Nika Ham
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:1291:”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 […]
Lene Lekše
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:1007:”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 […]
Damir Sobota
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:1118:”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 […]
Somer Şpat
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:847:”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 […]
Ádám Albert
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:1243:”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 […]
Daniela Krajčová
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:1474:”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 […]
Baptiste Charneux
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:1541:”Baptiste Charneux is the finalist of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2019. Charneux’s work claims to be, first of all, a search on the form and for the form. It is instinctive and confessional. Mainly inspired by his experiences and observations, he is interested in structures, shapes, and objects that compose and make up the different […]
Mila Panić
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:1649:”Mila Panić is the winner of 2021 ZVONO Art Award for Young Visual Artist in Bosnia and Herzegovina. An artist, researcher and aspiring comedian, she currently lives and mingles in Berlin. Mila’s practice questions existing narratives of diaspora and issues related to the phenomenology of place, such as the expanded notion of belonging, guilt and […]
Marie Lukáčová
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:1250:”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 […]
Brilant Milazimi
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:862:”Brilant Milazimi was born 1994 in Gjilan (Kosovo) and lives in Gjilan & Prishtina (Kosovo). He studied visual arts at the University of Prishtina, Kosovo. His recent solo exhibitions include LambdaLambdaLambda at LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels (2022); Ermes-Ermes, Rome (2021); Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art, Prishtina (2020-2021) and LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina (2019). He participated […]