Petra Feriancová is a Slovak artist who works with photography, sculpture, and installation.
Background Feriancová was born in 1977 in Bratislava, Slovakia. She studied at the Accademia delle Belle Arti, Rome, Italy and Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia.
In 2010, she was the recipient of the Oscar Capan Award for Young Fine Artists, presented by the FCS Civil Society Foundation. Feriancová represented Slovakia and the Czech Republic at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.
Selected exhibitions
Solo 2024 Filtrating / Self-Renewal / Mimetic Body (with Roberta Zábojník), Old wastewater treatment plant, Prague, CZ 2023 ETERNITY, HER RESPONSIVE BODY AND OTHER STORIES, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, IT 2022 DISTRACTION/ÉLAN/VITAL/ECHO/ALPHA, Gilda Lavia, Rome, IT PORIFERA II, Tranzit.sk, Bratislava, SL ISOLITUDINE, ZACentrale, Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Fondazione Merz, Turin, IT 2021 Seclusion II, Aquapetra, Telese, IT PHYLUM: PORIFERA, Zahorian Van Espen, Prague, CZ BREEDER: KINGDOM AVES, Július Koller Society, Bratislava, SL 2020 SHE WAS UNAWARE OF HER BORDERS./EGO INHABITAT, HDLU, Bacva Gallery, Mestrovic Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia, HR FABVLAE, Santuario di Ercole Vincitore, Villa D'Este, Tivoli, IT 2019 LEBENSWELT, Significant Other, Vienna, AU 2018 KLAVIATURA, VILTIN Gallery, Budapest, HU BECOMING ANIMAL, with Nicolas Lamas, TENDERPIXEL, London, UK 2016 SYSTEMS, INDIVIDUALS AND MEASURING TOOLS, Bòlit Centre d'Art Contemporani, Girona, SP SURVIVALS, RELICS, SOUVENIRS and POLITICS OF LIFE, Apoteka, Dignano, Croatia An exhibition on doubt, Art Museum of the province of Nuoro, Nuoro, Sardinia, IT 2015 Vulnerable yet everlasting, A Check Your Head! project, Viltin Gallery, Off Biennial, Budapest, HU 2014 THINGS THAT HAPPEN, AND THINGS THAT ARE DONE. ON BEGINNINGS AND MATTER, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT 2011 Theory of the City or the Possibilities of an A4, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA Postsriptum to Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, SK
Group
2024
There's More to the Problem, Meta Spatiu, Timisoara, RO Extraction in Peratic Sanctuary, Medium gallery, Bratislava, SL
2023
Lingua Franca, Bratislava City Gallery, Bratislava, SK Another Summer, Center for contemporary Arts, Kurzor, Prague, CZ
2022
Janelas, Bibliothèque Jean Laude, Musée d'art moderne, Saint-Étienne, FR How To Deal With The World, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, DE Do Animals go to Heaven?, Chiesa del Purgatorio, Matera, IT
2021
The Time Has Come to Talk of Many Things, The National gallery, Sofia BL Inventory of Forgotten Knowledge, Budapest Galéria, HU
2020
Keeping In Balance, Works from Art Collection Telekom, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, HU
2019
30 years after, Art Collection Telekom, Carré d'Art, FR
2018
10, Viltin Gallery, Budapest, HU I Made A Line, SODA gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia, SK Useful Photography, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, SL I Am the Mouth, from Art Collection Telekom, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia
2017
Utopian Display: Props and Tools, FM Centro per l'arte contemporanea, Milan, IT Revolving Truth, Symposium, Królikarnia, Warsaw, PL
Selected Bibliography and publications
2019: Petra Feriancová: Vol.IV Species, 2019: Petra Feriancová: Vol. III, Genus, 2019: Petra Feriancová: Vol. II Class, 2013: Petra Feriancová, Index, An Order of Things I, Mousse publishing
References
External links
Official website