Košice Artist in Residence
With her captivating painting, Olena Pronkina draws us into stories in which scenes from her real life intertwine with parallel dream worlds. Color, a painting technique reminiscent of a fresco and suggestive environments or compositions will attract our curiosity with positive anticipation. But the melancholy-emptied faces and the inquisitively almost longingly lengthening limbs of the monumental shapeless figures indicate the experience of other stories
Natalia Revko is a curator and researcher from Odesa, who participated in a two-month KAIR residency. During this time Natalia was researching the topography and landscape of Kosice tracing city flows, the influence of public art objects on routes as well as how citizens overtake the city by walking.
Nikola Ivanov is an intermedia artist based in Prague working mainly with photography, video, and graphic design. His work deals with the issue of temporality, historical memory, and biopolitics and is often inspired by social sciences. Nikola’s long-term project focuses on how modernity and technologies have changed the nighttime understanding. The key term for this […]
On February 22, we are going to have an artist talk with Olena Pronkina, who will introduce you to her work and the topics she focuses on. She is primarily interested in figurativeness through anthropomorphism, which for her is an inexhaustible source of visual possibilities through which she creates and seeks a place in the world for herself.
We cordially invite you to the lecture The City and the City with Natalia Revko, who will introduce you to modern and contemporary art in Odesa, Ukraine.
The Artist Exchange Program of the Budapest Gallery and KAIR Košice Artist in Residence invite visual or interdisciplinary artists (no need to have previous collaboration) from Slovakia to take part in the two-month residency in Budapest, Hungary.