Košice Artist in Residence
Anja Schäfer is a Berlin based artist primarily working in photography. She gathers inspiration for her work in daily life, particularly in personal and (auto-) biographical stories. Fascinated by the history of Kosice her project is based on the personal stories of selected encounters with the citizens. She examined this collection of narrative information and visualized […]
Jan Durina (b-1988) is a Slovak visual artist, working primarily with photography. His images are mirrors of his own inner reality, autobiographical maps of his physical and mental location. Fascinated by the nature and natural absurdity of life itself, Durina explores his tense feelings in his images and takes us on a feral, emotive, visual, […]
“My paintings are small in scale, modestly painted investigations into form, volume and colour. Simple repeated marks made on canvas that don’t try to look anything other than themselves. Their interpretation is open. I often start with a shape or shapes, dots, patterns, badly drawn things; the strange and the familiar collide, looking for meaning. […]
The work of Jaroslav Kysa comprises objects, installations, photography and video, and all of the areas are characteristic of the author’s typical use of the appropriation and aesthetic perception not only of found common objects and commodities, but also of cuts-outs from everyday real events, both lively and banal. Jaroslav Kysa relativises the functionality of […]
Kristina Forbat, the Slovakian born city writer for Košice 2013 came from Hamburg, Germany, in April 2013 to stay for 5 months in Košice. Košice was once her birthplace. With her parents and her older sister she immigrated as a little girl to West Germany where she grew up. Kristina studied Political Sciences, Communication Studies […]
As an artist straddling Los Angeles and Yokohama, conventional ideas of home and the unfamiliar seem to exist in close vicinity. “My body of work explores places read about and visited, composite spaces that are the product of imperfect memory. Objects are drawn and erased and moved and redrawn: the outlines of objects removed are barely present, emphasizing the […]