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  "description": "Anna Engelhardt and Tina Bxtq present Bleed Through at Galerie 35M2, curated by Zuzana-Markéta Macková through 8 August 2026.",
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  "textContent": "## Galerie 35M2 Presents Bleed Through in Prague\n\nGalerie 35M2 presents  _Bleed Through_ , curated by Zuzana-Markéta Macková, through 8 August 2026.\n\n* * *\n\nWhat gets held back eventually resurfaces. Not as a message, not as an explanation, but as a stain, a residue, something that disrupts the surface without announcing itself.\n\n****Anna Engelhardt & Tina Bxtq****, installation view, Bleed Through, ****Galerie 35M2, Prague**** , 2026. Courtesy the artists and Galerie 35M2. Photo: František Svatoš.\n\n\nThe premise of  _Bleed Through_ is structural rather than metaphorical: systems designed to contain violence, whether industrial, political, or bodily, are porous by nature. They absorb until they cannot. Then they leak.\n\n* * *\n\n**Bleed Through**\n\n**Artists:**\nAnna Engelhardt, Tina Bxtq\n\n**Exhibition:**\nBleed Through\n\n**Venue:**\n\nGalerie 35M2\n\n\n**City:**\nPrague, Czech Republic\n\n**Dates:**\n13 May 2026 – 8 August 2026\n\n**Address:**\nVíta Nejedlého 23, Prague 3\n\n**Curator:**\nZuzana-Markéta Macková\n\n**Photography:**\nFrantišek Svatoš\n\n**Image Courtesy:**\nCourtesy Galerie 35M2\n\n**Production, Management & PR:**\nStanislav Kubáň\n\n* * *\n\nThe title carries both meanings deliberately. To bleed through is to seep past a barrier. It is also to endure a passage, uncomfortable, involuntary, something that happens to a body rather than through its will.\n\n****Anna Engelhardt & Tina Bxtq****, installation view, Bleed Through, ****Galerie 35M2, Prague,**** 2026. Courtesy the artists and Galerie 35M2. Photo: František Svatoš.\n\nThe two artists working here, Anna Engelhardt**** and Tina Bxtq, approach this from different scales: one at the level of geopolitical infrastructure, the other at the level of skin and clay.\n\n> Systems do not fail when they collapse. They fail when what they were meant to hide becomes visible through them. Bleed Through situates that moment not as crisis but as consequence, the ordinary cost of containment.\n\n* * *\n\n**Galerie 35M2** occupies a compact space in Prague 3, and this matters for an exhibition built around the logic of overflow.\n\nThere is nowhere to stand at a comfortable distance from the work. The room does not allow detachment, which feels like a curatorial choice rather than a limitation.\n\n****Anna Engelhardt & Tina Bxtq,**** installation view, Bleed Through, ****Galerie 35M2, Prague, 2026****. Courtesy the artists and Galerie 35M2. Photo: František Svatoš.****Tina Bxtq**** , Postangelic, costume, installation view, Bleed Through, ****Galerie 35M2, Prague, 2026****. Courtesy the artist and Galerie 35M2. Photo: František Svatoš.****Tina Bxtq,**** Postangelic, costume, installation view, Bleed Through, ****Galerie 35M2, Prague, 2026.**** Courtesy the artist and Galerie 35M2. Photo: František Svatoš.****Tina Bxtq,**** Postangelic, detail, Bleed Through, ****Galerie 35M2, Prague,**** 2026. Courtesy the artist and Galerie 35M2. Photo: František Svatoš.\n\nAnna Engelhardt's video installation  _Towards Dissolution_ was developed during a residency at Fondazione Studio Rizoma in Sicily. The work takes place inside a Sicilian oil refinery where Russian oil, exported under the cover of Italian processing, re-enters the European market. Engelhardt moves through the site herself, past fumes, tanks, processing chambers, and the camera holds that bodily exposure without aestheticizing it.\n\nThe refinery's purpose is transformation: crude material enters one end, legible commodity exits the other. What the work reveals is the gap in that logic. The refinement is never complete. Residues cling. Surfaces absorb what passes through them. The violence of extraction, already layered through geopolitical laundering, does not disappear at the processing stage, it changes form.\n\n****Anna Engelhardt & Tina Bxtq,**** installation detail, Bleed Through, ****Galerie 35M2, Prague,**** 2026. Courtesy the artists and Galerie 35M2. Photo: František Svatoš.Anna Engelhardt, Towards Dissolution, installation view, Bleed Through, Galerie 35M2, Prague, 2026. Courtesy the artist and Galerie 35M2. Photo: František Svatoš.****Anna Engelhardt & Tina Bxtq,**** installation detail, Bleed Through, ****Galerie 35M2, Prague,**** 2026. Courtesy the artists and Galerie 35M2. Photo: František Svatoš.\n\nTina Bxtq works closer to the body, though the logic runs parallel. Her ceramic objects present hybrid organisms, small, rounded, recognizably cute, and wrong in a way that takes a moment to locate. Disfigured is accurate but reductive, the distortion is not damage so much as structural instability, a body that cannot decide where it ends.\n\nAlongside these objects is a costume from the performance  _Postangelic_ , a word that carries its own residue, the suggestion of something that came after a transformation and is now living in the aftermath. The aesthetic of cuteness, here, functions as surface tension. It holds the form together just long enough for the discomfort to register.\n\n****Anna Engelhardt & Tina Bxtq****, installation view, Bleed Through, ****Galerie 35M2, Prague,**** 2026. Courtesy the artists and Galerie 35M2. Photo: František Svatoš.\n\nWhat connects the two practices is not theme but mechanism. Both are interested in what bodies, biological, industrial, infrastructural that fail to absorb without remainder. The refinery cannot fully erase the conditions of extraction. The ceramic form cannot fully contain its own instability. Engelhardt's work operates at the scale of geopolitics and Bxtq's at something closer to the hand. The exhibition holds them together without flattening the difference.\n\nThe timing is specific without being opportunistic. The laundering of Russian oil through Southern European refineries is not historical, it is ongoing and structurally embedded in energy supply chains that remain largely invisible to the consumer. That Engelhardt brings a camera body into that space, and lets it register what the infrastructure is designed to make imperceptible, is a formal argument as much as a political one.\n\n****Anna Engelhardt & Tina Bxtq,**** installation view, Bleed Through, ****Galerie 35M2, Prague, 2026****. Courtesy the artists and Galerie 35M2. Photo: František Svatoš.\n\nBxtq's organisms, small enough to hold, disfigured enough to unsettle, carry something similar, the claim that the body is not a stable unit, that its borders are functional rather than real.\n\nThe pressure of the exhibition does not release at the exit. The ceramic forms stay with you in the way that discomfort does, not as memory of something you saw, but as a residue. That is probably the point. What bleeds through is not meant to be processed cleanly.\n\nInstagram Anna Engelhardt\nTina BXTQ on Instagram\n35m2 on Instagram\n\n**About Catapult Contemporary - Art Platform Submission**\n\nThis is a exhibition review published by Catapult - an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. We publish exhibition reviews, artist features, interviews, and critical context, with a focus on emerging and mid-career practices from Europe and beyond.\ncatapult.art\n\nWant to be featured? Submit your work →\n\n* * *\n\nArtist in Focus\n\n## Sungho Bae: Soft Bodies Against Coherence\n\nRead More\n\nExhibition\n\n## Kyriaki Goni: Telling the Bees at The Breeder, Athens\n\nRead More\n\nInterview\n\n## Constantin Hartenstein: Body and Technology From a Queer Perspective\n\nRead More\n\n* * *",
  "title": "Infrastructure Leaks",
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