Winner
The Oskár Čepan Award
Matej Vakula
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Invitation / Exhibition of finalists
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Matej Vakula
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* 1981 Žilina, Slovakia
EDUCATION: 2011 MFA, Interrelated Media, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, USA; 2010 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Art Culture and Technology, Cambridge, USA; 2008 MFA in Interrelated Media and Multimedia Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia; Residency: Autumn Semester 2004 / 2005 Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2014 “LED Type: Sins of Nationalist Love” Space Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia; 2013 “Places in Transition / Indexes of Metamorphed Zones” Duo Transitioners, Zilina, Slovakia; “Agents of Knowledge” Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland; “Ending Better than Death” by Clakula Duo, Kytka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic; 2012 “Open Sources” Cyprian Majernik Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia; 2011 “Out and Up to Date” Outdoor Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia; 2009 “Traumwerk” Museum of Art in Zilina, Slovakia; 2008 „CSSL - Czechoslovakia Second Life“ Slovak National Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia; 2008 „CSSL - Czechoslovakia Second Life“ Interactive happening, Gallery Hit in Bratislava and at Gallery in Valuta City in the virtual world Second Life;
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2015 “Project Metropolis: Final Exhibition", Silesian Museum, Katowice, Poland; 2014 “Manual for Greenpoint”, Art in Odd Places Festival, New York City, USA; “Salon of Young Contemporary Art” City Museum of Art, Zlin, Czech Republic; “Manuals for Public Space” Nitra, Slovakia 2013 “6th Prague Biennial of Contemporary Art” Prague, Czech Republic; “Triennial of Contemporary Image” Košice, Slovakia; “Transitioners” Žilina, Slovakia; “Proč jsme tady” Nová Gallery, Třeboň, Czech Republic; “Manuals for Public Space” Eastfield College Gallery, Mesquite, TX, USA; 2012 “Real Emotions” Cluj, Romania; “Home Sweet Potato II”, galéria Médium, Bratislava; “Oskára Čepan Award” Gallery of the Slovak Artist Union, Bratislava, Slovakia; Paradise Hunters" Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia; 2011 “Voices From The Center” threewalls Gallery, Chicago, USA; “Pattern Recognition” Axiom Gallery, Boston, USA; “Byte Culture” The Pozen Center, Cyberarts Festival, Boston, USA; 2010 “Spaces Z(i)lin(a)” City Museum of Art, Zlin, Czech Republic; “Spaces Z(i)lin(a)” Museum of Art Zilina, Slovakia; “Path to the ground” - Axiom Gallery, Boston, USA; 2009 “Web-site-specific” Gallery Bunker, Nitra, Slovakia; 2008 “Mi Lesz Ezutan” Picnic Festival, Esztergom, Hungary; 2007 “I Have a Dream … za plotom (beyond the fence)” Embassy of the USA, Bratislava, Slovakia; 2007 „It has never been better“ Stanica Zariecie, Zilina, Slovakia...
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