Kristyna and Marek Milde
RKristyna and Marek Milde are Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artists and curators, originally from Prague, Czech Republic, working together as a collaborative tandem. Their work explores cultural mechanism, conventions, and codes of the modern lifestyle focusing on domesticity, while investigating its connection to the context of environment and nature. They have exhibited internationally in number of solo and group exhibitions including at the MoMA Studio, New York; Queens Museum, New York; NURTURE art, Brooklyn; EFA Project Space; New York; Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space, Bronx; Smack Mellon Gallery, Dumbo, Brooklyn; Anna Wallace Gallery, New York; Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA), Peekskill; Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia; Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, Dumbo Street Festival, Brooklyn; Abrons Art Center, Lower Manhattan, Knockdown Center, Queens; Silent Barn, Brooklyn; DOX Center for Contemporary Art; Futura Center for Contemporary Art; Meet Factory; Karlin Studios, Galerie Califia in the Czech Republic and the Blue Oyster Art Project Space, New Zealand. They give presentations and participate in panel discussions in venues such as Queens Museum, Pratt Institute, NYC and Mildreds Lane, PA and tranzitdisplay, Prague.
Their work has been featured and reviewed in the New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, Artribune, NYFA current, WG News, Artycok TV, and Czech National Television among others. Their work is part of private and public collections including the permanent public installation at Chateau Trebesice, Czech Republic and Manitoga, Russell Wright Design Center, Garrison, NY. They have been awarded the Studio in the Park at the Queens Museum in 2016, LMCC Process Space Residency 2016 at Governors Island, and Shift EFA Residency 2014– 2015 NYC, From 2008 till 2015 they both have worked at the Czech Center NY, a prominent Czech Cultural Institute on the Upper East Side, where they curated and organized a wide range of international programs, events, exhibitions and residencies. In 2007 they received their MFAs from the Queens College, New York.
American. Based in New York, USA.
Available Works
Ha Ha Ha, From Igeology project, ongoing since 2012
SCULPTURE
Artist: Kristyna and Marek Milde
Sculpture Dimensions: cc 12” x 22” x 4” each
Materials: Hand embroidered plastic shopping bag, silk
About: Igeology is an ongoing project engaging messages of corporate branding and slogans printed on the plastic shopping bags. The name of the project combines the words ideology and “igelit”; the Czech name for soft PVC plastic. In the project Mildes use hand embroidery to enhance selected portions and fragments of the original printed text as a détournement strategy to derail and hijack persuasive narratives of marketing. Igeology plays with meaning reversing and changing its direction, pointing to the subversive psychology of advertisement.
www.mildeart.com/projects/igeology
Proceeds: 50% of the net proceeds from the sale of this sculpture will be donated to Riverkeeper, www.riverkeeper.org
Price: $650 USD
(Price does not include shipping.)
Reduct, From Igeology project, ongoing since 2012
SCULPTURE
Artist: Kristyna and Marek Milde
Sculpture Dimensions: cc 12” x 22” x 4” each
Materials: Hand embroidered plastic shopping bag, silk
About: Igeology is an ongoing project engaging messages of corporate branding and slogans printed on the plastic shopping bags. The name of the project combines the words ideology and “igelit”; the Czech name for soft PVC plastic. In the project Mildes use hand embroidery to enhance selected portions and fragments of the original printed text as a détournement strategy to derail and hijack persuasive narratives of marketing. Igeology plays with meaning reversing and changing its direction, pointing to the subversive psychology of advertisement.
www.mildeart.com/projects/igeology
Proceeds: 50% of the net proceeds from the sale of this sculpture will be donated to Riverkeeper, www.riverkeeper.org
Price: $650 USD
(Price does not include shipping.)
Live Better, From Igeology project, ongoing since 2012
SCULPTURE
Artist: Kristyna and Marek Milde
Sculpture Dimensions: cc 12” x 22” x 4” each
Materials: Hand embroidered plastic shopping bag, silk
About: Igeology is an ongoing project engaging messages of corporate branding and slogans printed on the plastic shopping bags. The name of the project combines the words ideology and “igelit”; the Czech name for soft PVC plastic. In the project Mildes use hand embroidery to enhance selected portions and fragments of the original printed text as a détournement strategy to derail and hijack persuasive narratives of marketing. Igeology plays with meaning reversing and changing its direction, pointing to the subversive psychology of advertisement.
www.mildeart.com/projects/igeology
Proceeds: 50% of the net proceeds from the sale of this sculpture will be donated to Riverkeeper, www.riverkeeper.org
Price: $650 USD
(Price does not include shipping.)
For purchasing, high resolution images or other details, please contact mildeart@hotmail.com or marekmilde@hotmail.com
To learn more, please visit www.MildeArt.com