„CLARA MOSCH und frühe Kunstaktionen in der DDR“
With thanks to the Berlin Commissioner for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship for the funding. With kind support of Lindenau-Museum Altenburg.
ISBN 978-3-96912-178-8
Upcoming . Nona Inescu . KVOST SchauFenster . Opening 13.12.2023 . 7 pm
For the KVOST SchauFenster, Nona Inescu will present a new body of work entitled Offerings.
The works revolve around Tamata votive images – metal depictions of people and objects related to human life. In Modern Greek, the word “”tama” refers to an offering usually presented to a specific deity as gratitude for granted assistance. It is a kind of pledge fulfilled when a person or their relatives are in danger or unwell. The life-sized votive offerings in the window display prompt reflection and reassessment of the significance of ritual gestures in a constantly evolving world.
Nona Inescu (*1991) lives and works between Berlin and Bucharest.
taz
„Der Ukraine-Krieg verändert alles“
An exhibition at the Berlin art association KVOST brings together artists from Georgia, Ukraine and Belarus. A conversation with the curator Marija Petrovic.
Finissage Larisa Sitar . 18.11.2023 . 7-10 pm
Performance by Finja Sander &
Music by Matti Gajek
To conclude the exhibition of Larisa Sitar, KVOST invites you to a performance and music.
Finja Sander chooses the medium of performance as a recurring constant in her works. She looks for breaks and ambivalences in the everyday, for disregarded automatisms that she picks out, isolates and brings into new contexts within multi-part processes.
Sander completed her studies at the UdK Berlin in 2022, as a master student of Valérie Favre. She is recipient of the UdK Berlin Art Award 2023.
Matti Gajek produces and performs electronic music under the pseudonym Gajek. From an East German perspective, Gajek inscribes himself into the progressive mythos of “Krautrock” and Western modernity. He shifts the focus onto a side of German (musical) history marked by the material traces of the Cold War.
His music has been played in the Trauma Bar, Berghain, and Printworks London, among others.
Gallerytalk.net
„Ornamente als soziopolitische Informationsträger
Larisa Sitar im KVOST“
Review by Marlene Sichelschmidt
Berliner Zeitung
„Dieses schwankende Gefühl“
Artikel von Ingeborg Ruthe
Introducing NEWEAST at BAW Garten
17.09.2023 . 1pm
BAW Garten at the Neuen Nationalgalerie
Presentation of the Neweast Network for Central and Eastern European Art and the digital platform
On its digital platform NEWEAST features exhibition houses, project spaces and cultural institutions and mainly focuses on two aspects. On the one hand, the digital platform contains an interactive map of cultural locations that is linked to a newsfeed in which the members of the network can independently advertise events and grants. On the other hand, there is a blog in which Neweast continuously publishes interviews with artists and cultural actors around the topic of Eastern Europe.
Introducing NEWEAST : Panel Discussion & Launch
15.09. 2023 . 4 pm
at KVOST
For the launch of the NEWEAST platform, a panel discussion will explore the situation of art spaces in Eastern Europe. The participants will talk about the art scene in Eastern Europe and address the question of what motivates artists today to take matters into their own hands.
NEWEAST is a network that aims to connect cultural institutions in Central and Eastern Europe and increase their visibility.
Participants:
Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher, curatorial team focusing on Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Germany / Boyana Dzhikova (curator), Vikenti Komitski (artist), founder Punta and Postaspace in Sofia, Bulgaria / Yane Calovski (artist), founder press to exit in Skopje, Northern Macedonia / Marija Petrovic, KVOST and NEWEAST in Berlin, Germany
