Oskár Čepan

born in Nitra (Czechoslovakia), recently works and lives in Hamburg, Germany HfBK Hamburg, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Academy of fine arts and design Bratislava Studio: Am Sandtorkai 27-28, 20359 Hamburg, Germany evvanhettmer.com

STUDIES 2018-2020: HfBK Hamburg, ASA Stipendium, student of Anselm Reyle (Drawing/Painting), Jutta Koether (Drawing/Painting), Simon Denny (New media), Broomberg and Chanarin (Photography) 2017: guest student in the studio of Performative art – sculpture, Univ.-Prof. Monica Bonvicini, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria 2012-2020: Mag. (MFA) diplom, Contextual painting, Univ.-Prof. Mag. MA. Ashley Hans Scheirl, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria 2007-2011: Bc. (MBA) diplom at Academy of Fine art and Design in Bratislava, Painting and other Media,Bratislava, Slovakia AWARDS 2020 winner in the “Malba 2020” (Painting), 2.place with the painting “Positive vibes only”, The VUB Foundation, VUB Bank Intesa San Paolo, Bratislava, Slovakia 2019 winner in the “Malba 2019” (Painting), 2.place with the painting “Seeking Butterflies”, The VUB Foundation, VUB Bank Intesa San Paolo, Bratislava, Slovakia 2011 shortlisted (finalist) in “Malba 2011” (Painting), Foundation of VUB Bank Intesa San Paolo, Bratislava, Slovakia 2009 Finalist in “Toiles et Toiles Prize 2009”, Galerie Daniel Vignal, Toulouse, France COLLECTIONS: The VUB Foundation, Slovakia MUSA, Vienna, Austria private collections Slovakia, Czech, Belgium, Austria STIPENDIUMS/GRANTS: 2020 FPU foundation, project “Dirty Reiki Healer” granted by FPU, Slovakia 2018-2019 ASA Stipendium, HfBK Hamburg, Toepfer Stiftung, Germany 2013 ÖH Projektföderung, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Austria COLLECTIVE: Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs (VBKÖ),Vienna, Austria

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 “About everything but not just about an elderly reiki healer”, Galerie 21, Vorwerkstift, Hamburg, Germany 2017 “Artist statement” Parallel Vienna, Schnirchgasse 9A, Vienna, Austria 2015 “body&mind”, Die Pforte – Celeste, Vienna, Austria 2014 “Über”, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria 2013 “Superface”, Gallery M++, Bratislava, Slovakia 2013 “Man-set”, Schikaneder, Vienna, Austria 2012 “Wilderness”, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia 2011 “F**king garden”, MsKS Levice,Levice, Slovakia GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 “Painting”, the competition of The VUB Foundation, Galeria Nedbalka, Bratislava, Slovakia 2020 with the project “About freedom and love / About the wife of the reiki healer that lives next door”, final diplom exhibtion, xhibit, Gallery of the Academy of fine arts, Vienna, Austria 2019 “Soga auction of young art”, SOGA, Bratislava, Slovakia »It is not a good artwork or a painting, if it doesn‘t disturb you, bother you or pursue you to fall in love with it.«

Statement

The formal body of my work and my visual language that I use, intentionally develops concept leaded by spontaneity and intuition; symbology that refers rather to emotions than representation, talks about an inside and outside; reduces colour palette, but doesn’t minimalized importance of the painting as a medium as rather than talks about decorativeness and female aspect in a painting as a colour poetry than a narrative story.

Curatorial statement

- Painting is Hettmer’s weapon and shield in the fight against chauvinism and gender determinism. -- “Èv van Hettmer makes painting her weapon and shield in the fight against chauvinism and gender determinism. Repeating motifs classically associated with femininity, she spins them back at the viewer with a vengeance, cool edge, and Medusa’s laughter. Pink, red, and purple colours flash up, full bodied vases casually claim their space at the center of canvasses that wear their heart on their skin with confrontational texts written all over them. They send their message back to all who keep perpetrating violence by passing harsh judgements on art as a thin disguise for abusively judging people who refuse to submit to binary norms and obsolete gender roles.” (Edith Jeřábková – jury member of Oskár Čepan Award 2021)