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Peter Králik, Agroskate, 2011, digital print, 75 x 53 cm, courtesy of the author.

Until the 23rd of September – Nitra Gallery
The curatorial exhibition project taking place during the 30th Summer Olympics in London presents a varied selection of works related to the theme of sports, created by contemporary artists from Slovakia and abroad. Sport is a multifaceted phenomenon; therefore it is shown from different points of view – serious and humorous.

The exhibition presents a relatively large number of videos as a reaction to our passive, TV-based relationship to sports. The selection also includes almost every medium, from drawing to interactive installation.

For easier orientation and understanding of its individual layers, the exhibition is divided into several free thematic groups. The first part is dedicated to art, connected to sports in specific ways, which critically comments on various political and social problems. Another part is looking at sports as a physical activity, training and fitness, offering the visitors a possibility to exercise directly in the exhibition halls. The exhibition tackles also topics such as memory, history, recycling, subjective experience, inner worlds and construction of new contexts. Sport is, of course, a fun activity, so one of the sections is dominated by humour, irony and absurdity. And since ice hockey is perhaps the most important sporting phenomenon of Slovakia, we have dedicated a whole room to it.

The exhibition’s ambition is not to present an exhausting survey of sporting themes in contemporary art. It is rather a living mosaic which seeks to illustrate and focus on some principal artistic perspectives of these topics. And it’s not just a one-sided relationship, because after all, some sports are now and then described as art.

Exhibiting artists: Mária Čorejová (SK), Josef Dabernig (AT), Martin Derner (SK), Ivan Dudáš (SK), Christoph Höschele & Kai Kaspar (AT), Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová (SK), Andrea Kalinová (SK), Peter Kalmus (SK), Krištof Kintera (CZ), Patrik Kovačovský (SK), Peter Králik (SK), Antal Lakner (HU), Svätopluk Mikyta (SK), Petr Motyčka (CZ), Vlad Nancă (RO), Jacek Niegoda (PL), Štefan Papčo (SK), Alejandro Paz (GT), Pode B al (CZ), Tomáš Rafa (SK), Jiří Surůvka (CZ)

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From Oct 20, 2011 to Jan 20, 2012 – Long March Space
“It dies just before it begins, and lives just after it ends. We have incorporated our perfect brackets within an infinite spiral, and use the brackets to repeatedly cut into the spiral’s coil in order to configure their self rotation and recovery.”

This outstanding exhibition, a collaboration of Wu Shanzhuan and Inga Svala Thorsdottir, is part of Long March Space’s ongoing search for artistic breakthrough in order to enrich our creative experience.

Wu Shanzhuan & Inga Svala Thorsdottir The More Things Rights Fiber glass 80 x 120 cm

Wu Shanzhuan, 1960 born in China. 1986 graduated from Normal Department of the Zhejiang Academy Of Fine Art. 1995 graduated from the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg. 1985 founded Red Humour. 1991 has been working and exhibiting collaborative with Thorsdottir Thor’s Daughter’s Pulverization Service. Lives and works in Hamburg and Shanghai.

Inga Svala Thorsdottir, 1966 born in Iceland. 1991 graduated from Painting Department of the Icelandic School of Arts and Crafts. 1995 graduated from the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg. 1993 founded Thorsdottir Thor’s Daughter’s Pulverization Servic. 1999 founded BORG. Since 1991 has been working and exhibiting collaborative with Wu Red Humour International. Lives and works in Hamburg and Shanghai.

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