Events/Openings

The exhibition ARTIVISM (11.7.–9.8.2014) shows a political engaged and international artist. Tamara Moyzes produces video art, which is often presented in installation form. She is a political personality and is concerned with themes such as gender, racism, antiziganism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and – as a curator – with Orientalism as well. Her works show a commitment to artistic activism, and she believes that art is a form of pointed protest that should unmask social conditions – not through academic statements, but instead through direct artistic interventions. With the resources of satire and the intensification of lived experience, Moyzes sheds light on social injustice. By virtue of her origins and her life at various locations, Tamara Moyzes works from the perspective of the intersection of minorities, for example of the Jews or of the Roma. In this way, she underscores the urgency of the material she presents to her audience, much of it difficult to absorb.
With a shopping cart and a Star of David, the artist demonstrates with her friends against the building of a shopping centre at a former collecting station that culminated in the deportation of more than 44,000 Jewish citizens of Prague during the Second World War. The conditions imposed upon the developers by the municipal administration for the erection of a memorial site were ignored by investors. This performance which is called "Holocaust Memorial at Prague 7" will be shown at the Gallery Kai Dikhas. The artist combines it with wall-sized photographies and videoscreens of different performances and happenings of the last years.
You are cordially invited to meet the artist at the opening and participate in the artist talk.