Current Exhibitions at the East Slovak Gallery in Košice:

1. “Power and Frailty”
Exhibition duration: 25. 5. 2023 – 1. 10. 2023
Curators: Monica Holmen, Rikke Komissar
Artists: Karrar Al-Azzawi, Bente Sommerfeldt-Colberg, Olia Fedorova, Audun Jansen Haga, Celina Kanunnikava, Anna Konik, LesiaVasylchenko
Alžbetina 22, Košice

In the face of war and conflict, artists have used their voices throughout history to express their views and to protest. As an art institution, the gallery acknowledges the importance of doing what they can to increase the visibility of engaged voices. The exhibition Power and Frailty presents seven artists who in different ways comment or reflect on issues concerning war, conflict, power dynamics and news coverage.

Read more: https://vsg.sk/en/power-and-frailty/

2. “Elemir Halasz-Hradil 1873 – 1948”

Exhibition duration: 10. 3. 2023 – 10. 9. 2023
Curator: Miroslav Kleban
Exhibition space A, Hlavná 27, Košice

This exhibition project is the outcome of two years of scientific research activities dealing with the life and work of the Košice artist Elemír Halász-Hradil. The exhibition is a continuation of the established research strategy, which gradually monographically maps out the work of individual representatives of Košice Modernism. Elemír Halász-Hradil has so far been marginally perceived as a modestly progressive modernist who ranks among the classical representatives of modern art. Halász-Hradil represents the so-called early modernism that formed before 1918. The essence of his creative activity lies in following the legacy of plein-air painting imbued with post-impressionist tendencies and Central European luminism.

Read more: https://vsg.sk/en/elemir-halasz-hradil-1873-1948-2/

3. Refik Anadol – Winds of Košice
Exhibition duration: 14. 12. 2022 – 23. 11. 2023
Zánik planéty, Hlavná 27, Košice

Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is a media artist, director, and pioneer in data and machine intelligence aesthetics. His body of work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. In taking the data that flows around us as the primary material and the neural network of a computerized mind as a collaborator, Anadol paints with a thinking brush, offering us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expanding the possibilities of architecture, narrative, and the body in motion. Anadol’s site-specific AI data sculptures, live audio/visual performances, and immersive installations take many forms while encouraging us to rethink our engagement with the physical world, its temporal and spatial dimensions, and the creative potential of machines.

Read More: https://vsg.sk/en/refik-anadol-winds-of-kosice-2/