Košice Artist in Residence
Exhibition opening: 11.10.2024 / 18:00 Exhibition duration: 11. – 12.10.2024 Šopa Gallery, Hlavná 40, Košice Opening hours: FRI – SAT / 19:00 – 00:00 In this collection of ceramic works, the artist crafts a visual narrative that navigates the fluid boundaries of queerness, kinship, and personal mythology. Through dynamic forms, the exhibition explores oppositions—normal and […]
Katalin Kortmann-Járay and Karina Mendreczky have been collaborating closely since 2019, creating large-scale, walk-through installations—spatial collages—made up of diverse elements. In their work, they combine various techniques and materials such as textiles, photographs, and sculptures crafted from iron, concrete, and clay, to construct metaphorically fragile spaces. By drawing parallels between contemporary animistic perspectives, rooted in […]
We would like to invite you to Šopa Gallery for a reading and discussion on the topic of Queer Resistance, led by our resident, Belarusian artist, Lisa Deikun. In a world where simply existing as a queer person can be seen as an act of resistance, this reading event, inspired by Donna Haraway’s concept of […]
Eva Bubla is a Hungarian artist, activist, researcher, and independent curator. Her work has been centered around current ecological and social concerns. At the boundaries of art and science, her projects aim to map, perceive, interpret, and as such (re)connect audiences to the local ecosystem. She is keen on working together with local communities and […]
Iryna Loskot (*2001) is a Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist. She graduated from the Kharkiv National University of Arts named after Kotlyarevsky with a degree in puppetry. Her practice explores the exploitation of the environment and resistance to this exploitation. In her works, Iryna creates a common space of memory for humans and non-humans. Her approach involves […]
Lisa Deikun was born in 1992 in Minsk, Belarus. She has been engaged in creative pursuitsthroughout her entire life starting from art classes in elementary school and continuing withenrollment in a contemporary art course during her time at European College Liberal Arts.In 2022, Lisa was forced to leave her homeland due to political persecution because […]