Diana Kroshilova

Publications

Floralia – Munich, 2023

11/08/2023 / Collages, Exhibitions, Publications

I am currently taking part in the “Floralia” International Mail Art Exhibition at the Kunsttreff Moosach. This exhibition is further integrated in the Flower Power Festival, which takes place from 03.02. – 07.10.2023 all over Munich.

Kunsttreff Moosach, Munich, Germany. Photo credit Susanne Eva Maria Fischbach

THE FESTIVAL
Munich in a floral frenzy. And that for nine months. Indoors and outdoors. In parks and gardens, but also surprisingly and differently. On asphalt squares and canvases, in art spaces, lecture halls and restaurants. Theatrically, musically and literarily. And much more. With hundreds of actors.

Everything revolves around the flower. Its aesthetics. Its sustainability. Its science. It is artistic and natural, fascinating and versatile. As multifaceted as the urban society that participates in the festival in the most diverse areas. Munich celebrates.

Exhibition view of “Floralia” International Mail Art Exhibition at the Kunsttreff Moosach, Munich, Germany. Photo credit Susanne Eva Maria Fischbach

At the Flower Power Festival Munich 2023 everything revolves around blossoms, literally but also figuratively. Science, sustainability, plant diversity, garden art, climate change, biodiversity, aesthetics, quality of life – these and many more are conceivable topics that can be staged, be it with exhibitions, workshops, walks, theatre performances, installations and more. Indoors, outdoors and digitally are the festival’s playgrounds.

The Gasteig, Europe’s largest cultural centre, the Munich-Nymphenburg Botanical Garden, BIOTOPIA – Bavaria’s Natural History Museum and the Kunsthalle München are the impetus behind the festival. Many actors can identify with the themes of nature, culture, city and blossom, which describe the core idea of the festival. There are hardly any limits to creativity. Anyone and everyone can participate, that is the basic idea.

In addition to participation, inclusion will play an important role this time. The festival offers the chance to sensitise many people to the topic and at the same time to enable as many people as possible to participate in cultural life. Ideally, this could result in sustainable impulses that move something in our society in the long term.

Exhibition view of “Floralia” International Mail Art Exhibition at the Kunsttreff Moosach, Munich, Germany. Photo credit Kunstverein Kunstrefugium

In the past decades, the depiction of blossoms, flowers, plants or nature in general has always played a major role in the visual arts: Be it that the ornament is used as a stylistic device, as a central, aesthetic-decorative motif, often also symbolically charged. Or whether it is explored thematically by illuminating nature as a habitat or by trying to reflect on and return to nature, especially in the urban environment.
What role does nature play in current contemporary art? How do we reflect on this theme? Do we present an idealised view of the beauty of nature, a “source of power” in aesthetic perception that puts us in a positive mood? As part of our everyday experiences? Or are we portraying new ways of seeing that take into account the influence of humans and their interaction with nature?

– The artist association Kunstrefugium e.V.

Exhibition Catalog. Photo credit Ingrid Müller

The sent artwork can be purchased by visitors at the Kunsttreff for a small donation of at least 5 euros. The donations go directly to the Green City e.V. association, an association aiming to create more green spaces in urban living spaces.
The catalog for the project can be purchased at cost price: 15 Euros + 2,50 Euros shipping costs.

Exhibition Date: September 7 – September 17, 2023
Exhibition Place: Kunsttreff Moosach, Donauwörther Str. 51, 80997 Munich, Germany
Organized by: The artist association Kunstrefugium e.V.
Learn more: https://www.floralia-mailart.de/ & https://www.kunstrefugium.de/ & https://www.flowerpowermuc.de/ & https://www.kunsttreff-moosach.de/

Dwell Time Press

01/13/2023 / Publications

Two of my paintings from “The Lock Down” series were published in Dwell Time publication.

Dwell Time is an award winning, not-for-profit publication reflecting on mental wellbeing, established in 2018 by Alice Bradshaw, Vanessa Haley and Lenny Szrama.

You can read the article here 👉 https://dwelltimepress.wordpress.com/2022/12/20/searching-for-answers-5-escape-2-by-diana-kroshilova/
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Learn more about Dwell Time:
https://dwelltimepress.wordpress.com/about/

Glitch.Art.Br 2021 – Cleber Gazana – Book

07/14/2022 / Publications

Glitch.art.br is an online platform designed to promote, exhibit, and provide a dedicated space for interacting with and discussing Glitch Art.
The Glitch.art.br 2021 International Online Exhibition is organized in Brazil, but is intended for a global audience. The exhibition is free and open to everyone, as it allows for a wider worldwide audience to access an online program that brings together artworks and texts by current artists and researchers.

The voice speaking on behalf of glitch.art.br is Cleber Gazana, a person who identifies with Glitch Art and is concerned with its promotion, exhibition, interaction and discussion. This is an individual initiative without financial or any kind of assistance.

On June 2022, Cleber Gazana published his book entitled “Glitch.Art.Br 2021”, which research this important artistic genre that grows every year. This book is part of the Glitch.art.br 2021 Glitch Art International Online Exhibition. The exhibition is particularly interested in featuring artworks that explore the critical, artistic and free use of technology. This book has three articles that discuss Glitch Art and the use of errors and technology in post-digital art.

My artwork “Error 15” was selected for the exhibition and was included in the Glitch.Art.Br 2021 book.

Download link:
https://www.academia.edu/82369270/Glitch_art_br_2021_Cleber_Gazana_Book
Issuu:
https://issuu.com/glitchartbr/docs/glitch-art-br-2021-cleber-gazana-book
Check out their website for more updates: https://www.glitch.art.br/

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Take a look at my previous work entitled “Awareness 8” for the First Edition of the Glitch.art.br. And read more about the first book Glitch.Art.Br 2020.

PERIFERIA IMAGINARIA nº4

01/05/2022 / Publications

I had new experience with the PERIFERIA IMAGINARIA magazine.

Photo credit Prensa Ayuntamiento de Móstoles

PERIFERIA IMAGINARIA is a project of assembled, experimental and rare contemporary art, which was born in the Villa de Móstoles Cultural Centre in 2018 and produced by the Department of Culture. It has the collaboration in its diffusion of the Merchants Federation of Móstoles, and the coordination of Pepe Murciego, artist and co-editor of the magazine La Más Bella.

PERIFERIA IMAGINARIA has created a rolling issue for its fourth edition. A fun and playful cardboard container, shaped like a LETTER P (for Periphery), decorated with arrows and stickers, and mounted on four colourful rubber wheels that allow it to be easily driven to the desired location. A car in which the trunk door is the entrance to the paradise of the seventeen eccentric pages or pieces contained in the magazine.

Photo credit Prensa Ayuntamiento de Móstoles

Photo credit Mario Méndez Guerrero and Pepe Murciego

The signage icons of USTED ESTÁ AQUÍ (YOU ARE HERE) and of TODAS DIRECIONES (ALL DIRECTIONS) mark our location, place us in a certain space or randomly direct us to any other place. They tell us about places and our relationship with them, but also about our existence, our emotions, our human and emotional relationships, our relationship with the world and the people who inhabit it, about the physical and the virtual, in a vital moment in which the idea of distance and the idea of location have to be rethought, walking forward. Both ideas, wandering in a similar and / or contradictory direction, form a conceptual and inspiring part of the PERIFERIA IMAGINARIA 2021 project, the first as the motto of the II International Mail Art Call and the second as the motto of the fourth issue of the assembled, experimental magazine and rare, of the same name.

Photo credit Prensa Ayuntamiento de Móstoles

With 30 copies (not venal), PERIFERIA IMAGINARIA no.4 / TODAS DIRECCIONES (ALL DIRECTIONS) · Que me quiten lo rodao (Nobody can take away the good times travelling), it contains seventeen pages or pieces of visual poetry, small sculpture, painting, graphic design, procedural creation, performance, etc., by twelve artists from Mostóles who are part of its “writing team”, plus two pages of renowned invited artists and three collective pages.

My artwork was included in the Collective pages. Collective pages is a USB with approximately 600 pieces of mail art, submitted by artists from all over the world to the II International Mail Art Call, USTED ESTÁ AQUÍ · YOU ARE HERE.

Check out my previous post about “USTED ESTÁ AQUÍ / YOU ARE HERE” Mail Art Exhibition that my artwork is being exhibited at the Centro Cultural Villa de Móstoles in Móstoles, Spain:
https://kroshilova.art/journal/usted-esta-aqui-photo/

Learn more about PERIFERIA IMAGINARIA nº4:
https://periferiaimaginaria.blogspot.com/2021/06/periferia-imaginaria-n4-todas.html

Glitch.Art.Br 2020 – The Book by Cleber Gazana

01/05/2022 / Publications

I took part in the GLITCH.ART.BR, Glitch Art International Online Exhibition, Post-pandemic First Edition. I wrote about it in one of my previous posts.

Here are some updates: the book Glitch.Art.Br 2020 was published by Cleber Gazana, who also founded and curated GLITCH.ART.BR.
This book has three articles that discuss Glitch Art and the use of errors and technology in post-digital art.

And I’m very excited that my artwork was included in the Glitch.Art.Br 2020 book.

Download link:
https://www.academia.edu/49146089/Glitch_art_br_2020_Cleber_Gazana_Book
Issuu:
https://issuu.com/glitchartbr/docs/glitch-art-br-2020-cleber-gazana-book
Read more about GLITCH.ART.BR:
https://www.glitch.art.br/