MAREK KVETAN born: 14.4.1976 Bratislava lives and works: in Bratislava e-mail: [email protected] www.kvetan.net
EDUCATION: 1999 – 2001 - Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia Department of Painting, Prof. D. Fischer 1999 - Technical University Brno - Faculty of Fine Arts, Czech Republic Department of Multimedia-Performance-Video, Prof. Keiko Sei 1995 - 1999 - Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia Department of Sculpture, Intermedia Studio of Free Creativity, Prof. J. Bartusz 1990 - 1994 - Secondary School of Applied Arts, Kremnica, Slovakia
GRANTS: 2005 - Foundation - Center for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia 2004 - Foundation - Center for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia - MKSR, Bratislava, Slovakia 2002 - Foundation - Center for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia 2001 - Jana & Milan Jelinek - stiftung, Baar, Switzerland - FVU – graduate scholarship, Bratislava, Slovakia 2000 - Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia 1998 - Jana & Milan Jelinek - stiftung, Baar, Switzerland - Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Slovakia, Bratislava, Slovakia 1997 - Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Slovakia, Bratislava, Slovakia
AWARDS: 2007 - finalist - Prize NG 333, National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic 2003 - Grand prix - Contemporary Slovak Graphic Triennial, State Gallery in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia 2000 - finalist - TONAL - Slovak Visual Arts Prize, Bratislava, Slovakia 1998 - finalist - Slovak Young Visual Art Prize, Bratislava, Slovakia
ART RESIDENCE: 2007 - FUTURA, Karlin Studios, Prague, Czech Republik 2000 - The Headlends Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, USA
REPRESENTED IN THE COLLECTIONS: - Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia - National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic - State Gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia - Siemens, Wien, Austria - CBK, Dordrecht, Netherlands - GMB City Gallery Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2007 - Marek Kvetan & Marko Blazo, Siemnes ArtLAB, Wien, Austria 2005 - Monosti automatickch opráv (eng. transl. ´Possibilities of automatic corrections´), Triennale of Contemporary Slovak Graphic Arts, State Gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia - Vizualita zachytená v páde…(eng. transl. ´The Visuality recorded while falling…´), G4, Czech Republic 2004 - IDOC Still Life, Slovak Cultural Institute, Vienna, Austria - IDOC Erotic, Gallery Tower, Bratislava, Slovakia 2003 - TXT, Gallery Space for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia 2002 - New City, Billboart Gallery Europe, Bratislava, Slovakia 2001 - Digital Code 01, V. Löffler Museum, Koice, Slovakia 2000 - XXX, Gallery Tatrasoft, Bratislava, Slovakia - XXXX, Gallery MXM, Prague, Czech Republic 1999 - Double Game, Gallery Space for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia 1998 - Reprospective, Umelecká Beseda, Bratislava, Slovakia - Read me, University Library, City Library, Library of Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia - (Anti)communication, Palffy Palace, City Gallery of Bratislava, Slovakia 1997 - Installations, Gallery iva, Bratislava, Slovakia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2008 - For A Happier Tomorrow, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen Denmark 2007 - Prize NG 333, National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic - Still, Futura Gallery, Prague, Czech Republik - Central Europe Revisited, Schloss Esteházy,Eisenstadt, Austria - Welcome to …, Kressling Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia - Mutations, MUSA Museum auf Abruf, Wien, Austria - Prague Biennale 3, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech Republik - Mutations, Museo Bilotti, Roma, Itali - Mutations, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia - Skuter, Biennale Jung Art, GJK, Trnava, Slovakia - PitoreSKa, Vannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republik 2006 - Transffering Slovak Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Novy Sad, Serbia - Mutations I., Casino – Forum d'art contemporain, Luxemburg - Slovak Graphic Art of 20th Century, State Gallery in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia - IN(TER)MEDIA(S)RES, Povaská Art Gallery, ilina, Slovakia - Mutations I., Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany - Mutations I., Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France - Nadace J. a M. Jelinkovch, Veletrní Palace, Prague, Czech Republik - Frendkörper, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, Germany - Autopoesis, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia - Papier, Beeld & Basis, Stedelijk Museum, Aalst, Belgium - Runway, Gallery Space, Bratislava, Slovakia - CENTRAL - New Art from New Europe, UBS, Bratislava, Slovakia - ViennAfair, Messezentrum Wien, Wien, Austria - Portes d'Europe, Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne, France - Man, Hero, Spirit, Machine, Gallery Medium, Bratislava, Slovakia 2005 - Triennale of Contemporary Slovak Graphic Arts, State Gallery in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia - New Media Cheb 2005, Cheb, Czech Republic - Market, Old Market Hall, Bratislava, Slovakia - Iconoclash, Spitz Gallery, London, England - Enlargement, Cork Vision Centre, Cork, Ireland - ADD-ON. 20 höhenmeter, Wallensteinplatz, Wien, Austria - CENTRAL - New Art from New Europe, BA CA Kunstforum, Wien, Austria - Prague Biennale II, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech Republic - ViennAfair, Messezentrum Wien, Wien, Austria - Media screen, Ján Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia - Frendkörper, Synagogue - Center for Contemporary Art, Ján Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, Slovakia - K4, East - Slovakian Museum, Koice, Slovakia - CENTRAL - New Art from New Europe, Gallery Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia - CENTRAL - New Art from New Europe, Gallery Kloviæevi Dvori, Zagreb, Kroatien - EGOART Prix, Gallery NOD, Prague, Czech Republic 2004 - Digital @ Electronic Graphic, State Gallery in Banská Bystryca, Slovakia - E.U. Positive, Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany - CENTRAL - New Art from New Europe, Teatrul National, Bucurest, Romania - CENTRAL - New Art from New Europe, Max Gandolf Library, Salzburg, Austria - CENTRAL - New Art from New Europe, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria - Generation Relationship, Povaská Art Gallery, ilina, Slovakia - METRO, Gallery Space for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia - New Photography for Slovakia, Gallery Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria - EGOART Prix, Gallery HIT, Bratislava, Slovakia - CWS, Cork Vision Centre, Cork, Ireland - Balkan Consulate Billboards, House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic 2003 - Yong Slovak Photography, St. Michael & John’s Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland - Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany - IN OUT, Prague, Czech Republic - Pal Fiction, International festival of Video Art, Gallery Art Factory, Prague, Czech Republic - "Mam a klam", Open Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia - Paralle Avantgarden - Gibst es eine „europaische Fotografie“, Art Space, Vienna, Austria - The Last East European show, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro - Stadt in sicht, Knstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria - Spheres of valency, Palffy Palace, City Gallery of Bratislava, Slovakia - Balkan Consulate, The Association for Contemporary Art , Graz, Austria - Bride, Synagogue - Center for Contemporary Art, Trnava, Slovakia 2002 - NYBÜVITT, Synagogue - Center for Contemporary Art, Trnava, Slovakia - Contemporary Slovak Graphic, State Gallery in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia - Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany - ART PRIMEUR 2002, CBK, Dordrecht, Netherlands - Upside DOWN, Gallery Space for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia 2001 - “New” Slovak Art 1936 – 2001, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria - New Connection, WFC Courtyard Gallery, NY, USA - New Connection, Mirbach Palace, City Gallery of Bratislava, Slovakia - New Connection, Veletrní Palace, Prague, Czech Republik - The End of the Last Century - Artoteka 90, Sate Gallery in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia - Action Art 1989-2000, Tatran Gallery, Poprad, Slovakia - Action Art 1989-2000, Nitra´s Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia - Golden Prague - 38 International Television Festival, Prague, Czech Republic 2000 - Real(E)state, Bratislava, Slovakia - Digital male @ Male digital, Gallery Medium, Bratislava, Slovakia - TONAL, Slovak Young Visual Art Prize, Palffy Palace, City Gallery of Bratislava, Slovakia - Communications, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan - Common Denominator, Mirbach Palace, City Gallery of Bratislava, Slovakia - …Between…, Skalica, Slovakia - Manipulative Art, Povaská Art Gallery, ilina, Slovakia 1999 - Permanent Residency, Gallery Sztuky, Bygoszcz, Poland - Permanent Residency, Tatran Gallery, Poprad, Slovakia - Slovak Art for Free, La Biennale di Venezia, Czechoslovakian pavilion, Venice, Italy - Space for recapitulation /99-00/, Gallery Space for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia - Resonance, GMB Mirbach Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia - Park of the Future, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Netherlands - Unplanned Connection, Gallery Mánes, Prague, Czech Republic 1998 - Young + Soft, Palffy Palace, City Gallery of Bratislava, Slovakia - ETUD, Kopany, Slovakia - Slovak Young Visual Art Price, Gallery Medium, Bratislava, Slovakia - Project, Wollsburg, Germany - Angels Flight, Synagogue - Center for Contemporary Art, Trnava, Slovakia 1997 - Between /Object in Picture, Picture in Object /, Skalica, Slovakia - BRIDGing, túrovo, Slovakia 1997 - Symposium, Vakovka, Brno, Czech Republic - Symposium, Nov Jiín, Czech Republic - ETUD, Martin, Slovakia 1996 - Festival of Alternative Art, Skalica, Slovakia - ETUD, Koeluhy, Liptovsk Mikulá, Slovakia 1995 - ETUD, Jesuits church, Skalica, Slovakia - Kult-Kultúra (eng. transl. Cult-Culture), Pieany, Slovakia - World Theatre Festival, Ankara, Turkey
PERFORMANCE: 2005 - International Biennale of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
CATALOGUE: 2005 - Prague Biennale II, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech Republic - ART SK, Bratislava, Slovakia 2004 - Month Photos Paris – Wien – Berlin, Vienna, Austria - Month Photos Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia - E.U. Positive, Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany - CENTRAL - New Art from New Europe, Max Gandolf Library, Salzburg, Austria - Biannual report Open Gallery, "Mam a Klam", NCU, Bratislava, Slovakia 2003 - The Last East European Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro - NYBÜVITT, Trnava, Slovakia - Contemporary Slovak Graphic 15, State Gallery in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia 2002 - Art Forum Berlin - the International Fair for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany - "New" Slovak Art 1936 - 2001, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria - Art Primeur 2002, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Dordrecht, Netherlands - Place of Permanent Residence, Slovakia - Celebrate Slovakia: Art from the Heart of Europe, C.ART.A - International, Bratislava, Slovakia - Reality / Real (E) State, Foundation - Center for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia - 1999-2000 Biannual report, V. Löffler Museum, Koice, Slovakia 2001 - Digitale Male @ Male Digital, CEICA, Bratislava, Slovakia - New Connection, Slovakia 2000 - Year book 2000, Povaská Art Gallery, ilina, Slovakia - IT-The Body as a Paradigm of Postmodern Thinking, Zdruenie pre súasnú slovenskú tvorbu, Bratislava, Slovakia - Bridging, Edition Dialogues, Slovakia 1999 - Year book 1998 Gallery Medium, Gallery Medium, Bratislava, Slovakia - Unplanned Connection, Jana & Milan Jelínek Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic 1998 - IstroArt 98 - Balance, Gallery Medium, Bratislava, Slovakia