Factory: A visualization of labour

When graphic artist Mariusz Waras and avant-garde musician Krzysztof Topolski worked together, they produced Factory, a spectacular site-specific installation that was created specifically to be exhibited in the biggest room of CoCA or Center of Contemporary Art-Znaki Czasu in Toruń, the medieval town by the Vistula River in northern Poland that gave birth to Nicolaus Copernicus. The exhibition gives a good excuse to visit it until January 17, 2010.
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Rosângela Rennó’s Ring

Brazilian artist Rosângela Rennó's work is predominantly photography-based, although she rarely takes photographs of her subjects. Instead, she recasts and transforms appropriated photographic images. In the past, she presented anonymous portraits compiled from existing photographs - photographers' studios and even photographs of prisoners' tattoos. From November 23 to January 15, 2010, the Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art in Nicosia is presenting an exhibition of her works, titled Ring, as part of the Brazilian Culture Month 2009.
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Two weeks of Cinemania

With ninety films onscreen, the Cinemania festival in Sofia is today one of the country’s most significant cinema events running every year this season for two weeks. This year’s 23rd edition, opens November 13 with Carlos Saura’s most latest production I, Don Giovanni, an elegant retelling of the story behind the creation of one of Mozart’s operatic masterpieces.Screenings in five of Sofia’s cinema theatres (Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture, Euro Cinema, Odeon, Kino Liumier and Dom na kinoto) run until December 3.Part of the programme will be on the silver screen of Plovdiv’s Lucky Cinema from 12 to 30 of November.

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Lisbon’s Alma Africana

Lisbon was the first European city to develop trade and cultural ties with Africa, bringing the art and culture of different civilizations to the Old Continent. To see how European and specifically Portuguese culture influenced African art and vice versa, you should visit Lisbon’s African Soul (Alma Africana) exhibition at Páteo da Galé, a space in Praça do Comércio, through the arches next to the city’s main tourism office. The exhibition is open every day except Mondays until February 7 and offers free entries on Sundays and Wednesdays.
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Avaton Contemporary Music Festival

Two full days of lectures, demonstrations, workshops and concerts by two young artists who use their knowledge and classical music backgrounds combined with advanced technological tools to create new sounds and merge art and science, is an event that cannot be missed in the weekend of December 12-13 in Limassol’s Technohoros Ethal in Cyprus. The Avaton Contemporary Music Festival is here to make you wonder where are the limits of calling an art piece an art?
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Renaissance Art along the Danube

Take advantage of your visit to Bratislava any time between December 18, 2009 and March 28, 2010 to visit the Slovak National Gallery’s Esterhazy Palace along the Danube River, which plays host to the Renaissance exhibition, the first in a series of shows examining ‘The History of Slovak Fine Art’ from the 15th to the 20th century. The Renaissance exhibition comprises artworks that originated from this territory or abroad but were related to Slovakia, between the Gothic and Baroque periods.
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Reliving history

If you played with toy soldiers when you were little, if you are a history buff, or if you are looking to see (and learn) something different while visiting the Czech Republic, head to the town of Slavkov near Brno. Slavkov? Never heard of it? Maybe the town's German name, Austerlitz, rings a bell. In 1805, the town's surroundings witnessed the Battle of the Three Emperors, also known simple as the Battle of Austerlitz.
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Madrid remembers Darwin's Evolution

Celebrating Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday and commemorating the 150th anniversary of the publication of his masterpiece The Origin of Species, the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid presents Darwin’s Evolution, an exhibition that features the great English naturalist’s theory on Evolution by Natural Selection, one of the most important achievements in science. The exhibition will remain open to the public until January 11, 2010.
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Anthony McCall: let there be light!

Beginning in the 1970s, Anthony McCall creates art based on the beam of the film projector in the darkened cinema, working on the boundary between the most influential styles and genres in postwar art –minimalism, film, performance and drawing. In this exhibition, Stockholm’s Moderna Museet presents two of his large light installations from the 2000s, along with numerous drawings, from October 8 to December 6, 2009.
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Three-in-one at Riga’s kim?

The latest addition to Riga’s cultural map, the Latvian Contemporary Arts Museum kim? is pushing hard with a dynamic agenda in its virgin year. With two exhibitions -Guido van der Werve’s Everything is Going to Be Alright and Gints Gabrāns’ White Point- and one installation –Candyland’ Global Trash- running from November 7 until December 13, kim? presents its Climate thematic cycle and drops the question: what is art?/what is museum? (kas ir māksla?/kas ir muzejs? in Latvian).
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Dressing up Bulgarian movies

More than 500 spectacular costumes, weapons, props and photographs from Bulgarian movies produced from the 50's to early 80's -the golden age of Bulgarian cinema- can be seen until the end of February in an exhibition at Sofia’s National Museum of History. The exhibition is dedicated to the Day of the Leaders of the Bulgarian National Revival and is curated by producer Evgeny Mihailov who had been directing the famed Nu Boyana Film Studios for nine years. Art director and designer of the show is Rumyana Troshanova, who has created sets for more than 150 theatre productions in Bulgaria.
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Through a broken mirror

The famed Greek-Cypriot architect Zenon Sierepeklis presents his most important architectural projects alongside works of art from different fields in an exhibition titled Through a Broken Mirror at the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre. Sierepeklis’ architectural drawings are displayed next to the sculptures and his photographic work, while artworks are complemented by extracts from interviews that the architect gave to various publications. You can visit the exhibition until January 17, 2010.
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Love at first sight

Set in a beautiful park overooking across the Kolding Fjord in the southern Danish Syddanmark Region, the Trapholt Museum of art, design and handicraft presents a splendid art exhibition this autumn under the title Love at first sight. The exhibition, which runs through February 28, 2010, features works from the famed German Würth collection, making a stroll through 20th century international modern art. From impressionism to expressionism, surrealism, op art and pop art, meet the likes of great names in European and American art: Munch, Baselitz, Magritte, Pissarro, Kiefer, Lichtenstein, Kapoor, Warhol and many others.
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A Different Štefan Galič

The fruit of collaboration between the International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC) in Ljubljana and the Gallery-Museum Lendava next to the Hungarian-Croatian border, the retrospective exhibition A Different Štefan Galič features the full artistic and human scope of the famous Slovenian painter and printmaker Štefan Galič. In Lendava, where a full record of Galič’s painting oeuvre is kept, the exhibition fills a gap in the scholarly treatment and interpretation of the artist, while in Ljubljana we can see Galič’s graphic production, presented in a new way. Both exhibitions run until January 10, 2010.
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Exploring the Return of Repression

An exhibition at Bucharest’s Center for contemporary art & culture Pavilion Unicredit until November 22 asks the crucial questions that can help us understand the reasons why it is so often that regimes and governments turn against their own citizens. Through paintings, photographs and installations by Romanian and international artists, curator Răzvan Ion assisted by Silvia Vasilescu make the key equation: Repression manages poverty. Poverty depresses wages. Low wages increase the rate of exploitation and create profit. Which is the main purpose of the state.
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New season at the Royal Danish Theatre

Nine premieres of entirely newly created musical drama, reaching from the spectacular to the intimate and from the classical to the avant-garde are on offer in this Royal Danish Opera 2009/10 season. The ballet menu for this season includes nine wide-ranging and sharply focused productions, embracing everything from grand historical masterpieces to pure abstract neo-classicism, from the lyrically romantic to the demandingly modern, from showbiz to artistic stringency. And there’s more… Eleven grand concerts at the Old Stage, the Takkelloftet and the Koncerthuset demand your attention!
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