In
my work I have often dealt with the visual production of the news media
andtheir relationship to art, current military and political conflicts and
territorial crises. Since 2005 I started in my art work with the
intentionally working on media - filtered sources of information on world’s
various political and tragic events. I was not motivated by my personal
perception of the issues but information conveyed by media with all its
qualities and consequences. The cycle of models, prints and installations bearing the title
Reutersdrama (2007) dealt with a closed framework of footages and images by
Reuters that is one of the oldest news agencies in the world. 3D info-graphics
- three-dimensional axonometric structures of various events I collected for a
certain time and picked up a sample of served me as an accurate manual for my
3D models or digital lenticular prints. Having made them as precisely as
possible, I decided to work with every single model in a particular way which
symbolically expressed my individual input into these materialized news reports.
In my recent works I began to combine models built according to spectacular images of media with relics from a specific place where the event occurred. The result should be a mutation of authenticity and mediation as a kind of extraordinary event reconstruction conveyed by means of variety of media involved. That at least symbolically - in the field of art, there was a concurrence at the same time in the same place. I use scupture, video, installation and drawing.
Studies and career:
From 2014 / Habilitation/prelector, VŠVU Bratislava, Slovakia
From 2009 / Asistant lecturer in Prof. Juraj Bartusz’s Studio of Free Creativeness 3D,
KVUaI, Faculty of Art, Technical University, Košice, Slovakia
2007 - 2011 / Graduant studium (PhD), VŠVU Bratislava, Slovakia
2003 - 2004 / Two-semester scholarship at the Academy of Fine Art, Prague, New Media
Studio 2, the school of Veronika Bromová, Czech Republic
1999 - 2006 / Prof. Juraj Bartusz’s Studio of Free Creativeness 3D, Department of Fine Art
and intermedia, Faculty of Art, Technical University, Košice, Slovakia
1994 - 1998 / Secondary Technical School of Commercial and Decorative Art, Košice,
Slovakia
Awards and Residencies:
2014 / Rezidence, ISCP, New York, U.S.A.
2013 / Winer of the Oskar Cepan Award, Bratislava, Slovakia
2012 / K.A.I.R. Rezidence in Halle 14, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
2011 / Winer of the triennial: Contemporary slovak Graphic, Middle Slovakian Gallery, Banská
Bystrica, Slovakia
2011 / Finalist of the Award Oskar Cepan (with artgroup Kassaboys), Bratislava, Slovakia
2009 / First place in site specific art price Urban Impact, Kosice, Slovakia
2007 / Rezidence, (Visegrad Fund) – Gallery Klatovy/Klenová, Czech Republic
2006 / Start point prize, Klatovy, Czech Republic
2005 / Finalist of the Award Oskar Cepan, Bratislava, Slovakia
2005 / Prize Egoart, Sympathy award, Praque, Czech Republic
Selected solo exhibitions:
2015 / After expiration, Roman Fecik Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2013 / Visual stories from distands lands, House of art, Bratislava, Slovakia
2012 / Infowarland, House of art, Brno, Czech Republic
2012 / Cave, Meet factory, Praque, Czech Republic
2010 / Home Woodoo Crisis, East slovak Gallery, Košice, Slovakia
2008 / Iranian Komplex, Nod Gallery, Praque, Czech Republic
2007 / Reutersdrama, Vojtecha Löfflera Museum, Košice, Slovakia
Selected group exhibitions:
2014 / Private nationalism, Kunsthalle Košice, Slovakia
2013 / A la Recherche de la boheme pardue, CAN, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2013 / La Nuit de I´Instant, La Cisterne du Panier, Marseille, France
2012 /13 2012 / Bénin Biennale 2012, Take Take Take and..? Kulturforum Süd-Nord, Cotonou, Bénin
2012 / Blood, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2012 / In our backyards, Wekschau, Werkschau, Halle 12, Leipzig, Germany
2012 / Middle East Europe, Dox Gallery, Praque, Czech Republic
2011 / Contemporary slovak Graphic, Middle Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
2011 / Motion of the Nation, Gallery V.M.21, Roma, Italy
2010 / New slovak photography, Arzenberger Gallery, Wien, Austria
2009 / Donumenta 2009, Kunstforum - Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany
2009 / Prague Biennale 4, Karlínske haly, Praha, Czech Republic
2007 / Ne-moc sub-dominancia, Štátna galéria v Banskej Bystrici, Slovakia
2006 / Shadows of Humor, Galeria Sztuki, Wroclaw, Poland