16.11.2023 / at 18:00 / Pragovka Gallery / Kolbenova 923, Prague, Czech Republic / 16.11. - 14.12.2023
Overlooked Horizons
Ewa Doroszenko and Jacek Doroszenko are a duo of intermedia artists from Warsaw, exploring the relationship between sound, image and landscape. Jacek Doroszenko is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, while Ewa Doroszenko earned her doctorate in fine arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. Since 2014, Ewa and Jacek Doroszenko have been creating unique scores in the form of video works, graphic and photographic installations as part of their international artist residencies. The resulting works have been presented by the artists at numerous exhibitions, including the Witold Lutoslawski National Forum for Music in Wroclaw, the Polish Institute in Düsseldorf, Cidade das Artes in Rio de Janeiro, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts in Vancouver, Fait Gallery in Brno, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, FIESP Cultural Center - Ruth Cardoso in Sao Paulo. The audiovisual exhibition "Overlooked Horizons" presents recent works by the Doroshenko duo exploring the relationship between the observer and the natural landscape. The large-format photographic prints, sound installations and video works presented in the exhibition are based on the artists' insights from numerous real and virtual journeys. Just as in the late 18th century people traveled in search of the "genius loci" of places, sights and moods that transported them to another time and allowed them to distance themselves from everyday life, today the Doroshenko duo discovers landscapes of unique qualities through artistic journeys online and offline. The artists' works have been created as part of international Artist-in-Residence programs, including at Kunstnarhuset Messen Ålvik (Norway), The Island Resignified Lefkada (Greece), AAVC Hangar Barcelona (Spain) and Pragovka Gallery (Czech Republic).
Ewa Doroshenko - intermedia artist, doctor of fine arts, lives and works in Warsaw. Graduate of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in 2019 and the City of Torun in the field of culture in 2013 and 2011. Winner of many international competitions, including Preview - Fait Gallery Brno 2016, Debuts 2018 - doc! photo magazine, Debut 2018 - Lithuanian Photographers Association, and finalist in Noorderlicht International Photo Festival 2021, Kranj Foto Fest 2021, International Festival of Photography FIF BH - Brazil 2020, Athens Digital Arts Festival 2020, GENERATE! Festival for Electronic Arts 2019, Der Greif and the World Photography Organisation open call 2018, FILE Electronic Language International Festival Sao Paulo 2015, Biennale of Young Art Fish Eye 2013, Grey House Foundation Competition in Krakow 2011. Resident artist, among others. Re_Act contemporary art laboratory in Portugal, Atelierhaus Salzamt Linz in Austria, The Island Resignified Lefkada in Greece, Petrohradska Kolektiv Prague in Czech Republic, Klaipeda Culture Communication Center in Lithuania, AAVC Hangar Barcelona in Spain, Kunstnarhuset Messen Ålvik in Norway. She has presented her works at the Contemporary Museum Wroclaw, Wozownia Art Gallery in Torun, Fait Gallery in Brno, Propaganda Gallery in Warsaw, Exgirlfriend Gallery in Berlin, Witold Lutoslawski National Forum of Music in Wroclaw, Polish Institute in Düsseldorf, among others.
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Jacek Doroshenko - Audiovisual artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage 2020, the City of Toruń in the field of culture in 2011 and resident at, among others, AAVC Hangar Barcelona in Spain, Kunstnarhuset Messen Ålvik in Norway, Atelierhaus Salzamt Linz in Austria, The Island Resignified Lefkada in Greece, Petrohradska Kolektiv Prague in the Czech Republic, Klaipeda Culture Communication Center in Lithuania. He has participated in The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale in Rio de Janeiro, FILE Electronic Language International Festival in Sao Paulo, Transmission Arts Festival in Athens, ISEA International Symposium on Electronic Art in Vancouver, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Future Places Festival in Porto, European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, R>>EJECT Radicals Festival in Rotterdam, CoCart Festival CCA in Torun, Open Source Art Festival in Sopot, Mediations Biennale in Warsaw, among others. He has presented his works at Propaganda Gallery in Warsaw, Exgirlfriend Gallery in Berlin, One Dva Tři Gallery in Prague, Starak Family Foundation in Warsaw, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Witold Lutoslawski National Forum of Music in Wroclaw, Polish Institute in Düsseldorf, among others. The artist's visual work is echoed in the field of music and sound art. His musical compositions have been released in the form of albums of international scope, including Infinite Values, Time Released Sound in the USA; Wide Grey, Eilean Records in France; Soundreaming and Bodyfulness, Audiobulb Records in the UK.