Košice Artist in Residence
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 […]
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. […]