Category: Events

The play, created by the Dutch playwright Sytze Schalk and the Theater Na Peróne in cooperation with KAIR Košice Artist in Residence and Creative Industry Košice, seeks to contribute to the fight against democracy against extremism.

The performance was created within the international project BORDERLINE OFFENSIVE: laughing in the face of fear, which was co-financed by the European Union’s Creative Europe program. The creation of the performance was supported using public funding by the Slovak Arts Council and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

We cordially invite you to the exhibition of our residency artist Elisabeth Liselotte Kraus! The exhibition will be open one-day-only, so do not forget to make time and visit us on Monday, May 31, 2021, between 4 – 7.30 p.m. In addition, you can look forward to the workshop Visual Dialogues with the author herself, which will take place from 4 – 6 p.m.

We cordially invite you to the side event of the exhibition Two Shapes of Leaf on Tree in the East Slovak Gallery, which will introduce the artists of the Georgian art scene in more detail. Petra Housková’s interview with the curator of the exhibition, Erik Vilím, will focus on the artistic strategies of Georgian authors and outline the current direction of contemporary visual art in the country.

Meet our residency artists Robert Gabris and Elisabeth Liselotte Kraus and find out what they are working on in the studios during their stay in Košice. Because at the moment we cannot prepare our classical format of Open Studios Night, we decided to open them up during the afternoon so you can visit the artists in small groups. 

The project of the Polish artist Jagoda Dobecká entitled I am haunted by the thoughts of what has left brings a fragmentary vision of a new world outside the current time frame. In this new reality affected by the catastrophe, civilization is falling apart. The population has declined rapidly, technological successes to date have lost […]

The solo exhibition project  Eden Immortal Place is a logical continuation of the previous research on issues related to identity, solidarity or, in a sense, stability. The project is based on the phenomenon of “Biophilia”, a term first used by psychologist Erich Fromm and further developed by the American biologist Edward O. Wilson, who pointed out the consequences of separation from nature. The author seeks to reconstruct the ideal place, the Garden of Eden, representing immortality, a utopia based on mythology, but at the same time it is an attempt to reconstruct society – it is a reflection of the decaying systems we have witnessed in the past, present and necessary future.