Košice Artist in Residence
“My paintings are small in scale, modestly painted investigations into form, volume and colour. Simple repeated marks made on canvas that don’t try to look anything other than themselves. Their interpretation is open. I often start with a shape or shapes, dots, patterns, badly drawn things; the strange and the familiar collide, looking for meaning. […]
The work of Jaroslav Kysa comprises objects, installations, photography and video, and all of the areas are characteristic of the author’s typical use of the appropriation and aesthetic perception not only of found common objects and commodities, but also of cuts-outs from everyday real events, both lively and banal. Jaroslav Kysa relativises the functionality of […]
Kristina Forbat, the Slovakian born city writer for Košice 2013 came from Hamburg, Germany, in April 2013 to stay for 5 months in Košice. Košice was once her birthplace. With her parents and her older sister she immigrated as a little girl to West Germany where she grew up. Kristina studied Political Sciences, Communication Studies […]
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, […]