Èv van Hettmer
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:1922:”Èv van Hettmer is the winner of the Oskár Čepan Award 2021 with her painting installation All blessed (2021), where she dives into the cultural topics of her feministic experience and exposes her “erotically-political” attitude. Van Hettmer primarily works within the field of painting which she confronts with objects, sculpture, technology and typography (language). She […]
Enxhi Mehmeti
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:536:”Enxhi Mehmeti is the winning artist of the 2021 Artist of Tomorrow Award in Prishtina, Kosovo. In her drawings, sound and assemblage works, the artist conjures the phantastic happening around her which she enjoys making visible for others through various artistic techniques, and requiring in her own words, “patience and affection”. Her works possess a […]
Katarina Petrovic
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:1122:”Katarina Petrović is an artist and researcher working at the intersections of art, science and humanities. Her work focuses on cosmogony, the process of creation and the notion of (infinite) generativeness, using media such as text, language, sound, and code. Tracing the concept of creation as the problem of ultimate origin (the birth of cosmos […]
Neža Knez
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:2959:”Awarded the 2018 OHO prize for emerging visual artists in Slovenia – Neža Knez works in diverse media ranging from audio, video, photography, drawing and classical sculpture. She views her practice as a “sensorial research of perceptions with different senses, playing with visibility and invisibility, dealing with the question of the (thinking) body. I am […]
Martin Penev
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:1661:”Awarded the 2018 Baza/Young Visual Artist Award for emerging visual artists in Bulgaria, Martin Penev’s practice encompasses performance, contemporary dance, sound, installation, interactive design and soft sculpture. His research focuses on the relationship between materials and objects. Penev’s narratives are often loaded with humor and uncanny imagination. Through the contradiction between absurdity and seriousness in […]
Qëndresë Deda
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:3406:”When I was born, I had no name, surname, nationality, citizenship, gender! I am still that one that was before! Am I!? Unseen wounds cracked my inner skin. Borders paralyzed my wishes. (Qëndresë Deda, excerpt from Monologue, Dialogue, Trialogue). Qëndresë Deda is the 2018 Award winner of the Artist of Tomorrow Award. In her practice, […]
Nadežda Kirćanski
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:1595:”Awarded the 2018 Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos / Young Visual Artists Award for emerging visual artists in Serbia, Nadežda Kirćanski’s practice employs a range of media, including drawing, objects, performance, and site-sensitive installations. Kirćanski examines the collision of socio-political realities and contemporary language of Serbian youth, unfolding its unacknowledged emotional, physical, and intellectual labor. Using a […]
Lukas Hofmann
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:1873:”Although Hofmann {*93} works mainly in the field of performance, his artistic practice reaches out to various other fields and media: he relates to the artistic milieu as well as the world of fashion, where he is occasionally active as a stylist and model, and he is also busy as a curator. As an artist […]
Jakub Choma
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:981:”Jakub Choma is the winner of 2020 Jindrich Chalupecky Award. Choma’s work addresses the aesthetics of digital waste with emphasis on the material nature of the seemingly immaterial virtual environment. In 2018 Choma held the solo exhibition Stepping on a Lego at Polansky Gallery in Prague and in 2017 a solo exhibition at Via art […]
Meriton Maloku
a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:2413:”Meriton Maloku is the winning artist of the YVAA/2017 Artist of Tomorrow Award. This Award is part of the Young Visual Artists Awards program – a network of ten similar awards organized throughout Central and Eastern Europe founded in 1989 in Czechoslovakia by President Vaclav Havel and dissident artists to support the emergence and development […]