Košice Artist in Residence
The work of visual artist Anna Raczynska (1990, Poland) can be taken as a recurring attempt to access a world less crude than our current. Yet it would be too easy to dismiss this as a sort of escapism, but instead of seeking distraction, it seems that “what normally has to be endured” is being […]
Maja Renn (*1990) is a visual artist based in Zürich. She graduated from the MA Art Praxis at Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem, Netherlands. Her work intertwines drawing, writing, and performance. Recurring motives of her practice include dreams, traumas, dissociation, rhythms, absence, errors, wandering and getting lost. During her residency in Košice, through a participatory […]
“Belonging to the youngest generation of Hungarian artists, Kata TRANKER‘s socially sensitive focus of interest has long been on the human nature and the boundary between appearance and reality. Her socio-historical analysis – focusing on the symbiotic relationships – results in identity questions. The installations composed of variable drawings and objects are mostly narrative, but […]
Olga Pedan (1988, Kharkov, Ukraine) is a Swedish artist based in Germany. She graduated in 2014 from the art academy Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Her work spans various media, ranging from painting and costume making to installation, video, and photography. A common theme in her work is the formation of our perceptions of reality […]
Mayar Alexan, is an actor and theater maker living between Damascus and Beirut. To him, the logic of “play” is on the basis of theatrical work. For it allows one to dismantle any fixed ideas or axioms and re-arrange them, creating new narratives. It also gives one the space to deal with complex subjects like fear, violence, […]
Ziggurat Project was created in 2013 by three young Hungarian dance artists Flóra Eszter Sarlós, Emese Kovács and Gergő Lukács. The company is based in Budapest and works with other permanent members and invited guest artists from different fields of art: dance, theatre, visual arts, music and literature. „We create interdisciplinary site-specific performances giving priority […]