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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.
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
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.
Košice’s Hall of Art offers particularly contemporary visual art
Košice is gaining a new place and new possibilities for properly presenting contemporary visual art as is the standard in the rest of the world. The Kunsthalle/Hall of Art, known to Košice people as the old swimming pool hall, is one of the most architecturally interesting buildings in the town. It stopped functioning as a swimming pool after structural damage caused by the diversion of the River Hornad, an arm of which had flowed close to the building.
Tape riots in the Košice streets
Hungarian artists’ experimentation with the forms of musical theatre was fully expressed on Saturday afternoon in the streets of Košice. A crowd of people went for the music. Well known songs performed by the HOPPart theatre company echoed in the City Park, under the old bastion and on Zvonárska street. Without any musical instruments they managed to emulate current hits by Lady Gaga and Britney Spears. They also included Hungarian singles. The icing on the cake was the last song by the Košice band Puding pani Elvisovej – Gramatika (Grammar) which our southern neighbours perfectly imitated.