Košice Artist in Residence
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 […]
Photgrapher Gilles Pourtier sudied French Literature for 2 years before an apprenticeship in glassmaking. He spent 4 years working glass in London for artists as personnal assistant as well as working at Surrey University of Art and Design in Farnham. In 2009 he graduated from the French National School of Photography in Arles, since then he has been living […]
Host organizations AIR Artist in Residence Krems, Krems, Austria and K.A.I.R. Košice Artist in Residence and Košice European Capital of Culture 2013, Košice, Slovakia AIR―ARTIST IN RESIDENCE ― a multi-disciplinary program for architects, visual artists, musicians and writers Now, in the age of globalization and in the face of today’s fast-past-paced cultural knowledge transfer, it is more […]
Host organizations Motel Spatie, Arnhem, the Netherlands and K.A.I.R. Košice Artist in Residence and Košice European Capital of Culture 2013, Košice, Slovakia Motel Spatie Motel Spatie is a project space inventing forms of engaged autonomy and D.I.Y urbanism always questioning: Who owns the city? The literal meaning of the Dutch (word) Spatie would be Space (as in the space […]
Host organizations Kultur Service Gesellschaft des Landes Steiermark (KSG), Rondo Studios and K.A.I.R. Košice Artist in Residence and Košice European Capital of Culture 2013, Košice, Slovakia Rondo Studios Live-in and working studios provided by the region of Styria, networking creative people from all genres. The region of Styria offers twelve artists’ studios located in Graz for […]
„Vlasta Žáková ‘disrupted’ any possible relations with the traditional decorative forms of so called “arrases” or tapestries by her pictures Unstoppable girls and Unforgettable girls (2006). Human beings as the figures start to dominate in several compositional plans. She connects more figural fragments as a characteristic choice of moments of particular memories unified in one picture […]