Košice Artist in Residence
With her captivating painting, Olena Pronkina draws us into stories in which scenes from her real life intertwine with parallel dream worlds. Color, a painting technique reminiscent of a fresco and suggestive environments or compositions will attract our curiosity with positive anticipation. But the melancholy-emptied faces and the inquisitively almost longingly lengthening limbs of the monumental shapeless figures indicate the experience of other stories
Natalia Revko is a curator and researcher from Odesa, who participated in a two-month KAIR residency. During this time Natalia was researching the topography and landscape of Kosice tracing city flows, the influence of public art objects on routes as well as how citizens overtake the city by walking.
On February 22, we are going to have an artist talk with Olena Pronkina, who will introduce you to her work and the topics she focuses on. She is primarily interested in figurativeness through anthropomorphism, which for her is an inexhaustible source of visual possibilities through which she creates and seeks a place in the world for herself.
We cordially invite you to the lecture The City and the City with Natalia Revko, who will introduce you to modern and contemporary art in Odesa, Ukraine.
This year we are kicking off the open studios night with our two newest residents – Olena Pronkina and Natalia Revko. The artist and the curator will tell you more about their work, its origins and current focus. See you on the 25th of January in our space.
Looking forward to seeing you!
We cordially invite you to a lecture and guided tour of the exhibition Second Sun, which was created as a part of the cooperation with the Creative Industry Košice and Art & Tech Days Festival.