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Exhibition in Kragujevac

 

The Velizar Krstić Foundation and Galerija Đura Jakšić are pleased to invite present the 'Velizar Krstić Award Exhibition', featuring works by Velizar Krstić, Damon Kowarsky, and Hyunju Kim.

Official opening by HE Mr Daniel Emery, Australian Ambassador to Serbia.

Wednesday 6 November from 7pm

Exhibition continues until 26 November

Galerija Đura Jakšić
Karađorđeva 36,
Kragujevac

Gallery hours Monday to Friday 9am to 8pm

Media in Štúrovo

 

'From the Mountains to the Sea'

 

Gallery NWC and the Blue Mountains Creative Art Centre are pleased to present

From the Mountains to the Sea

Recent etchings by Damon Kowarsky

Opening Saturday 16 November from 5 to 7 pm

Exhibition continues from 14 to 25 November 2024

Gallery NWC

188 Katoomba St

Katoomba NSW 2780

Sixth Art Encounters - Art Composition 2024

 

You are warmly invited to the opening of the Sixth Art Encounters - Art Composition 2024 on Thursday 24 October at 7 pm.

This exhibition includes artworks by almost 130 artists from 12 countries, including paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures.

Cultural Center House of King Peter I
Vase Pelagića 40, Belgrade, Serbia

Exhibition continues until 8 November

Video from 'My Brother is Back'

 

 

Video from 'My Brother is Back' at WIP Space London. Curated by Hamja Ahsan and featuring works by Shahidul Alam, Matthew Krishanu, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Tom Dream, Damon Kowarsky, Senaka Weeraman, Helena Wee, and May Ayres.

2024 Australian National Brooch Show

 

The Contemporary Art Society Victoria's 2024 Australian National Brooch Show opens on Saturday 26 October at Fitzroy Library from 11am to 1pm. Come along for a refreshment and 'try and buy' with the CAS team!

Fitzroy Library
128 Moor Street, Fitzroy

Exhibition continues until Sunday 12 January 2025.

Library Hours
Monday 10am to 6pm
Tuesday to Thursday 10am to 8pm
Friday 10am to 6pm
Saturday 10am to 4pm
Sunday 2pm to 5pm

Bridge Guard Residency Show

 

Galéria Júliusa Bartu
Barta Gyula Galéria
Bridge Guard Residential Art and Science Centre
Hídőr-ház - Alkotóhely művészeknek és tudósoknak

Dom Strážcu mosta - Rezidencia pre umelcov a vedcov
Works from the Residency

Drawings by Bridge Guards #63
Damon Kowarsky and Hyunju Kim (AUS)

Opening: Friday 25 October 2024 from 6pm

Exhibition continues until Wednesday 30 October

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Munkák az alkotóhelyből

63. hídőrök rajzai
Damon Kowarsky és Hyunju Kim (AUS)

Megnyitó: 2024. október 25-én (pénteken) 18 órakor

A kiállítás október 30-ig tekinthető meg

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Diela z rezidencie

Kresby 63. Strážcov mosta
Damon Kowarsky a Hyunju Kim (AUS)

Vernisáž 25.10.2024 (piatok), 18:00 hod

Výstava potrvá do 30. októbra

Otváracie hodiny:

Piatok od 8:30 do 16:00 hod
Nedeľa od 14:00 do 18:00
utorok od 8:30 do 16:00 hod
Streda od 8:30 do 18:00

Galéria Júliusa Bartu
Hlavná 6, 943 01 Štúrovo

Exhibition - My Brother is Back

 

WIP Space is pleased to present

My Brother is Back: An Exhibition, Archives and Events programme reflecting on Islamophobia, Extradition and Prisoner Solidarity.

Curated by Hamja Ahsan

WIP Space, Wandsworth
Wentworth House, Dormay St
London SW18 1EY

Exhibition continues 21 August to 8 September

Artists include Shahidul Alam, Matthew Krishanu, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Tom Dream, Damon Kowarsky, Senaka Weeraman, Helena Wee, and May Ayres.

Bridge Guard Residency, Štúrovo

 

Over the next three months Hyunju Kim and I will be in Štúrovo, Slovakia undertaking an artist in residence at the Bridge Guard Residential Art and Science Centre.

We will be working on drawings exploring the history, culture, architecture and environment of Štúrovo and Esztergom. You can see our work in progress here

RTV Valjevo

'Morning Show' on TV PRVA

Incognito Art Show

Delighted to be supporting the 2024 Incognito Art Show.

With over 15,000 artworks by over 6,000 artists all proceeds help support arts organisations provide emerging artists with professional pathways to inspire and develop a new generation of art collectors and supporters.

Viewing days

Monday 8 July 10am to 8pm
Tuesday 9 July to Thursday 11 July 10am to 2pm
Friday 12 July 10am to 7pm

In-person sale days

Saturday 13 July 8am to 6pm
Sunday 14 July 10am to 5pm

410 Oxford St, Paddington, NSW 2021

'Dream Sanctuary' at PG Gallery

 

PG Gallery is pleased to present

Dream Sanctuary

This exhibition explores depictions of wildlife and landscape through dreams and the unconscious. Reconfigurations of the familiar into the unfamiliar. Creatures that fuse the natural world and human industry. Landscapes that reflect the uncanny, sometimes elusive imagery of dreams, myth, and fantasy.

Features artists Chris Ingham, Hannah Caprice, Paul Compton, Damon Kowarsky, Hyunju Kim, Ying Huang, and Lana De Jager.

Opening night Thursday 18 July from 530 to 730pm

Exhibition continues 16 to 27 July

PG Gallery
227 Brunswick Street Fitzroy VIC 3065
Gallery hours Tuesday to Friday 10am to 530 pm                                          
Saturday 11am to 5pm

Interview in Eyes on Wellington

 

Exhibition - Global and Dynamic World of Today

 

International Art Studio Radovan Trnavac Mića is pleased to invite you to the opening of

Global and Dynamic World of Today

Recent prints by Damon Kowarsky and Hyunju Kim

"The global and dynamic world of today, facilitated and emphasized by communicative ease, has changed the way of life for many artists who have replaced the former customary static existence with pronounced mobility. Acquiring new knowledge, establishing contacts, exchanging ideas and experiences with colleagues and audiences from various environments are valuable and fruitful aspects of the artist’s relocation and active “travel”.

The artistic duo Damon Kowarsky and Hyunju Kim belong to the group of authors who have gladly embraced the challenges of mobility. While domiciled in Australia, their professional creative and exhibition activities have been conducted worldwide: from the United Kingdom, Greece, the USA, New Zealand, India, Hong Kong, Oman, Egypt, China, to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, France, and the Balkans, namely Montenegro and Serbia (Studenica, Sićevo, Niš). From the perspective of their creativity, this flexible existential concept is highly inspirational and positively effective."

Milica Todorović, Art Historian

Exhibition opening Thursday 4 July from 7 pm

Gallery hours 11 am to 7 pm Tuesday to Sunday
Suvoborska 48/1, 14000 Valjevo, Serbia

Catalogue Essay by Milica Todorović

 GLOBAL AND DYNAMIC WORLD OF TODAY

The global and dynamic world of today, facilitated and emphasized by communicative ease, has changed the way of life for many artists who have replaced the former customary static existence with pronounced mobility. Acquiring new knowledge, establishing contacts, exchanging ideas and experiences with colleagues and audiences from various environments are valuable and fruitful aspects of the artist’s relocation and active “travel.”

The artistic duo Damon Kowarsky and Hyunju Kim belong to the group of authors who have gladly embraced the challenges of mobility. While domiciled in Australia, their professional creative and exhibition activities have been conducted worldwide: from the United Kingdom, Greece, the USA, New Zealand, India, Hong Kong, Oman, Egypt, China, to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, France, and the Balkans, namely Montenegro and Serbia (Studenica, Sićevo, Niš). From the perspective of their creativity, this flexible existential concept is highly inspirational and positively effective.

At the core of Damon Kowarsky’s opus is the visualization of personal impressions of a physically defined living environment, which for him is a transient place of temporary residence and acquaintance. Through the specificity of his practice and poetics, he creates a visual diary, a unique personal image of the world in which geographical landscapes and cities he has visited and with which he has established an empathetic or intuitive connection are accentuated. The artist’s focus is directed towards urban architecture, both extraordinary and mundane buildings in a natural environment, or towards the immediate landscape. Kowarsky changes vistas, finds specific viewpoints, carefully “captures” the scene, but in his artistic interpretation, he concentrates on an intimate experience that is contemplative, with a sense of harmony and balance. Kowarsky’s artistic elaboration fundamentally rests on meticulous and precise drawing, precise treatment of form whether it is of natural or architectural origin, skillful framing, clearly defined perspective, and fine, almost pastel soft gradation of tones, mainly of two colors, green and gray. With these means and thanks to his great personal artistic skill, Kowarsky transforms the real environment into a quiet, mysterious, lyrically intoned artistic scene that serves as a sanctuary from the noisy and chaotic world of today.

Hyunju Kim, originally from South Korea where she was also educated, bases her creativity on the codes of the so-called collective cultural memory. The artist re-contextualizes historical facts of different origins that are sourced in the mythological, spiritual, or folkloric backgrounds and creates new shelves to display them on. An important part of her opus includes animalistic motifs and ornaments of a geometric or floral type. By combining these elements, the artist creates situations of projected and imagined reality so that her works assume magical or surreal characterization. Hyunju Kim uses the potential of the artistic heritage of the Asian region as a reference field for her own work, primarily in a formal stylistic sense. Meticulously precise drawing, neutral background, absence of spatial depth, i.e. emphasized two-dimensionality, ornamentation of surfaces, and the application of various colors are important components of her artistic expression by which she creates imaginary scenes with enigmatic messages.

Damon Kowarsky and Hyunju Kim are artists whose life paths are intertwined but who, according to their own sensibilities, nurture individual artistic poetics and different artistic expressions. What they have in common is cultivated artistry, exceptional dedication to the creative act, and impeccable mastery of the demanding graphic technique of etching-aquatint in which all the works represented at the exhibition in Valjevo were created.

Milica Todorović, Art Historian

Complete Catalogue

Exhibition - Art + Travel

 

Solander Gallery New Zealand is pleased to present

Art + Travel - New and recent works by Damon Kowarsky

For more than twenty years Melbourne based Damon Kowarsky has travelled the world, making etchings and drawings inspired by the architecture and landscape of the places he has visited.

Art + Travel contains images of Serbia, Montenegro, Istanbul, Yemen, France, and Saudi Arabia, all made with his characteristic attention to detail and precise, analytical eye.

Exhibition continues June 14 to July 27.

Gallery hours Friday and Saturday 11 am to 3 pm and by appointment.

Solander Gallery

218 Willis St, Wellington, New Zealand

Omnia Art Prize

 

Delighted that three works made at Guanlan Original Printmaking Base and YAC Tianjin have been selected as finalists in this year's Omnia Art Prize.

The 2024 Omnia Art Prize winner will be announced on 24 May, and the exhibition continues until 26 May.

Opening Gala Friday 24 May from 7 to 10 pm
Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 4 pm

KC Smith Hall
St Kevin’s College
31 Moonga Rd
Toorak VIC 3142

Vision of Interaction in Anhui

 

Vision of Interaction - International Contemporary Printmaking Ecosystem opens in Anhui on 3 April 2024.

Anhui Provincial Art Museum
P85G+6F8, Baohe District, Hefei, Anhui, China, 230092

25X25X25 at Portland Bay Press

 

25X25X25 opens this week at Portland Bay Press and continues throughout April.

Gallery hours Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm
Saturday 10am to 1pm

Portland Bay Press / Julia Street Creative Space
19 Julia Street
Portland VIC 3305 Australia

Taiwan International Print Biennial

 

Delighted to learn ‘The Hills at Studenica’ has been selected as a finalist in this year’s Taiwan International Print Biennial.

A total of 173 prints were chosen from more than 1200 prints by artists from 82 countries. It’s a huge honour to have work in the show.

Finalists include Abhishek Narayan Verma, Abraham Esparza, Akemi Saiki, Aleksandra Prusinowska, Andrea Rodriguez Torres, Andrea Serafini, Andrew Gunnell, Anisuzzaman Anis, Antía Iglesias, Anuchai Secharunputong, Apirat Rerkdee, Barbara Leszczynska, Carlos Damacio Gomez, Chanikran Kaewlai, Cheen Fuen Seow, Cheryl Hochberg, Christiaan Diedericks, Claudia Rofman, Clémence Fernando, Curtis Bartone, Damon Kowarsky , Daniel Alan Altamirano, Darya Hancharova, Dawinder Kaur Dhillon, Deborah Chapman, Diana Morales Galicia, Dimitrije Pecić, Dimo Kolibarov, Edward Bernstein, Ewa Kozlowska, Fernando Carballa Villanueva, Francisco Velasco Fernandez, Frederic Chaume, Gea Karhof, Graham Hall, Helmi Azam Tajul Aris, Herman Noordermeer, Hernandez Castillo Víctor Manuel, Ioannis Anastasiou, Irena Lawruszko, Isabel Cauas, Jaco Putker, Jagoda Jaworska, Jakkapun Labsaeng, Jaroslaw Gewinner, Jayne Jackson, Jean Paul Ruiz, Jirakit Thungsuk, Jiří Samek, Jolanta Rudzka Habisiak, Joon Young Choi, Juan Correa, Judith Marlane Woodborne, Kamruzzaman Kamruzzaman, Karen Fernanda Chavez Torres, Kittikawin Prasong, Kristin Meller, Kritsanarach Nanthakham, Krzysztof Tomalski, Kunjana Dumsopee, Lenka Falusiova, Magdalena Hanysz-Stefanska, Marcin Bialas, Maria Luisa Estrada Sanchez, Mariela Lopez, Mariia Gurikhina, Mark Bovey, Marta Lech, Maryia Kosheleva-Likhota, Mateusz Rafalski, Mdkhalequz Zaman, Mehdi Darvishi, Milan Hnat, Milena Petrovic, Nalinakshya Talukdar, Napaporn Mobkuntod, Nathan Meltz, Natninara Wangsilabat, Nilgün Koseoglu, Nuttakarn Vajasut, Nuttapong Boonmeelarp, Olesya Dzhurayeva, Olga Sankey, Orietta María Aguilar Santo, Orlando Martinez Vesga, Parichat Meethavorn, Patipon Supanpong, Patricia Concina, Paulina Helena Bobak, Payal Rokade, Pochtakorn Kongpool, Prakarn Jantaravichit, Rafiqul Islam, Razvan Dragos, Rew Hanks, Robert Jančovič, Sebastian Smit, Semih Çinar, Serena Pagnini, Seth Roby, Shabnam Karpasand, Shahnaz Aghayeva, Sorrathun Ouikhum, Sudeep Bashyal, Surasak Sornsena, Susanne Pohl, Sutthiwat Yimchang, Tarun Sharma, Theerawat Mikhawan, Tiana Honda, Tina Wohlfarth, Tinnakorn Kasornsuwan, Tippanet Yaemmaneechai, Tomas Pariente Dutor, Tomasz M. Kukawski, Tomasz Winiarski, Tuukka Peltonen, Ulrich J. Wolff, Vimonmarn Khanthachavana, Wieslaw Haladaj, Wojciech Tylbor-Kubrakiewicz, Ximena Medina Sancho, Yadav Sanjay Kumar, Yael Brotman, Yuji Hirasuka, Yutt Puektasajatam, Zenon Burdy, Виолета Апостолова, 倉地比沙支 Hisashi Kurachi, 土屋敦資 Atsushi Tsuchiya, 奥野正人 Masato Okuno, 安河内裕也 Hiroya Yasukochi, 张心怡 Xinyi Zhang, 張鈴木   Lin-Mu Chang, 彦坂陞   Noboru Hikosaka, 斎藤香織   Kaori Saito, 朴爱里 Aeri Park, 李文杰   Wen-Jye Lee, 李淑娟 Shu-Chuan Lee, 李芷筠 Jryun Lee, 杨天峰, 林姿吟 Tzu-Yin Lin, 林敬庭 King Ting Lam, 林淑芬 Shu-Fen Lin, 梁逸卿, 椿一朗  Ichirow Tsubaki, 武藤正悟   Shogo Muto, 洪齊 Chi Hung, 潘奕愷 Yi-Kai Pan, 潘孟堯 Meng Yao Pan, 濱田富貴 Fuki Hamada, 爲金義勝   Yoshikatsu Tamekane, 玉分昭光 Akimitsu Tamawake, 王敬升 Jing-Sheng Wang, 田島直樹   Naoki Tajima, 田文筆 Wen Pi Tien, 范揚宗 Yang Tsung Fan, 董純妤 Chun Yu Huang, 蕭輔一 Fu-I Xiao, 許以璇 Yi Hsuan Hsu, 詹濰棻 Wei-Feng Chan, 謝泊諺 Bo-Yan Xie, 赤羽智子 Tomoko Akahane, 遠藤竜太 Ryuta Endo, 金炫辰   Hyun-Jin Kim, 鐘翊綺 Yichi Chung, 陳憶誠 Yi Cheng Chen, 陳海仁 Haein Jin, 陳雅芳 Ya-Fang Chen, 颯志朝井 Soshi Asai, 髙橋文子 Fumiko Takahashi, 黃郁雯 Yu-Wen Huang, and 龙凯.

The exhibition runs from July to October, with awards announced in June. ‘The Hills at Studenica’ was made last year during a three month residency at Guanlan Original Printmaking Base.

Exhibition - 'Of Land and Sky'

 

Ross Creek Gallery is delighted to invite you to the opening of 'Of Land and Sky' – recent prints by Damon Kowarsky.

Opening Saturday 2 March from 330 to 6 pm

183 Post Office Rd
Smythes Creek Vic 3351

Gallery hours Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11 am to 4 pm, or by appointment.

Reimagining Landscape

 

Unique State Art Space is pleased to invite you to the opening of Reimagining Landscape.

Realistic, abstract, imagined and expressive interpretations of the landscapes that surround us.

Exhibition opening Saturday 9 March 2024 from 12 to 2 pm.

On display through Autumn 2024.

Artists include Cathy Blake, Elaine Camlin, Angela Coombs Matthews, Kasia Fabijanska, Silvi Glattauer, Jo Hollier, Hyunju Kim, Damon Kowarsky, Peter McLean, Karen Neal, Sue Poggioli, Christina Reid, Hayley Wheaton, and Sue Wood.

Gallery hours Monday and Tuesday 10 am to 2 pm
Thursday 10 am to 730 pm
Friday 10 am to 530 pm
Saturday 1030 am to 230 pm

Unique State Art Space
43 Tompson Street, Wagga Wagga

Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show

 

The Contemporary Art Society's exhibition at the 2024 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show opens on Wednesday 20 March and continues until Sunday 24 March.

Opening hours Wednesday, Thursday. Saturday, Sunday 9 am to 5 pm
Friday 9 am to 9 pm

Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens Melbourne

A4Art Australia

 

The Contemporary Art Society's A4 Art Australia Exhibition opens Saturday 2 March from 1 to 3pm at the Herring Island Gallery.

Access by the Parks Victoria Punt from Como Landing, South Yarra.

Exhibition continues 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 23, 24, 29, 30, 31 March and 1 April. Gallery hours 11am to 430pm.

'Wonderful World' at New England Contemporary Print Gallery

Wonderful World

 

New England Contemporary Print Gallery is pleased to present Wonderful World, an exhibition of original prints by Australian artists exploring the world.

Featuring works by Marco Luccio, Damon Kowarsky, Kate Piekutowski, and Lizzie Horne.

Opening Wednesday 14 February from 6pm.

Exhibition continues until 24 March

New England Contemporary Print Gallery
153 Beardy Street
Armidale NSW 2350
Gallery hours Wednesday to Friday 11 to 4
Saturday and Sunday 10 to 2

House of Stories

 

Lighthouse Arts’ House of Stories has been extended and continues until 3 March.

Artists include Anna Webster, Bridget Whitehead, Chris Byrnes, Damon Kowarsky, Diana Chester, Glenys Holmes, Hannah Massey, Helen Hopcroft, Janet Mackintosh, Jodi Vial, Leah Stevens, Leslie Duffin, Louise Faulkner, Nina Cullen, Robin Hundt, Rod Pattenden, Steven Jankovic, Beth Smith, Rozalie Sherwood, Mel Jhey, Melissa Murry, Dorothée Heibel, Peter Simmons, Michèle Heibel, Megan Barrass, Elizabeth McDonald, Bridgit Thomas, Kim Barnes, Vanessa Turton, Aksara Harriram, Ronald Atilano, Kathryn Lean, Alison Miller, Suzie West, Claire Thomas, Penny Wilson, Deanah Allen, Abi Sparks, and Susan Thomas.

Gallery hours Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 4pm.
Nobbys-Whibayganba Headland
41 Nobbys Rd,
Newcastle NSW 2300

2024 Here We Go

 

Portland Bay Press is pleased to present 2024 Here We Go – recent prints by Damon Kowarsky and Hyunju Kim made at Portland Bay Press and Guanlan Original Printmaking Base.

Opening Friday 19 January from 6pm
Portland Bay Press / Julia Street Creative Space
19 Julia Street, Portland, Victoria, Australia

Gallery hours Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm
Saturday 10am to 1pm

Exhibitions continues until early March. Damon and Hyunju will be working at PBP from 15 January. Please come and say hello if you're in the area.