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CURRICULUM VITAE Július Koller – U.F.O.-naut? MILAN ADAMČIAK (* 1946) Studied Musical Science at the Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava (1963 – 1968). An intermedial author of action and conceptual projects with an accent on their musical and acoustic representation. Since the mid 1960’s, he has focused primarily on experimental poetry, graphic scores, and to the creation of sound objects, which resonate with the artistic strategies of John Cage and with the international movement Fluxus. In the second half of the 1960’s, he worked in several temporary as well as permanent teams of authors, particularly with Robert Cyprich and Jozef Revall. At the same time, he carried out the sound and musical section of several projects by other authors. (A. Mlynárčik, J. Želibská, J. Čihánková). By the end of the 1980’s, he renewed the activity of Transmusic comp. (1989), founded the Society of Unconventional Music (Spoločnosť pre nekonvenčnú hudbu - SNEH), and initiated the International Festival of Intermedial work(Bratislava, 1991). TOMÁŠ ŠTRAUSS | THOMAS STRAUSS (*1931) Studied at the College of Political and Economic Sciences and at the Faculty of Philosophy and History at Charles University in Prague. After 1968, restriction of pedagogical and publishing activity. Also actively worked in the alternative culture. Upon the invitation of DuMont publishing house in 1980, he moved to Germany. He lectured at several universities abroad. Since 1955, he has published almost 700 expert studies, reviews and articles in journals; for example his work Art Today (Umenie dnes) was published as a book. An Attempt for an Artistic Essay (Pokus o umeleckú esej) (1968); The Slovak Variant of Moderna (Slovenský variant moderny) – samizdat (1979, published as a book in 1992); Zwischen Ost- und Westkunst. Von der Avantgarde zur Postmoderne (1995); This Shitty 20th Century (Toto posrané 20. storočie); and Art versus Ideology? (Umenie kontra ideológia? (2006, 2007). JIŘÍ VALOCH (* 1946) Completed his Czech and German studies and esthetics at the Faculty of Philosophy at Masaryk University in 1970, with his graduation thesis on the development and typology of experimental poetry. Since 1963, he has created visual poetry. By the end of the 1960’s his work transformed itself in accordance with the march of concrete poetry and conceptual art. Since 1972, for almost 30 years, he has been preparing exhibitions in the House of Arts of the City of Brno (Dom umění města Brna). After the realization of the exhibition Contemporary Czech Drawing, he was restricted from publishing. Since the early 1970’s he has cooperated on the organization of non-official exhibitions at several different places in Czechoslovakia. In the 1980’s he organized and realized retrospective exhibitions of the key personalities of Czech art (V. Boštík, M. Knížák and others), after 1990, these exhibition also included authors from abroad (R. P. Lahnse, G. Graser, R. Mieldsam, R. Barry). From lecturers: AUREL HRABUŠICKÝ (* 1955) Studied at the Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava (1974 – 1979). Since 1996, he has been the curator of the collection of photography and new media in the Slovak National Gallery. As a curator he prepared retrospective exhibitions of several fine artists and photographers (Karol Kállay, Martin Martinček, Miloš Dohnány) in the SNG. He is the co-author of exhibitions and publications Slovak Photography of the 1980’s (1989); Slovak Photography of the 1960’s (1990); Bauhaus im Osten (1997); Slovak Photography 1925 – 2000 (2001); Slovak Visual Art 1970 – 1985 (2002); The Slovak Myth (Slovenský mýtus) (2005); Lost Time? (Stratený čas?)(2007-2008); Slovak picture (anti-picture) (Slovenský obraz (anti-obraz), (Prague, 2008). PETRA HANÁKOVÁ (* 1974) Studied Fine Art Science at the Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University and completed her Bachelor studies of Film Science at the Academy of Musical Arts. She completed her doctorate studies at the Institute of Art History at the Slovak Academy of Science, and is currently working in the Slovak National Gallery as the curator of the new media collection, and also at the Institute of Art and Science at the Academy of Fine Arts. She has focused on Slovak film and the fine art culture of the 20th century and the present. She is the co-author of the profile book of Pedro Almodóvar and she is working on preparations for a monograph on Paľo Bielik. She is also the co-author of exhibitions and publications: 60/90 (1997); Slovak Art for Free (1999), Nybüvitt (2002); Interrupted Picture (Prerušený obraz) (2003 – 2004); Lost Time? (Stratený čas?) (2007 – 2008). VLADIMÍRA BÜNGEROVÁ (* 1974) From 1995 – 2000 she studied History of Art and Culture at the University of Trnava in Trnava. She has prepared several exhibition projects for the Považská Art Gallery in Žilina, Nitrianska Gallery in Nitre, City Gallery in Rimavská Sobota, Gallery of Cyprián Majerník in Bratislava, and for the Small Carpathian Museum in Pezinok, where she worked as art historian from 2000 – 2005. She is also active in the field of publishing, focusing primarily on contemporary art, design and applied arts. Since 2007, she has worked as the curator of the collection of applied art and design at the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava (glass, design). Katarína Müllerová (* 1978) She was born in Bratislava. She studied Art History and Theory and MA Gallery Studies at Essex University in United Kingdom. She then worked as an intern at Tate Modern (2001). After finishing her studies she became a curator of the sculpture collection at the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art of National Gallery in Prague, and she now administers collections of prints and sculpture at the Slovak National Gallery. She took part in curatorial and editorial projects at both Czech and Slovak National Gallery. In 2008 she co-curated an exhibition Slovak Picture (Antipicture) of 20th century Slovak art at the Riding school of Prague Castle. LUCIA GREGOROVÁ (* 1975) Studied History of Art and Culture at the University of Trnava in Trnava. During her studies she completed a one-year scholarship at the Institute of Art History at Charles University in Prague. She worked as editor-in-chief of the independent periodical of visual art DART, as the curator of exhibitions the Gallery of Ján Koniarek in Trnava. Since 2006, she has been an internal doctorate student at the Department of History and Theory of Fine Art and Architecture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. At present she is an independent and curator of exhibitions. KATARÍNA BAJCUROVÁ (* 1957) Studied Fine Art Science at the Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava (1976 – 1980). In 1985, she defended her candidate dissertation thesis at the Institute of Art Science at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, where she worked from 1983–1994. From 1994 she worked in the Slovak National Gallery, first as the curator, and later as the Expert Technical Deputy of the Director. Since 1999 she has been the Director General of the SNG. She specializes in the topic of Slovak sculpture and painting of the 20th century. She is the author of several monographic exhibitions and book publications: Jozef Kostka (1993); Fine Art Moderna in Slovakia (Výtvarná moderna Slovenska); Painting and Sculpture 1890 – 1949 (Maliarstvo a sochárstvo 1890 – 1949); together with J. Abelovský (1997, 2000, Art in Changing Times); Rudolf Uher (with a team of authors, 1998), Juraj Meliš (with I. Jančár, 2002); Martin Benka (2005) and other. She also participated as author in the preparation of exhibitions at the SNG The 1960’s in Slovak Fine Art (Šesťdesiate roky v slovenskom výtvarnom umení)(1995); History of Slovak Fine Art – 20th Century (Dejiny slovenského výtvarného umenia – 20. storočie (2000); A Tribute to Cubism (Pocta kubizmu) (2001); Slovak Visual Art 1970 – 1985 (Slovenské vizuálne umenie 1970 – 1985) (2002); The Slovak Myth (Slovenský mýtus) (2005); Slovak Picture (anti-picture) (Slovenský obraz (anti-obraz (Prague, 2008) DUŠAN BROZMAN (* 1961) Studied Art History in Zürich. He works as a curator and university lecturer. He focuses primarily on post-war Czech and Slovak art. He has published several monographs (Jiří Sopko, Martin Mainer and Andrej Bělocvětov). From 1996 – 2005, he was the director of the Swiss cultural foundation Pro Helvetia in Bratislava. He has prepared monographic exhibitions for the SNG in Bratislava, which were devoted to Vladimír Havrilla and Eva Kmentová, as well as other exhibitions of Slovak conceptual art both in Slovakia and abroad. ZUZANA BARTOŠOVÁ (* 1946) Studied History of Fine Art at the Comenius University in Bratislava (1969). She worked in the Slovak National Gallery as the curator of the collection of 20th century sculpture. At the same time, she also specialized in the authors of the Czech and Slovak non-official scene, opened exhibitions and published in samizdat catalogues. From 1990 – 1992, she worked as the Director of the Slovak National Gallery. Consequently she lectured at Trnava University and at JAMU in Brno. From 1993 – 2000, she was the first president of the Slovak section of AICA. She is the author, co-author and editor of expert publications and journals, curator of monographic, cross-sectional and thematic exhibitions in Slovakia as well as abroad. She is also the creator of the concept and curator of the collection of the First Slovak Investment Group (since 1993). Since 1998, she has worked at the Institute of Art History at the Slovak Academy of Sciences; she specializes primarily in the subject of the Non-official Slovak Fine Art Scene of the 1970’s and 1980’s. DANIEL GRÚŇ (* 1977) Studied History of Art and Culture at the University of Trnava in Trnava. Since 2003, he has worked as a lecturer in the department of the Theory and History of Art at the Academy of Fine Art in Bratislava. He was granted scholarships at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznani, and at the Charles University in Prague. He specializes in Czechoslovak Fine Art Critique of the 1960’s, the subject of neo-avant-garde in former Eastern European countries as well as in the visual culture during the socialist era. PETER ČEPEC (*1954) An active fine-artist and gallery manager Peter Čepec, graduate of the Secondary School of Graphics and the University of Comenius in Bratislava, has presented his works, since 1973, at 135 exhibitions in Slovakia as well as abroad. He has his pictures in several private collections in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Italy and in the USA and Canada. In addition to painting, he also works in the field of computer graphics, and artistic and commercial typography. He is the founder of the association of independent fine artists Artefakt (1990); Villa Rustica (2001). Since 1995, he has been the owner and director of the Gallery TYPO&ARS in Bratislava-Vajnory, in which he has organized 55 exhibitions of artwork by 82 fine artists. He and his wife founded an association to support creative thinking and imagination in children – the Children and Art Association (2005). In 2004, the monograph by Gazdík, I.: Peter Čepiec – Traveler in the Countries of Paradoxes (Peter Čepec – cestovateľ po krajinách paradoxov), was published. up | |
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