Curated by Lucie Černá

The exhibition is a cooperation between the Czech Center Berlin, KVOST and the publisher untitled. Presented as part of EMOP Berlin 2025.

From 5.02. to 19.02.2025, KVOST will host the "Solomiya Studio" festival curated by Solomiya Magazine. KVOST will be a meeting place to discuss art and politics, see works of art and films, read books and magazines, drink tea and eat Borscht. KVOST will be open daily from 2 pm.

The theme of the festival focuses on various forms of violence. Starting with colonial violence, ecocide, the fragility of peace agreements, and the rise of far-right parties in Germany, the festival will highlight power dynamics and their abuse.

Solomiya Magazine was founded in April 2022 in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. From visual art to personal stories, the magazine showcases the work of emerging and established artists from Ukraine and beyond, reflecting an environment marked by unprecedented imperial aggression.

The magazine is designed by the design office Kollektiv Scrollan and published by SHIFT BOOKS. The Solomiya Studio festival is made possible by the “Impact Grant 2024” of the Supporting Act Foundation of WeTransfer and by the kind support of Fotopioniere L@N, Freiraum in der Box and Blumen Marsano.

FESTIVAL PROGRAM
www.solomiyastudio.com

With Lesia Pcholka and Uladzimir Hramovich, Zofia nierodzińska, Alicja Rogalska and Aykan Safoğlu

Curated by Zofia nierodzińska and Stephan Koal

MAGDALENA CIEMIERKIEWICZ . RAPESEED

Borderland: Where do national and cultural identities begin and end? At what point do official and private histories overlap? What is visible and what remains hidden from view?

The starting point for Magdalena Ciemierkiewicz's works on display at KVOST is her home village of Koniaczów, located in the south-eastern corner of Poland, a historically multi-ethnic and multi-religious populated area close to the Ukrainian border.

Ceramics from the Heiner Körting workshop
1950-1960

The KVOST window display is illuminated daily until 10 pm.

Curated by Stephan Koal

The exhibition at KVOST is dedicated to the work of the Auto-Perforations Artisten. The group of artists, founded at the HfbK Dresden, has been active since 1982 and consisted of Micha Brendel (*1959), Else Gabriel (*1962), Rainer Görß (*1960), and Via Lewandowsky (*1963). This is the group's first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin.

Hours Against the Clock
curated by Světlana Malinová