Conversations on the Edge of Europe #1 | Kasia Harciarek & Marta Bełkot: From Katowice to Porto — Serendipity, Art and Gentrification
We begin our new interview series on emigration – in Porto, where Polish printmakers Marta Bełkot and Kasia Harciarek co-run the artist collective Squid Ink Works — a unique space blending a gallery, printmaking studio, and boutique. We chat about their professional journeys, the daily reality of being female artists, and carving out a space of their own on the map of Portugal.
Urban Art Festival Styria in pictures: Mots, HNRX, Jacoba Niepoort and Lunar working on murals in Graz
The Urban Art Festival Styria 2020 in Graz recently launched its annual street art event that featured sprawling new murals across the city and villages from the region. Future Icons association and STUWO student’s house together with the artists, fine art students have prepared music performances, exhibitions, interactive installations, and other creative programs during the […]
Arnold, I love you – Andrzej Matuszczak
Arnold, I love you III Pracownia fotografii, 2017 A series of digital photos dedicated to Michał, who lifted weights all his life, literally and metaphorically. Andrzej Matuszczak, urodził się w Poznaniu w 1993 roku. W 2019 r. ukończył Uniwersytet Artystyczny w Poznaniu, na kierunku Fotografia. Obecnie zajmuje się projektowaniem graficznym oraz fotografią dokumentalną »» […]
Works created in isolation – Catalina Aranguren
Catalina Aranguren’s work explores the relationship between perception and cognition. The artist doesn’t set out to look for subjects. The texture, shape, or relation between subjects will instantly fascinate her, and she will in turn try to document the moment. Her work focuses on the irrelevant and mundane, elevating documentation created by using light and […]
My First Pandemic – Yuvraj Khanna
With oncoming of the pandemic, my immediate concern was the shutting down of the borders of both my current resident country U.S.A and home country India. Separated from my family and living alone, I started to explore the human condition of how a pandemic and self isolation can alter the relationships & our dependency between […]
In between – Jana Gombiková
How do we choose whether someone is to be seen as male or female? How does this choice affect the way we perceive the person? Even though certain features are typically attributed to one gender or another, there is no clear-cut reality. In my portraits, I capture women with no conventional feminine characteristics visible […]
Retro – Karolina Siwicka
Erika Lust is taking forever to download because everyone is glued to the Internet, and they’re taking all the bandwidth. At that very moment, when my brain is mutating like the pathogens from Wuhan, I thought that the only reaction to this reality is creating one of your own. Spamming it with an alternative image […]
Open call: ONE BOOK Residency by ONE Project
The aim of the open call is to create a group of people with diverse theoretical or/and artistic backgrounds. The online residency will take 3 days and will end with a discussion. Due to the ongoing pandemic, we ask you to spend the residency period at your own homes, but we will offer you […]
Void by Diego Jock
An important Brazilian artist used to say: “up close, nobody is normal.” But after all, what is normal in our time? We are all hyper-connected, consuming information from all sides. The brightness of the cell phone reaches our eyes hundreds of times a day. Fact is, we can no longer be alone. Silence and loneliness […]
Cows of the Rising Sun – Alan Weiss
In the beginning there was a Cow. She was born from a melting glacier and her name was Auðumla. She fed the giant Ymir, the ancestor of the Frosted Giants – the Thurs. Hence perhaps the gossip clad in a neat adage: “Drink milk, you’ll be great!” Except that Ymir was a giant before he […]
Stray cats by Olga Plesińska
A free living cat, basically half-wild, passes under the feet, finds a quiet place to sleep in an abandoned building. Every morning shows up at the door of a shop or restaurant and waits for breakfast. And usually gets it. If not – will find something for himself in the bin. Stray cat lives with […]
Mots and HNRX in Austria. Work in progress photos
In November this year Mots and HNRX met in Austria and they painted two walls together. One of them you can find in Graz, another one in Vienna. They worked in collaboration for the first time. // Graz / // Vienna // HNRX & Mots // Jakob More about HNRX » More about […]