IGELITKA
We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition of Michal Moravčík’s personal collection of plastic bags, "IGELITKA", curated by Jana Kapelová and Mira Keratová.
Where?
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Staromestská Library in Bratislava
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Záhrebská 8, Bratislava
When?
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Opening: April 30, 2025, 18:00
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Exhibition duration: April 30, 2025 – July 31, 2025
Collection Author:
- Michal Moravčík
Curators:
- Jana Kapelová, Mira Keratová
Annotation
Jana Kapelová is a visual artist and educator. Her work deals with topics such as labor and precarity, leisure and self-realization. She reflects on the impact of social and cultural environments, upbringing, and education on individuals and society. She mainly works with video, delegated performances, text, participatory art, and performative lectures. She uses methods of authorial research, questionnaires, and interviews. In teaching, she applies an individual approach, respectful communication, and elements of feminist pedagogy. Since 2019, she has co-led the Intermedia Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. From 2017 to 2019 she was the director of the Medium Gallery. Between 2011 and 2015 she taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and from 2011 to 2014 coordinated the Slovak section of the Artyčok TV online platform. In 2014 she won the Oskár Čepan Award. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic, Romania, Germany, Switzerland, the USA, Japan, and Sweden. Her works are included in Slovak public gallery collections.
MICHAL MORAVČÍK
Michal Moravčík studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (AFAD) in Bratislava under Jozef Jankovič. He later moved from figurative foundations toward discursive creation and from classical sculpture to spatial and interactive installations, always considering the scale of the human figure—replacing it with the viewer. He often worked with found materials and their contexts. He was especially interested in so-called readymades and retro aesthetics from the era of state socialism, as well as the everyday domestic environment, such as panel apartment interiors and housing estates he personally experienced. He worked as an editor for the VLNA magazine and was a long-time educator at the Faculty of Education in Trnava, the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, and the AFAD in Bratislava. He initiated several influential civic and artistic initiatives, including *What Kind of Sculpture for the City?* (2006); *Twenty Years Since the Velvet Revolution Didn't Happen* (2010); and *Public Pedestal* (since 2010). He was the recipient of the Oskár Čepan Award in 2004.
