Maja and Reuben Fowkes – World of Art / Art and Climate Change
#1 min Tea Záchová
5. 12. 2023
The well-known duo of curators Maja and Reuben Fowkes, who have been exploring ecological art and the interest in the environment for a long time, bring a wide spectrum of contemporary artists’ reactions to the ecological crisis (some notable mentions include the Slovak scene, Oto Hudec or the APART collective). In five chapters, through the general concept of the Anthropocene, we progressively delve into the depths of planet Earth all the way to minerals, mining, and an interspecies understanding of the world, across the toxicity of waste and towards a search and listening to the voices of indigenous tribes. The book contains rich illustrations of artworks and projects in various media such as painting, photography, installations, performance, video, conceptual art, and collaborative work. World of Art / Art and Climate Change is a contemporary bible of the most burning questions of the drama of life with a simple interpretation and context, making it suitable for a wide audience.
Maja and Reuben Fowkes. World of Art / Art and Climate Change. London: Thames&Hudson, 2022. ISBN 978-0-500-20475-7
Tea Záchová
#2 min Fotograf Zone
FOTOGRAF ZONE FESTIVAL 2025 – TALK TOGETHER
The fifteenth edition of the international Fotograf Zone Festival, titled TALK TOGETHER, focuses on language and interpersonal communication in its many forms. This year’s festival will be presented in a condensed ten-day format, running from 3 to 12 October 2025, and will offer audiences new perspectives on how language shapes our relationships, understanding, and conflicts.
#2 min Natalie Drtinová, Dorota Franková
Dorota Franková – Tenderness and Pain of Dorota Franková’s Portraits
In her work, Dorota Franková focuses on portraiture. While the portraits of others tend to be full of tenderness and fragility, her own are captured in exacerbated situations or via manipulated photographs that emphasise the restlessness of the mind.
#1 min Tea Záchová
Katy Hessel – Story of Art (Without Men)
#1 min Tea Záchová
Anna Volkmar – Art and Nuclear Power: The Role of Culture in the Environmental Debate
#1 min Tea Záchová
Boaz Levin, Esther Ruelfs – Mining Photography / The Ecological Footprint of Image Production
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Darja Lukhanenko – How to make rockets disappear?
#3 min Polina Davydenko, Tea Záchová
Polina Davydenko – Cosmoses of Justice and Ordinariness
Laziness, dissatisfaction, voyeurism, irony, human and extra-social energy and its phenomena that accompany us in today's hot days are important spices used by author Polina Davydenko. She sprinkles this spice on the main characteristics of her works about the quite common but important topic of home.
#3 min Tea Záchová, Julie Béna
Julie Béna – Like the Moon in the Sun is my Shadow
Associative visual games characterize French artist Julie Béna as an artist who uses a refined language to bridge two words – ambiguities transform unbounded speculations, thus creating a hibernating indeterminacy of reading. Essential to her work is the open concept of two realities that can interpenetrate within a particular choreography and scenography.