Category: Past

Jaroslav Kysa (SK)

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 (GER)

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 […]

Juka Araikawa (JAP)

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 […]

Michaela Knížová (SK)

Michaela Knížová is student of New Media on Faculty of Fine Arts in Košice. She works with photography, performance and video art. “I work mostly with myself, with my personality and my body. I think that through self-portrait I could express my artistic intentions. My topics often related to women. Some photos are full with the […]

Vitaliy Kokhan (UA)

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 Šille (SK)

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. […]