Vernisáž / opening: 14.7.2010, od 19 hodin / 14.7.2010, at 7 pm

Výstava: 14.7. - 31.7.2010

Alena Drahokoupilová

Autorka se věnuje fotografii v celé své šíři výrazů. Od dokumentu, přes foto-cykly, které jsou postaveny na dopředu připraveném scénáři, až po práci s fotografií jako prvkem instalace. Její díla nápaditě pracují s textem - například fotografický cyklus vzkazů poskládaných ze štítků na oděvech různých módních značek, nebo věty vytvořené frotáží textů z náhrobních kamenů.
Pro Kostku připravuje Alena Drahokoupilová instalaci, která bude modelem fiktivního výstavního prostoru v měřítku 1:1. Diváci uvidí dokumentaci výstavy, která nikdy neproběhla, přestože budou stát uprostřed ní.
Alena studovala v Čechách a v Německu (Drážďany) a je absolventkou plzeňské a ústecké umělecké školy.

kurátor / curator: Dušan Zahoranský
Vstupné zdarma / Free admission. Otevřeno denně, 15 - 20 hodin / open daily, 3 - 8 pm

Vernisáž / opening: 14.7.2010, od 19 hodin / 14.7.2010, at 7 pm

Výstava / exhibition: 14.7. - 17.9.2010

Skupinová výstava / Participating artists:
Jana Kochánková, KW, LÁDVÍ - Adéla Svobodová, Jan Haubelt, Jiří Thýn, Tomáš Severa, Michal Moravčík, Lucia Nimcová, Ludmila Smejkalová, Matěj Smetana, Lenka Vítková, Vlasta Žáková

hosté: Marian Kusik a Juraj Kammer

Výstava soustředí do jednoho prostoru tvořivé strategie postavené na opojných účincích iracionality. Vyprahlé letní město jako scéna pro zakázané hry a svádění. Bezčasí jako pohovka pro naše dlouhou zimou znavená těla. Prožití léta může mít podobu faktického, nebo nostalgického opisu. Víc než k uzavřenému fotoalbu, bychom se chtěli přiblížit k prožitku z nočního koupání. Souborem instalací umělců a autorek, které jsme přizvali do projektu, máme ambici vytvořit místo, které by mohlo zůstat v paměti návštěvníků jako léto 2010 v Praze. Něco jako dovolená, ze které sice máte intenzivní zážitky, ale nikdy jste na ní nebyli.
Část autorů se věnuje práci s nalezenou fotografií, resp. s ready made (Nimcová, Moravčík). Doménou skupiny Ládví (Svobodová, Thýn, Haubelt, Severa) je prohlížení míst v městské scenérii. Neobvyklé vztahy mezi každodenními předměty a našimi těly jsou tématem A. Svobodové a J. Kochánkové. Rafinované hry s galerií a vtipné dekonstrukce pohyblivého a statického obrazu jsou výsadou tvorby Matěje Smetany. Další skupinu tvoří malíři a malířky KW, Ludmila Smejkalová, Lenka Vítková a Vlasta Žáková. Posledně jmenovaní ve své tvorbě zachycují místa a prožitky, pro které jsou slova příliš ochuzující než aby popsala nezměřitelnou poezii viděného.

kurátor / curator: Dušan Zahoranský

Vstupné zdarma / Free admission. Otevřeno denně, 15 - 20 hodin / open daily, 3 - 8 p

/ artist in residence exhibition

19. 12. 2009 -  17. 1. 2010

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Sascha Pohle / Reframing the Artist

Michal Moravčík / SUBTILNÍ HISTORIE

Adam Holý / CROSFIELD

MeetFactory Artists in Residency program is supported by The Embassy of The Netherland Kingdom Prague, Fond BKVB, Visegrad Fund, Goethe- Institut Prague, Czech and German Fund of Future.

opening on Friday November 13th at 7 pm + music by Kiss Tempera & Black Dumpling, Dirt, ANTENA & dží.
exhibition will run till December 13th

In his exhibition „Visions of Macbeth”, Markus Selg concentrates the classic tragedy of Shakespeares´ Macbeth into a scenario of memories and dreams.
Using filmprojections, music, fog, wind, light and minimalistic requisites Selg creates a dreamscape throughout the MeetFactory Gallery which tells the story of Macbeth from a point of no return. From a point, where all hope is lost, euphoria is gone and destiny is certain.

Visions of a tempting prophecy;
The dream of becoming king and queen;
The illusion of ever lasting power and invulnerability;
All these ghosts appear and fade constantly throughout the hypnotic scenario of the
exhibition which culminates in the Ruins of Inverness (Lady Macbeth and Macbeth´s
former castle). Encouraged by the soundscape, including Hindemith´s Harmonie der Welt, Mahler´s 9th and Liszt´s Finale of Faust, time slows down to an expanded moment
of bitter sweet memories - waiting for the end to come.

CHORUS MYSTICUS

All things transitory
Are only symbols;
What is insufficient,
Here becomes an event;
The indescribable
Here is accomplished;
The eternal feminine
Pulls us upwards.

(Goethe, Faust, 1831)

Markus Selg, born in 1974 Singen, Germany, lives and works in Berlin, has always taken the individual work as his point of departure. Working in a wide variety of media - paintings, sculptures, computer prints and more recently also moving images - his integration of spatial structures and custom-made lighting systems began to precipitate comprehensive installations at an early stage. The universal and eternally recurring motifs of human history and mythology - creation, fall, perdition and resurrection - play a central role in these scenarios.

From 1996 to 2000 Markus Selg was part of the Akademie Isotrop (Hamburg), of which he was a founding member and co-editor of Isotrop magazine. He’s a founder and director of the publisher Possible Press.

Visions of Macbeth is not the very first exhibition of Markus Selg in Czech, following Der Übergang in Karel Tusch´s gallery Na bidýlku, Brno (2004) or full-scale “dramatic Gesamtkunstwerk” exhibitions composed together with the artist Astrid Sourkova Ketzer & Co. - Montage auf der Achse Brünn - Berlin, Dům umění, Brno (2006) and Heretic & Co. - The Golden City, Jiří Švestka Gallery, Prague (2007).
Markus Selg artworks are part of the collections of  Karel Tusch and Wannieck Gallery among others.

Selected solo exhibitions: Die Hautung - Muskel der Menschheit II, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin (2009), Delphi - The human Rainbow, Daniel Hug, Los Angeles (2007), Traum der Sarazenin, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin (2007), PAX - Lektion in Frieden, Cabinet, London (2006), MolocH, Oldenburger Kunstverein (2006), Das Testament, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln (2004), Muskel der Menschheit, Galerie Christine Mayer, München (2003), Weltausstellung, Kunstverein Braunschweig (2000).

Selected group exhibitions: Spuren der Sonne - Eine apokalyptische Oper / M. Selg, J. Kounellis, W. Herzog, b 05, Montabaur (2009), Heaven, 2nd Athens Biennal (2009); Der Müde Tod - oder der Gang über die ekstatische Treppe, KAI10 - Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf (2009); Ciclo Kenneth Anger, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon (2009), Vertrautes Terrain - Aktuelle Kunst in & über Deutschland, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2008), Imagination Becomes Reality, ZKM, Karlsruhe and Sammlung Goetz, München (2007/2006), Thetrouble with fantasy, Kunsthalle Nürnberg (2005), deutschemalereizweitausenddrei, Frankfurter Kunstverein (2003), Offene Haare, Offene Pferde - Amerikanische Kunst 1933-45, Kölnischer Kunstverein (2002).

Exhibition is suppotted by the Czech-German Fund For the Future.

podpora / support: AV MEDIA, a.s.

Artist in Residence exhibition

Miriam Visaczki & Claire Waffel (GER)
Igor Sevcuk (NL)
Antena (CZ)

opening on Tuesday September 15th at 7 pm + playlist by NiKa&Grae
16. 9. - 4. 10. 2009
exhibition is prolonged to October 4th

MIRIAM VISACZKI AND CLAIRE WAFFEL
Dancing with tears in my eyes

Miriam Visaczki and Claire Waffel’s installation concerns family history and its narration. What precisely may be described as the place of origin of a family and does this place continue to bear relevance after several generations?

While researching the German and Jewish history of the town Poběžovice, close to the German border in Western Bohemia, the focus of their research was transformed.

Poběžovice had a strong Jewish community for centuries. In the 17th century the famous rabbi Baal Shem Tov from Galicia bathed in the Mikvah of this town. Therefore, for many years Poběžovice was a place of pilgrimage for Hasidic Jews. In 1939 Poběžovice became part of the so-called Sudetenland and was annexed to Germany. The Jewish population had to flee or were otherwise killed in concentration camps. In the 1990s the Mikvah was rediscovered by a rabbi from New York, which resulted in Hasidic Jews from the US, Canada, Belgium and other countries travelling to Poběžovice again to bathe in the Mikvah.

The artists selected 8 places that form part of the research into their own family histories and documented these: Meclov, Tanvald, Svitávka, Prague (Czech Republic), Valbert, Waldmünchen (Germany), Kolomyia (Ukraine) and London (UK). In cooperation with different family members they developed a narration that links Poběžovice with these towns.

The artists are presenting works of Miriam’s father Verner V. Visaczki. He was born in Strakonice in 1944 and worked as an architect his whole life. Since retiring in 2001 he has been creating square graphic drawings, which he calls „Metopes” after the example of square plates above the columns in a Greek temple. In these Metopes he archives encounters, birthdays, the total sum of days he has been alive into a raster of 7 by 7 squares. For this exhibition the artists have constructed a narrative out of the collection of his drawings, which is divided into chapters of the 9 places.

IGOR SEVCUK
Haso - a synthesis of the global hero, 2007
Video installation: 2 synchronous projections 14:00, 1 monitor video 4:50

In the video the man is telling jokes and reading from a book. “The moment that Haso entered my room I perceived from his face and manner of walking that he was in the coldly-correct frame of mind which was his when he felt dissatisfied with himself …”
The reading performance of the man is vulnerable - he appears to be a macho type from a peripheral country.

The nickname Haso is commonly used in Bosnian jokes. In the video installation Haso is positioned between the fragments of ‘Russian classic literature’ and ‘Austrian classical music’. Four transnational jokes add up to the unease of Haso’s anti-hero story.

ANTENA - installation and performance, 1st floor

ANNA 2V2A 50Hz installation a meditative image (4 TV monitors - live synchro video/audio), a set of video loops converted into the audio form as low-threshold and high-threshold harmonies based on 50Hz frequency.

ANNA 2V2A 50Hz performance 15 & 22 work in progress
cca 25 min
are abstract synchro audio/video images in a continuous mind stream of the conscious „Self” and its disorders issuing from a reflection on an individual’s present…

!!! warning… it is not advisable for people suffering from epilepsy to visit this performance (contrastive B/W strobe images at 50 Hz and strong sounds are used during the performance)