KAIR Presentations: Eszter Metzing & Yury Beryozkin

We invite you to a joint presentation with our resident artists, whose paths meet in Košice this August.

Come and meet Eszter Metzing at the beginning of her residency and say goodbye to Yury Beryozkin, who has spent the past two months with us.

As part of her artist talk, Eszter Metzing will introduce her artistic practice, present some of her recent projects, and share the themes that have long been of interest to her. Her work brings together printmaking, textiles, objects and spatial installations, exploring the relationship between the body, memory and material. She is also interested in the connections between humans and the more-than-human world.

Yury Beryozkin, on the other hand, is coming to the end of his residency in Košice. As part of his final presentation titled The Great Goddess, he will open the doors of his studio and show us what he has been working on during his stay.

One of the central themes of his current work is the Great Goddess—an ancient figure embodying the interconnected cycles of creation, destruction, death, and rebirth, rather than representing a single, fixed deity. Drawing on the work of Marija Gimbutas and other researchers, Yury approaches this figure through primeval symbols, ceramics, nature, and sacred geometry as a potential form of memory reflecting a worldview based on interdependence and the cyclical nature of life, rather than hierarchy and dominance.

In his work, the Goddess becomes a way to reconnect with ancient forms of understanding our relationship to the Earth, matter, and the universe.

Free entry, we look forward to seeing you!

The project is supported by the City of Košice.

Yury Beryozkin’s residency is supported by the EU4Belarus MOST IV mobility programme, funded by the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut.