ARTIST STATEMENT

Nikola Balbercakova's work spreads on mediums of performance, video and installation. From her early work focused on material objects, she evolves her work further into narratives and metastories using cinematography, storytelling, language of low culture and survivalism, to create a specific language for emotional landscapes of today’s society in its complexity, toxicity and questionability. Through mixing modern and ancient research, popculture, cliché, low and high culture and techniques of communication, she puts questions on various ways of human happiness in modern society.



In her work, she focuses on specific characters as non-dominant identities in societal structures. Hyperbolized, affective, naive, ugly or nerd characters are creating stories and reconstructing dominant scenario, prescripted often through masmedia. Bizarre situations are deeply questioning a meaning of truth and false and challenging their still fundamental position in global post-truth era and their construction affecting our everyday life.

BIOGRAPHY

born 4.4.1994 in Michalovce, Slovakia
n.balbercakova@gmail.com

Education
2019 - 2022
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

Studio of Photography

MgA.




2014 - 2019
Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava

Studio APK+, department of Intermedia

Bc.

2018
Newcastle University of Fine Arts
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Internship in Fine Arts




Exhibitions & Publishing



2022
(upcoming) Schaubmarov mlyn SNG, residency&performance


Memory of Hand, J&T Bank exhibition, Prague, CZ


2021
I see everyone getting all the things I want

performance in collaboration with Markéta Slaná
, Bratislava /SK/


Handle with Gloves, Galerie NIKA, Prague

2020
Glorify our Hormones, VUNU Gallery, Košice /SK/

2019
Blessings II: Marína Abramovič po sebe neupratuje collective
EXIT price nominee, Galerie Emila Fily, Ústí nad Labem /CZ/


Generation Y, Nedbalka Gallery, Bratislava /SK/


Humid Intimacy, A.M.180 Gallery, Prague /CZ/

2018
CS VOGUE 12/2018 publication of an object

Chiméra: Renáta Pinterová&Nikola Balberčáková, Umakart, Brno /CZ/


Blessings I: Marína Abramovič po sebe neupratuje collective

Nuit Blanche festival, Bratislava /SK/

Side Product, exhibition & residency in Nová Cvernovka, Bratislava /SK/


2017
MATTER, Plusmínusnula Gallery, Žilina /SK/


Magazine SNG 365°: Generation ’85 - ’95
publishing of artist profile by Slovak National Gallery


2016
Daktylo-skopia, Campus Gallery, Košice /SK/