Scooter IV - international young art event @ GJK in Trnava

 

Skúter IV – young art event is a periodic international event built as a representative Central European exhibition of the upcoming generation of Czech, Slovak and Hungarian artists under the age of 35. The exhibition features 24 selected artists who reflect the contemporary world in a unique way - bringing a whole spectrum of approaches and media from classical painting, through photography, object, installation to digital moving image. The main intention of the organizers is to create a periodic platform for the presentation of contemporary artistic language, to stimulate the current work of young people and to bring gender correctness in the selection of authors.

The creation of the artworks has been supported using public funding in the form of a scholarship by the Slovak Arts Council. 

Read more about the project in Slovak here. 

Everyday Exotic @ Société Budapest

    We all collect something. Some of us collect shells, some feathers, colored pieces of glass smoothed by the waves of the sea, phone cards, badgers, ceramic pots, tribal masks or fossils. We all share the infinitely human desire to collect. The collectors, hunting for fossils, shells, zoological creatures, pieces of art or books had presented their unique treasures to the public already in the 1600’s in the so-called ‘wunderkammers’. The collections known as ‘wonder rooms’ consisted of extraordinary and exceptional objects that told stories about the miracles and oddities of nature.The Société house has now become a wonder room, the spaces of which welcome an international group exhibition that offers a journey to a hybrid visual universe of rituality, functionalism and abstraction, never seen before in Hungary, and displays some of the miracles of contemporary art.The artists invited to the exhibition share the passion for fearless experimenting, the courage to step out from the conventional and traditional galleries to throw out fine art itself from its century-old ivory towers and to display their art in a new context, before a new audience.The exhibition presents the full range of modern materials used by the young generation of contemporary art; hence, it shows a large variety of works of art and such artistic diversity is a significant focal point of the exhibition. The invited eleven young artists have brought ceramic sculptures, plaster objects decorated with feathers, pieces of art made of neon tubes, leatherette, glass, plastic and rubber or even steel propelled by a disco engine.Besides that, the exhibition intends to test our personal relations to private (works of art) and public (the multifunctional exhibition space), putting the visitors off deliberately from the traditional meaning of enjoyment of art while analyzing the monomaniac passion of society for the material world. The exhibition aims to make the visitors oscillate between the symbolic and practical use of the works of art and supersede the preconceptions related to contemporary art.The objects, even if they are presented in a contemporary ‘wunderkammer’, placed in glass-cases or just spread all around the house, keep the focus always on the infinitely humanist act of collecting. Just like these pieces of art were the everyday- or ritual objects of a distant culture, brought to us to question our understanding of the difference between a work of art and a functional object.

Exhibiting artists:

Benczúr Emese (HU), Ember Sári (BR-HU), Svetlana Fialova (SK), Habima Fuchs (CZ), Győri Andrea Éva (HU), Keresztes Zsófia (HU), Kiss Adrian (HU-RO), Olga Micinska (PL), Moizer Zsuzsanna (HU), Ulbert Ádám (HU)

Curator: Sárvári Zita

Sponsors: The Slovak Institute in Budapest, Polish Institute in Budapest

Photo credit: Bíró Dávid

Link to Société's site here

LINKA @ Plusminusnula gallery

Besides my artistic practice, I also teach at the Faculty of Arts, Technical University of Košice. In March 2018, this fantastic student workshop took place at the Plusminusnula gallery in Žilina, Slovakia. It resulted in a group show. Read more about the project below:

FU TUKE Students: LINE. Not a goal line, not a bus line, nor one created with an eyeliner. Line is the topic and name of the workshop for students of the Department of Visual Arts and Intermedia of the Faculty of Arts of the Technical University of Košice. They will spend an intense creative week at the Plusmínusnula Gallery, reacting to the assignment under supervision of Svetlana Fialová and Boris Sirka, gaining new experience, setting up lines to link them together, and ultimately a group exhibition.The workshop concentrates on line and the way it is grasped in an artist’s mind, on paper and in space. The students will concentrate on the moment when a line materializes, passing from thought to the physical space around us — transforming from something abstract and vague into a concrete visual form.The young authors will in the background of the gallery work with line in space, in video animation, in site-specific installations, in sound recordings, they will have a chance to try out the screen printing technique, get acquainted with book binding, but also experiment with the art of tattoo. The spectators will have a chance to experience not only the exhibition itself, but also what goes on behind the scenes of the gallery during the students’ creative process.
Artists and workshop participants: Katarína Bajkayová, Sara Biharyová, Oskar Felber, Dávid Galovics, Tomáš Kocka, Kristína Roxerová
Lecturers: Svetlana Fialová, Boris Sirka
Cooperation: Slavomíra Ondrušová, Jaro Viňarský, Lucia Gašparovičová, Ján Gašparovič, Lida Mlichová, Martin Krkošek (Uutěrky)
The exhibitions in this gallery were supported by public funding from the Slovak Arts Council. The project is supported by the Tatra Bank grant program Viac umenia 2017.
Text: Svetlana Fialová, Lucia Gašparovičová
Translation: Michal Spáda
Foto: Peter Snadík
Read about the workshop and the exhibition here