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In Oskar Helcel's Under Construction, the artist works to investigate a complex of commercial and office buildings in the centre of Prague designed by Zara Hadid. The complex is surrounded by a number of controversies concerning the investor's link to corruption, so Helce summons the figure of Hadid as a mysterious guide from the world of the dead, who, through a kind of biblical commentary, posits disturbing questions about power.
Space, time and the banality of everyday life are pervading motifs in Ines Karčáková's work. In Dancing Makes You As Happy As a 2073.35 Euro Pay Rise, the artist seeks to uncover the motivations associated with the previously idealistic vision of conquering the moon, which are now having a very concrete impact on consumer life on Earth, from scratch-resistant glass to GPS.
Karina Golisová provides insight into the structures of everyday life and relationships. Her project, Like everyone else, I have to be somewhere too, delves into the concept of anchoring oneself within the intricate fabric of community life. It explores the affirmation of existence and identity within the complex interplay of shared experiences.
Barbora Bačová gives a glimpse into her intimate life through her project I am gonna live my life, and conceives working with photography much more as a process than focusing on a specific or ‘successful’ result. Many of the images could conventionally be considered unsuccessful, which appeals to the artist, and she finds her signature in this approach.
The exploration of the culture surrounding the body and its definition of the ideal form is a central theme in Nadia Markiewicz's work. In her installation DRIVE-THRU, she combines objects, photography and video to address the fundamental question of what it means to fit or not fit in with the normative formula given by society.
In Oskar Helcel's Under Construction, the artist works to investigate a complex of commercial and office buildings in the centre of Prague designed by Zara Hadid. The complex is surrounded by a number of controversies concerning the investor's link to corruption, so Helce summons the figure of Hadid as a mysterious guide from the world of the dead, who, through a kind of biblical commentary, posits disturbing questions about power.
Space, time and the banality of everyday life are pervading motifs in Ines Karčáková's work. In Dancing Makes You As Happy As a 2073.35 Euro Pay Rise, the artist seeks to uncover the motivations associated with the previously idealistic vision of conquering the moon, which are now having a very concrete impact on consumer life on Earth, from scratch-resistant glass to GPS.
Karina Golisová provides insight into the structures of everyday life and relationships. Her project, Like everyone else, I have to be somewhere too, delves into the concept of anchoring oneself within the intricate fabric of community life. It explores the affirmation of existence and identity within the complex interplay of shared experiences.
Barbora Bačová gives a glimpse into her intimate life through her project I am gonna live my life, and conceives working with photography much more as a process than focusing on a specific or ‘successful’ result. Many of the images could conventionally be considered unsuccessful, which appeals to the artist, and she finds her signature in this approach.
The exploration of the culture surrounding the body and its definition of the ideal form is a central theme in Nadia Markiewicz's work. In her installation DRIVE-THRU, she combines objects, photography and video to address the fundamental question of what it means to fit or not fit in with the normative formula given by society.
Barbora Bacova is a Slovak photographer, born on in Košice. She studied photography at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Univeristy of West Bohemia in Pilsen.
Her work is dominated by authentic recording of everyday situations with poetic- geometric narrative overlaps. The themes touch on temporality, imagination, fiction, and the search for new image contexts (re-evalution of image). Unformal documentary images are diversfield with abstract or stylized „cut-outs“ of the everyday colors. ". The conscious disruption of the timeline opens up the possibility of individual interpretation, which the viewer can understand as he or she wishes - without time constraints. Barbora in last years is interested in the relationship between static image and the moving image. Her inspiration often comes from eastern Slovakia,personal experience, the theme of growing up and aging, home, landscape,spending leisure time and health care.
She has participated in joint exhibition projects in France, Germany, Slovakia, Czech Rupublic and others. She participated in Pla(t)form 2020 in the Swiss Fotomuseum Winterthur, where she was selected along with 42 artists. Barbora Bacova actually lives and works in Košice.
Ines Karčáková (*1993) is multimedia artist from Slovakia, based in Prague, Czech Republic. Her interest is in topics such as light, time, space, and disturbance of their mutual interrelationships.
She reflects on the qualities of the medium of photography through video installations in the space, which are often covered by appropriated visual material, in the long term. She is primarily interested in the changing specificity of photography - its original uniqueness is rapidly changing and today we can speak of it in terms of instability, ambiguity and untrustworthiness.
Recently, she has primarily focused on research in astrophotography, among on cosmic microwave background, or on the boundary between the rough telescope record and the aestheticized photography serving to popularize astronomy itself. Now, she is forming an arc over the schematic and romanticized visions of cosmic distances, coming back to much more terrestrial problems. Her current themes are the misbalance between the pace of technological development and its actual understanding, or the consequences of long-term neglect of environmental problems. She had several exhibitions in Slovakia, Czech Republic, but also abroad - for example in Budapest, New York or Düsseldorf.
Karina Golisová (*1997) works mainly with documentary photography. Her photographic interests are related to topics such as: living in a community, creating a "choosen family", defining oneself against conventional life and documenting young people. Her photographs often capture scenes and circumstances that usually remain hidden. He is active in the Slovak and Czech underground music scene, where he has been documenting events for years and also co-creating its visual identity.
She is the author of many self-published photographic zines such as "Utopia", "Published" and "Underground". Creating zines gives her the opportunity to reinterpret existing material and create a new full-fledged work with its own meaning. She has presented her work in Belgrade, Budapest, Tel Aviv, Zagreb and Paris. In 2020, she won first place at Slovak Press Photo and the Young Talent of the Year award for her documentary series about the community called Utopia. In 2023, she placed first in the Rovinj Photo Days festival with her series of photographs about the Bratislava community. She received her bachelor's degree from the Department of Photography and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava in the studio of Olja Triaška Stefanović and Jana Hojstričová. She spent a semester in Finland at the Department of Documentary Photography in Lahti. She is a recent graduate of the Master's degree at FAMU in Prague.
Visual artist, performer, author of installations and video art. PhD fellow at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Resident at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York City in 2023. MFA graduate of the Studio of Spatial Activities of prof. Mirosław Bałka at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2020). Also studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (2010-11) in Amsterdam and during an internship at the Studio of Performance at FaVU VUT in Brno led by Julie Béna and Jakub Jansa (2021). Received the Europe Beyond Access award granted by Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw and British Council in 2021 and the Grand Prix at the 10th Biennale of Young Art Rybie Oko (Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Słupsk, 2022). Presented her works and performances at, among others, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2023), Kunsthalle Bratislava (2022), Galeria Miejska Arsenał in Poznań (2022), Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw (2021), Sto Lat Gallery in New York (2021).
Oskar Helcel is an audiovisual artist, photographer and performer. He graduated from the Department of Photography at FAMU in Prague in the studios of Markéta Kinterová and Hynek Alt. He has had several solo and group exhibitions as within Other Visions at PAF – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art in Olomouc Gallery XY, 2022; Glajcha, Josef Sudek Studio, 2022; Tekoucí Dům, Jelení Gallery, Prague, 2020; Argumented Reality, online exhibition within The National Film Archive, 2021; Houses of Culture (togehter with Martin Netočný), Centre for Contemporary Art Prague, 2019.
Helcel received an honorable mention in the European art thesis competition START POINT Prize 2020. He is a co-founder and active member of the theatre group Akolektiv Helmut.
