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If I Could Melt Your Heart Mm, hmm; Art, Pedagogy and World Creation
22 May 2019
Galerie TZB
Berlin, Germany
admission free
The exhibition is the result of several years’ collaboration between the Leinemann-Stiftung für Bildung und Kunst and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
This is the second competition for students and graduates of the Academy, which is joined by two German artists Andreas Greiner and Julius von Bismarck.
Despite the fact that the individual works were submitted by the applicants themselves and without a given assignment, the curator Václav Janoščík created a cohesive exhibition that combines a certain struggle with reality, capitalism and consumer culture. Individual artists, whether they work with image, sculpture, video, or installation, point to various social and cultural problems associated with today and our economic order.
Whether it is the idea of destruction or the end of the world (Eva Fajčíková, Matouš Háša), the influence of technology and artificial intelligence (Artur Magrot, Filip
Hauer), images of violence and its normalization (Philipp Kolychev), or social inequality (Julius von Bismarck) – young artists confront acute problems of today's society. It is not at all a political or committed art, nor a search for a solution - it is much more about trying to face these problems with some strength, energy and sensitivity.
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