report: fine arts / new media

Interview with Roman Ondák

This conversation between Roman Ondák, Manuela Hötzl and Antje Mayer was coincidentally recorded when they met for the first time at an English course for beginners.

FUTUROPOLIS

The obstacles to a joint east-west approach, or why Slovak artist Roman Ondák does not want to be noticed.

A Revolution on Standby

Author Aaron Moulton tries a 72 Hours jump into Kiev's Contemporary Art scene

Art: The Best of the Summer. No summer-time doldrums in the south, south-east

The rumour of the "silly-season" that is supposed to take over during the summer months is a persistent one. Our author Nina Schedlmayer finds that as far as far the visual arts are concerned it can be disproved. In addition to the mega-events of this year – various biennales as well as the "Documenta 12" in Kassel – she has also found a considerable number of less gigantic but none the less exciting projects.

"THE BLACK FILE" - COLLAGE

About the Croatian artist Sanja Iveković, who will be represented at documenta 12 in Kassel this year.

The Balkans Thing

Grita Insam opened her gallery in Vienna 36 years ago, Andreiana Mihail opened hers in Bucharest six months ago. On the occasion of the VIENNAFAIR art fair in Vienna the two gallery owners spoke with “Report” about their pioneering work, global markets and the gap that followed Picasso.

Freedom comes

“There is no border, there is no border, there is no border, no border, no border, I wish.” (Sejla Kamerić)

I - “Scheissliche Ostblocker”.

The exhibition "I (Ich) | Performative Ontology" throws a light on the self that is far removed from the vanity of self-reflection (from 22.September to 12. November 2006 in the Secession in Vienna)

“Intensify the contact to the galleries and art institutions in the eastern and south-eastern Europe”

Thanks to the support of KONTAKT twelve galleries from Central Europe are again represented at this year’s viennAfair, the art fair in Vienna. Report has chosen four of these galleries.

"We also see our collecting strategy as a political statement”

A conversation with Boris Marte, sponsoring director of Erste Bank, which is showing its new collection for the first time both in MUMOK and in the tranzit workshops in Bratislava.

East Art Map

An (artists) review of the contemporary production of art in Eastern Europe.

"Bringing Communism to the Museum"

The Socland Foundation had invited the citizens of Warsaw to come there on that day and to donate exhibits for the future Museum of Communism to be housed in the cellars of the palace...

"The Drive Towards Discourse"

A period of European history reached its conclusion in 1989: communism. The formerly communist and socialist countries each experienced this epoch in different ways and thus also produced very divergent cultural and art scenes.

"A Stroke of Good Fortune"

On the exhibition “Kontakt ... works from the Collection of Erste Bank Group” in the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna (MUMOK) and in the tranzit workshops Bratislava.

Art Histories, plural.

The Polish art historian Piotr Piotrowski about his recently published book “Avant-gardes in the Shadow of Yalta. Art in Central and Eastern Europe 1945–1989".

Non-conformist Murmansk

Tales of unfulfilled dreams in the far north of Russia.
A portrait of the artproduction and artists in Murmansk.
By Seva Dymodel, Kirill Junolainen and Sergey Mombus.

In active cooperation

Andrea Zlatar, specialist in literary studies and essayist, was town councillor with responsibility for cultural matters in Zagreb from 2001 to summer 2005. Dea Vidović spoke to her about politicians' ability to learn and the possibilities of partnerships in the so-called "independent cultural scene".

In Memory of Igor Zabel 1958—2005

A personal obituary by Mária Hlavajová

Visionary Perspectives, Platforms of Cooperation

Dedicated to: Igor Zabel 1958-2005

Expensively Framed

The ViennAfair art fair was celebrating its premiere this April. Over two dozen galleries from Eastern and South-eastern Europe have come to Vienna for this occasion. Nina Schedlmayer introduces six of the most interesting ones.

"The history of contemporary art in this collection is a history of 'neighbourhoods'"

Outline portraits of four members of the international jury for Kontakt - The Art Collection of Erste Bank Group of contemporary and modern art: Silvia Eiblmayr, Jiří Ševčík, Branka Stipanić, Adam Szymczyk, Georg Schöllhammer

Collecting as a Political Task

Kontakt - The Art Collection of Erste Bank Group has been newly organized and is now monitored by a jury of international experts. Since 2004 greater emphasis has been placed on acquiring art from Eastern and South - eastern Europe, works dating from the sixties and seventies and, above all, contemporary works.

SAVE IT! Of the Desire to Accumulate

An exhibition about saving as a part of everyday life in Austria, held in the Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, in cooperation with the DIE ERSTE Österreichische Spar - Casse Privatstiftung

Do you do it too?

"The History is not given, we have to construct it."

Uniform histories and the globalisation of art or: how the former East Block countries are fighting for authenticity. A commentary by Antje Mayer

Going it Alone – Persistently

The Swiss approach to financing culture in the European context, or: what kind of impact, if any, does the Swiss method of culture financing have on the cultural life of Central and Southeast Europe?
A commentary by Sibylle Birrer

"I'm a painter, but nobody believes me"

A portrait of the Czech artist Jiří Skála, who was taking part in the artist-in-residence programme of the Museumsquartier in Vienna 2005.

What's happening at tranzit?

Classic texts of post-modernism in Czech, lectures and workshops in Slovakia, discussions about nowadays in Vienna next year.

What in fact is tranzit and who is behind it?

We introduce the people who devised this trans-disciplinary subsidy programme and those who organize and curate it.

“What I had to learn was communication”

In tranzit to Vindicate Contemporary Art. A Comment by Vladan Šír

Where are We in Central and Eastern European Art?

The end of the year 2005 tranzit.cz organized its biggest and boldest event so far in the Czech Republic: The symposium "Authentic Structures" in Prague

"We want to start small but first-rate initiatives"

Boris Marte has been head of Corporate Sponsoring in the Erste Bank Group for two years. With him this company has embarked upon an ambitious path towards private culture financing that Marte likes to describe in terms of "cooperation and learning communities". The team behind Kontakt was rounded off at the beginning of the present year by the addition of Christine Böhler. Patricia Grzonka spoke to both of them about their activities, relationships of trust, networks and mutual learning processes.

“We do not need a spectacle”

As the word itself implies, “tranzit” is the act of passing over, across, or through something. The word also refers to this process - “tranzit” as a conveyance, a vehicle for movement.

Forward gear!

Snot out of the nose or, who is Boris Ondreička?

Portrait of the slovakian artist, curator mediator and director of tranzit.sk.

Intellectual space East

"The show must avoid using the same old Balkan clichés"

The Secession (Vienna) is showing the exhibition BELGRADE ART INC., which deals with the area of art in the Serbian capital Belgrade (from 1.7. to 5.9.2004).
A conversation between Georg Schöllhammer, Stevan Vuković and Marko Lulić.

Summer cinema for all the senses

Cineastes can celebrate summer this year at two film festivals: in Slovakia in June and then in Istria (Croatia) in July: the Motovun Film Festival (MFF) in the Croatian village of Motovun and Artfilm in Trenčianske Teplice (Slovakia)

“Slovenia's only chance lies in opening up”

A portrait of Igor Zabel (1958-2005), director of the Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana and Slovene representative on the advisory board of tranzit.

Tilling with care

The contemporary art platform tranzit has been dedicated to forging art and culture networks between East and West since 2002. But who are the persons at the bottom of tranzit? Here we present a portrait of the curator Vít Havránek.

„We're currently in a very decisive phase for private sector arts sponsorship“

Boris Marte (Erste Bank) in conversation with Matthias Herrmann (Secession)