Michal Moravcik (SK)

Michal Moravčík (born 1974) studied at the department of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (1992-1998), where later he continued with doctoral studies (Art.D 2010). In 2004 he won Oskár Čepan Award for Young Visual Artists. In his work he creates interventions, objects and environments that deal with political and socio-critical topics, collective memory and its contemporary interpretation. He often processes and recycles socialistic aesthetics, dealing with its role in a changed social context. He participated at numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. In 2010 he co-founded an association Public Pedestal, which focuses on alternative solutions in the field of art in public space. Since 1998 he is a Head of Sculpture studio at the Fine Arts Department of Pedagogical Faculty, University of Trnava, in 2005-7 he was a Head of Drawing studio at Department of Architecture at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. From 2012, he is the Assistant at the Studio Environment, Faculty of Fine Arts, BUT in Brno.

Michal Moravčík spent one month in Chisinau dealing with the issues of the local position of art in public space in coopration with our partner institution Oberliht.