Marek Kvetán
Born 1976 in Bratislava.
Lives and works in Bratislava.
education
1999-01 Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
Department of Painting, Prof. D. Fischer
1999 Technical University Brno - Faculty of Fine Arts, Czech
Republic
Department of Multimedia-Performance-Video, Prof. Keiko Sei
1995-99 Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
Department of Sculpture, Intermedia Studio of Free
Creativity, Prof. J. Bartusz
1990-94 Secondary School of Applied Arts, Kremnica, Slovakia
solo exhibitions
2009 Proof, Gallery Bastart, Bratislava, Slovakia
2007 Marek Kvetan & Marko Blazo, Siemnes ArtLAB, Wien, Austria
2005 Možnosti automatických opráv (eng. transl. ´Possibilities of
automatic corrections´), Triennale of Contemporary Slovak
Graphic Arts, State Gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Vizualita zachytená v páde…(eng. transl. ´The Visuality
recorded while falling…´), G4, Czech Republic
2004 IDOC Still Life, Slovak Cultural Institute, Vienna, Austria
IDOC Erotic, Gallery Tower, Bratislava, Slovakia
2003 TXT, Gallery Space for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava,
Slovakia
2002 New City, Billboart Gallery Europe, Bratislava, Slovakia
2001 Digital Code 01, V. Löffler Museum, Košice, Slovakia
2000 XXX, Gallery Tatrasoft, Bratislava, Slovakia
XXXX, Gallery MXM, Prague, Czech Republic
1999 Double Game, Gallery Space for Contemporary Arts,
Bratislava, Slovakia
1998 Reprospective, Umelecká Beseda, Bratislava, Slovakia
Read me, University Library, City Library, Library of Academy
of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
(Anti)communication, Palffy Palace, City Gallery of
Bratislava, Slovakia
group exhibitions
2009 LET US BE US, Emil Filla Gallery, Usti nad Labem, Czech
Republic
2008 Prize NG 333, National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic
2008 New Slovak Photography, WAM Design Center, Budapest,
Hungary
2008 Slovak Picture (Anti-Picture) - 20th Century in Slovak Visual
Art, Prague, Czech Republic
2008 Jeune Creaion Slovaque, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris,
France
2008 Private Ligh, Open Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Dig it all, Space Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2008 Me and the Others, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia
Case History, State Gallery in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
2008 Im Herzen Europas, Bad Homburg, Germany
BRA3, GJK, Trnava, Slovakia
2008 Obraz-ovka, Galéria súčasných maďarských umelcov,
Dunajska Streda, Slovakia
2008 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, Verein SOHO IN OTTAKRING, Wien,
Austria
2008 Nový Zlinský Salon 2008, Dom umenia, Zlín, Czech Republic
2008 Vizualita vs. Realita, Považská Art Gallery, Žilina, Slovakia
2008 Four Cities In Motion, Tnavske myto, Bratislava, Slovakia
2008 For a Happier Tomorrov, Tom Christoffersen Gallery,
Copenhagen, Danmark
2007 Slovak Graphics of the 20th Century, GMB, Bratislava,
Slovakia
2007 Prize NG 333, National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic
2007 Still, Futura Gallery, Prague, Czech Republik
2007 Central Europe Revisited, Schloss Esteházy,Eisenstadt,
Austria
2007 Welcome to …, Kressling Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2007 Mutations, MUSA Museum auf Abruf, Wien, Austria
2007 Prague Biennale 3, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech Republik
2007 Mutations, Museo Bilotti, Roma, Italia
2007 Mutations, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
2007 Skuter, Biennale Jung Art, GJK, Trnava, Slovakia
2007 PitoreSKa, Vannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republik
2006 Transffering Slovak Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Novy
Sad, Serbia
2006 Mutations I., Casino – Forum d'art contemporain, Luxemburg
2006 Slovak Graphic Art of 20th Century, State Gallery in Banská
Bystrica, Slovakia
2006 IN(TER)MEDIA(S)RES, Považská Art Gallery, Žilina, Slovakia
2006 Mutations I., Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
2006 Mutations I., Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris,
France
2006 Nadace J. a M. Jelinkových, Veletržní Palace, Prague, Czech
Republik
2006 Frendkörper, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2006 Autopoesis, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2006 Papier, Beeld & Basis, Stedelijk Museum, Aalst, Belgium
2006 Runway, Gallery Space, Bratislava, Slovakia
2006 CENTRAL - New Art from New Europe, UBS, Bratislava,
Slovakia
2006 ViennAfair, Messezentrum Wien, Wien, Austria
2006 Portes d'Europe, Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne, France
2006 Man, Hero, Spirit, Machine, Gallery Medium, Bratislava,
Slovakia
2005 Triennale of Contemporary Slovak Graphic Arts, State Gallery in
Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
2005 New Media Cheb 2005, Cheb, Czech Republic
2005 Market, Old Market Hall, Bratislava, Slovakia
2005 Iconoclash, Spitz Gallery, London, England
2005 Enlargement, Cork Vision Centre, Cork, Ireland
2005 ADD-ON. 20 höhenmeter, Wallensteinplatz, Wien, Austria
2005 CENTRAL - New Art from New Europe, BA CA Kunstforum, Wien,
Austria
2005 Prague Biennale II, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech Republic
2005 ViennAfair, Messezentrum Wien, Wien, Austria
2005 Media screen, Ján Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia
2005 Frendkörper, Synagogue - Center for Contemporary Art, Ján
Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, Slovakia
2005 K4, East - Slovakian Museum, Košice, Slovakia
2005 CENTRAL - New Art from New Europe, Gallery Skuc, Ljubljana,
Slovenia
2005 CENTRAL - New Art from New Europe, Gallery Kloviæevi Dvori,
Zagreb, Kroatien
2005 EGOART Prix, Gallery NOD, Prague, Czech Republic
2004 Digital @ Electronic Graphic, State Gallery in Banská Bystryca,
Slovakia
2004 E.U. Positive, Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany
2004 CENTRAL - New Art from New Europe, Teatrul National, Bucurest,
Romania
2004 CENTRAL - New Art from New Europe, Max Gandolf Library,
Salzburg, Austria
2004 CENTRAL - New Art from New Europe, Steirischer Herbst, Graz,
Austria
2004 Generation Relationship, Považská Art Gallery, Žilina, Slovakia
2004 METRO, Gallery Space for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia
2004 New Photography for Slovakia, Gallery Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
2004 EGOART Prix, Gallery HIT, Bratislava, Slovakia
2004 CWS, Cork Vision Centre, Cork, Ireland
2004 Balkan Consulate Billboards, House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic
2003 Yong Slovak Photography, St. Michael & John’s Temple Bar, Dublin,
Ireland
2003 Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2003 IN OUT, Prague, Czech Republic
2003 Pal Fiction, International festival of Video Art, Gallery Art Factory,
Prague, Czech Republic
2003 "Mam a klam", Open Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2003 Paralle Avantgarden - Gibst es eine „europaische Fotografie“, Art
Space, Vienna, Austria
2003 The Last East European show, Museum of Contemporary Arts,
Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
2003 Stadt in sicht, Kűnstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
2003 Spheres of valency, Palffy Palace, City Gallery of Bratislava,
Slovakia
2003 Balkan Consulate, The Association for Contemporary Art , Graz,
Austria
2003 Bride, Synagogue - Center for Contemporary Art, Trnava, Slovakia
2002 NYBÜVITT, Synagogue - Center for Contemporary Art, Trnava,
Slovakia
2002 Contemporary Slovak Graphic, State Gallery in Banská Bystrica,
Slovakia
2002 Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2002 ART PRIMEUR 2002, CBK, Dordrecht, Netherlands
2002 Upside DOWN, Gallery Space for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava,
Slovakia
2001 “New” Slovak Art 1936 – 2001, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna,
Austria
2001 New Connection, WFC Courtyard Gallery, NY, USA
2001 New Connection, Mirbach Palace, City Gallery of Bratislava,
Slovakia
2001 New Connection, Veletržní Palace, Prague, Czech Republik
2001 The End of the Last Century - Artoteka 90, Sate Gallery in Banská
Bystrica, Slovakia
2001 Action Art 1989-2000, Tatran Gallery, Poprad, Slovakia
2001 Action Art 1989-2000, Nitra´s Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia
2001 Golden Prague - 38 International Television Festival, Prague, Czech
Republic
2000 Real(E)state, Bratislava, Slovakia
2000 Digital male @ Male digital, Gallery Medium, Bratislava, Slovakia
2000 TONAL, Slovak Young Visual Art Prize, Palffy Palace, City Gallery of
Bratislava, Slovakia
2000 Communications, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan
2000 Common Denominator, Mirbach Palace, City Gallery of Bratislava,
Slovakia
2000 …Between…, Skalica, Slovakia
2000 Manipulative Art, Považská Art Gallery, Žilina, Slovakia
1999 Permanent Residency, Gallery Sztuky, Bygoszcz, Poland
1999 Permanent Residency, Tatran Gallery, Poprad, Slovakia
1999 Slovak Art for Free, La Biennale di Venezia, Czechoslovakian
pavilion, Venice, Italy
1999 Space for recapitulation /99-00/, Gallery Space for Contemporary
Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia
1999 Resonance, GMB Mirbach Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
1999 Park of the Future, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1999 Unplanned Connection, Gallery Mánes, Prague, Czech Republic
awards
2008 Laureat - Prize NG 333, National Gallery Prague, Czech
Republic
2007 Finalist - Prize NG 333, National Gallery Prague, Czech
Republic
2003 Grand prix - Contemporary Slovak Graphic Triennial, State
Gallery in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
2000 Finalist - TONAL - Slovak Visual Arts Prize, Bratislava,Slovakia
1998 Finalist - Slovak Young Visual Art Prize, Bratislava, Slovakia