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Across Endless Moments of Fading Dreams, I'll Keep the Night a Little Longer For You / Oskár Čepan Award 2024

Invitations ArtD./PhD. Intermedia Photography and New Media

We invite you to the opening of the exhibition of the laureates of this year's Oskár Čepan Award, which will take place on Friday, December 13, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. at the Pistori Palace in Bratislava. The laureates Kvet Nguyen and Paula Malinowska, as well as the curator of the exhibition Denis Kozerawski, are also internal doctoral students at the AFAD.

Where?

When?

  • Opening: 13. 12. 2024, 18:00 h

  • Duration: till 28.2.2025

 

Laureates:

  • Svetlana Fialová
  • Paula Malinowska
  • Kvet Nguyen

Curator:

  • Denis Kozerawski

Annotation

63 artists applied for this year's Oskár Čepan Award, marking the highest number in the 28-year history of the project. The diversity of the submitted portfolios reflect the current and ever-evolving discourse of contemporary visual art.

The international jury consists of Erin Li (CHN/HK), a curator at the Delfina Foundation in London, specializing in live art and culture; Amira Gad (EG/FR), an independent curator at KANAL – Centre Pompidou in Brussels, with previous experience at the Serpentine Galleries in London; Piotr Sikora (PL/CZ), a curator of residency programs at MeetFactory in Prague, inspired by sauna culture, mycology, and kitsch; and Lilia Kudelia (UA/USA), a curator of the Young Visual Artists Award program in New York and art historian based in Texas.

 

The exhibition is organized by the Oskár Čepan Award team in close cooperation with Pistori Palace in Bratislava.

  • Exhibition curator: Denis Kozerawski
  • Exhibition architecture: Jakub Kopec
  • Visual identity: Matúš Buranovský
  • Photography: Leontína Berková
  • DJ Kristofino and DJ GÄP will play at the opening.

 

COČ invitation

 

The Oskár Čepan Award

The Oskár Čepan Award was established in 1996 through the initiative of the American foundation Trust for Mutual Understanding. Since 2001, the project has been implemented by the Center for Contemporary Art Foundation with the support of the Trust for Mutual Understanding, and since 2016, in collaboration with Residency Unlimited. The award aims to support contemporary visual art and its creators. Applications are open to all visual mediums through a public call. The age limit for participation is 40 years. The project is part of the wider international network of YVAA – Young Visual Artists Awards, which are organized in Central and Eastern Europe.

Oskár Čepan (1925 – 1992)

was a strong critic and art theoretician with a broad scope and general solid knowledge, a devoted editor and anthologist, an erudite and receptive author of texts about contemporary Slovak visual art, a philosopher, theoretician, historian and critic. He played an essential role in the Slovak history of visual art of the 20th century, and his texts are still valid and surprisingly accurate today.

 

Organizer: Nadácia – Centrum súčasného umenia

  • Co-organizer: A private platform for the support of art Collective
  • Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council
  • We thank our partners
  • Partners: Staré Mesto, Residency Unlimited, YVAA, Trust for Mutual Understanding, A4 Centrum súčasnej kultúry, TICHO a spol.
  • Media partners: Rádio Devín, Rádio_FM, Artalk a Denník N