26/01/2015

What happens when you turn your own house into a museum? Estonian artist Flo Kasearu did so in 2013. The house in the Pelgulinn district of Tallinn has been in her family for generations and is now a museum where her own art is exhibited. Or should you say, her own life? In Flo’s case, the art forms are diverse - it can be film, object, performance, drawing, painting, or something else. And here the house itself becomes kind of an artwork and also the subject matter of several pieces. Read more...

23/01/2015

400,000 visitors in three months – just 60,000 less than the Venice Biennale received in over half a year. Those are the stats for India's first contemporary art biennale (the Kochi-Muziris Biennale), which took place two years ago. Those are impressive numbers when one takes into account that most people still associate India with things like complex-ridden Westerners searching for their spiritual true-selves, the beaches of Goa, the dreadful scenes from “Slum Dog Millionaire”, and the Taj Mahal – but definitely not as a destination for contemporary art tourism. Read more...

An express-interview with Latvian artist Indriķis Ģelzis

21/01/2015

In one of his interviews, Ģelzis has said that what makes an artist happy is to be able to work constantly, and it seems that he adheres to this principle daily – he has already two exhibitions slated for this year, and has also secured a position at a European residency program. Arterritory.com met with Ģelzis before he headed to Vilnius, where his exhibition will on view at the Vartai gallery through February 7. Read more...

An interview with Polish artist Mirosław Bałka

19/01/2015

Mirosław Bałka graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts as a sculptor, but over time became one of those artists who widened the horizons and possibilities of this medium in the contemporary art world by depriving his works of visible figurativism and forcing the audience to feel their own figurative selves. He creates his works out of soap, ash, air and emptiness. And sometimes out of heat. In general, he creates wonders, although they are quite materialistic. Read more...