BIO / CV

Lenka  L. Lukačovičová

Slovak Republic

Link


mail:         lenka.lukacovic@gmail.com

lukacovicova@vsvu.sk

mobile:    +421/905  816 486

current – freelance artist & head of the studio – Protoatelier at Academy of Fine Arts&Design in bratislava  VSVU/AFAD 


Education:

2014 – 2018 ArtD. degree, Academy of Fine Art and Design, study programme: fine arts
thesis RE:action / RE:(per)formance / RE:creation / RE:activation
„RE:akcia / RE:(per)formancia / RE:aktivácia /RE:kreácia”.
Fotografia, koncept a performancia v 70. a 80. rokoch 20. storočia.
2013  LUCA, Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design, Brussels, Belgium, mentor Ana Torfs
2010 –  2014 Master Degree, Academy of Fine Art and Design, Departmenxqt of Photography and New Media
2007 – 2012  Cultural Studies, Master Degree, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Faculty of Arts, awarded as the best student of the Department for cultural studies

2009   Academy of Fine Arts, New Media Department, Zagreb, Croatia

2006 – 2007  Prague School of Photography

Awards / Grants /Residencies

2022 – The Novum Foundation, laureate https://www.nadacianovum.sk/rocniky/grant-za-rok-2022

2021 – 3. prize, Different Worlds, 2021, PHOTON Gallery
2021-2022 Visual Arts Scholarship, Slovak Arts Council, fpu.sk Slovakia

2020 Visual Arts Scholarship, Nadácia mesta Bratislava, Slovakia
2018 -2019 Visual Arts Scholarship, Slovak Arts Council, fpu.sk Slovakia

2017 3-month working grant from fpu.sk  for residency pilotenkueche.net

2016 3-month stipendium from www.fvu.sk 

2015 Poznan Photo Diploma Award 2015, finalist, Poznan, Poland

2014 Politics, Photography and Dailiness, 2nd prize, Bratislava, Instutute for Modern Slovakia

2013 FOTO ROKA/PHOTO of the YEAR, finalist, Bratislava, Slovakia

2013 Individual grant from saia.sk for a study in Belgium

2012   Book as phenomenum, special award 2012, Brno, Czech Republic,

2011   Fotosiločiary – 3rd prize – photography Home II, Bratislava, Slovakia

Exhibitions

Solo

2021
Antropos/Topos, w. Michal Huba,  Jan Mudroch’s Gallery of Zahorie, Senica

2020

SNAP&GO, spol. Viktor Šelesták, New Platform Gallery / DK Zrkadlový háj, Bratislava

(non)decisive moments, The Gallery of A. Bazovský, Trenčín, Slovakia

(non)decisive moments, Gallery FIDUCIA, Ostrava, Czech. rep.

Common Sense, Galerie XY, Olomouc, Czech rep.


2020
ARTA Piešťany, vitrínky, Pozor(o)vanie(o) akto(u)mením, curator Tomáš Werner 
Galerie XY Common Sense Krehkosť bytia Vitrína Deniska, Olomouc, Czech Republic, curator Monika Beková 

2019 
EQO Biblia. Disney. Porno. Máš to za jedno. / Bible. Disney. Porn. You got it in one. 

2018 
TIC Galerie, Brno, Czech Republic, curator Ivana Hrončeková 
FAVU Galerie, Brno, Czech Republic, with Diana Cencer Garafová, curator Marianna Brinzová Galéria MEDIUM, curator Zora Rusinová, link >click< 

2017 
“Situations which were if they occurred as Yesterday”, Kunstraum PING•PONG,curator Marcel Noack, Leipzig, Germany 
2016 – 2017 Red Book, Nitra Gallery,  curator Simona Bérešová, Slovakia 

2016 Grey Book, Jan Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, Synagogue – Center of Contemporary Art, curator Simona Bérešová, Slovakia 
“RE:akce” /RE:action, curator Barbora Ciprová, Galerie Cyril, Prostějov, Czech Republic 
“RE:exposition”, Slovak Institute, Moscow, Russia 

2015 
“Šedá kniha”/Grey Book,  curator Simona Bérešová, OFF Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia 
Quo vadis,  curator Simona Bérešová, Slovak Institute, Warsaw, Poland “Šedá kniha”/Grey Book, miniART Gallery, Bratislava 2014 RE:Photography, see on amt_project, curator Luboš Lehocký, Bratislava, Slovakia   

Selected Group

2021

FUTURE NOW, Bonfire AIR@SET space London, https://www.artrabbit.com/events/future-now-set-united-kingdom

OFF GRID – INDEPENDENT FOTO FESTIVAL WIEN 2021 08.-12.09.2021 More: https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000129445580/foto-festival-off-grid-in-wien-kreta-speeddating-und-fortuna

Festival DOM, Wild Fruit, 3. 9. – 18. 9. 2021, Pisztoryho Palace, Bratislava https://festivaldom.com/dom-2021-wild-fruit/

2021-2020
Dokument 2020, GMAB, Trenčín, Slovakia


2020
Smoke&Mirrors, Gallery Medium, The Department of Photography and New Media,AFAD Bratislava, Slovakia


2017 
What did you expect?Pilotenkueche, Leipzig, Germany “Salon Similde Therapeutics”, POP-UP Show, Salon Similde/KULTURNY DOM LIPSK, Leipzig, with Artists / Ali GloverHwi HahmMorgan Buck, Romain Tallet & Zishi HanEx/position, curator M. Brinzová, Industra Art, Brno, Czech Republic 
2016 
Subtílnosti, DOT Contemporary Art Gallery, curator Ľuboš Lehocký, Bratislava, Slovakia 
Das beste was wir zu Hause haben, Slovak Institute, Berlin, European Month of Photography, Germany 
Department of Photography and New Media AFAD in Bratislava 2011 – 2016, Galerie 4, Cheb, Czech Republic 
Poznan Photo Diploma Award, Maison de la Photographie, Lilles, France

2015 
Paratissima Skopje, Macedonia 
OFF Festival Bratislava, Slovakia
2014
ROZMANITOSŤ NUTNÁ/ VŠVU Model, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia 
KAUNAS PHOTO festival projection, Kaunas, Lithuania

2013     
The FWD festival, LUCA, Brussels, Belgium 
Povazska galeria umenia, KE-BA-BB 13 curated by Mira Sikorová, Roman Popelár, Žilina, Slovakia 
Východoslovenská galéria,  A YOUTHFUL MEDIUM III.,Košice, Slovakia 

2011     

Photogallery Zlín, Azbestové prázdniny, Czech Republik 

2009     

exchange students of Fine Art Academy in Zagreb, cycle Intimity and Locality Hygiene with video performance   

Festivals, Symposiums 

2017 
A part of Festival DOM, »YOU ARE HERE«, curated by Marianna Brinzová&Martina Ivičič Bratislava https://festivaldom.com/umelci-4/ 

Hala Symposium 2016 http://www.halasympozium.sk/ 

Publications, critics 

2018 

FOOTNOTES on art http://footnotesonart.com/more.php?id=76&year=2018 BLOK Magazine http://blokmagazine.com/situations-as-though-they-took-place-yesterday-by-lenka-l-lukacovicova-at-galerie-tic/ 

2017 

EMoP, European Month of Photography catalogue, Berlin page 76. FOTONOVINY Nr.39/17, p. 6, Online http://www.sedf.sk/images/stories/Files/PDF/Fotonoviny/fotonoviny39.pdf 
Festival DOM catalogue ONLINE https://festivaldom.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/katalog_final.pdf 

2016 
.tyzden http://www.tyzden.sk/kultura/35671/vazenkyne-a-sliapanie-po-hlavach/ 
Subtílnosti v DOT Gallery http://artalk.cz/2016/04/04/ts-subtilnosti/
Photorevue about my project “Šedá kniha” http://www.photorevue.com/phprs/view.php?nazevclanku=offfestival-bratislava-2015&cisloclanku=2016010003  

2014 
EJMAP, European Journal Of Media, Art & Photography nr. 2/2014   pdf ONLINE https://ejmap.sk/wp-content/uploads/Lenka-Lukacovicova_Re-Photography.pdf SME.sk In http://kultura.sme.sk/c/7182277/hole-steny-tupe-svetlo-hlad-po-zmysle-ked-su-galerie-prazdne.html 

2013 
presentation see on  casopis FOTO The Word Magazine / online http://thewordmagazine.com/culture/belgiums-photography-graduates-lenka-lukacovicova/ 
Inspire Magazine,  No 67, jar. 2013, In: Ďakujeme GALLERIA CVERNOVKA Príbeh jedného magického Priestoru, p. 14 (architecture)   

Organizationall, pedagogic and creative activities

From 2019 assistant teacher on Academy of Fine Arts and Design


2017 lecturer, TIC Galerie, lecturer, workshop for B&W Photography 
2013-2016 lecturer for Photoacademy  
2015  Nočné laboratórium, Nitrianska galéria, Nitra, lecturer, coop with Marko Horban 
2014 SNACKS, CC Centrum, Bratislava, photo exhibition – Atelier Laboratory of Photography ALF, exhibition concept together with Ľuboš Lehocký 

Workshops 
2012     Identity, East Slovak Museum, Košice, lecturer Dita Pepe, Peter Kalmus Magic Country,Banska Stiavnica, lecturer Jan Pohribný 
2011    Art and Culture Exchange, Ishoj Ungdomsskolen, Copenhagen, Denmark Documentary workshop, Lom nad Rimavicou, Slovakia, lecturer Jindrich Streit 
2011     Workshop BAUHAUS, Design Factory Bratislava, lecturer Gordon Watkinson 
2007    Summer School of Photography, Liptovsky Mikulas, Document, lecturer Paivi Eronen 
2005    Summer School of Photography, Poprad, Town Architecture, lecturer John Darwell 
2004  Summer School of Photography, Poprad, lecturer Robert Kočan