contemporary art in Odesa, Ukraine.