Petra Feriancová

Petra Feriancová (b 1977 Bratislava, Slovakia) lives and works in Bratislava, SK and Milan, IT. She was accepted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, SK, which she left for the Accademia delle Belle Arti, Roma, IT, graduating in 2003. She holds a PhD since 2016 from the Department of Intermedia and Multimedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, SK.

In 2013, she represented Slovakia and the Czech Republic at the 55th Biennial of Venice with the project titled An Order of Things. In 2011 she was a resident at ISCP, New York, US, and in 2010, she was awarded the Oskar Cepan Prize for young visual artists organised by the FCS Foundation for a Civil Society.

Selected solo exhibitions include personale, Gilda Lavia, Rome, IT (2018); Artissima, duo presentation with Pamela Diamante, Gilda Lavia Gallery, Turin, IT; Klaviatura, Viltin Gallery, Budapest, HU; I Am Losing My Beauty Together With My Interest in Beautiful Things, Baril, Cluj, RO; Becoming Animal, Tenderpixel, London, UK; Systems, Individuals and Measuring Tools, Bòlit Centre d’Art Contemporani, Girona, SP; Survivals, Relics, Souvenirs, Apoteka, Dignano, Croatia, HR; An Exhibition on Doubt, MAN_Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, IT; Politics of Life, (from the Archive of Kveta Fulierová), amt _ project, Bratislava, SK (all 2016); ArtVerona, Verona, IT; Vulnerable, Yet Everlasting, Viltin Gallery, OFF-Biennale Budapest, HU (2015); Things that Happen, and Things that are Done. On Beginnings and Matter, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT (2014); Every Day has a Noon, amt_project, Bratislava, SK (2014); Birds, Myths and Tusks, Frieze Frame Section, London, UK (2013); Still the Same Place, An Order of Things (with Zbyněk Baladrán), Czech and Slovak Pavilion, Venice Biennale, IT (2013); ARCO, Madrid, SP (2013); A Study of the Secondary Plan, Dumb, The House Of Arts, Brno, CZ (2012); A Report on the Time Spending, Jiri Svestka, Berlin, DE (2012); Postsriptum to Childe Harold’s Pilgrimge, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, SK (2011) and Theory of a City or the Possibilities of an A4, ISCP, New York, US (2011).

Selected group exhibitions from recent years include Sonda, Tendencies in Conceptual and Post Conceptual Art in SK and CZ, GHMP, Prague City Gallery, CZ (2018/2019); Useful Photography. Photography in Contemporary Slovak Art, Slovak National Gallery, Bralistalva, SK (2018/2019); I Am the Mouth. Works from Central and Eastern European Artists from Art Collection Telekom, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, HR (2018); Utopian Display: Props and Tools, FM Centro per l’arte contemporanea, Milano, IT; Pompei @ Madre, Materia archeologica, MADRE, Naples, IT; Revolving Truth, Symposium, Królikarnia / National Museum in Warsaw, PL; Temporary Encounters, Galerija Galzenica, Galerija Apoteka, Galežnici, Velika Gorica Zagreb, HR; PÓŁPRAWDA | HALF–TRUTH, Królikarnia / National Museum in Warsaw, PL; Mushrooms on the Ruins, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid, ES; Július Koller Symposium, MUMOK, Vienna AT; Pyeong Chang Biennale. The Five Moons: Return of the Nameless and Unknown, KR (all 2017); Playgrounds, Garage Museum, Moscow, RU; Sitting Together, Tranzit.sk, Bratislava, SK (curated by Zsuzsa László); Coated in Pre-Existence, Elisabeth Xi Bauer, The Cob Gallery, London, UK; Cities and (Velo) Cities, De Markten, Brussels, BE; Miart, amt _ project and On Directing Air, amt _ project, Milano, IT (all 2016).