björnsonova / Tamara Antonijević, Lucia Kvočáková, Lucie Svoboda Mičíková, Tanja Śljivar, Nik Timková, Zuzana Žabková

JUST A FEW MOMENTS AGO WE WERE WAITING FOR AGES III

A site-specific environment of 13 Čosity (WhoAreYou) cards and the glossary Just a Few Moments Ago We Were Waiting For Ages

björnsonova / Tamara Antonijević, Lucia Kvočáková, Lucie Svoboda Mičíková, Tanja Śljivar, Nik Timková, Zuzana Žabková
Curated by: björnsonova, Petra Housková
Production: Denisa Juhászová
Opening: 29 September / 7 pm
Duration: 30 September – 5 November 2026
Šopa Gallery, Hlavná 40, Košice
Opening hours:
Tue – Fri / 3 pm – 6 pm

You are entering a prophetic living room filled with giant, human-sized cards. Your future, which is already happening right now, is mirrored in these cards. Think of a question that is troubling you right now — burning and true. Choose a card. And seek what you need to find.

The exhibition Just a Few Moments Ago We Were Waiting For Ages III presents thirteen original cards by Čosity (WhoAreYou), oscillating between game cards and divination cards. Each of them represents a character or an event from the cosmology of björnsonova’s stories — a fictional character and, at the same time, a shifting constellation of people. The composition and interpretation of the cards draw on the system of tarot divination cards, while gently queering the logic of game cards, Magic cards and Pokémon cards. The cards are not merely a divinatory medium; they are also existing characters in an unfolding story.

Through collective divination, björnsonova lifts the veil between the tangible and the mystical, inviting us on a journey in search of answers to questions about the past, present and future, love, loss, victory, money, home, travel, and anything else your longing heart desires. She seduces our intimate thoughts, soothes our fears, builds pathways, mediates girlhood, performs magic and believes in miracles. She brings to the surface the most tender parts of ourselves, while speaking bluntly about the radical steps needed to achieve real change towards a better and more conscious environment and coexistence. (Jelisaveta Rapaić)

Čosity cards are now also available in a portable version for travelling hackers, tricksters and witches. They are part of the glossary Just a Few Moments Ago We Were Waiting For Ages, which gathers terms, definitions, quotes and a few bad jokes from the life, dreams and disastrous openings of björnsonova. It also serves as a reader for the cards — as they are read, it weaves a web of possible meanings, associations and answers.

björnsonova is a project, a fictional character, a community and a dancing multi-body with roots and ties across time, places and art forms. This hybrid subjectivity recycles, multiplies and subverts procedures, methods, objects, texts and bodies with every event that takes place in her name. björnsonova was founded in 2015 as an artistic and interdisciplinary platform for experimentation, research and sharing, involving artists from Prague, Košice, Berlin, Brussels and Belgrade. She is also a fictional character, a mystery, a monster, a teenager or a witch, whose appearance is constantly changing. Her body is a metaphor for the very functioning and dynamics of the platform, in which the individual parts are inseparable from the whole while also creating their own collective environment. Artists and curators combine their approaches to explore the relationship between the body and its environment, and through various anti-strategies they open up questions about how this relationship might change. Since its beginnings, björnsonova has also been closely engaged with reading groups and with connecting theory and practice in its artistic projects.

björnsonova’s projects have been presented at, among others, FUTURA gallery in Prague, the Moravian Gallery in Brno, Kunsthalle Bratislava and the Matter of Art Biennale 2024 at the National Gallery Prague. In 2021, björnsonova received the Jindřich Chalupecký Award.

The project was supported by the Tatra banka Foundation, the City of Košice and the Košice Self-Governing Region.