Košice Artist in Residence
Roos van Dijk (born 1989) studied Fine Arts at Artez Institute of the Arts in Arnhem and joined one semester at the painting department of Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design. Quickly after her graduation in summer 2012, she received a starters grant from the Mondriaan Fund. This year she is nominated for […]
Jana Kapelová (born 1982) is an artist, cultural activist and journalist. She studied at the Department of Intermedia at the Academy of Arts in Banska Bystrica (2006) and doctoral studies at the Department of Intermedia and multimedia at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (Art.D 2013). She works mainly with video, performance and […]
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 […]
„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 […]
Manabu Kanai is an visual artist/researcher, born in Tokyo 1983. He is currently working towards Ph.D degree at Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan. He places art as a process of exploring for the way of abstracting/describing the Weltbild. Working across installation, painting, sculpture and computer programing, he tries to generate particular art form based […]