Košice Artist in Residence
Vitaliy Kokhan is a young artist from Kharkov, Ukraine. He spent two months (February until March 2013) in Košice as an artist in residence. His residency was an outcome of a long term cooperation with Kharov City Art Gallery. Vitaliy is interested in working mainly with raw materials ranging from wood, soil, ice and other natural materials, […]
Erik Sille is one of the most significant protagonists of Slovak painting. Amongst his practice as visual artist, his acrylic paintings are identifiable by their meticulous and bold surface structure. With each painting he is telling a story, often featuring comic characters. He is inspired by contemporary everyday visual enviroment: bilboards, advertisement, television, comics, street style and videogames. […]
Jozsef Tamás Balázs is an artist for whom so called “practical sculptures” are more than significant. These works deal with the subject of “travel” in a broader sense and the process of getting ready for it. By travel he does not mean holiday travel but rather the never-ending migration for a better life. These sculptures can […]
Ľudmila Horňáková usually draw her topics of interest from social space, conflicts and global problems. She tries to find a different attitude or a position which is less obvious and predictable. “I try to put myself in a critical position without including my subjectivity. In general, I am going to work with slow impending disaster and weather which […]
Based on a site-specific point of view, Junichiro Ishii is extremely interested in observing the bare cultural aspects. To precisely pursue his pure impression of the site, he does not have a predetermined method, but adds a symbolic form to the cultural peculiarities he experiences and represents them as a site-specific art piece. It is similar to […]
Latcho Divano is a annual festival in Marseille, France, which aims to promote Roma culture, to question it through its traditions and its modernity, and to highlight the young people from this community. Three members of the team Laurence Janner, Mo Abbas and Nicolas Martin visited Košice in January to get to know local Roma community […]