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Contact:
Kristyna Milde: mildeart at hotmail.com
Marek Milde: marekmilde at hotmail.com
Bio:
Kristyna and Marek Milde are a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artists duo, originally from Prague, Czech Republic. In their work, they explore environmental alienation and focus on deepening the awareness and relationship to place. They often use the home environment as an investigative platform, a laboratory to reveal the wider and hidden context of everyday reality. Contrasting natural and man-made materials, they create interpretative archives, sculptures, and site-specific installations, functioning as immersive platforms for engagement and experience connecting culture and nature.
The Mildes exhibited internationally in institutions such as the Queens Museum, MoMA, Smack Mellon, Wave Hill, MOCA Westport, the DOX Center for Contemporary Art, Futura, and Meet Factory in Prague, Dum Umeni Usti nad Labem, among others.
They were awarded numerous prestigious residencies such as the Art Omi Residency, ISCP, Queens Museum Studio in the Park Residency, LMCC Process Space Residency at Governors Island, NYC, EFA Shift Residency, Andrea Zittel A – Z West Residency, California, and the Russell Wright Design Center Residency, Garrison, NY. Mildes won the Westport Art Center competition with their Homescape Tete-a-Tete design. They presented and participate in panel discussions in venues such as MoMA, Queens Museum, Kunsthalle Praha, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Public Library, Tranzitdisplay, Arts Letters & Numbers, Bohemian National Hall, and Mildred’s Lane.
Their work has been featured and reviewed in the New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, Flashart, Hyperallergic, Artribune, ArtClue, Artycok TV, Czech National Television, and Radio among others. Their work is part of private and public collections including the permanent public installations at Flux Factory/ Windmill Community Garden (2018), Mildred’s Lane, PA (2017), Manitoga Russell Wright Design Center, Garrison, NY; and Chateau Trebesice, Czech Republic.
Kristyna Milde studied painting at the Assenza Malschule in Basel, Switzerland. Marek Milde studied Sculpture at Atelier Dodekaeder in Germany. They received MFAs from Queens College, New York in 2007. They both worked at the Czech Center NY, and the Czech cultural institute in Manhattan, where they curated and organized a wide range of events, festivals, exhibitions, residencies, and international programs.
Artist Statement:
Our art practice is a continuous dialogue with people, places, and ourselves, in which we engage current cultural issues creating a type of visual philosophy. We investigate themes such as alienation of culture and nature, loss of context, and the states of passivity in consumerism, exploring how identity is developed through interaction with sites and places, looking for ways, how art can address and transform the fragmentation and virtualization of life and encourage new perspectives.
The projects take the form of site-specific installations, workshops, and in-situ interventions functioning as metaphorical models, often using humor, and irony as a tool to create immersive interactive environments. Our art practice is not defined by a unified formal style, we rather employ multidisciplinary forms, materials, and strategies specific to the subject. In the process, we are collecting data and materials, researching, and engaging physically and socially with specific places. Many of our projects are developed in collaboration with the audience, in a series of individual and collective participatory actions structured to allow deeper exploration and active experience of the subject matter.
We engage the theme of Home because it is a great platform and laboratory, tying together the microcosm of the personal space with far-reaching issues. We explore domesticity, everyday rituals, and traditions, studying their integral role in binding together the social, natural, and cultural order. We revisit methods and domestic practices that include furnishing, decorating, cleaning, gardening, and food to explore the role they play in environmental estrangement. Many of our projects are based on a reenactment of common situations, for example, we adopted forms of a public lounge, fully functional library, scientific laboratory, restaurant, red carpet VIP entrance, florist shop, or a community garden.
Our perspective is informed by the experience of wilderness and nature at our frequent walks, hikes, and backpacking trips. These experiences represent our parallel practice providing us with resources and inspiration to engage themes of culture and perception of limits of the interior-based lifestyle. While we challenge the established comfort zones, confronting myths and cultural fantasies about the world and ourselves, we are interested to bring awareness to overlooked contexts, and fostering the integrity of the self and the environment. We believe in the transformative power of art and strive in developing integrative models and situations organically connecting narratives of culture and nature and seeking to recognize identity in the infinite extent of our relations.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:
Upcoming: 2024 Kristyna and Marek Milde, Solo Exhibition Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
2023 Conductive Fields, Solo Exhibition at Hesse Flatow Gallery , Chelsea, NYC, July 13 – August 11, 2023
2021 Plantarium: Circles and Constellations, permanent private commission, Upstate New York
2019 (In)Visible Patterns, G 18 Gallery, Zlin, Czech Rep., with Petra Valentova, March 14 April 20
2018 Plantarium – Tea Garden, permanent public art commissioned by Flux Factory at Windmill Com. Garden, LIC
2017 “Plantarium“, site-specific installation, Mildred’s Lane, PA
2016 “PopCorn Rock“, site-specific permanent installation, Arts in the Fields, PA
2015 Exchange Library, a solo exhibition by Kristyna and Marek Milde at Temple Contemporary Gallery, Philadelphia, September 14, 2015 – January 31, 2016
2014 A la Cart, Public Art project at Old Fulton Plaza, Dumbo
2014 Homescape, Manitoga, long-term installation at Russell Wright Design Center, Garrison, NY, ongoing since the summer 2014
2014 Hills and Valleys of the Sofa Wilderness, Sunroom Project Space, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, curator Gabriel de Guzman
2013 In-Tree-Net, Chateau Trebesice, Czech Republic
2012 Domaci KrajinyKristyna and Marek Milde, Karlin Studios, Prague, Czech Republic
2011 In Loving Memory, Kristyna and Marek Milde, Nurture Art, Bushwick, New York, USA, curator Marco Antonini,
2008 cUMENI, Kristyna Milde, Galerie Pavilon, Prague, Czech Republic
2007 Her Hair, Kristyna Milde, Klapper Hall Gallery, Queens College, NYC, USA
2007 Traces, Marek Milde, Klapper Hall Gallery, Queens College, NYC, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Amicable Separation, Czech Center Gallery, Upper Eastside, NYC, curated by Charlotta Kotik, Sep 7 – Oct 5
2023 Whitney Museum Staff Art Show, Westside Exposure, Westbeth Gallery Aug 3–23, 2023
2023 Several green records of an oversized black box, curator Mgr. art Katarína Balúnová, ArtD, Galéria umelcov Spiša, Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia, April 5 – July 16, 2023
2022 Gardening of Soul, Dum Umeni Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, a group exhibition curated by Michal Kolecek, featuring our Carpetorium, Dec. 7, 2022 – March 11, 2023
2021 Between the Ground and the Sky, MoCA Westport, NY, group exhibition featuring Milde’s two new large commissions Carpetorium and In-Tree-Net, Aug 27 – Oct 17
2021 Bagnare le rose, Cambiare le cose, Galleris Cavo, Trieste, Italy, Curated by Jose Ramon Ais, November 16- 25
2020 Composed to Decomposed Outdoors, Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY, Curated by Linda Weintraub, Michael Asbill, Jan. 19 – March 8
2020 Science Fictional Thinking, A Guide to the Filed, Mountaindale, NY, Dec. 7 – March 14, 2020
2019 Whitney Staff Art Show 2019 organized by the Whitney Museum, Westbeth Gallery, NYC, July
2019 Tete-Ã -Tete, Westport Art Center, CT, group exhibition, March 8 – May 25, Milde’s Homescape won the collaborative competition
2019 Factory, a Guide to the Field, Mountaindale, NY, April 1 – August 4
2018 S.T.E.P., Queens Museum, a group show curated by Ch. Freeman, E.Herrera, M.Williams, Oct. -Dec.
2018 Encampment, a Guide to the Field, inaugural show, Mountaindale, NY, Oct.6 – December 31
2018 “Whitney Staff Art Show 2018, organized by the Whitney Museum, Westbeth Gallery, NYC, July 11-26
2018 Wilder City, Flux Factory, curated by Nat Rot and Lorissa Reinhard, May 5 – June 16
2018 Human Nature, Arts Brookfield, a traveling exhibition curated by Tom Kotik, April 12 – August 10
2017 Building and Rebuilding, Asylum Arts, Brooklyn, NY, a group show curated by Shlomit. Dror, Nov.30 – Jan.14
2017 Call & Response, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, NY, a group show curated by Jennifer MacGregor, Gabriel de Guzman, Sep. 9-Dec. 3
2016 Chance Ecologies, Queens Museum, NY, October 8 – 30, curated by Catherine Grau and Nathan Kensinger
2016 Exquisite Corpus: Maize, Holes in the Walls, New Jerusalem, PA, June 4 – Sep.17
2016 Calm Before and After the Storm, Bruce High-Quality Foundation University, NYC, NY, Apr. 8 – May 12
2016 Word, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, group show, installation Home in a Home, Feb.28- Dec. 17
2015 FoodShed, an exhibition curated by Amy Lipton at CR10 Contemporary project Space, near Hudson, NY, Aug. 8 – Sept. 6
2015 Bloomsday, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY, an exhibition by Kristyna and Marek Milde, June 16
2015 Double Vision, EFA Project Space, NYC, curated by Michelle Levy, February 26
2014 FOODshed: Agriculture and Art in Action, Smack Mellon Gallery, Dumbo, curated by Amy Lipton
2013 Activate NY, Abrons Art Center, curator Kristian Nammack, Lower East Side, NYC
2013 Where is my home? DOX, Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, curator Jaroslav Andel
2013 “Poison Green” Czech Center Gallery, New York, curated by Kristyna and Marek Milde
2013 Plant sale, The Center for Strategic Art And Agriculture, curated by Lorissa Rinehart, Brooklyn, NY
2013 We are, we eatâ€, BOS 2013, Bushwick, New York, curated by Kristyna and Marek Milde
2013 Needles Cleanup, Meet Factory Center for Contemporary Art, curated by Karina Kottova Prague, Czech Republic
2012 Thoughts on the Living room“, Mildred Complex (ity) at MoMA Studio, Manhattan, November 4th
2012 Family talk (Rodinne Promluvy), Futura Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic, curator Marco Antonini
2012 8+, BOS 2012, NYC, USA, curated by Kristyna and Marek Milde
2011 Looking for a Home as part of the Express / Local, Queens College Art Center, NY, USA, curator Tara Mathison,
2011 Green, Gallery Califia, Horazdovice, Czech Republic, www.galeriecalifia.net, curator Barbara Benish, Installation In-Tree-Net
2011 7+1, BOS, Bushwick, New York, USA, curator K. and M. Milde, project Do it your Self
2010 Kristyna and Marek Milde, BOS 2010, Bushwick, New York, USA
2009 Czech it, Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pa, USA, in cooperation with the Prague House of Photography and the Czech Center New York, curators Jen Saffron and Eva Heyd, the catalog is available for this exhibition.
2006 Misplaces, he Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury
Awards and Residencies:
2019 Art OMI, Visual Artist Residency, Ghent, NY, June 13 – July 9
2019 Winners of the collaborative competition Tete-a-Tete, Westport Art Center, CT
2017 International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), July – August 2017
2017 Bohemian and Literary Association Creative Grant
2016 Studio in the Park: Chance Ecologies, Queens Museum, NYC, June 2 – August 14,
2016 LMCC Process Space Residency, Governors Island, NY, March – July 2016,
2016 Holes in the Walls Residency, New Jerusalem, PA, May
2015 A-Z West Residency, California, October 2015
2014 – 2015 Shift Residency, Elisabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC
2014 Manitoga, Russell Wright Design Center Artist Residency, Garrison, NY
2013 – 2014 Wave Hill Project Space Residency
2013 Futura Gallery, Trebesice Chateau, Czech Republic, July
2011 Express Local, Queens College Art Center Residency, NY, USA, March 15 – June 30
1999 – 2003 Alexander Stiftung Fellowship, Germany
Public Events:
2021 Artist Talk: Mark Dion and Kristyna and Marek Milde, Kunsthalle Praha in conversation with Christelle Havranek, Chief Curator, Friday, 1 October 2021
2019 Art Omi Open Studios, Ghent, NY, July 7
2019 Bushwick Open Studios, September 19-21
2019 NYC Creative Salon, Equity Gallery, NYC, Panel discussion about Knowledge, February 12
2018 Kristyna and Marek Milde Artist Talk, Arts Letters &Numbers, NY, July 21
2018 Wasting, Wilding, Workstyling Session III, Social Saturday Panel Discussion and Artist Talk, Mildred’s Lane, June 23
2018 Daily Walk: Chance Ecologies, Brooklyn Pub. Library, guided walk – part of Democracy Now festival, June 12
2018 Eat the Weeds, Artist Talk, organized by the Flux Factory in conjunction with Wilder LIC exhibition, May 10
2017 “Salon: Kristyna and Marek Milde and Yumiko Ono“, Artist Talk at ISCP, September 19
2017 “EFA 25th Anual Benefit”, NYC, June 14
2017 “Plantarium”, Artist Talk and Workshop as part of the Wilding session at Mildred’s Lane, PA, June 7
2016 “6 Minute Challenge”, Czechoslovak Society for Art & Sciences (SVU), Bohemian National Hall, Nov. 9
2016 “Chance Ecologies Symposium”, Queens Museum, October 23, 2016
2016 Kristyna and Marek Milde: Artist Talk, tranzitdisplay, Prague, CR, September 8
2016 Chance Ecologiesâ€, Wild Flower Boutique, workshop, Studio in the Park, Queens Museum, August 13
2016 LMCC Open Studios, LMCC Governors Island, NYC, May 28 – 29, June 25
2016 Peekskill Open Studios, Hudson Valley Contemporary Art Center (HVCCA), Peekskill, NY, June 4-5
2016 Phytophilic: Why Look at Plants?, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, New Zealand, curated by EIrons, February 20
2015 Phytophilic: Why Look at Plants?, 1067 PacificPeople, an evening of plant-attuned video shorts, featuring video Natural Cleaners by Milde curated by Ellie Irons, August 2
2015 EFA Open House†as part of the Armory Week 2015 featuring the exhibition “Double Visionsâ€, NYC, March 3
2015 Scent Laboratory, What is the smell of a Home?†EFA Project Space, NYC, workshop and presentation, March 28
2014 A la cart, Dumbo Street Festival, project presentation, and tasting, September 27th
2014 EFA Shift Residency, open house, August 1st
2014 Sunroom Project Space, Wave Hill, Kristyna and Marek Milde artist talk in discussion with curator G.de Guzman, May 23rd
2013 Kristyna and Marek Milde on the NY Exchange Library and Situationist Art, Abrons Art Center, NYC, Nov. 5th
2012 Thoughts on the Living room artist talk, and workshop, Mildred Complex (ity) at MoMA Studio, Manhattan, Nov. 4th as part of the exhibition Common Senses.
2012 Social Sculpture, Repair Workshop at Nurture Art, May 12th
2012 Amplify Action: Sustainability Through the Arts, panel discussion, Green Week, Pratt Institute, NYC, March 29,
2011 Kristyna and Marek Milde, artist presentation, Mildred’s Lane, Pennsylvania, USA
Teaching:
2019 Wasting, Wilding, Workstyling Session III“, Session Leaders, Mildred’s Lane, May 27 – June 16
2018 Wasting, Wilding, Workstyling Session II“, Session Leaders, Mildred’s Lane, June 5 -11
2017 Wasting, Wilding, Workstyling Session II“, Contributing Artist’s, Mildred’s Lane, June 5 -11
Curatorial work:
2015 Panorama Europe, Annual European Film Festival, Festival Board headed by Kristyna Milde, May 29 – June 14
2015 NY Portuguese Short Film Festival 2015, Tribeca Cinema, selection of European animated shorts, May 28, curated by K.Milde, Zita Vadasz, and Anna Ida Orosoz
2015 “Fragility“, series of international short animated films curated by Kristyna Milde in collaboration with IShorts, Czech Center Cinema, February 24
2015 It is Always Tea Time in Wonderland, an exhibition of Czech cont. design, Ceramic, and Glass Art Fair, Jan. 20 – 26, BNH, curated by Kristyna Milde
2015 Summer on the Roof 2015“, Czech Center Roof Top, film screening every Tuesday, July – August, curated by K.Milde
2015 Fragility, a series of international short animated films curated by Kristyna Milde in collaboration with ISight, BNH Cinema, Feb. 24
2014 FAMU Documents, films screening of the documents by students of the Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, followed by Q&A moderated by K.Milde, October 14, BNH Cinema
2014 “Summer on the Roof 2014“, Czech Center Roof Top, film screening every Tuesday, July – August, curated by K.Milde
2014 Beast, Us and Creatures In-between“, Czech Center Cinema, film screening February 25th, curator Petr Horak and K.Milde
2013 “Poison Green”Czech Center Gallery, New York, June 25th – September 2nd, curator Kristyna and Marek Milde
2013 We Eat, We Are â€, BOS 2013, Bushwick, New York, June 1st, curator Kristyna and Marek Milde
2013 “Labyrinth of Darkness“, Czech Center Cinema, May 21st, film screening, curator Kim L Pace and Kristyna Milde
2013 Resistance of the Earth, Czech Center, multimedia project, February 7th, curator Kristyna Milde
2012 “Summer on the Roof 2014“, Czech Center Roof Top, film screening every Tuesday, July – August, curated by K.Milde
2012 “Journey Through the Sounds” Czech Center, New York, musical workshop, curator Kristyna Milde
2012 – 2014 Czech That Film“, the annual touring festival of Czech Cinema in the United States, K. Milde is selecting the film and organizing the festival in New York.
2012 “8+” BOS 2012, NYC, USA, curated by Kristyna and Marek Milde
2012 “Milos Forman 80“, film retrospective on the occasion of his 80th birthday in conjunction with the exhibition of Forma’s film posters at BNH
2011 “7+1” BOS, Bushwick, New York, USA, curator K. and M. Milde, project Do it your Self
2011 Martin Rysavy, a retrospective at the BNH Cinema
2011 Petr Vaclav, a retrospective at the Czech Center and at the Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn
2011 “Re-Do-Re-Think-Re-Play”, Czech Center NY, curated by Marek Milde
2010 “Melting The Pot”, Czech Center NY, curated by Marek Milde
Memberships:
International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), Founding Members NYC Alumni Section, since September 2017
Chance Ecologies, a framework for artists researching projects exploring the un-designed landscapes and wilderness found in abandoned spaces, since 2016
Project Vortex, a group of international artists, designers, and architects around the world who are actively intercepting the plastic waste stream as a part of their practices, since 2017
Shift Alumni, Shift residency at EFA Project Space, since 2014
Kristyna Milde Related Experience:
2017 Mentor at New Your Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program
2014 – 2015 Head of the Panorama Europe Film Festival
2011 – 2015 Program Manager at the Czech Center New York, NYC, www.czechcenter.com
2012 -2013 Executive Coordinator of the European Union National Institute for Culture (EUNIC) New York Cluster
2011 – 2015 Executive Member of the Panorama Europe Festival formerly known as Disappearing Film Festival
2011 – 2015 Executive Member, New Literature from Europe Festival, an annual festival of European Literature in NYC
2011 – 2013 Executive Member, Moving Sound Festival, annual int. festival of electronic exp. music and dance in NYC
2008 – 2010 Program and Office Manager at the Czech Tourism in New York
Kristyna Milde Education:
2004- 2007 Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Queens College, CUNY, Queens, NY, USA
1999 – 2003 Assenza Malschule, Painting, Basel, Switzerland
2011 Basic Finances For Artist Program (BFA) at the LMCC, NYC, USA
2003 Art Students League, Painting, NYC, USA
1997 – 1998 Freies Jugendseminar Engen, Germany
1993 -1997 Gymnasium pod Vysehradem, Prague, Czech Republic
Marek Milde Related Experience:
2017 – now Exhibition and Collection Department, Whitney Museum of American Art
2017 Mentor at New Your Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Program
2008 – 2015 Production Manager at the Czech Center New York, NYC
2008 – 2015 Supporting Organization Member, Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP), NY
2009 – 2013 Executive Member, Moving Sound Festival, annual int. festival of electronic exp. music and dance in NYC
2008 – 2014 Executive Producer, Czech Street Festival, NYC, an annual celebration of Czech culture
2008 – 2011 Czech Showcase Producer, International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), NYC
Marek Milde Education:
2004 – 2007 MFA, Queens College, CUNY, Queens, NY, USA
2001- 2003 Goetheanum, Art Section, Freies Studium Projekt/Painting, Dornach, Switzerland
2003 Art Students League, NYC, USA, Painting
1997- 2001 Atelier Dodekaeder, Germany, Sculpture
1994 – 1996 School of Applied Art, Prague, Czech Republic, Wood and Design
For full info visit our press section
“Milde’s works convey a coherent sense of unity that rejects any conventional classification.“
Peripheral ARTeries Magazine, December 2017, pg 4-31, Interview with Mildes and curators Dario Rutigliano and Melissa C. Hilborn
“Artists like Kristyna and Marek Milde can help lead the way.”
Little Patuxent Review, Feb. 6, 2015. Review by DyllenBargteil
Like a hike through the mountains, their art practice involves well-thought-out navigation through our environment that offers new perspectives and views on what we humans might have forgotten in our Anthropocene era.”
Sarah Crown, Flash Art, Spring 2017
“There are, of course, the eco-warrior overtones here of the wasteful carelessness of humanity, and city life specifically—that a perfectly habitable rooftop deck could be made so by simply hunting for what has been deemed worthless but still has life or meaning left inside it…In the hands of Kristyna and Marke Milde, rusty, sun-bleached chairs become as peculiarly heartbreaking and gently humorous as awkwardly-mended one-eyed teddy bears or cracked and carefully glued porcelain dollies.”
Brooklyn Rail, Sep. Iss. 2011, Review of the Milde’s installation “In Loving Memory†at Nurture Art, Brooklyn
An hour-long interview about Milde’s current projects, art practice, and their journey from Prague to NYC moderated by Renata Spisarova in the Czech language.
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Peripheral ARTeries Magazine, Aniversary Edition, December 2017, pg 4-31
Interview with Kristyna and Marek Milde
Discussing in detail with the curators Dario Rutigliano (United Kindom) and Melissa C. Hilborn (USA/ Germany) Milde’s collaborative artistic process and strategies they utilize in their recent projects.
“Milde’s works convey a coherent sense of unity that rejects any conventional classification.”
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Radio BTRtoday, Art Uncovered series hosted by Kimberley Ruth, December 19, 2017
Interview with Kristyna and Marek Milde
Interview on the BTR Radio as part of the Art Uncovered series hosted by Kimberley Ruth, where Milde discusses many topics and projects including the Public Library currently on view as part of the exhibition Building and Rebuilding at Repair the World.
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Czech Television CT1, Polopate,October 22, 2017
TV Reportage about Milde’s permanent installation In-Tree-Net at the Chateau Trebesice in the Czech Republic
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The Riverdale Press, Call & Response celebrates 10 years of emerging Wave Hill artists, October 6, 2017
Review about the anniversary group exhibition Call & Response at Wave Hill,
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News 12 Bronx, NY gallery offers space for young artists, September 10, 2017
TV Reportage from the Call and Response Exhibition at Wave Hill, featuring our site-specific installation In-Tree-Net,
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Flash Art, Lost Connection, Czech and Slovak Edition # 43, Pg. 33 March- May 2017
Article by Sarah Crown about Milde’s art practice focusing on a variety of projects about the environment
Quote: Like a hike through the mountains, their art practice involves well-thought-out navigation through our environment that offers new perspectives and views on what we humans might have forgotten in our Anthropocene era.
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Form, Art and the Environment: Engaging in Sustainability published by Routledge, 2017, 224 pages
New publication on environmental and sustainable art by Barbara Benish and Nathalie Blance, featuring Milde’s work.
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Untapped Cities Studio in the Park’s ‘Chance Ecologies’ Takes an In-Depth Look at NYC’s Flushing River, July 20, 2016
Article by Jenna Bagcal about the Chance Ecologies: Flushing River residency at the Studio in the Park at the Queens Museum, in which Kristyna and Marek Milde participated
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The New York Times At Exhibitions in Peekskill, Art in Plain English, March 25, 2016
Article by Susan Hodara about the exhibition Word at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY featuring Kristyna and Marek Milde installation Home in a Home in the Art Westchester section.
Each of the more than 70 works in Word incorporates text: isolated letters, bold words, enigmatic phrases, provocative sentences or fragments of stories…Lines of text create diamond patterns in the wallpaper in Kristyna and Marek Mildes living-room-like installation, Home in a Homeâ€
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The Highlands Current Words as Art“, August 30, 2016
Exhibition review by Alison Rooney about the exhibition Word at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY featuring Kristyna and Marek Milde installation Home in a Home
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Hudson Valley News Network HVCCA Works “WORD†Wonders , March 1, 2016
TV reportage by Jay Behrke about the exhibition Word at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY.
Quote: Much of the work on display here is both provocative and groundbreaking.
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Czech National TV “Toulava Kameraâ€, August 2, 2015
In-Tree-Net featured on the Czech National TV Ceska Televize In the Travel and History Series Toulava Kamera
The TV show features Renaissance Chateau Trebesice near Prague which contains a prominent contemporary art collection of Alberto di Stefano and Eugenio Percossi that includes the permanent installation In-Tree-Net by Kristyna and Marek Milde.
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Art Daily New York Ceramics and Glass Fair announces loan exhibition featuring contemporary Czech ceramicists, February 18, 2015,
Review of the Loan Exhibition It is Always Tea Time in the Wonderland curated by Kristyna Milde as part of the New York Ceramic and Glass Fair.
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Editor at Large NY Fair Delves Into The Art of Ceramics and Glass, January 19, 2015
Review of the Loan Exhibition It is Always Tea Time in the Wonderland curated by Kristyna Milde as part of the New York Ceramic and Glass Fair. Quote: “The New York Ceramic and Glass Fair hit the Big Apple on Jan. 21, and it’s poised to bring together works by global exhibitors, but also highlight an Alice in Wonderland-themed loan exhibition from the Czech Center New York and programming that delves into the art of ceramics and glass….“The surrealistic moment of suspended time in Wonderland inspired the selection of the objects for this show,†said curator Kristyna Milde of the Czech Center.
http://editoratlarge.com/articles/4964/ny-fair-delves-into-the-art-of-ceramics-and-glass?page=2
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ArtfixDaily New York Ceramics and Glass Fair Announces Loan Exhibition Featuring Contemporary Czech Ceramicists
Dec. 17, 2015, Review of the Loan Exhibition It is Always Tea Time in the Wonderland curated by Kristyna Milde as part of the New York Ceramic and Glass Fair. Because of their mundane references, the objects may at first seem familiar, but on closer inspection are revealed to be strangely unsettling, mixing the familiar with the surreal, shifting our expectation of pottery.“ http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/print/9571-new-york-ceramics-and-glass-fair-announces-loan-exhibition-featur
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New York Times, January 23, 2015
Emporiums of the Waggish and Weird; Browsing at Metro Curates and the Ceramics and Glass Fair
Review of the New York Ceramic and Glass Fair, which featured the Loan Exhibition It is Always Tea Time in the Wonderland curated by K. Milde.
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Little Patuxent Review â€What You Eat: Shopping Cart to Table“ February 6, 2015
Review by Dyllen Bargteil about the project A la Cart at Dumbo, Brooklyn by Kristyna and Marek Milde
http://littlepatuxentreview.org/2015/02/06/what-you-eat-shopping-cart-to-table/
Quote: Artists like Kristyna and Marek Milde can help lead the way.
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Little Patuxent Review “Kristyna Milde Interview about à la Cart“, February 6, 2015
The Interview appeared as part of the article What You Eat: Shopping Cart to Table by Dyllen Bargteil on the Little Patuxent Review
https://lprjournal.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/km-milde-a-la-cart-interview.pdf
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Hyperallergic Artist probe urban Architecture July 1, 2014
Review of the exhibition Food Shed in the Smack Mellon Gallery by Allison Meier featuring Kristyna and Marek Milde’s project A la Cart.
Quote: Another of the neighborhood projects is from the Brooklyn-based artist team Kristyna and Marek Milde. Called à la cart, the artists corralled some shopping carts into vegetable gardens at Old Fulton Street, and in Smack Mellon are coordinating food workshops focused on what can be grown collaboratively on the city streets.
http://hyperallergic.com/135615/artists-probe-urban-agriculture/
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Radio Free Artist probe urban Architecture, July 2, 2014
Review of the exhibition Food Shed in the Smack Mellon Gallery by Allison Meier featuring Kristyna and Marek Milde’s project A la Cart.
http://www.radiofree.org/us/artists-probe-urban-agriculture/
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NYFA Current Kristyna and Marek Milde from the Czech Center New York (CCNYC), May 29, 2014
Interviewed by Felicity Hogan with Kristyna Milde in the Con Edison Immigrant Artist Program
Newsletter Issue No. 57 http://current.nyfa.org/post/87201155664/iap-newsletter-issue-57
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Expats.cz East or West, Home Is Best, October 22, 2013
Review of the exhibition Where is My Home at the Dox Center for Contemporary Art in Prague by Lisette Allen, featuring Kristyna Milde project “Home in a Home
Quote: At first glance, Home in a Home by Kristyna and Marek Milde is merely an old-fashioned writing bureau and a chair. However, the desk is not merely an item on display but instead invites visitors to sit down and complete a questionnaire on the non-functional objects in their home, that help to personalize the otherwise blank boxes we inhabit. A selection of the most interesting responses “ a rusty nail found in a forest, a collection of meteorites and a dead rosemary plant “are displayed on the wall above the desk. http://www.expats.cz/prague/article/art/east-or-west-home-is-best/
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Czech Television, CT 24 Culture Kde, co a s kam tvori domov, zjistuji umelci v DOX, October 12, 2013
English Title: Where, what, and with whom to form a home, examine artists in DOX“
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct24/kultura/245798-kde-co-a-s-kym-tvori-domov-zjistuji-umelci-v-dox/
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Psychology Tomorrow Magazine Poison Green: Ecology as Ideology June 26, 2013
Review of the exhibition Poison Green curated by Kristyna and Marek Milde at the Czech Center Gallery by Radka Salcmannova and Matthew Ortiz.
http://www.psychologytomorrowmagazine.com/radka-salcmannova-and-matthew-ortiz-poison-green/
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City Farmer News Dinner Garden on the rooftop of the Bohemian National Hall, New York City“, August 18, 2013
Review by Michael Levenston of the project Dinner Garden by Kristyna Milde
Quote: Curators of the show Kristyna and Marek Milde invited a group of local people associated with the Bohemian National Hall to collaborate and experience together with the process of growing just enough food for one dish.
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Artycok TV Needles Cleanup September 9, 2013
Video reportage reviewing the group exhibition Needles Cleanup in the Meat Factory in Prague, which features Kristyna Milde’s work
http://artycok.tv/lang/en-us/20338/zbytecny-uklidneedless-cleanup
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Art Clue “Karlin Studios, Prague: KRISTÃNA AND MAREK MILDE: THE HOMESCAPE“, December 23, 2013
http://en1.artclue.net/karlin-studios-kristyna-and-marek-milde-the-homescape/
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Flash Art Italia Lessico Famigliare, English Title: Family Talks, July – September Issue 2012, pg 20
Review of the show Family Talks at the Futura Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic by Simone Ciglia
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Brooklyn Rail Kristyna and Marek Milde In Loving Memory Sep. Iss. 2011
Review by Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata of the site-specific installation In Loving Memory by Kristyna Milde at Nurture Art, Brooklyn. Quote: „Their use of visually loaded cues like memorial plaques and a giant informational panel feels more like winking at the viewer than furiously pointing out his deplorable chair-wasting tendencies, simply because these particular visual cues are so patently absurd…In the hands of Kristyna and Marek Milde, rusty, sun-bleached chairs become as peculiarly heartbreaking and gently humorous as awkwardly-mended one-eyed teddy bears or cracked and carefully glued porcelain dollies.â€
http://brooklynrail.org/2011/09/artseen/kristyna-and-marek-milde-in-loving-memory
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W+G News Kristyna and Marek Milde In Loving Memory October 2011
Review of the installation In Loving Memory by Milde as part of Trenton’s Top Gallery Pick
Quote: The chairs alone are a ramshackle and hideous bunch, but the artists have outfitted each one with a commemorative plaque much like the plates affixed to park benches in dedication to deceased loved ones that elevate them to objects of conceptual intrigue. But it also shows that, by labeling an object as uncool, it suddenly becomes cool. Such is the power of irony.
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Artribune Siamo tutti newyorkchesi, July 25, 2011
Review by Charlotte Cyril of the installation In Loving Memory by Milde as part of the We Are project series at Nurture Art in Brooklyn. Quote: “… let us note that as fractionated and different, we all are part of a set. A potentially harmonious whole. Perfectly in line with this feeling is a permanent installation on the rooftop of the gallery, In Loving Memory, formed by the Czech couple Marek & Kristyna Milde. A place where the entropy of New York has found a point of arrival, along with a new, but increasingly heterogeneous identity. http://www.artribune.com/2011/07/siamo-tutti-newyorchesi/
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BQE Media: Leader / Observer + Greenpoint Star“Artists to Audience Express Local puts 15 city artists in Queensâ€
February 9, 2011, Express Local exhibition review by Valeen Kalimooto published in several printed BQE newspapers such as Leader / Observer; Greenpoint Star.
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Queens Tribune QC Exhibit Asks: Does Home Matter?â€, February 3, 2011
Review of the exhibition Express Local at the Queens College Art Center
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Metro, USA Getting to know Queens through art March 23, 2011, Review by Jami Attenberg of the exhibition Express Local at the Queens College Art Center.
http://www.metro.us/entertainment/getting-to-know-queens-through-art/tmWkcw—c5vWFmtA5zGIE/
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Estetica Comunicacione Kristyna Milde: Conventions, Consumerism, Art and Women March 16, 2011
Interview with Kristyna Milde by Natalia Liquinano,
http://esteticacomunicacion.blogspot.com/2011/03/kristyna- milde-conventions-consumerism.html
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KUVAR, Text book by Boris Miljkovic, a history of the visual arts featuring Kristyna Milde photographic series cUMENI.
Published in 2013 by Geo Poetica in Serbia, 299 pg (Pg .46, Pg. 123), ISBN: 978-86-6145-140-9
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Designboom kristyna milde: cUmeni, August 27, 2009, Review of Kristyna Milde photographic series cUMENI.
Quote: “Czech artist Kristyna Milde poses barbies in the role of historical icons from famous works of art to examine 
how modes of representation distort our perception of women.â€
www.designboom.com/art/kristyna-milde-cumeni
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Trend Hunter, Kristyna Milde Recreates Famous Paintings with Posed Doll, Aug 28, 2009
Review of Kristyna Milde photographic series cUMENI. Quote: “Very impressive work, as the recreations are near perfect.
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/kristyna-milde
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Pittsburgh Tribune “ Review, Czech It’ looks at the family of photographers, April.22, 2009
Review by Kurt Shaw of the exhibition “Czech it†Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pa featuring Kristyna Milde photographic series cUMENI. Quote: “Also with a focus on humor and feminism, Kristyna Milde’s work, in which she replaces female figures in scenes from famous paintings with Mattel’s Barbie, is a real showstopper. Staged in scenes from paintings of Old Masters like Titian and Peter Paul Rubens, they reflect a transformation of cultural values and role models. For example, with her piece “Diana and Actaeon,” she recreates a painting by Giuseppe Cesari (Italian Mannerist Painter, 1568-1640) in which similarities between stereotypical representations from the past and present collide to make an impact on the stereotypes of female identities, both as victims and savior. Milde is just one of five emerging artists represented in this exhibit whose work represents an interesting peak in the contemporary Czech photographic scene.“
http://triblive.com//x/pittsburghtrib/ae/museums/s_621818.html#axzz3NQk6OAeJ
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Pitt News, Art deserves to be Czeched out, April 13, 2009
Exhibition Review Czech it†Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pa by Colleen Counihan featuring Kristyna Milde’s photographic series cUMENI. Quote: “Kristina Milde’s work stands out on the walls because her subjects are not human, but rather Barbies. The plastic figures are posed nude, other times clothed, in the scenes of famous paintings. With her work, Milde comments on the shaping of female identity.â€
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The New York Times, Misplaces, March 5, 2006
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