Tag: ‘umenie vo verejnom priestore’

  • Just another sport wall and another experiment

    In the beginning of the summer 2012, Tomáš Rafa got an official permition for painting the walls in three towns and villages in eastern Slovakia. The first one was a protective wall in Sečovce, the second one was segregation wall in Ostrovany, and the last one was a housing unit in the city district of [...]

  • After Michalovce the Sports Wall of Tomáš Rafa also in Sečovce

    After Michalovce the artist and filmmaker Tomáš Rafa moved on with his Sports Wall project. This time, along with artists and volunteers undertook to change the look of the concrete wall, which ringfences elementary school for Roma children in Sečovce. While in Michalovce he stuck to the wall 96-meter billboard, in Sečovce he painted sports [...]

  • Nina Šošková: Space and Space
    installation, 21 May - 10 June 2012
    Stanica & main railway station Žilina

    Don´t be afraid to enter, though it may appear, that the entrance to Stanica is too narrow. The artist Nina Šošková will for three weeks place an object to central hallway - a transient corridor, by whom she will document the present. The audience and passengers will leave their footprints on corridors´ sticky surface and [...]

  • Tomáš Rafa: Sporting Wall
    (96-meters of billboard in Michalovce)

    The first news was: “The artist Tomáš Rafa realised on Wednesday November 30, 2011, a big billboard on the controversial “sport wall” in Michalovce. This wall divided in 2009 the Eastern quarter of Michalovce town from the Roma settlement Angi mlyn. Officially built as place for sport, the wall is up to today missing any [...]

  • Presentation of works from the public art workshop InBetweenCentre II

    It is July and the temperature climbs to 33 degrees Celsius. On the Hlinka square stands a May - traditional Slovak tree symbol built in May usualy. Is the strain of a plastic sewer pipe and on top of it there is an artificial Christmas tree. The artist Alžbeta Lišková designed a practical package [...]

  • Photo: Memory Kontrol: Victims and Heroes

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  • Empty monument on Polom at the end of Living Underground 6 workshop

    An empty memorial board from dark granit stone was inaugurated on Saturday August 28, 2010 on Polom mountain close the existing monument of 1st Czechoslovak Army Troupe from the WW2nd. There are tools to use and create your own message or memory. The site-specific art work is result of the workshop of architects and graphic [...]

  • Tree of Luck, Friend of Magda Janczuk and Jakub Adamec

    More than a year ago, on Friday April 13 2009, visual artists Magda Janczuk (PL) and Jakub Adamec (CZ) planted a willow tree in front of Stanica. At the end of their artistic residency they wanted to realise a permanent public art project to leave a trace. It was snowing that day, but the willow [...]

  • Space Z(i)lin(a)

    Daniela Baráčková (Cz) painted our theatre space S2 on the wall of Považská Gallery of Art in Žilina. Czech artist reacted in this way on the theme of artistic intervention in the public space. On this exhibition of Czech and Slovak artists working in the public space you can find also other works, mostly documented [...]

  • István Csákány (HU): Monument for Monument (permanent sculpture project)

    August 22, 2008
    Rondel, one of Zilina´s largest roundabouts on pillars has been built in the 80s under socialist government. At the same time they have built huge street lights along this roundabout and connected streets. The roundabout is still in use and directing traffic into and out of the city. But the huge street lights [...]

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