Štefan Papčo
(Slovakia, b.1983
)

毕业于Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Space Studio, Bratislava, Slovakia。为斯洛伐克当代杰出的年轻艺术家代表,十歳开始接触木凋天天为伍,学院时期师事凋塑家 Jozef Jankovič。作品结合环境深刻动人,利用凋塑语言,让金属、混凝土、木材、硅胶及蜂蜡,展现不同材质混和交织的精彩力道,看似柔软的外表却有自然粗糙、生命沧桑的触感。2011年获纽约布鲁克林 Dumbo Arts Festival 的 Best Open Studio 奖项,2015年获得斯洛伐克 NOVUM Foundation 首奖,2018于Bluerider ART亚洲首个展,作品被斯洛伐克国家艺廊、义大利梅斯纳尔山峰博物馆及重要私人藏家收藏。

Collaterales, Bienal De La Habana, 2019

Psycho-Vertical, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia, 2017/2018

Mountain climbers「登山者」是Papčo 作品的核心概念,「登山」做为创作的来源,代表的意义不只是在登山过程中体验各种偏离日常的身体经验,同时更提供了一种文本,以各种姿态呈现当代社会议题发展、及与过去的历史产生对话及碰撞。巧妙地反转物理思维成为艺术结构的语彙:点、线、面甚至是四维度的时间,都在 Papčo的掌握下。从抽象角度观看身体经验、视觉符号、地图、虚构地平线及各片断所组成的空间象限,动态与静态都隐藏在这些纪录式的凋塑文本中。

自1960-70 年代的欧洲艺术圈Robert Morris 发表的多篇文章对身体、时间与在场的设定,为当代艺术建立了新观念,经过观念艺术(Concept Art)及行为艺术(Performance Art)的浪潮,艺术家们从艺术型态的思考转向文化及历史,创作过程中以观念先行来佈局,这样的艺术基因影响了代代的艺术家。Papčo 所尝试的,是在自然中进行探索活动时,对未知环境摸索、产生冒险感及感受到生命的辽阔,逐步打破领土疆域的试探,思想上嚮往自由及对于精神压迫的反抗。

Štefan Papčo 亚洲首个展 Vertical 「垂直线」,讲述的是一场利用登山活动反映人类纯粹的精神层面的一系列故事。在白盒子中登山,如同电玩般,将虚拟空间切割及在场域中瞬间切换身分动作,登山所扬起的尘土,如同凋刻般塑造山形,登山的每一脚步都像凋刻着山的纹理,试着为生命做出突破,各种山壁如同道道可行走的切面,带领观众通往自由的道路。不同于许多伟大登山者选择的高峰挑战及对山的崇敬感佩,Papčo 尝试很多攀登路线,试图纪录不断推进的时空所产生的土地及社会发展。作品 Along the right edge of the huge Corner 及Left Edge Tower ,充满诗意的命名、表现了艺术家的独到观察及想像力,收纳山嵴的线条及反转量体的空间感,与真实环境连结的个人经验。作品 West Face,山的面孔被挤压在牆面的金属上,苍白低彩度的、具有份量的作品由现成物及抽象空间所构成的凋塑。

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019 Verticality as Fantastic Occupation, curated by Elena Sorokina, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN Bratislava
2019 The Impossible Is Just One of The Possibilities, Le Guern gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2019 Art Cologne, with Juraj Kollár, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2018/19 Cumuloniimbus, with Lucia Papčová, Plusminusnula gallery, Žilina, Slovakia
2018 Vertical, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Sky Gravity / with Roman Ondak, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017/18 Štefan Papčo solo show curated by Elena Sorokina, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia
2016 Up the Middle of the Wall, Galerie mesta Blanska, Blansko, Czech Republic
2016 Cumulations, Galerie moderneho umeni, Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic
2015/16 Štefan Papčo, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava, Slovakia
2015 Cardinality, Regional Gallery in Liberec, Czech Republic
2014 Brokeback Mountain, Young International Artists (YIA art fair) – Hors les Murs, Musée
des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France
2014 Cardinality, Kunsthalle Kosice, Slovakia
2013 YIA #3 (Young International Artists), Paris, France
2013 All good things aim at the same point, ZAHORIAN&co GALLERY, Bratislava, Slovakia
2012 Rock, Galerie Die Aktualität des Schönen…, Liberec, Czech Republic
2010 Moraine, City Gallery of Bratislava, Slovakia
2010 Terra Cognita (with Daniela Krajčová), Nitra Gallery – Bunker, Slovakia
2009 Brokeback Mountain, Pavilon Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2009 Tatra – Version, An ancient power station – LYSE, Florli, Norway
2009 Double Fall, Cyprian Majernik Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2008 Indoor Sunset, Gallery 13M3, Bratislava, Slovakia
2008 Bivouac, an online picture transmission from Lomnický Peak (High Tatras, SK) and
Jossingfjord (NO) via IP camera, climb.sk, stefanpapco.com and dalane-tidende.no
2007 Vertical Holidays, St. John Chapel, Bratislava, Slovakia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 BEESTIG?, Stichting IJsberg,cStadsfestival Damme, Belgium
2020 CAST 2020, CAS | Contemporary Art Space, Zottegem, Belgium
2020 viennacontemporary, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2020 Acquisitions 2002 – 2019, Liptov Gallery of Peter Michal Bohúň, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia
2020 Reserved for the future, exhibition on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the founding of the Orava Gallery, Oravská galéria v Dolnom Kubíne, Slovakia
2020 Where Are the Lions? / Ubi sunt leones?, curated by Eva Riebová, Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Rep.
2020 Artivirals, Maalte Art, Maaltebruggekasteel, Gent, Belgium
2020 Middle European Mysticism, Thomas Erben Gallery, Chelsea, New York
2019 viennacontemporary, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2019 VOLTA Basel, Switzerland, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2019 Lijf & Beeld, Els Wuyts, Kunstencentrum Ten Bogaerde, Koksijde, Belgium
2019 External and Main Memory, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2019 XIII Bienal de la Habana | collateral, Havana, Cuba
2018 Art Taipei, Taiwan, represented by Bluerider ART
2018 viennacontemporary, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2018 Art Cologne, with Jiří David, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Cologne,
Germany
2018 Biennale Gherdeina, curated by Adam Budak, Ortisei, Italy
2018 Vertical, Gkg / Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn, Germany
2018 Migration of Energies 2, Gandy gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017 ART TAIPEI, Bluerider ART, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 SCOPE New York, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, New York, USA
2017 SCOPE represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Basel, Switzerland 2017 Pasce a Evidencie, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia

2017 Arc of Memory, curated by Tereza Jindrová, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Prague, Czech Republic
2016 YIA # 7 (Young International Artists) Paris, France, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2016 Crossroads, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, London, UK
2016 XXL Views of Contemporary Slovak Art, Gask – Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic
2016 SCOPE Basel, Switzerland, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2016 YIA # 6 (Young International Artists) Brussels, Belgium, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2016 ARTEFIERA, Bologna, Italy, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2016 Opening Night: Part II, Chabah Yelmani Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Reason and Defiance, Vychodoslovenska galeria Kosice, Slovakia

2015 YIA ART FAIR #05, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Paris, France
2015 THE SECOND DEATH OF GEORGE MALLORY, Karlin Studios, Prague, Czech Republic
2015 Reconstructions, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2015 Between Democracies 1989 – 2014, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015 RESET 2015, Jozef Kollár Gallery, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
2015 ROMA VERSO EXPO Artisticamente…, Palazzo Vittoriano, Rome, Italy
2014 TWO LANDSCAPES An Image of Slovakia: 19th Century × Contemporary, Slovak
National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 Hast du Bergen geträumt II, Czech centrum Berlin, Germany
2013 Prague Biennale 6, Prague, Czech Republic
2013 Expansive Limits – Daniela Antonelli, Lucas Maddock, and Štefan Papčo, Residency
Unlimited, New York, USA
2012 Jeune Création Européenne, Biennial of Contemporary Art, Klaipeda Exhibition Hall, LIT –
Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany – City Gallery of Bratislava, Slovakia – Art
Exhibition Hall, Pécs, Hungary – Galerie im Traklaus, Salzburg, Austria
2012 Zero Years, Modem Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary
2011 Maps II, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2011 Jeune Création Européenne, Biennial of Contemporary Art, La Fabrique, Paris, France
2010 Finalists of Oskár Čepan Award, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009 1st Danube Biennial, Meulensteen Museum Danubiana, Slovakia
2008 TB Dalane Kunstprosjekt, European City of Culture 2008 – Stavanger, Eigersund, Norway

Selected Collections

MOCAK / Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland
Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium
S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
IKOB | Museum for Contemporary Art, Eupen, Belgium
Voorlinden Museum, Netherlands
Aegidius Collection, Luxembourg / Denmark
Messner Mountain Museum collection, Italy
Museum Voorlinden, The Netherlands
Aegidius Collection, Luxembourg
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Bratislava City Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Trebešice Castle Collection, Czech Republic
Cyprián Majerník Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Liptov Gallery of Peter Michal Bohúň, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia

Awards / Scholarships

2015 Novum Foundation Award, SK
2014 NOVUM foundation, grand prize, Slovakia
2014 Le Vent des Forêts, France
2013 Tatra Bank Foundation Art Award – Young Artist, Slovakia
2013 Artist in residence, Residency Unlimited, New York, USA
2011 Artist in residence, Triangle Arts Association, New York, USA
2011 Best Open Studio, Dumbo Arts festival, New York, USA
2011 DAF Grand Prize 2011, Dumbo Arts festival, New York, USA
2010 Finalist of Oskar Čepan Award, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009 Artist in residence, Florli, Norway
2009 Meulensteen Art Award, Meulensteen Museum, Slovakia
2006 The first prize, Erasmus exhibition, My Neighborhood, Porto, Portugal

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