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 to express himself and target different issues. From the beginning of September he was at two month residency in Kharkiv, Ukraine where he exploreed contemporary booming cultural scene and genius loci of the place.

He has developed there a new technique called the “Kharkiv Technique”.