Endri Dani
Endri Dani is the winner of the 2019 Ardhje Award. Trained as a painter, Dani incorporates found objects, artefacts of ordinary life, references to Albanian history and collective memories in his predominantly photographic, video and installation-based works. He focuses on the predicaments of local identity in the era of globalization and its underlying paradoxes, particularly […]
Brigita Antoni
Brigita Antoni is the winner of the 2019 Milčik Award. Through digital media, painting and video, combined with found objects, the artist explores the relationships between science and global transformations derived from the scientific discoveries particularly in the fields of astronomy and optics. Her research-based projects result in visual forms that function both as virtual […]
Predrag Pavic
Predrag Pavić is the winner of 2019 Radoslav Putar Award. He works in sculpture, video, performance, and is interested in media archaeology, art theory, film and literature. An active member of the Zagreb independent art scene, Pavić is the founder with the architect Marko Ambroš of Deminutiv Studio that specializes in model making. He also […]
Lene Lekše
Lene Lekše is the winner of OHO Award 2021. Her sculptures, films and mixed media artworks often appear as self-portraits and comment on the everyday aesthetic and middleclass mentality, in which recognition plays an important role. Saturated with clichés, bad jokes, banality and inertia, her objects juxtapose the coerciveness that is derived from more profound […]
Nika Ham
Nika Ham is the winner of the 2020 OHO Award. Her practice has shifted from painting to video, digital art and performance art, markedly as a result of her part-time museum attendant job at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana. Ham uses her body to outline spaces in cultural institutions and public areas by […]
Damir Sobota
Damir Sobota is the winner of the 2020 Radoslav Putar Award. His paintings, collages and objects synthesize various traditions of geometric abstraction. He participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the Radoslav Putar Award exhibition at Salon Galić, Split (2020), Known Unknowns at Westpol A.I.R. space, Leipzig (2019), HT Award show at Zagreb Museum […]
Daniela Krajčová
Daniela Krajčová is the winner of the 2020 Oskár Čepan Award. Her socially engaged art projects shape Slovak society through a critical view of the country’s complicated past and present. Her practice comprises experimental documentary, animation, drawing, installation and stems from the personal experiences, oral histories, and collective walking activities. Krajčová’s projects explore themes such […]
Ádám Albert
Ádám Albert is the winner of the 2019 ACAX Leopold Bloom Young Visual Art Award. His projects attempt to understand and criticize the mechanisms of power relations, bio-politics, knowledge productions, and the geopolitical basis of social realities. Albert’s recent solo exhibitions include Disconnected at Kisterem gallery, Budapest (2020), Everything is Ours! at Kassak Museum, Budapest […]
Somer Şpat
Somer Şpat won the 2019 Artists of Tomorrow Award for his remarkable project focused on the rise and fall of the railway industry in Kosovo, through the socialist Yugoslavian period until today. Archival research is instrumental in Şpat’s practice and affects his choice of mediums in every new project. Defining himself as a producer, rather […]
Marie Lukáčová
Marie Lukáčová is the finalist of the 2019 Jindrich Chalupecky Award. Her single and multi-channel films are crystalline circuits of images, composed of signs borrowed from politics, mythology, geology and science. These references cross multiple temporalities, locations and personalities. Using the grammar of cinematography and montage, Lukáčová’s practice strives to indicate how spatial composition, human […]