Oskár Čepan

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF ARTS,SK Master degree in Studio of Contemporary Painting 2021-2023 ULYSSEUS, UNIVERSITY OF GENOA, IT mobility Entrepreneurship and Innovative Business Models for the Cultural and Creative Industry, Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme dec 2022-jan 2023 UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS,UK Bachelor with First Class Honours in Fine Art *Shetland College 2017-2019 *Moray School of Art 2019-2021

RESIDENCIES & OTHER TATE GALLERY London, UK, 2023, study trip with Mgr. Gabriely Garlatyovej PhD. STEINDRÜCK WERKSTATT, RAQUEL RO (DE) lithography printing at the workshop in Künstlerhaus München, limited editions were created, 2023 SCHAFHOF-EUROPÄISCHES KUNSTFORUM OBERBAYERN Freising, DE, 2023, residency HÁJOVŇA-ČERVENÁ STUDŇA Banská Štiavnica, SK 2022, microresidency NÁSTUPIŠTE 1-12 Topoľčany, SK 2022, symposium & group show JAMIESON & SMITH, WOOLBROKERS Shetland Islands, UK 2019, microresidency BOLD RED LINE VUNU Bratislava, SK, 2025, group show OBJEKTY V ZRKADLE MÔŽU BYŤ REÁLNE BLIŽŠIE NEŽ SA ZDAJÚ Kkc ARTA, Piešťany, SK, 2025, solo show SOIL NOT OIL Slovak Institute, Prague, CZ, 2025, group show TEHLÁREŇ 2024 Liptovská Porúbka, SK 2024, group show & artist talk MEET AT DAWN Šopa Gallery, festival 66 hodín, Smolník, SK 2024, group show YOUR WATER OUR WATER Delphi Space, Freiburg, DE aqb Project Space, Budapest, HU U10 Art Space, Belgrade, RS 2024, group show LISTENING | FOCUS > EUROPE V Schafhof-Europäisches Kunstforum Oberbayern, Freising, DE 2024, group show MODRÁ STUDŇA Hájovňa – Červená Studňa, Banská Štiavnica, SK 2023, solo show FU-TU-IMAGE Festival 66 hours, Tobacco factory in Smolník, SK 2023, group show NEW CONTEMPORARIES 2023 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh , UK, group show ANOTHER PROFILE PIC Šopa Gallery, Košice, SK, 2023, solo show and artist talk ĽUDIA ZVLÁŠTNEHO DRUHU Galéria Tabačka, Košice, SK, 2023, group show DIPLOM-KY Mína Art Space, Košice SK, 2023, duo show MAĽBA NAŽIVO Museum of Vojtech Löffler, Košice, SK, 2022, group show POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, 2022, group show ČO SA STANE, AK SI OBLEČIEŠ MAĽBU, ODFOTÍŠ SA V NEJ A POSTNEŠ TO NA INSTA? Galéria Výklad, Trnava, SK, 2021, solo shOw DEGREE SHOW Moray School of Art Gallery, Elgin, UK, 2021, online group show SHIM ECO SHOW URSA Gallery, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA, 2021, group show TSDAP'S NEW GRADUATES: 2021 EDITION online by SHIM Art Network at Artsy.net, group show DISCOVER MORAY’S GREAT PLACES project supported by Creative Scotland, thematic research, and collaboration with artists resulting into artwork “Story of Many Rivers ” , 2020, Moray School of Art, UK, group show & artist talk SHETLAND OPEN 2019 Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland, UK, group show FUTUNOW 2023,2022 catalogue of students works 2021/2022, 2022/2023, Faculty of Arts, Technical University of Košice NEW CONTEMPORARIES 2023 catalogue of works for exhibition NC23, Royal Scottish Academy (UK) STUDIO IMAGE PROJECT 2021 Friend of the Artist (UK), catalogue NEW GRADUATE CATALOGUE: 2021 EDITION The Social Distance Art Project (UK) MORAY’S GREAT PLACES: A RESPONSE published by Moray Council & Moray School of Art, 2020

Statement

From the position of Generation Y, I critically (and uncritically) perceive visual social networks as a tool for hyper-aestheticization of everyday life, I explore approaches to capturing the reality around us through the lens of a smartphone and freely describe my own fragments - experiences - as a user of a virtual network, using the language of abstract painting. I notice the strategic-aesthetic qualities of social networks and the sensory stimuli of these new media, and (perhaps paradoxically) I connect them with reflections on materiality and image.

My work, often strangely connected to the phenomenon of water, oscillates between the organic and digital idea of flow. For me, water represents a method, a working process and a metaphor. The virtual flow of endless images and stories shared in the online world creates a large space for fun and tension at the same time. Everything encapsulated, moving with the mass and never ending - exactly like water flowing through landscapes.