Dear BLOK magazine community, After several years of dedicated work and profound care for BLOK magazine, we, the editor-in-chief team, have resigned from our postto establish a new platform, MOST magazine (www.mostmagazine.org / @mostmagazine__). We have spent our time since 2021 shaping BLOK in a way that reflects our values and interests, working closely and tirelessly […] The post BLOK Editorial Team Resignation appeared first on BLOK MAGAZINE.| BLOK MAGAZINE
Joanna Sokolowska: Where do you come from as an artist? Your work is full of references to various cultures, philosophical and spiritual systems. Could you tell us your most important inspirations? Jacek Zachodny: I come from the land of coincidences, travel, curiosity, wandering, observing the world, meeting interesting people. People who have created something. As […] The post Everyone and Everything Deserves Respect, Some Form of Understanding, to Be Given a Chance appeared first on BLOK...| BLOK MAGAZINE
Joanna Sokołowska: Let`s start with the core of your work – your engagement with architecture and design. How did your interest, particularly in socialist and utopian architecture, originate? Andrea Pichl: I think it all began with an experience in 2005 when I designed the exhibition architecture for “Too Much Future – Punk in der DDR”. […] The post Tracing and Reworking the Erased Past appeared first on BLOK MAGAZINE.| BLOK MAGAZINE
Joanna Sokołowska: We are meeting five years after your graduation from the Dutch Art Institute. Can we start our conversation with your formal and nonformal education as an artist? Ulufer Çelİk: Sure. First I was trained as an architect at Istanbul Bilgi University, and then I did my MA at the Dutch Art Institute, which […] The post Mythmaking Has a Potential to be Critical appeared first on BLOK MAGAZINE.| BLOK MAGAZINE
The Konrad and Paweł Jarodzki International Artists-in-Residence Programme creates conditions for artistic work at the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe. Its aim is to support artistic processes, cooperation and research in dialogue with the foundation’s history, educational and social activities. The residency hosts four artists, selected by the programme’s artistic committee, for a […] The post About the Konrad and Paweł Jarodzki International Artists-in-Reside...| BLOK MAGAZINE
War and weapons and dead bodies and children left without parents and dictators who live in their own made-up worlds devoid of any trace of humanity. That’s mainly what has been running through my head as images, videos, or just plain texts for the past two years. Every time you think “this cannot get any […] The post Caring About Each Other in Times of Unrest and Violence appeared first on BLOK MAGAZINE.| BLOK MAGAZINE
Joanna Sokołowska: Your residency in Krzyżowa coincided with the end of your studies in Painting at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Wrocław. From our conversations so far, I have realised that a lot of your experience, inspiration, and knowledge of the world comes from the internet, and that you are […]| BLOK MAGAZINE
Anna Zvyagintseva is a Ukrainian artist, a member of the Hudrada curatorial group, a participant of the Ukrainian Pavilion “Hope!” of the 56th Venice Biennale and a winner of the Pinchuk Art Prize 2017. At the time when the interview was conducted she resided and worked in the Netherlands. Currently Zvyagintseva is based in Kyiv. […]| BLOK MAGAZINE
A feeling of melancholy is being experienced throughout different artistic projects in Athens this year, possibly reflecting the collective grief of a country marked by major losses – from the fifty seven people killed in the Tempi train crash in February, exposing the incompetence of public infrastructure, to the radical gentrification of Athens’ city centre […] The post DON’T TELL ANYONE appeared first on BLOK MAGAZINE.| BLOK MAGAZINE
Between Bridges is delighted to present an exhibition by Romanian conceptual artist Ioana Nemeș (1979–2011), to date the first solo show of the artist in a non-commercial art space in Germany. Trained as a professional handball player, an injury led to her changing path and becoming an artist. She went to study photography at the […] The post Times Colliding – Ioana Nemeș appeared first on BLOK MAGAZINE.| BLOK MAGAZINE