We are pleased to welcome our next artist in residence, Eliska Kovacikova, who will stay with us for two weeks, focusing on her artistic research. Our residency programme offers the artist the time and space to work on their practice in a quiet and peaceful rural setting.
Eliska Kovacikova is a Slovakian-born, Stockholm-based visual artist dealing with spatial analysis and the layers of urban landscape environments. She holds a BA in printmaking from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava and has studied in Finland, Lithuania, Russia, and at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Her work has been exhibited in Sweden and internationally, in both solo and group exhibitions as well as public installations, furthermore she has received several local and international grants.
Kovacikova’s work particularly investigates underground and protective-like spaces, where the body’s relationship to environments with physical constraints is central. Her work often takes the form of large-scale site-specific installations using unconventional materials, where she combines blackness with large scale, and two-dimensionality with spatiality.
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