ON TV: Kateřina Šedá

Gallery Walkthrough on CAN-TV, Channel 21
Sunday, January 20th @ 3:00pm

Watch a gallery walkthrough with the artist Katerina Seda and curator Hamza Walker this Sunday at 3 pm on CAN-TV21. Seda will speak about her project It Doesn't Matter on display at The Renaissance Society until February 10th.

Find schedule updates and a full list of showtimes here.

Watch the gallery walkthrough online now here.

PRESS: Kateřina Šedá

Alan Artner in the Chicago Tribune: It Doesn't Matter an "enthralling exhibition organized by The Renaissance Society," read the full article here

Also read the reviews in TimeOut and New City

THE RADIO: Kateřina Šedá

International Three to See
Chicago Public Radio
Friday, January 11 @ 8pm
WBEZ 91.5 FM

This week on Chicago Public Radio's Eight Forty-Eight, Matt Cunningham and Hamza Walker will discuss Katerina Seda's exhibition at The Renaissance Society as part of the 32C segment.

Listen now online at CPR's website.

INSTALLATION: Kateřina Šedá

This week we've been hanging hundreds of drawings for our new exhibit Kateřina Šedá, It Doesn't Matter, play the slideshow below to check out images of the installation. The show opens this Sunday, January 6th, from 4 to 7 pm, Šedá will be giving a presentation on her past projects from 5:00 - 6:30 pm in Cobb 307.

LINKS: Kateřina Šedá

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Arratia, Beer

OPENING: Kateřina Šedá, It Doesn't Matter

Opening reception Sunday January 6, 2008, 4 to 7 pm, with a discussion with the artist from 5 to 6:30 pm.

Czech artist Kateřina Šedá’s primary media are her friends, family, and community of her native town Líšeň. Šedá uses performance, staged activities, and public interventions to reactivate social concourse as it is the basis for a sense of self predicated on group identification. The Society will present It Doesn’t Matter, a series of over 600 drawings executed by Šedá’s 77-year-old grandmother, cataloging in size and type the various tools and supplies sold through the Brno hardware shop her grandmother managed for over thirty years under communism. While therapeutic in intent, the result is a profound reflection on memory and subjectivity as expressed through, rather than in spite of, alienation.

VIRTUAL TOUR: Meanwhile, in Baghdad...

PRESS: Building Dissent

Patrick Klemz for New City:

"Meanwhile in Baghdad" strikes countless lurid notes concerning U.S. action in the Middle East, a credit owed to the vast diversity of perspectives employed. Much of its success in achieving novelty lies in a refreshing international focus; the rest is a product of masterfully subtle but provocative posturing.

Read the full article here

PRESS: 2 exhibits examine toll of war in Iraq

Check out Alan Artner's Tribune article on Meanwhile in Baghdad and the HPAC's "Consuming War" show. Artner remarked:

Each show presents examples of traditional painting, drawing and photography, but two of the more effective works are in so-called new media: Kenneth Goldsmith's "The Weather (Spring)," a recording of weather reports giving conditions in New York and Baghdad during the first 15 days of combat, and Wafaa Bilal's "Al Qaeda R Us," a video showing the sad American intervention in the affairs of nine countries. The one is numbing, the other infuriating, which memorably fixes the range of emotions prompted by these intelligent exhibitions.

Read the full article here

Meanwhile in Baghdad Installation

This week we've been installing our upcoming exhibit Meanwhile, in Baghdad... Here are some pre-installation shots of Jonathon Monk's Deadman:



Meanwhile in Baghdad will open Sunday, November 11, 2007.

Meanwhile in Baghdad Opens November 11

From the demise of communism to the Iraq war, globalization has taken a turn from the rhetoric of optimism to the reality of conflict. With the war going into its fifth year, the events in Iraq are less the headlines these days and more a backdrop. Meanwhile in Baghdad… is a group exhibition which takes the war as a general context in which to examine a range of artistic responses, some as direct as Daniel Heyman’s Abu Ghraib Project in which the artist made engravings based on firsthand accounts he gathered from victims of torture, and others as viscerally poignant as a series of bandaged bed frames by Jannis Kounellis.

Artists include Adel Abidin, Walead Beshty, Matt Davis, Daniel Heyman, Jenny Holzer, Maryam Jafri, Jannis Kounellis, Ann Messner, and Jonathan Monk.

Opening reception Sunday November 11, 4 to 7 pm, with a discussion with the artists from 5 to 6 pm.

Wrens Video DJ Art Party

The Wrens hosted an Art Party featuring music by DJ Oto and visuals by Stoptime 341. Thanks to The Wrens for throwing another successful event!