Group Exhibition Loophole to Happiness sets out to locate and explore the freedom-enhancing loopholes that exist on the margins of repressive social systems from East European communism to global capitalism. Faced with the perfection of techniques of absorbing criticism and the systematic mobilisation of our creativity, sociability and sentiments for economic ends, the search is on for new forms of resistance to the endless pressure of production. The exhibition takes the inventive strategies of worker resistance under communism as the starting point for fresh attempts to imagine exceptions, find escape routes and evade the smooth surface of today’s neo-liberal capitalist order. Prlja presented the work ‘Black Communism”.

Budapest (exhibition 2010)
Installation as part of Group exhibition Loophole to happiness at Trafo gallery, Budapest. Black Communism – 9 shirts, hand painted slogans, old sewing machines. 2010 Read more…

Lodz (exhibition 2011)
Installation as part of Group exhibition Loophole to happiness at SZTUKI museum, Lodz. Black Communism – 9 shirts, hand painted slogans, old sewing machines. 2010 Read more…

Praha (exhibition 2011)
Installation as part of Group exhibition Loophole to happiness at FUTURA, Praha. Black Communism – 9 shirts, hand painted slogans, old sewing machines. 2012 Read more…

Bratislava (exhibition 2012)
Installation as part of Group exhibition Loophole to happiness at amt_projects, Bratislava. Black Communism, 9 shirts, hand painted slogans. 2012 Read more..

Loophole to Happiness Curated by: Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Participating artists: Zbyněk Baladrán, Adam Chodzko, Petra Feriancova, Siniša Labrović, Ciprian Muresan, Csaba Nemes, Nada Prlja, Janek Simon, Péter Szabó and Katarina Šević.
Loophole to Happiness sets out to locate and explore the freedom-enhancing loopholes that exist on the margins of repressive social systems from East European communism to global capitalism. Faced with the perfection of techniques of absorbing criticism and the systematic mobilisation of our creativity, sociability and sentiments for economic ends, the search is on for new forms of resistance to the endless pressure of production. The exhibition takes the inventive strategies of worker resistance under communism as the starting point for fresh attempts to imagine exceptions, find escape routes and evade the smooth surface of today’s neo-liberal capitalist order.
Press coverage:
- Škvíra kartalk.cz, e štěstí ve Futuře, Foto report, by Silvie Šeborová
- artycok.tv, Škvíra ke štěsti (video)
- Deník Referendum, Jak vypadá škvíra ke štěstí?, Johana Lomová
- Atelier
- undo.net, Loophole to Happiness, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz
- Culture.pl., Loophole to Happiness, Source: www.msl.org.pl
- International art news, Loophole to Happiness – Budapest – Hungary
- ninateka.pl. Loophole to Happiness/Furtka do szczęścia | Muzeum Sztuki Łodź
- plasterlodzki.pl, Loophole to Happiness w ms (foto), piątek, 28 stycznia 2011 11:38 Kinga Filińska
- — print control, Loophole to happiness, catalogue design
- ISABART, Škvíra ke štěstí / Loophole to Happiness
- artmap, sympozium, Reclaim Happiness: Opposing Systems Symposium / 24.5. 13-17/
Book:
Loophole to Happiness, Paperback, 2012, by
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