B I O G R A P H Y
Selected Solo shows
27.08.2022 - POST VINTAGE: K Contemporary Gallery Denver, US
28.05.2022 - HLAVA: Wanrooij Gallery Amsterdam, NL
01.05.2021 - Family Vintage: Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava SK 13.03.2021 - Birth of Self and the Complexity of Ego: K contemporary, Denver USA 10.05.2019 - Mirorring Me: FMOPA Florida Museum of Photographic Art Tampa, USA 06.09.2018 - That’s What I Call a Concept: DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ 11.06.2015 - Dokoupil - Freso: Kunsthalle Košice, SK
12.01.2014 - Park Me: Cotilla Gallery Fort Lauderdale Miami, USA
17.01.2012 - Connection: Eastern Slovakian Gallery, Košice, SK
08.09.2010 - Something About ART: Galerie U Dobrého pastýře, Brno, CZ
22.10.2009 - Viktor Freso in Chicago: Open concept gallery, Grand Rapids, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
10.11.2022 - Czechoslovenia: City Gallery Ptuj, SL
04.11.2022 - Callart1: MWW Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, PL
09.11.2021 - Great Expectations: DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ
13.10.2021 - Unique Stuffle: VUNU Gallery Košice, SK
24.09.2021 - Hybrid – IN: Galeria BWA Wrocław Główny, PL
20.08.2021 - Bohemiae Rosa: National Gallery Kvadrat 500, Sofia, BG
29.07.2021 - Action Everything: City Gallery Bratislava, SK
19.12.2020 - AS OF NOW III: K Contemporary Denver, USA
24.10.2019 - Sculpture by the Sea: Sydney, AU
17.10.2019 - Museum of Now Berlin: Germany, DE
05.10.2019 - Nuit BLanche: Paris, FR
06.09.2019 - City Mejkap: Gallery Klatovy/Klenova, CZ
02.07.2019 - Traveling to the End: MMCA, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR 18.04.2019 - Signal the story of post conceptual Art in Slovakia: Ludwig Museum Budapest, HU 12.04.2019 - Bienal de la Habana 2019: Havana, CU
11.12.2018 - PROBE: Slovak Post-conceptual Art. City Gallery Prague, CZ
29.11.2018 - OBJECTive: Kunsthalle Bratislava, SK
01.09.2018 - Monumenta: Leipzig, DE
13.06.2018 - Bakelit: Slovak Contemporary Art, Alkatohaz City Gallery Miskolc, HU
19.01.2018 - Pretty soon if this up im going to have enevelop the entire universe: Gdańsk City Gallery, PL 17.08.2017 - Escape Route: Rooster Gallery, Vilnius, LT
10.07.2017 - Nord ART: The Kunstwerk Carshüte, DE
16.06.2016 - Gods Own Country: Yorkshire Festival, UK
11.06.2016 - Transitory People: Parco D’Arte Quarelli, Roccverano, IT
17.12.2015 - Reversed: MSUV, Museum Of Contemporary Art Of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, RS
23.03.2015 - The Soft Codes: Wrocław Contemporary Art Museum, PL
09.11.2012 - The Journey to St. Petersburg: Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
30.10.2012 - The Real Emotions: Muzeul Naţional de Artă Cluj, RO
24.03.2012 - Zéró évek: Modern és Kortárs Művészeti Központ, Debrecen, HUN
20.09.2011 - Daisies and Clones: The Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, SK
03.06.2010 - Kas ir čechu maksla: Kulturas centra Ilgumciems, Riga, LT
25.05.2010 - Transgression,Videotage: Asia’s New Media Art Collective Since, Hong Kong, CN 25.02.2010 - Formate der Transformation 89-09: Museum auf Abruf, Vienna, AT
05.02.2009 - Contact: Contemporay Norwieg and Slovak Art, Oslo, NO
17.10.2008 - 1960 --> present time: Slovak art + Czech hosts, The City Gallery, Prague, CZ
06.07.2008 - Im Herzen Europas: Badhomburg, DE
03.06.2008 - Internationa Triennale of Contemporary Art: The National Gallery in Prague, CZ
27.05.2007 - Praguebiennale 3: Prague, CZ
03.05.2007 - HDP: The City Gallery, Prague, CZ
20.10.2006 - Transfer: Muzej savremene umenosti Vojvodine, Novi Sad, RS
21.09.2006 - Autobiographies: Secession Haus, Vienna, AT
20.09.2006 - For some seeds the meal is the end of the journey: Tranzit, Bratislava, SK
08.05.2006 - Air Cruiser: Forumstatpark, Graz, AT
26.05.2005 - Praguebiennale 2: Prague, CZ
14.05.2005 - Blaspheme me: Utopiebaustelle Theaterplatz: Wiemar, DE
15.11.2004 - Four Roses: Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, PL
27.03.2004 - European media festival: Osnabrueck, DE
20.03.2004 - New Media Art Festival: Bangkok, TH
Viktor Frešo studied in Bratislava at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and in Prague at the Academy of Fine Arts where he graduated and received his diploma in 2003. Frešo belongs to the most remarkable figures of the contemporary art after the year 2000 in the region of the former Czechoslovakia. His work and overall approach to art is rather untypical but at the same time they reflect the situation in the society and culture. The artist creates sophisticated concepts and projects presenting them as seemingly simple closed “Pieces of art”. He is often critical in his works and aggressively expresses his contempt of the art scene itself and its processes but with a light, humorous and playful undertone. One of the most fascinating elements of his creation is the seeming counterpoint of emphasis on huge, grandiose EGO connected with a Gesture in combina- tion with disarming self-ironic humility. His ability to reveal dark sides of his soul or stumbles and throw them to the world regardless of consequences shift the author ́s concepts to broader possibilities of perception of the reasons of his work.
Viktor Frešo is interested in direct, efficient, visual tools. He prefers short interval between action and reaction and conditions of quick recognition of relations between the expres- sing “me“ and the indication “he“. Therefore the form of a brief slogan suits him. Whether he intervenes into public space or exhibits in galleries he takes care that an immediate creative action shows itself in the execution – a GESTURE. Another very typical aspect is the interference into the world of media where without any respect he publicly presents his radical and often despising opinions of the society and art scene which might irritate and provoke a discussion about what is and what is not acceptable as contemporary art or just a self-centred affect of the artist. Recently among other things the author devotes himself to the art of sculpture and painting.
V I K T O R
F R E S O
Born in 1984 in Bratislava, Slovaquia.
Leaves and works in Bratislava (Slovaquia) and Prague (Tcheque Republic).
