Video In Progress
Special Edition: New Video Art from Central Europe
Viera Levitt (SK/US) (curator)
Viera Levitt,
RISD Museum (co-operation)
opening/exhibition
Part 1: Azzoro Group (Oskar Dawicki, Igor Krenz, Wojciech Niedzielko, Lukasz Skapski), Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, Little Warsaw (András Gálik, Bálint Havas)
Part 2: Ilona Németh, Pavel Mrkus, Juraj Dudáš
Part 3: Pavlína Fichta Čierna, Zbyněk Baladrán
The RISD Museum presents a rotation of three programs guest-curated by Viera Levitt: Art Power 17.4. - 13.5., Global Impact 15.5. - 10.6., Their Stories 12.6.-8.7. Each program centers on emerging questions specific to this post-communist region.
New Video Art from Central Europe, Part 1: Art Power
With an eye for Central European artists' marked sense of irony and sarcasm, this program explores contemporary art's social side, its relationship to power, and how it can be used or misused by artists such as the Azzoro Group (with artists Oskar Dawicki, Igor Krenz, Wojciech Niedzielko, Lukasz Skapski) of Poland, Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova of Slovakia, and Little Warsaw (with artists Andras Galik and Balint Havas) of Hungary.
New Video Art from Central Europe, Part 2: Global Impact
Are artists from the Central European region dealing with the same issues as Americans? This program underlines the connections between Central Europe and United States, looking at omnipresent globalization and notions of civilization. Artists include Ilona Nemeth (Slovakia), Pavel Mrkus (the Czech Republic), and Juraj Dudas (Slovakia).
New Video Art from Central Europe, Part 3: Their Stories
The final instalment of this series, featuring artist Pavlina Fichta Cierna (Slovakia), looks closely at the stories of those who live on the margins of society; and forgotten histories from the communist past in Zbynek Baladran's video collages using the archive materials (Czech Republic).
Video in Person: Viera Levitt, Curator
May 17, 6:30-7:30 pm
Viera Levitt talks about issues in contemporary art from the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary. These countries have had similar upheavals in their recent history and are now confronting a newly emerging capitalism that is creating an interesting cultural clash. How is the contemporary art from this region different from that of Western Europe or the USA? Do artist express their experience or try to forget it in order to become global citizens? Is this concept of "region" still legitimate or important?
Free and Open to the Public
Thanks: Raster gallery, Warsaw
Viera Levitt (formerly Viera Jancekova) worked as a curator in one of Slovakia's leading Contemporary Arts Museum, the Jan Koniarek Gallery located in the historic town of Trnava from. She became director of this space in 2002, as the youngest director ever in a public art museum in the Slovak Republic.
Since 1996, she has curated or co-curated more than thirty exhibitions in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, and the USA. She gave lectures or presentations about contemporary art in Bratislava, Berlin, Rotterdam, Hiroshima, New Delhi, Caracas or Providence, RI.
From January 2006, she has lived in Rhode Island, USA as an independent curator.
vieralevitt[at]gmail.com
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