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Igor Bošnjak

a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:2533:”Igor Bošnjak is a Young Visual Artists Award (YVAA) recipient of the 2018 Zvono Award organized by SKLOP, an award for young artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bošnjak works within the field of intermedia arts employing film, video, installation and photography. His research-based practice is driven by the analysis of socio-political realities in Bosnia and […]

Elena Chemerska

a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:1141:”Elena Chemerska is the winner of 2021 DENES Award for Young Visual Artists in North Macedonia. Her artistic research is focused on relationships between aesthetics, materiality, and politics. Her interests lie in thinking about the ways in which we create a basis for the future in relation to memory and the way we attempt to […]

Matej Knežević

a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:1132:”In his work, Matej Knežević examines universal particulars present in a daily life experiences, as well as in social and political environment. He describes his working methodology as : (…) “the focus is around conceptual reflection of reality and questioning the position of a young person in post-transitional society. (…) I am occupied by the […]

Emília Rigová

a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:2269:”Emilia Rigova is the 2018 Award winner of the Oskar Čepan Award. Working with film, video, photography, installation, and sculpture, Rigova deals with cultural and social stereotypes as well as politics of the body. Rigova is particularly interested in groups who have been systematically eradicated from hegemonic historical narratives. Visions of the common future of […]

Martina Vacheva

a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:1885:”Martina Vacheva is the recipient of the 2017 Baza Award in Bulgaria and belongs to the youngest generation of Bulgarian contemporary artists. Her practice is rooted in the fanzine culture and she uses various techniques in her artistic process such as collage, drawing and painting. Vacheva uses universal archetypes such as the hero, the rebel […]

Žarko Aleksić

a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:2316:”Žarko Aleksić is the winner of the 2020 Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award. Aleksić works across several mediums integrating experience, photography, video, installation and performativity – all of which relate to his interest in experience as a synthesis of the modernistic techniques of collage and montage. This thematic research is also the subject of a PhD […]

Marta Djourina

a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:2010:”Marta Djourina is the recipient of the 2021 BAZA Award for Contemporary Art. “In my work I use analogue color and black and white photo paper to explore the nature of light. I study the cause and effect of various light phenomena. Light becomes a topic of investigation, a tool and an object of investigation. […]

Ana Kuzmanić

a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:2967:”Ana Kuzmanić is a Young Visual Artists Award (YVAA) recipient of the 2018 Radoslav Putar Award organized by Institute of Contemporary Art, an award for young artists from Croatia. Ana’s work emerges from the interdisciplinary space of art and social practice. Her work actively problematizes everyday life, examines tensions between the individual and the social, […]

Lőrinc Borsos

a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:2803:”Winners of the ACAX_Leopold Bloom Young Visual Art Award 2018, Lilla Lőrinc (1980), and János Borsos (1979) work together since 2008 as Lőrinc Borsos. The name covers an entity with its own creative consciousness. His/her age is currently 10 years. His/her gender, sexual orientation and intellect are equally characterized by bipolarity. The basis of his/her […]

Katarína Hrušková

a:7:{s:4:”user”;s:4:”none”;s:8:”subtitle”;s:0:””;s:10:”brief_info”;s:928:”I knead elements of comfort into unions of unease. I point out the potency of objects and matter that slip under our radar by way of constant presence and proximity. Spaces we casually inhabit, substances we handle, breathe and allow into our stomachs daily and yet, veiled by familiarity, they elude our awareness. I talk […]