Jana Kapelova (SK)

Jana Kapelová (born 1982) is an artist, cultural activist and journalist. She studied at the Department of Intermedia at the Academy of Arts in Banska Bystrica (2006) and doctoral studies at the Department of Intermedia and multimedia at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (Art.D 2013).

She works mainly with video, performance and participative art. In her artwork she deals with labor issues, working and free time – with the quality and effectiveness of  the spent time and self-realization – in one way and in the other way she critically focuses on the problems connected to culture policy in Slovakia as in the last big project called Kunsthalle – A Global Report on the State of the Institution. 

Since 2010 she is a head of the slovak section of the internet art-television www.artycok.tv and the initiative Twenty Years After the Velvet Revolution Did Not Happen which focuses on the several neuralgic points of Slovak art scene. Since 2011 she is an assistent in Department of New media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.