Searching for Beauty

Opening: Wednesday, 06 June 2018, 19:00

Exhibition: 07 June – 26 June 2018, Mo-Fr, 10:00-18:00

designtransfer, UdK Berlin, Einsteinufer 43, 10587 Berlin

Does beauty mean something different to each of us? Or
do we feel in the same way? Can beauty be ugly? Has our
view of beauty changed? Maybe every generation needs to
redefine beauty; it might be just momentary. Streams of
images and definitions surround us and seemingly, there is
an answer to everything, but it might not be that way. We
are curious about when we experience beauty, do we all
feel it same or everybody in their way?

The authors of the multimedia project and exhibition
Searching for Beauty, the Studio Ove Pictures applied
animation principles and created interactive installations
centred around the main motif of searching for beauty in
new contexts. They use historical optical toys such as the
zoetrope, flip book, and diorama and transform them into
a more current interactive form. They created the project
in cooperation with curator Mária Rišková and a team of
other professionals. An online GIF gallery centred around
beauty is a part of the project, and its visitors contribute to
it.

The project main organiser is the Slovak Design Centre in
Bratislava under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign and
European Affairs and the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak
Republic in cooperation with the Slovak Institute in Prague
and Berlin and with embassies in Ljubljana and Helsinki.
The project was a part of a cultural-social presentation of
the first Slovak Presidency to the Council of the European
Union in 2016. The series of exhibitions in 2018 mark the
100th anniversary of the foundation of the Czechoslovak
Republic and commemorates the 25th anniversary of the
establishment of the Slovak Republic.