Jarmila Džuppová
*1984
Jarmila Džuppová is a student of the studio of Prof. Rudolf Sikora at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Technical University in Košice. Her work occupies a unique position among Slovak young painters as she skilfully balances between painting and illustration-like drawing, combining variety of techniques /ranging from tempera, oil to acrylic, incorporating also carving into the surface of the picture to emphasize its impressiveness/. As for the topic, Jarmila is not interested in these days so much thematized globalization, urban landscape, TV heroes or media manipulation but in her work she refers to the environment that directly surrounds her - countryside and towns of Eastern Slovakia with its peculiar character and mythology. Her pictures are a peculiar blend of folklore motifs, urban references and animal motifs, especially wolves. Her works have a very strong narrative character and are often authobiographical.
Selected solo shows:
2008 Bonjour 2008, Apollo BC, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2008 The Fur Coat according to an example of Oak , Subteren Gallery, Michalovce, Slovak Republic
2007 I have an exhibition in Humenne, Humenne, Slovak Republic
2006 It`s important to exhibit at home not elsewhere, Michalovce, Slovak Republic
2006 Dotted surafces have a meaning for me but I`m not sure what exactly, The Youth Gallery, Nitra, The Municipal Gallery, Rimavská Sobota, Slovak Republic
2005 Paintings again. And Photographs, Michalovce, Slovak Republic
2003 Paintings. And Photographs,
Selected group shows:
2009 Natureal, Krokus Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2009 Three Graces, Stanica Žilina Záriečie, Žilina, Slovak Republic
2008 VÚB Painting/finalist, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2007 Cut and carve!, The Municipal Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2006 Drought in the contemporary Slovak painting, Banská Bystrica, Sloavk Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
2005 Drought in the contemporary Slovak painting, PGU, Žilina, Slovak Republic
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Otis Laubert
Born in 1946 in Valaska near Banska Bystrica, SlovakRepublic. Lives and works in Bratislava, SlovakRepublic. He graduated from the Secondary School of Applied Arts and Industrial Design in Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
Otis Laubert belongs among the founders of Conceptual Art in former Czechoslovakia. The beginnings of his work stretch back to the period of "alternative art" presented exclusively in unofficial spaces, outside the official context of art of communist doctrine - social realism. His work is characterised by combination, manipulation and transformation of found objects.
Stano Masar
Born in 1971, lives in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. He received a Masters from the Faculty of Education and Teaching, Department of Painting, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
Stano Masar is a postconceptual arist working in the media of installation, object, light art and video. In his works he often uses and manipulates the most important artworks in the history of art. This manipulation is based on the conjunction of the citation of the popular art work and the idea of "global" - generalization, uniformity, schemes which are characteristic for the common popular perception of the history of art. Author with the sense of humour and a little bit of criticism tries to show and define Euro -American space-time of the established and universal history of art, a schematic view of it. In the projects Global History of Art and Contemporary Visual Art Stano Masár unified the general known works to the uniform language which compresses the most significant features of them. The interesting idea of his projects is reconversion of all the important works, from the Renaissance to the Contemporary Young Art, to the same level which implicates the same importance in the history of art. Artworks chosen from artists such as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Damien Hirst, Pipilotti Rist, Mauritio Cattelan and others are converted into an easy graphic language of pictograms.
Solo Shows:
2008 After Duchamp, SPACE Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2007 Hyperrealism, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovak Republic
2006 Global History of Art, SPACE Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2004 Time To Close, At Home Gallery, Samorin, Slovak Republic
2002 tAble Setting, GJK - Synagogue, Trnava, Slovak Republic
2001 tAble Setting, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, 2000 New Ways, Cosmos Factory, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
1999 ... About Show-cases, G Minigallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
1999 1=2, G Minigallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
1995 Signs, G Minigallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Selected Group Shows:
2008 PULSE artfair, SPACE Gallery, Miami, USA
2008 Viennafair, SPACE Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2008 PULSE artfair, SPACE Gallery, New York, USA
2008 New Zlin Salon, Zlin, Czech Republic
2008 Me and the others, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovak Republic
2008 Four Cities in Motion, site specific project, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2008 Interface, Open Space - Zentum fur Kunstprojekte, Vienna, Austria
2007 Please Pay Attention!, 26cc spce for cont. Art, Rome, Italy
2007 You have to eat, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovak Republic
2007 Praguebiennale 3, Karlin Halls, Prague, Czech Republic
2007 Lego, SPACE Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2007 From the Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, SNG, Brtaislava, Slovak Republic
2007 Portes d`Europe V., Musee d`Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
2006 Crazycurators Biennale, SPACE Gallery, Brtaislava, Slovak Republic
2006 Oskar Cepan Prize (finalist), Medium Gallery, Brtaislava, Slovak Republic
2006 Contemporary Art from Slovakia, ECB, Frankfurt, Germany
2006 Runaway, SPACE Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2006 Autopoesis, Slovak Natonal Gallery, Brtaislava, Slovakia
2005 Market, Old Market Hall, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2005 New Zlin Salon, Zlin, Czech Republic
2004 Metro, SPACE Gallery, Brtaislava, Slovak Republic
2003 Stadt in Sicht, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
2003 Oskar Cepan Prize (finalist), Slovak Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
2003 Ne-vesta/The Bride, GJK - Synagogu, Slovak Republic
2002 Nybüvitt, GJK - Synagogue, Trnava, Slovak Republic
2002 2200 N, Norrebro Park, Copenhagen, Denmark
2002 The Oskar Cepan Prize, (finalist), The City Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2000 Back to the Stars, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislav, Slovak Republic
Represented in the collections: Slovak National Gallery, Brtaislava; PGU Žilina, Slovak Republic
Private collections in Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Italy, USA, Austria, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland
Presented at art fairs: Viennafair Vienna /AT/, PULSE New York, Miami /USA/, Kunst Zurich /SUI/, KunStart Bolzano /IT/
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