Michal (Mižu) Mitro (SK)

Michal “Mižu” Mitro is an artist, curator and a researcher working across disciplines and media. Trained in psychology and sociology, he focuses on the nuances of everyday life as well as hyperobjects of planetary scale. 

In his artistic practice, he translates sociological imagination (Ch.W.Mills) into crafted sculptural environments that interweave the mediums of sound, light and electricity. Topics that he gravitates towards explore relationships between human and more-than-human worlds and the supposed friction between natural and artificial. Mitro proposes narratives both affirming and disturbing in order to plant seeds of futures we’d ourselves like to inhabit. 

Besides being an active practitioner, Mižu curates a program at ssesi (safe space for exploring s- ideas) in Brno, Czechia, co-develops artistic research on aquatic and vibrational frequencies with Kosmas Phan Dingh and Mae Lubetkin, is a certified electrician, dedicated kombucha brewer and a father of an eight-year-old Mateo.

The residency of Michal (Mižu) Mitro is organized thanks to the partnership with Budapest Gallery.