PILOT

Lýdia Pribišová, PhD.

born in 1980, in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, is a curator and art historian, lives in Bratislava and Roma. Since 2006 she is Slovak editor of Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition and since 2013 she is project coordinator in tranzit.sk (www.tranzit.org).

Since 2013 she collaborate with Kunsthalle Bratislava, curating discussion series called Lupa. She is member of Slovak AICA, member of Viafarini curatorial board in Milano and member of curatorial board White House Biennial in Athens. In 2007 and 2011 she co-curated Slovak section of Prague Biennale, organised by Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi. In 2007 she co-founded gallery of immaterial art www.evolutiondelart.net. She is contributor in magazines Flash Art, Artribune, Luxflux and Vlna.

In 2013 she obtained PhD degree at the University La Sapienza in Rome, with doctoral thesis under the tutorship of Professor Simonetta Lux La Quadriennale di Roma Dall’Ente autonomo alla Fondazione. Una riflessione sulla trasformazione. Quadriennale of Rome. From Public Body to Foundation. Reflection on transformation. In 2010 she was awarded by the Lemmermann Foundation for this research.

She collaborated with institutions and galleries in various countries:

Museum MAXXI, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Valentina Moncada Gallery, MLAC Museo Laboratorio d’arte Contemporanrea, Exelettrofonica, Gallery Apart, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Brazilian Embassy, Studio Trisorio in Rome and Naples, Viafarini in Milano in Italy; Kunsthalle Athena /Greece/; Museum of Art, Cluj – Napoca /Romania/, Muse Festival, Günter Grass Gallery, Gdansk /Poland/; Larm Gallery, Copenhagen, /Denmark/, OI Futuro, Rio De Janeiro /Brazil/; SIC! Luzern /Switzerland/, Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad /Serbia/ and Kunsthalle Bratislava, Space, Hit Gallery, Medium Gallery, Šamorín synagogue /Slovakia/.

Selected exhibitions and projects:

2015 National Gallery, Tirana, Albania

Curator of show the group show Strategies and Tactics
/Anton Čierny, Pavlína Fichta Čierna, Iva Durkáčová, Oto Hudec, Martin Kochan, Daniela Krajčová, Tamara Moyzes, Ilona Németh, Lucia Nimcová, Tomáš Rafa, Shlomi Yaffe, Anabela Žigová/

2015 tranzit.sk, tržnica/market hall, Bratislava

Curator of the projekt by Kateřina Šedá, Tržnica Bojárt

2014 Gallery Apart, Rome, Italy

Curator of show the group show On the stage
/András Cséfalvay, Ilona Németh, Zuzana Žabková/

2014 HIT Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

Curator of solo show Animalesque Allegories of Mary Zygouri (Greece)

2014 Pisztory palace, Bratislava, Slovakia

Curator of solo show of Luca Trevisani

2013 Kunsthalle Athens, Greece

co/curator with Daily Lazy of the international group show In the studio

/with artists: Loukia Alavanou (GR), Athanasios Argianas (UK/GR), Erik Binder (SK), Clara Broermann (DE), Stephane Calais (FR), Lizzie Calligas (GR),Thomas Chapman (US), Dionisis Christofilogiannis (GR), Michael De Kok (NL), Christina Dimitriadis (GR), Oana Farcas (RO), Shannon Finley (CA), Dimitris Foutris (GR), Torben Giehler (DE), Helidon Gjergji (AL), Stelios Karamanolis (GR), Vassilis P. Karouk (GR), Michalis Katzourakis (GR), Jan Kiefer (SH), John Kleckner (US), Caroline Kryzecki (DE), Marek Kvetan (SK), Daniel Lergon (DE), Sifis Lykakis (GR), Mathieu Mercier (FR), Svätopluk Mikyta (SK), Ilona Nemeth (SK), Yudi Noor (ID), Ilias Papailiakis (GR), Angelo Plessas (GR), Tula Plumi (GR), Vassilis Salpistis (GR), Georgia Sagri (GR), Frank Selby(US), Yorgos Stamkopoulos (GR), Daniel Steegmann (SP/BR), Henning Strassburger (DE), Julia Strauss (RU/DE), Morgane Tschiember (FR), Brent Wadden (CA)/

2013 HIT Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

Curator of solo show of Cesar Meneghetti (Brazil) Beloved ones

2013 Gallery Apart, Rome, Italy

Curator of solo show of Dominik Lang (CZ) Missing part

2013 Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

Curator of show of Gudrun Hasle (Denmark) and Luana Perilli (IT) All for One

2013 Šamorin Synagogue, Šamorín Slovakia

Curator of solo show of Ana Rewakowicz (Canada), The Cloud

2013 Viafarini, Milano, Italy

curator of the international group show There must be order. Eight artists from Central Europe

/with artists Matej Gavula (SK), Anetta Mona Chisa (RO) & Lucia Tkáčová (SK), Lucia Nimcová (SK), Zbyněk Baladrán (CZ), Ľubomír Ďurček (SK), Anna Witt, Eva Jiřička (CZ), Kamen Stojanov (Bulgaria-Austria)/

2012 Ex Elettrofonica, Rome, Italy

curator of the group show Systems & Accidents

/with artists Eva Koťátková (CZ), Pavla Sceránková (SK), Cyril Blažo (SK), Tomáš Džadoň (SK)/

2012 Larm Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

curator of the international group show Circus Crew

/with artists Oana Farcas (RO), Dimitrios Antonitsis (GR), Dionisis Christofilogiannis (GR), Eva Mitala (GR), Christian Jankowski (DE), goldiechiari (IT), Enzo Giordano (IT), Laura Lima (Brazil), Anetta Mona Chisa (RO) & Lucia Tkáčová (SK), András Cséfalvay (SK), Delphine Rist (CH), Peter Callesen (Denmark), Gudrun Hasle (Denmark)/

2011 SPACE, Bratislava, Slovakia

co-curator (with Katarína Slaninová) of the international group show

/with artists Raffaella Crispino (IT), Ibro Hasanović (BiH), Kassaboys (SK), Tomáš Rafa (SK), Nikola Uzunovski (Macedonia), Anna Witt (Austria), Rafani (CZ), Alterazioni video (IT), Kamen Stojanov (Bulgaria-Austria), Goldiechiari (IT)/

2011 Museum MACRO, Rome, Italy

Co-curator of international group show She Devil 05, selection of Katarzyna Kozyra

2011 PragueBiennale, Prague, Czech Republic

Co-curator (with Katarína Slaninová) of Slovak section, Erik Binder, András Cséfalvay, Anna Daučíková, Tomáš Džadoň, Mr. BRA, Marek Kvetan, Richard Fajnor, Pavlína Fichta Čierna, Petra Feriancová, Viktor Frešo, Mira Gáberová, Michal Moravčík, Ilona Németh, Karol Pichler

2011 OI FUTURO, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

curator of the group show Diorama. Survey of Slovak videoart

/with SK artists Erik Binder, Anna Daučíková, Petra Feriancová, Mira Gáberová, Matej Gavula, Vladimír Havrila, Matúš Lányi, Mr. BRA (Marek Kvetán & Richard Fajnor), Ilona Németh, Lucia Nimcová, Karol Pichler, Peter Rónai, Milan Tittel/

2010 Mobilnale, part of Tina B Festival, Prague

Co-curator with Helidon Gjergji of international show

/with artists András Cséfalvay (SK), Alice Schivardi (IT), Dionisis Christofilogiannis (GR), Magda Tóthová (SK) a Michael Strasser (Austria), Artan Shabani (Albania), Peter Barényi & Eja Devečková (SK), Guido Albi Marini (IT), Amanda Browder and performers: Carl Johns & Emily Farrell (Australia), Ján Šipöcz (SK), Lucia Dovičáková & Jozef Tušan (SK), Jana Kapelová - Magdaléna Kuchtová (SK), Petra Feriancová (SK), Pavlína Fichta Čierna & Anton Čierny (SK), Christoph Hoeschele (Austria), Armando Lulaj (Albania), Viktor Frešo (SK)/

2010 MLAC, Rome, Italy

Co-curator with Antonia Alampi of show of Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, How to Make a Revolution

2011 SPACE, Bratislava, Slovakia

Curator of solo show of Donato Piccolo (IT) Meccanismi Reversibili

2008-2009 Studio Trisorio, Rome, Italy

Curator of full gallery program with show of artists Alain Jenzer (CH), Kaspar Bucher (CH), Eleanor and James Avery (Australia), Mr. B.R.A. (Marek Kvetan, Richard Fajnor) (SK), Lucia Romualdi (IT)

2007 Valentina Moncada Gallery, Rome, Italy

Curator of international show Polis

/with artists Petra Feriancová (SK), Michal Moravčík (SK), Kasia Krakowiak (PL)/

2007 Futbal Match of Slovak and Austrian artists, Grenzenkicker, Berg/Bratislava border, Viertelfestival Niederösterreich/

2007 PragueBiennale, Prague, Czech Republic

Co-curator with Juraj Čarný of Slovak section Lemon Bar/with artists Dávid Baffi, Michal Černušák, Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, Mário Chromý, Juraj Dudáš, Richard Fajnor, Viktor Frešo, Miroslava Gáberova, Marian Grolmus, Lukáš Haruštiak, Dorota Kenderová, Marek Kvetan, Matúš Lányi, Stano Masár, Michal Moravčík, Ilona Németh, Vlasta Žáková/;

co-editor of catalogue of Prague Biennale 2007

2006 Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad, Serbia

Curator of international group show Transfer

/with SK artists Erik Binder, Marek Kvetán, Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, Michal Moravčík, Viktor Frešo, Viktor Frešo/

PUBLICATIONS

Books and catalologues:

Lemon Bar. Site Sensitive a Context Specific Art from Slovakia (con Juraj Čarný), in PragueBiennale 3, catalogo della mostra, Giancarlo Politi Editore, Milano 2007. pp. 235-251. ISBN 88-7816-142-X

Mobilnale, in TINA B, catalogo della mostra, 2010, p. 166. ISBN 987-80-904461-2-0

How to Make a Revolution, Catalogo della mostra di Anetta Mona Chisa e Lucia Tkáčová, MLAC, Cura, 2010, Roma, ISBN 978-88-905239-2-2.

We are not as spoilt as our neighbors. Interview with Slávo Krekovič, in ART GUDE EAST, Spike, 2009, pp. 44-45, ISBN 978-3-200-01499-2

Bratislava (con Katarina Slaninová), in ART GUDE EAST, Spike, 2009. pp. 46-62. ISBN 978-3-200-01499-2

Magazines:

FLASH ART CZECH & SLOVAK EDITION

Küba: Journey Against the Current, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. I, no. 1. September – October 2006, pp. 44-46. ISSN 1336 - 9644

Bastart Contemporary, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. I, no. 2. November 2006, pp. 46-47. ISSN 1336 – 9644

Cyril Blažo, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. I, no. 3-4. December 2006 – February 2007, pp. 58-59. ISSN 1336 – 9644

The Oskar Čepan Award 2007, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. II, no. 6. September – November 2007, p. 56. ISSN 1336 – 9644

Paralel Strategies. The interview with Lóránd Hegyi, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. II, no. 7-8., December 2007 – May 2008, pp. 58 - 59. ISSN 1336 – 9644

Mr. B.R.A., in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. II, no. 9., July – October 2008, p. 44. ISSN 1336 – 9644

Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkáčová, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. III, no. 10., November 2008 – February 2009, p. 40 - 41. ISSN 1336 – 9644

Zuzana Hrušková, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. III, no. 11 - 12., March - May 2009, p. 48. ISSN 1336 – 9644

Karol Pichler, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. III, no. 11-12., March - May 2009, p. 49. ISSN: 1336 – 9644

Pavlína Fichta Čierna. Release Notes, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. III, no. 13., June – September 2009, p. 39 - 41. ISSN 1336 – 9644

Eva Krátka, Lýdia Pribišová, Blanka Procházková, How Functions the Philantrophy? On the meaning and the sense of the sponsorship of art in Czech and Slovak Republic, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. IV, no. 14., October - December 2009, p. 28 -31. ISSN 1336 – 9644

Lucia Nimcová. The Interview on What Rested., in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. V, no. 16., January - May 2010, pp. 42 – 45. ISSN 1336 – 9644

Hot Dock, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”,Vol. V, no. 18., December 2010- March 2011, p. 9. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

Max Klinger, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. V, no. 18., December 2010- March 2011, p. 9. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

Artdispečing.sk in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. V, no. 19., December 2010- March 2011, p. 11. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

Skúter III, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. V, no. 19., December 2010- March 2011, p. 57. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

Pavlína Fichta Čierna - Mark Ther in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. VI, no. 21.,

September – November 2011, p. 57. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

Dávid Demjanovič – Jarmila Mitríková, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. VI, no. 21.,

September – November 2011, p. 60. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

Why I do keep reading the same books, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. VI, no. 21.,

September – November 2011, p. 62. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

Zahorian & Co gallery, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. VI No. 22 December 2011 – March 2012, p. 8. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

András Cséfalvay in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. VI No. 22 December 2011 – March 2012, p. 46. ISSN 1336 – 9644

Berlin Biennial. Forget Fear in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. VI No. 23-24, April – August 2012, pp. 15-17. ISSN 1336 – 9644

Design weekend in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. VI No. 25 September – December 2012, p. 8 ISSN 1336 – 9644.

Patrik Illo in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. VI No. 25 September – December 2012, pp. 37-39. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

Dig Gallery in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. VI No. 26 December 2012 – March 2013, p. 12. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

Venice Biennial 2013, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. VI No. 26 December 2012 – March 2013, p. 12. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

Awards SK, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. VI No. 26 December 2012 – March 2013, p. 12. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

K Magazine in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. VI No. 26 December 2012 – March 2013, p. 13. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

Kateřina Šedá. This is not Czech Pavilion, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. VI No. 27 June – September 2013, pp. 34-37. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

Merina Hall 2013 in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. VI No. 28–29 October – December 2013, p. 9. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

Oskar Čepan Award, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. VI No. 28–29 October – December 2013, p. 9. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

Bratislava Design Week in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. VI No. 28–29 October – December 2013, p. 10. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

Lucia Nimcová, in “Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition”, Vol. VI No. 31 December 2013 – March 2014, p. 59. ISSN 1336 – 9644.

VLNA

Josef Dabernig. Panoramas, in Vlna, no. 56, 2013, pp. 28-35. ISSN 1335-969X

Karol Pichler. On visions, pasive presence and active absence, in Vlna, no. 51, 2012, pp. 10-19. ISSN 1335-969X

Rustical Industrial of Ján Vasilko, in Vlna, no. 50, 2012, pp. 14-23. ISSN 1335-969X