Košice Artist in Residence
As an artist straddling Los Angeles and Yokohama, conventional ideas of home and the unfamiliar seem to exist in close vicinity. “My body of work explores places read about and visited, composite spaces that are the product of imperfect memory. Objects are drawn and erased and moved and redrawn: the outlines of objects removed are barely present, emphasizing the […]
Michaela Knížová is student of New Media on Faculty of Fine Arts in Košice. She works with photography, performance and video art. “I work mostly with myself, with my personality and my body. I think that through self-portrait I could express my artistic intentions. My topics often related to women. Some photos are full with the […]
Vitaliy Kokhan is a young artist from Kharkov, Ukraine. He spent two months (February until March 2013) in Košice as an artist in residence. His residency was an outcome of a long term cooperation with Kharov City Art Gallery. Vitaliy is interested in working mainly with raw materials ranging from wood, soil, ice and other natural materials, […]
Erik Sille is one of the most significant protagonists of Slovak painting. Amongst his practice as visual artist, his acrylic paintings are identifiable by their meticulous and bold surface structure. With each painting he is telling a story, often featuring comic characters. He is inspired by contemporary everyday visual enviroment: bilboards, advertisement, television, comics, street style and videogames. […]
Jozsef Tamás Balázs is an artist for whom so called “practical sculptures” are more than significant. These works deal with the subject of “travel” in a broader sense and the process of getting ready for it. By travel he does not mean holiday travel but rather the never-ending migration for a better life. These sculptures can […]
Ľudmila Horňáková usually draw her topics of interest from social space, conflicts and global problems. She tries to find a different attitude or a position which is less obvious and predictable. “I try to put myself in a critical position without including my subjectivity. In general, I am going to work with slow impending disaster and weather which […]