The Concept Space is a brand new venue in Bermondsey debuting with Márta Kucsora on their first solo show together: Viscosity. The mission of the new project space is to become a cutting edge hub for arts professionals, and to present both UK and international artists. The current show was curated by KB Stowe with…
| March 5, 2017
Ognisko Polskie, the Polish Hearth Club in South Kensington, has been around for nearly 80 years, and on entering you almost feel you’ve been extended the courtesy of an old glamorous Polish family, with large spacious rooms and crystal chandeliers adding to the ambience. It’s a good place to hear the story of a Countess,…
| March 2, 2017
‘Cigars and delicate silks, cocaine and metal files, loose-leaf tobacco from the state of Virginia and black wine purchased on the isle of Chios. Every object had its price; they washed down each figure with Bessarabian wine, which smelt of sunshine and bedbugs.’ This is how Odessian-born writer Isaac Babel (1894-1940) describes the riches of the port-…
| March 1, 2017
The evening’s events took place in the Main Space at Rich Mix and before the music started at around 9 o’clock old Russian sci-fi movies were shown on the large screen behind the stage and the audience were offered free cups of home-made borscht. Violinist Flora Curzon and cellist Francesca Ter-Burg were the first act…
| February 28, 2017
In ‘Neon’, Eric Bednarski’s award-winning 2014 documentary, the history of Warsaw is traced through its neon lights. It’s a retelling of Polish history, mixing documentary features from several decades, focusing in on small stories alongside the great events of the recent past. We caught up with the Director here. CEEL: How did you come to choose neon…
| February 25, 2017
Another Russia: Post-Soviet Printmaking is one of V&A’s newest temporary displays, comprising around 40-50 graphic works and offering both a fascinating insight into the post-Soviet printmaking practice and a glimpse into V&A’s contemporary art collecting activity. All works on view are the museum’s recent acquisitions, some made possible through the help of grant funds, and…
| February 25, 2017
Black Hole Generation (BHG) is a Prague-based collective of young artists, whose core members, David Krňanský, Martin Lukáč and Julius Reichel, are now showing eighteen works at London’s small Dot Project Gallery. Having studied together at UMPRUM, Prague’s Academy for Arts and Design, one of the most innovative institutions in the country, BHG undoubtedly aims…
| February 24, 2017
In this award-winning documentary, director Eric Bednarski traces the history of Poland’s capital through the city’s neon lights – merging design, politics and history in an ambitiously innovative project. It’s a retelling of Polish history, so often the subject of grand films that exploit the emotional weight of its traumatic turns from Nazism to Stalinism.…
| February 20, 2017
This Hungarian duo – Veronika Harcsa on vocals and Bálint on semi-acoustic guitar – made a dynamic start to their performance and never let up. They were onstage for an hour and a quarter and played ten original songs, mostly from their new album Tell Her, plus a cover song as an encore. The two,…
| February 20, 2017
In a way, communism has always been playing on the masses. There are endless things hidden within the People – power, union and also a great deal of herd mentality. Matei Visniec’s What Shall We Do With the Cello? – performed by Atelier Theatre Studio as part of the Vault Festival 2017 – delicately opens…
| February 13, 2017