Oskár Čepan

EDUCATION: 2011 – 2014 VUT Faculty of Fine Arts, painting studio II., Brno, Czech Republic Masters of Fine Arts in Painting (MgA. Luděk Rathouský and MgA. Jiří Franta) 2008 – 2011 University of Ostrava, Fakulty of Fine Arts, painting studio II., Ostrava, Czech Republic Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting studio (MgA. František Kowolowski and MgA. Jiří Kuděla)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION: 2020 – Overview Fact, Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, CZ; 2019 – Skúter IV, Jan Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, SK; Salm Modern#1: Young Scene Challenge part III, National gallery Prague, CZ; 2018 – Two Heads Four Hands, 8smička gallery, Humpolec, CZ; #OK – XII. Trienale of Small Objects & Drawings, Jozef Kollár gallery, Banská Štiavnica, SK; Every Other Things, Krokus gallery, Bratislava, SK; The Neighbourhood, Bauer’s Chateau, Brno exhibition centre, CZ; Temporary Structures 1, Dynasty, PLATO Ostrava, (w/ Johana Pošová and Milan Houser),PLATO Ostrava, CZ; 2017 – No Disc, Sculptures in the Streets, Brno, CZ; 2016 – The Resonating Sound of a Fist Punching a Wall, Central Slovakian gallery, Oskar Čepán Award, B. Bystrica, SK; The Measure of Abstraction in Concrete Life is Declining, Central Slovakian gallery in B. Bystrica; 2015 – Zlín’s Youth Salon, Zlín, CZ; 2014 – Put Me Those Middle Height Lower, Rosická 1, Brno, CZ; 2013 – Depth of Focus, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, AT 2012 – Second Season, AMoYA, Prague, CZ; How we Deal with Politics, 2.0 gallery, Warsaw, PL

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION: 2020 – The Light that Finds the Spreading Wounds, Convento de Santo António dos Capuchos – Contextile Bienal 2020, Guimarães, PT; Tiredness Quotes, Karlín Studios, Prague, CZ; 2019 – What has happened with sleep today, Album Arte, Rome, IT; Potential Causes of Afternoon Tiredness, sound performance at Cuckoo Festival, Ostrava, CZ; A Few Liters of Dried Rituals, River and sun baths, Luhačovice, CZ; Soya Stream, 35m2 gallery, Prague, CZ; Diagnosis of the Curved Spine, Horizont gallery, Budapest, HU; 2017 – A Dose of a Shared After-Taste, Nová Cvernovka, Bratislava, SK; The Shallow Sleep of Emergency Mode, Etc. gallery, Prague, CZ; 2016 – W–WORLD, HotDock gallery, Bratislava, SK; To Compose the Words from the Rush, Cella gallery, Opava, CZ; Speech to the Wind, Lauby gallery, Ostrava, CZ; 2015 – AC/BC, Jelení gallery, Prague, CZ; To Moved the Air by the Sweep, Art Cinema, Audiovize, Brno, CZ; The Mangy Gang and the Noisy Song, Měsíc ve dne gallery, České Budějovice, CZ; To Hear One’s footsteps Amidst The Noise, Brno House of Art, Brno, CZ; The While, Off/Format gallery, Brno, CZ; 2014 – How the Things Are Doing, Půda gallery, Jihlava, CZ; 2013 – The Working Title – Painting, Luxfer gallery, Česká Skalice, CZ; 2012 – The Point, Anne Frank Memorial gallery, Brno, CZ;

AWARDS, ARTIST RESIDENCES: 2016 – Oskar Čepán Award, Young Visual Artists Awards, Bratislava, Slovakia; 2020 – BANSKA ST A NICA Contemporary, SK; Contextile 2020, via Magic Carpets, Guimarães, PT; Air Futura, Prague, CZ; 2019 – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, DE; Berlin Sessions, Berlin, DE; 2018 – Museumsquartier, Vienna, AT; 2016 – Residency Unlimited, New York, U.S; PROGR Residency, Bern, CH; 2014 – The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, U.S (Julia Gryboś);

Statement

Curatorial statement

Julia Gryboś (1988, Opole, Poland) and Barbora Zentková (1986, Martin) graduated from the Painting Studio II of the Brno University of Technology’s Faculty of Fine Arts, where they currently attend doctoral programs. They formed an artistic duo already during their studies and even submitted a co-authored diploma thesis. Their focus shifted from painting towards creation of audiovisual environments with performative elements, combining sound with painting and other media. They often use found materials and objects with special meanings which are then completed by means of artistic intervention. The artists are interested in work with specific, often non-gallery spaces, such as abandoned buildings and stores out of business. Using sound and other elements, they build unique, even hypnotic experiences in concrete, unrepeatable points of spacetime – simply put, here and now. Their combination of sound and image is similar to the way music is used in cinematography – the sound element amplifies and gives emotional coloring to the visual experience. Thematically, the artists focus on various phenomena in the context of late capitalism, such as sleep, tiredness related to the constantly increasing pressure on an individual to perform, etc. Gryboś and Zentková currently live and work in Berlin. They won the Oskár Čepan Award in 2016, the winning installation was presented at the exhibition in the Central Slovakian Gallery in Banská Bystrica. Other finalists were Juraj Gábor, Daniela Krajčová and Lucia Luptáková.