Štefan Papčo
(Slovakia, b.1983
)

Štefan Papčo's aims are the contemporary forms of use of alpine landscape, primarily the mountain climbers' community well known for their readiness to willingly enter bordering life-threatening situation. Thanks to this fact, he thinks of climbing society as worth a long term observation. The artist confronts and reviews the forms of landscape, use with the lands history for the past ages. The space illustration of extreme situations and settings from the mountain climbing environment offers the possibility to grasp the space as a text predetermined for recording of important elements in contemporary development of the society that uses the outdoor space. The strategy of typological investigation of the mounting climbing environment is based on formal minimalization of existential experiences, the process interventions and an active climbing experience.

Collaterales, Bienal De La Habana, 2019

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




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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