Biennale Matter of Art 2022
21 July - 23 October 2022, Prague/CZ
https://matterof.art/2022
The second edition of Biennale Matter of Art will take place from July
21 to October 23, 2022, at the Prague City Gallery, the General
University Hospital, and the Šaloun Studio in Prague. The exhibition and
public program will be open to the public free of charge. The public
opening will take place on July 20–28, 2022.
The Past That Haunts Us
The biennale will comprise newly commissioned and existing artworks,
performances, guided tours, talks, and discussions. On the occasion of
the biennale, tranzit.cz will publish a bilingual anthology of texts
that will further develop the thematic anchoring of the project from
various artistic, critical, and historical perspectives. The biennale is
co-curated by members of the international curatorial group comprising
Rado Ištok, Renan Laru-an, Piotr Sikora, and tranzit.cz. The second
edition of Biennale Matter of Art in Prague explores what lies beyond
the identity of Central and Eastern Europe as a space of in-betweenness,
caught up between belonging to “Fortress Europe” and being Europe’s
periphery—a postsocialist destination for capitalist adventures. Thus
situated and aligning elsewhere, it seeks agency and collaboration while
attempting to decode complicated relations between gender, race, social
and economic status, sexuality, and geopolitics. The biennale will
examine the lives of power in vulnerability and resilience. It will
understand the violence of the present conditions in historical traumas
and will offer languages from contemporary art and visual culture that
process, narrate, or hold trauma in order to better understand how the
past haunts us still. Biennale Matter of Art 2022 imagines alternative
futures by grasping strength in relationships that may be
intergenerational, transitional, incipient, or even weak. It will
incorporate the “minor” perspectives of children, enthusiasts, kidults,
and introverts as well as the “poor” experiences of the chronically ill,
prematurely deceased, or monstrous as agents who act, create, and
deliberate meanings.
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