Opening of the exhibition
Potential Agrarianisms
Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava, SK
20. 8. 2021
Exhibiting artists: Melanie Bonajo, Gerard Ortin Castellví, Anetta Mona Chişa, Annalee Davis, Ferenc Gróf with Jean-Baptiste Naudy, Oto Hudec, Marzia Migliora, MyVillages, Ilona Németh, Uriel Orlow, Prabhakar Pachpute, Alicja Rogalska
Potential Agrarianisms sets out to diversify agriculture and pluralise its histories, recovering suppressed peasant pasts and activating their unrealised possibilities, destabilising urban-rural dichotomies, repairing the disconnect with the natural world and restoring caring and reciprocal relationships to the soils and plants that nourish us. Uncovering its origins in colonial plantations and embeddedness in the operations of extractive capitalism, the exhibition explores alternatives to the globalised system of industrial agriculture with its patent formula of chemical additives, noxious pesticides and genetically modified seeds, vigorously cultivated with fossil fuel machinery.
More about the exhibition here.
Opening program:
2 pm
Slovak guided tour:
Ilona Németh, Jen Kratochvil, Maja & Reuben Fowkes
4 pm
Book launch "Ilona Németh: Eastern Sugar":
Maja & Reuben Fowkes, Ilona Németh, Anetta Mona Chişa, Ferenc Gróf, Lucia G. Stach
moderator: Michal Hvorecký
6 pm
English guided tour:
Maja & Reuben Fowkes
Curators: Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Organizers: Ilona Németh, Katarína Karafová, Katarína Figula
Exhibition architect: Peter Liška
Duration: 21. 8. – 31. 10. 2021
Place: Kunsthalle Bratislava, 1st floor
Project partners:
SNG, KHB
