Category: Past

Claire Dantzer (FR)

Marseille based artist, Claire Dantzer is part of sextant et plus collective, and joined Biskra studio right after obtaining her diploma in National Fine Art Academy of Toulon. She is an original artist dealing with unexpected materials,  reflecting their physical and psychological impacts on the body.  K.A.I.R will host Claire Dantzer from november 2012 to […]

Inna Aslamova & Daria Buzovkina (RU/BLS)

Inna Aslamova (Russia) and Daria Buzovkina (Belarus) are two contemporary dancers and founding members of a dance company Quadro. They came to Košice to research the issue of distance. The crucial aim of their residency stay was to use dance to explore local culture and possibilities to connect with people. They did so during a pop up […]

Zuzana Žabková (SK)

Zuzana Žabková is a multidisciplinary artist, combining videos, installation and performance. She graduated from Intermedia and Multimedia Department in Bratislava. In her artworks, she often deals with different topics which are usually critically focusing on current common utopias and on the trial to attained them. After exhibiting in several art centers in Slovakia in abroad […]

Bastian Muhr (GER)

Bastian Muhr is a German painter who says that in his work he is “eager to find something new and exciting in the process of making“. The image isbeing formed as he works on it while erasingoradding new layers.He understandsthe image as only an interesting state of an ongoing process. Even despite this the final image […]

Juraj Bartusz (SK)

Prof. Juraj Bartusz (1933) is one of the most influential contemporary Slovakian artists and also a persona of cultural life in the whole Central European region. He is a sculptor, painter, performing artist and professor at the Faculty of Arts at Technical University in Košice. Besides an extensive sculptural work, he uses performance art or painting […]

Mathis Lieshout (NL)

Mathis Lieshout  is a visual artist from Utrecht, the Netherlands. He makes large, temporary installations sometimes filling up entire buildings. Wood is a very dominant and almost always used material in these works. His building process alternates between methodical and improvised. He tries to make something that provides shelter, a place to hide away in. Visitors […]