Boris Ondreička is a freelance curator and occasional artist based in Bratislava, SK, and Vienna, AT. He is the former artistic director viennacontemporary (Vienna, AT), director of tranzit_sk (Bratislava, SK), co-curator of Class of Interpretation (Prague, CZ), and curator at TBA21 (Vienna, AT). Amongst many he co/curated Rare Earth, Olafur Eliasson „Green light—An Artistic Workshop“, Ephemeropteræ, Supper Club (all at TBA21), Manifesta 8 (Murcia, Cartagena, ES), The Question of Will, OSF (Bratislava), Empire of the Senseless, Meetfactory (Prague); Being The Future, Palast der Republik (Berlin)… His artistic projects were part of Bergen Assembly 2019, Manifesta 2, Venice- (Roma and Czecho-slovak pavilions), Tai-Pei-, Athens-, Kyiv-, Jakarta- biennales; MoMA PS1 and New Museum (NYC), BAK (Utrecht), W139 (Amsterdam), Smak (Gent), Tramway (Glasgow), Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo (Turin), Le Plateau, Air de Paris (Paris), Badischer Kunstverein (Karslruhe), Würtembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart), HMKV (Dortmund); Kiasma (Helsinki); HKW (Berlin); Steirische Herbst (Graz); Secession, Mumok, Kunsthalle, Belvedere (Vienna)… Amongst many, his texts were published in Sogni / Dreams (Castelvecchi, 2003, Francesco Bonami and Hans Ulrich Obrist eds); Now What? Artists Write! (Revolver, 2004, Mark Kremer, Maria Hlavajova, and Annie Fletcher eds.); One Second | Out of Time (Revolver, 2004); The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist (e-flux and Revolver, 2004, Jens Hoffmann eds.); Hi! Lo. (JRP Ringier, 2011); Lecture Performance (Revolver, 2009); Studio Olafur Eliasson: Open House, TYT (Take Your Time) (Walther König, 2017); Spevník / Songbook (Brak, 2018). He lectured at CalArts (Los Angeles), Royal College of Arts (London), DAI (Enschede and Arnhem), ACAF (Alexandria), CUNY Brooklyn College and New Center for Reasearch & Practice (both NYC), HKW (Berlin), De Appel (Amsterdam), and at academies in Bratislava, Brno, Prague, Vienna, Linz, Budapest, amongst others.
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Ad Hoc: The Second Contemporary*
For a larger version of the accompanying graphic, please click here. The arts, thanks in significant part to the Serfdom Patent (mobility) and the Toleration Patent (pluralism; both 1781 in CE region), moved away from work based on commissions. Commissions meant expressing the world of others. Art moved vehemently towards the expression of the self.… Read More »