Košice Artist in Residence
Michal Moravčík (born 1974) studied at the department of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (1992-1998), where later he continued with doctoral studies (Art.D 2010). In 2004 he won Oskár Čepan Award for Young Visual Artists. In his work he creates interventions, objects and environments that deal with political and […]
Photgrapher Gilles Pourtier sudied French Literature for 2 years before an apprenticeship in glassmaking. He spent 4 years working glass in London for artists as personnal assistant as well as working at Surrey University of Art and Design in Farnham. In 2009 he graduated from the French National School of Photography in Arles, since then he has been living […]
„Vlasta Žáková ‘disrupted’ any possible relations with the traditional decorative forms of so called “arrases” or tapestries by her pictures Unstoppable girls and Unforgettable girls (2006). Human beings as the figures start to dominate in several compositional plans. She connects more figural fragments as a characteristic choice of moments of particular memories unified in one picture […]
Manabu Kanai is an visual artist/researcher, born in Tokyo 1983. He is currently working towards Ph.D degree at Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan. He places art as a process of exploring for the way of abstracting/describing the Weltbild. Working across installation, painting, sculpture and computer programing, he tries to generate particular art form based […]
Anja Schäfer is a Berlin based artist primarily working in photography. She gathers inspiration for her work in daily life, particularly in personal and (auto-) biographical stories. Fascinated by the history of Kosice her project is based on the personal stories of selected encounters with the citizens. She examined this collection of narrative information and visualized […]
Jan Durina (b-1988) is a Slovak visual artist, working primarily with photography. His images are mirrors of his own inner reality, autobiographical maps of his physical and mental location. Fascinated by the nature and natural absurdity of life itself, Durina explores his tense feelings in his images and takes us on a feral, emotive, visual, […]