Oskár Čepan

2009 – 2013 Doctoral study, Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia, Intermedia and Multimedia Department of Anna Daučíková ; 2004 – 2006 Master study, Faculty of Fine Arts of the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, Intermedia Department of Miroslav Nicz; 2006 Stay in Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Czech Republic, The School of Conceptual Tendencies, Studio of Milos Sejn; 2000 – 2004 Master study, Faculty of Education, Trnava University in Trnava, Slovakia, Approbation: Art education and Slovak language

SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2017 Nylon Relations, tranzitdisplay, Prague, CZ. 2017 Nylon relations, Ciachovňa Arzenal, Žilina, SK. 2016 The situation is changing without happened, OFF Format, Brno, CZ. 2014 Oskár Čepan Award - exhibiton of the finalists, Nová synagóga/Kunsthalle, Žilina, SK. 2013 Suspicious free time (with Radko Mačuha), Open Gallery, Bratislava, SK. 2012 Kunsthalle - A Global Report on the State of the Institution, House of Art, Bratislava, SK; Free Working Time, Gallery of the Good Shepherd, Brno, CZ

GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2018 Conditions of Inability IV - Silent Interpretation, Kurzor Gallery, Prague, CZ; Art Is Work, Krokus Gallery, Bratislava, SK; I Take Pleasure In Attention, Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica, SK; 2017 Death (ly) stories, Nitra gallery, Nitra, SK; Collection Collective, tranzit.sk, Bratislava, SK; Experience of The Bucket Riders, Arkipel, Jakarta, ID; CZECHOSLOVAKIA / A Critical Reader, Gandy gallery, Bratislava, SK; Fear of What's To Come, Východoslovenská galéria, Košice, SK; 2016 Once More, with Feeling, EFA Project Space, New York, USA; Potential of everydayness, Považská galéria umenia, Žilina, SK; Small/Big world, tranzit.sk, Bratislava, SK; 2015 REVERZ / REVERSED, Muzej savremene umentosti, Novi Sad, SRB; Families Of Objects II., Abrons Art Center, New York, USA; 2 Festival of Minimal Action, Paris, FR; The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people, Studió Galéria, Budapest, HU; Beyond the red lines, Studio / FKSE, Budapest, HU; Families Of Objects I., Random Institute Zurich, CH; Art Has No Alternative, tranzit.sk, Bratislava, SK; 2014 Kdo na moje místo, Plato, Ostrava, CZ; Prvý človek bol umelec, Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica, SK; The Need for Practice, tranzit.sk, Bratislava, SK; What remained, Trafačka, Prague, CZ; 2013 Contextual Art, Cyprián Majerník Gallery, Bratislava, SK; Social Design, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, CZ; Zero Exhibition, Kunsthalle LAB, Bratislava, SK; Beyond the red lines, Oberliht Association, Chisinau, MD; Praguebiennale VI., Nákladové nádraží Žižkov, Prague, CZ; Essl Art Award CEE 2013, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, SK; Entry code, Gallery AVU, Prague, CZ; He Never Taught Anyone Anything But We Called Him Teacher Nevertheless, Eliade library of Theatre Na zábradlí, Prague, CZ; 2012 The Real Emotions, Muzeul Naţional de Artă Cluj, RO; Creative Unit, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, SK; Paradise Hunters, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, SK; Artetherapy, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, SK; 2011 Velocypedia, NTK Gallery, National Technical Libary, Prague, CZ; Re_public Space, Festival REFRESH +89, Košice, SK; Daisies And Clones, Slovak national Gallery, Bratislava, SK; 2010 Tina B, Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, CZ; Exposition Projection, publicart project, Paris, FR;

Statement

Jana Kapelová (1982, Trnava) studied at universities in Trnava, Banská Bystrica, Prague, and Bratislava. She focuses on art that is not primarily focused on the resulting artifacts but rather on the related process of social research and cultural activism. Several of her artworks are linked to the citizen protests she had participated in as an organizer, such as the initiative Twenty Years from the Velvet Revolution Did Not Pass (2010), the protests against installation of the statue of king Svätopluk in the courtyard of the Bratislava castle (2010) or initiative We Are Standing by the Culture (2019). Her projects inspired by family history have a more personal character. Her work Waiting for Material (Čakanie na materiál, 2014), displayed at the Oskár Čepan Award finalists’ exhibition put her father Ján Kapel with his many years of experience with home-improvement activities in the role of an artist whose life’s work is his continuously improved house. Kapelová placed her father’s activities in the broader context of culture and society as well as that of modern history which is seen as not merely the stage but rather an active agent influencing the behavior of individuals. Also present was the theme of need of personal fulfillment – self-realization, something she had already tackled in her projects Free Work Time (Voľný pracovný čas, 2011) or My Memory is a Mirror Someone Breathed On (Moja pamäť je zrkadlo, na ktoré mi dýchli, 2012). She currently focuses on the topics of work and education. She leads the Intermedia studio at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, together with Nina Vidovencová. She won the Oskár Čepan Award in 2014, the finalists’ exhibition took place in Nová synagóga in Žilina. Other finalists were Martin Kochan, Jaroslav Kyša and Matěj Smetana.

Curatorial statement

Jana Kapelová (1982, Trnava) studied at universities in Trnava, Banská Bystrica, Prague, and Bratislava. She focuses on art that is not primarily focused on the resulting artifacts but rather on the related process of social research and cultural activism. Several of her artworks are linked to the citizen protests she had participated in as an organizer, such as the initiative Twenty Years from the Velvet Revolution Did Not Pass (Dvadsať rokov od Nežnej neprebehlo, 2010) or the protests against installation of the statue of king Svätopluk in the courtyard of the Bratislava castle (2010). In 2010 – 2019, she was prominently engaged in the long-term struggle of the artistic and scholarly circles to establish the Kunsthalle in Bratislava. Her projects inspired by family history have a more personal character. Her work Waiting for Material (Čakanie na materiál, 2014), displayed at the Oskár Čepan Award finalists’ exhibition put her father Ján Kapel with his many years of experience with home-improvement activities in the role of an artist whose life’s work is his continuously improved house. Kapelová placed her father’s activities in the broader context of culture and society as well as that of modern history which is seen as not merely the stage but rather an active agent influencing the behavior of individuals. Also present was the theme of need of personal fulfillment – self-realization, something she had already tackled in her projects Free Work Time (Voľný pracovný čas, 2011) or My Memory is a Mirror Someone Breathed On (Moja pamäť je zrkadlo, na ktoré mi dýchli, 2012). She currently focuses on the topics of work and education. She won the Oskár Čepan Award in 2014, the finalists’ exhibition took place in Nová synagóga in Žilina.