(b.1996, Craiova, Romania) lives in Lausanne, Switzerland
Image and object making stand at the core of his practice. With interest in different narratives such as art history, future paradigms and the collective subconscious. From the intricacies of artificial intelligence to the timeless craft of etching, Ciurescu’soeuvre transcends traditional boundaries, offering a captivating journey through the evolving language of the younger generation.
(b. 1992, Košice, Slovakia) lives in Prague, Czech Republic
Where his earlier abstractions spoke through a harsh poetics in a strange cacophonic rhythm, the new works unfold more like disruptive prose. Stories with no beginning and no end, often tangled somewhere in the middle. If they were text, the letters and words would overwrite themselves until they dissolved into noise and became unreadable. This is very close to how Oskar paints.
He layers, repaints, erases. Each mark both conceals and reveals. Out of destruction, new images begin to form.
(b. 1992, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia) lives in Prague, Czech Republic
Paula Gogola’s practice embodies a tension between vulnerability and performativity - offering a form of meta-vanity that interrogates contemporary notions of selfhood. Her ongoing interest lies in the porousness of the body, shaped by personal experience and cultural narratives, and also by speculative reimaginings of what it means to be human. Her approach to figuration is informed by a phenomenological inquiry into androgyny, posthumanism, and transnes - rendering interior states through fragmented, often “mutilated” bodies that blur the boundaries between allure and despair.
(b. 1989, Košice, Slovakia) lives in Košice, Slovakia
Kanrec Sakul works with detailed oil paintings, obsessive drawings and raw objects or installations. The artist’s paintings are dominated by a significant interest in experimentation with structures or organic forms. He works purposefully with repetition, geometric shapes or relative perspective, which unfolds in an expressive and absurd color palette. By varying and combining glaze and pasty parts, a Fauvist sensibility and use of color, he builds surreal micro worlds dominated by architectural vistas with an unclear function, period and place of their existence. Sakul offers various totemic objects, biomorphic shapes, interior details, platforms, cages, imaginary ceremonial sites or hints of urban structures unfolding on tiny formats or monumental canvases.