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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 and modernization of public spaces, willing to provide a platform for discussion and reflection on the impact of these changes. What is the identity of these two biggiest cities of Slovakia, how they deal with the buildings of socialism? And commercialism? Who are the people from Bratislava and Kosice and how they interact with their environment?

artistsvan Oijen Illah
placeBratislava
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directingViera Čákanyová
castvan Oijen Illah
cameraViera Čákanyová
soundViera Čákanyová
editingViera Čákanyová
interviewViera Čákanyová
translationMarta Darom
categoryProfiles
published29. 1. 2012
languageČesky / English
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Illah van Oijen
The mini-symposium “Bauhaus and Functionalism” examines the reception and interpretation of the emergence of Functionalism in Czechoslovakia in the interwar period and connections with Bauhaus in Germany. The leading theorist of the modernist avant-garde Karel Teige and his teaching at the Bauhaus are ideal examples of networking between these countries.