Exhibition
Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module
01/22/14-04/13/14
Exhibition-Related
SPACESHIP SKYPE SESSION: Conversation with Eva Kot’átková
Cover Image:
“Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module,” 2014. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Courtesy the New Museum. Photo: Jesse Untracht-Oakner
“Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module” co-curators Vít Havránek and Georg Schöllhammer will be in conversation with artists Eva Kot’átková and Boris Ondreička about their recent projects.
Biographies:
Eva Kot’átková’s practice includes works on paper, performances, sculptures, and installations. She uses these forms to examine how social norms and propaganda can restrict the individual. Kot’átková’s installations, which she has called “archives” or “databases,” often present a variety of found and altered objects alongside textual or recorded stories. Kot’átková studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague, at the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. Since 2009, she has been doing her doctoral studies at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. In 2007, Kot’átková won the J. Chalupecký Award for Young Artists and the J. Hlávka Award. Her most significant group exhibitions include the 56th Venice Bienniale in 2013, the Liverpool Biennial in 2010, and the 18th Biennale of Sydney in 2012.
Boris Ondreička was tranzit.sk project leader from 2003 to 2012. He is an artist, poet, occasional singer, and communication solutioner based in Bratislava. He has exhibited at numerous solo and group exhibitions, which include “Unruhe der Form” (2013) and “Junge Szene,” Secession, Vienna; Manifesta 2, CPCA, Luxembourg; Egon Grabstein’s “Demon.straat 00,” Attachment+, Kunsthalle Lophem, Belgium; “Generation Z,” MoMA P.S.1, NYC; “Midnight Walkers – City Sleepers,” W139, Amsterdam; “Landscape,” BAK, Utrecht; “Radiodays,” De Appel, Amsterdam; “Projekt Migration,” Kölnischer Kunstverein Cologne; and the 2005 Venice Biennale; etc.
Free with Museum admission.
Running time: One hour
Sponsors
Exhibition funding
The presentation of “tranzit: Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module” is made possible through a partnership with
Additional support provided by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
Artist travel is provided, in part, by the Trust for Mutual Understanding. Additional support for artist travel has been provided in part by Balassi Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center and the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania.
Museum as Hub FUNDING
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Artist residencies are made possible by
Support for Museum as Hub and public programs is provided, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts. Additional support for artist residencies is made possible by Laurie Wolfert.
Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.
Education and public programs are made possible by a generous grant from Goldman Sachs Gives at the recommendation of David B. Heller & Hermine Riegerl Heller.
