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ARTBANKA

ARTBANKA

Artbanka is a project which raised both enthusiasm and critique on the Czech art scene. We decided to address founders and co-workers but also critics of the Artbanka and asked them to comment on camera on problematic aspects of the project. The interviews were made between December 2011 and March 2012. A new series of [...]

Artyčok.TV Online Exhibition is an international project focusing predominantly on audiovisual art. A monthly exhibition series are prepared by curators and theoreticians collaborating actively on the contemporary art scene.

Interstices

The videos of Ivan Candeo, Irgin Sena, and Samuil Stoyanov that this exhibition brings together are seemingly unassuming and matter-of-fact in subject and manner. Such an affect however, is the result of the artists’ subtle study into our “pure intuitions” of time and space through the medium of video. In these works, image and sound are slowed down, held still, erased, fragmented, repeated, compressed, sped up or extended to produce confounding perceptions of motion and representation. United by a commitment to exploring the very elements and qualities of time-based filmic material, these works verge on the poetic.

Vladimír Havlík, Yesterday

Vladimír Havlík, Yesterday

Vladimír Havlík

Vladimír Havlík has engaged in performance art since the early 1980s. He made three films at that time (Fragments, He Cut His Hair and Jestrdej) that were exhibited for the first time in 2009 on the impetus of Barbora Klímová in the Parallel gallery in Prague. Jestrdej (1983), a silent black-and-white film bordering on video [...]
Daniela Baráčková

Daniela Baráčková

Daniela Baráčková (1981) is an artist of many forms and topics – events, installations and paintings shape stories and symbolical gestures whose surprisingly objective metaphors are open to numerous possible interpretations. That goes especially for installations of paintig series (I wanted to paint 40 Jews praying before the flight departure, 2007; I am afraid of [...]
Lucia Nimcová

Lucia Nimcová

Lucia Nimcová, a graduate of the Institute of Creative Photography at the Silesian University in Opava, has been occupying a rather specific position in contemporary Slovak photography consciously merging and balancing on the edge of social documentary and artistic staged photography deeply anchored in conceptual area. Her photographs, or better to say, photographic researches are [...]
Illah van Oijen

Illah van Oijen

Born in Netherlands, in 1981. Studied Cultural Sciences at the Free University Amsterdam and photography at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Haag. She moved from Haag to Bratislava in 2005. As part of the project human landscapes, she published two photography books about Slovakia’s cities Bratislava and Kosice where she documented rapid transformation [...]