External activity |  Epilogue (A Form of an Argument) | Yane Calovski and Hristina Ivanoska’s exhibition  | Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje |  10 November 2018 – 11. February 2019

The artistic practice of internationally recognized Macedonian artists, Yane Calovski and Hristina Ivanoska, which date since 2000, is complex and contextual. It is engaged with issues and concepts of architecture, history and art theory, and political reality, so it can create new process productions, storyline of displays and new knowledge. Their works are created in different media from drawing and text to object, installation and video.

 “Epilogue (Form of an Argument)” is the third and final exhibition of a three-part series conceptualized around the individual and collective practices of the artists. It brings together installations, drawings, objects, videos and photographs of recent projects (2015-2018) including a new series of works “9 Principles of Open Form” realized as part of the research project “Opened, Formed and Unbuilt: Oskar Hansen’s MOMA” (2018-).The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication.

International Symposium Curating Exchange | Presentation by Lisa Nyberg: The body as a spaceship: meditation as an artistic and experimental practice | Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje | 26th October, 2018, 8pm

"Bravely balancing into the body as a spaceship, confronted with an unknown and disturbing future, we will work on our collective care and endurance skills and share our knowledge in a breathing, listening and collective writing session." Our guide to this journey is Lisa Nyberg, a visual artist based in Malmö, Sweden. She explores the radical possibilities of pedagogy and performance through processes that involves collective, utopian, transgressive, intersectional and critical practices. In her work, she is addressing cultural and educational canons, by examining the production, position and transmission of knowledge.

International Symposium Curating Exchange | Presentation by Gergely László | Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje |  13th October, 2018, 8pm

The presentation is part of Press To Exit Project Space’s yearly program titled “Undisciplined Forms of Knowledge” in the frame of Lectures, Presentations and Exhibitions Series, and the International Symposium “Curating Exchange 7: Curating Urban Communities”.

Gergely László (1979) is a member of the artist collective Tehnica Schweiz with Péter Rákosi (1971) since 2004. Tehnica Schweiz has worked in collaboration with Serbian artist Katarina Šević (1979) on several occasions in the past years. László and Šević are both currently based in Berlin. Between 2002 and 2012, in Budapest, they were involved in running a variety of art spaces including Dinamo, Impex - Contemporary Art Provider and Lumen Foundation.

Curators in Residence | Jovanka Popova and Mira Gakjina |  Curating Urban Commons Project at Limidity Temporary Art Projects  |  Morocco, 9-23 October, 2018

What is the input of social clashes in the process of producing contemporary art practices? How do we interpret different histories and its direct effect on urban development and visual art? Addressing subjects such as the historical and urban development of El Jadida, with its rich multicultural diversities, the research interests are focused upon practices that generate process of modification of actual into new kind of social reality, on the level of interaction between the artistic and the daily experience.

Announcement | Jovanka Popova selected as curator of the European exhibition 2019 of CreArt Network

The Members of the CreArt Network have recently appointed the curator from Skopje (Macedonia)  Jovanka Popova, European Curator of the CreArt Exhibition 2019, "The Third Place", to be presented next year in Zagreb (Croatia), Clermont-Ferrand ( France) and Lecce (Italy). During this month, all the CreArt cities will open calls for the selection of artists and then, the European Curator, Jovanka Popova, will make the final selection of artists and projects that best fit the concept "The third space".