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Open Call for German Artists
K.A.I.R. – Košice Artist in Residence with the support of Goethe – Institut in Slovakia invites artists from Germany to apply for three month residency in Košice, Slovakia
We are searching for emerging Slovak artist
Kharkov is the second largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1.5 million inhabitans. The city was founded in the 17th century. Nowadays, Kharkov is one of the most important scientific and cultural center of the country as well as a students´ center with more than 150.000 students; including 9.000 foreign students from 90 countries. Kharkov is a city with rich cultural tradition, six major theatres, numerous museums, concert halls and galleries. The city has a dozen libraries with more than 6.5 million books.
Roos van Dijk: Never Be the Same Again
Roos van Dijk will present the outcome of the three month long residency on the 21st of November in Kasarne/Kulturpark. Roos got inspired by the specific built environment of Košice – panel block areas monotonous in shape and variable in the colour palette of the facades. You are more than welcome to join us for the opening on the 21st of November at 18:00 in November pavilion at Kasarne/Kultrupark, Kukučínova 2, Košice.
OPEN CALL FOR CURATORIAL PROJECTS
As part of the Košice 2013 ECOC project, the newly-opened Kunsthalle/ Hall of Art in Košice and the Barracks/Kulturpark (Gallery Alfa) offers cultural operators, curators and artists the chance to implement their construction projects in the years 2014 and 2015
British Express opens the visual scene of the British Isles
The exhibition project British Express/Britský expres, one of the key and final projects of ECOC this year, brings a sample of contemporary visual art in the form of the works of 25 authors and presents the influence of strong pop-art lessons and the personality of Andy Warhol on the contemporary British art scene on several levels.
A CASE HISTORY OF A SOCIETY
Following the last year’s success of Anamnesis by Viktor Bodó, his student director Dániel D. Kovács is coming to put questions about the mental health of society. The ensemble Sputnik is back at Divadelná Nitra. Once again with a good portion of humour and absurdity, this time in the project Parallel Lives on the topic of secret police actives during the communist regime. Or not only then?
TIME BARRED BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Inspired by the hitherto unclarified case of the strange death by priest Coufal in 1981, the authors of the latest production at the SkRAT Theatre are studying the mechanisms which enabled, within the secret police ŠtB, the building up of a parallel power structure and mutual checking of individual members of staff including colleagues at all levels of this organisation. Mechanisms which could be functional even after the dissolution of the ŠtB.
The exhibition – Petra Římalová: Príbehy kasární
Petra Římalová is a Czech artists working primarily with video, 3D modulation and animation. She came to Košice at the beginning of September as part of our artist in residence cooperation with Pilsen 2015. In the last two months Petra has been working on a topic of genius loci of Kasarne. She tries to capture the historical […]
White Night 2013 will bring a record 41 installations and will be written in history as also having several firsts
There are several firsts and records connected to White Night/Nuit Blanche 2013, which is due to start in Košice in a few days’ time, on 5 October 2013 at 7.00pm. The city will be alive with multi-genre art until at least 2.00am and items used by the artists will include 22,000 metres of specially-produced thread, […]
Origami for White Night in Košice was folded by everybody - children \ pensioners and even prisoners \ students \ the handicapped
Origami for White Night in Košice was folded by everybody – children, students, the handicapped, pensioners and even prisoners
Amongst the firsts recorded about this year’s White Night/Nuit Blanche 2013 will also be the participative work by the French artist, Mademoiselle Maurice. It will be made of 30,000 pieces of colourful origami and installed on the wall of the Executioner’s House of Mikluš Prison. Its magic also lies in the fact that the wider public will also participate. This week in Košice schools, dormitories, and children’s clubs as well as in social services homes and prisons, folding of the necessary origami is finishing.
Penderecki is another shining star in the constellation of the cultural year
He will not be the first world renowned personality to make Košice hearts beat faster this year, and to caress our ears with harmonious tones conjured by the masters of musical instruments. Lovers of good music can look forward to an exceptional concert, full of emotion and the virtuosity of artists under the baton of a composer who is one of the best in the world in contemporary classical music.