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Filip Bielek: Hotel Danube - We remember

Invitations Sculpture, Object, Installation ArtD./PhD.

We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition Filip Bielek: Hotel Danube - We Remember at the Artoteka gallery on January 14, 2025.

Where?

  • Artoteka Gallery

    • Kapucínska 1, Bratislava, Slovakia

When?

  • Opening: January 14, 2025, 5:30 PM

  • Duration: January 15 - 31, 2025
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Curator:

  • Mirka Urbanová

Exhibition: Hotel Danube – We Remember

is currently the last piece in Filip Bielek's interest in the controversy surrounding the reconstruction of the Park Inn hotel (formerly Hotel Danube) on the Danube embankment. As the recipient of the BRUTUS anti-award for the worst in Slovak architecture in 2019, the incomplete reconstruction remains a sore point and a bold statement against the municipal district, preservationists, and the general public. Recently, Bielek placed an ironic throne for developers on the Petržalka embankment, marked by the anti-aesthetic style of the current hotel reconstruction. At the Artoteka premises, he will serve us fragments of the Ugly on the Danube case in its second act, simultaneously a memento to all victims of insulation projects, architectural tastelessness, and administrative delays.

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Filip Bielek

Filip Bielek comes from Bratislava, where he lives and works. Between 2006 and 2010, he attended the School of Applied Arts Josef Vydra in Bratislava, specializing in stone sculpture under academic sculptor Vojtech Pohanka. He continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (2010-2016), majoring in Sculpture in Architecture and Public Space under Doc. Mgr. Art Patrik Kovačovský. From 2014 to 2015, he participated in a study stay at UAP Poznań (PL) in the studio of Marcin Berdyszak. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Department of Sculpture, Object, and Installation.

His long-term interest lies in public spaces, the heritage of socialist architecture, and contemporary construction interventions in our immediate surroundings. These topics are addressed with a critical perspective, often recycling existing materials and objects, with an ironic commentary.

 

Supported by the Slovak Arts Council from public funds.