photo Simon Beckmann

Joya: AiR / Celestína Minichová / SVK

“I am an transmedia artist focused on working within the realm of feminist urgencies. My deep interest spills over and extends at the intersection of eco  and xeno urgencies. While exploring these intelectual and linguistic phenomena from various angles I mainly try to "gazexperience"  and comprehend them though performativity, creation of sound-scapes and site-specific environments. I am constantly becoming otherwise together with other creatures of medianatures - here, there and in between with consequences.

My time at Joya: AiR was fullfilled with sharing, learning and horizons-expanding in contemplative, focused and joyfull space. Within a vertical cross section of globaly orientated artists I had the opportunity to peep into, experience and soak in other rich libraries of knowledge. I am grateful both on personal as well as professional level. This beautiful time stays with me.”

Celestína Minichová

Celestína is a Slovak intermedia art student studying for a a bachelor degree at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. She works mainly within the media of site-specific performance art, language and sound as well as installation. Focusing on creating SF, imagining possible futures projecting them to the present times. She works with nature - roots, soil and at the moment stones. In August 2022 she had my first solo exhibition in Florence, Gallery Chiasso Perduto. Currently she is an exchange student at Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Jerusalem, department of Fine Arts. Performances include - Chthuleographies in Belgrade at G12HUB with Marta Jovanović, Earthly Talks in Prague at Petrohradská Collective, YES/NO in Bratislava at A4 with Klára Kusá, Preliatia in Bratislava at RARE with Katarína Poliačiková, collaborative project We (Shall) See at Kunsthalle Bratislava.

Olga Suchanova is Slovakian visual artist and researcher living in London. Olga’s background is in photography, art and science. Her practice is based on experimenting with different mediums such as traditional printmaking, alternative and analogue photography, digital art, photogrammetry and virtual reality.

Olga’s research base is to explore physics through photography. The aim to do  art residencies is to experiment with the photographic image, which is represented by human or inhuman and demonstrates how the invisible can become visible by the usage of the different elements.  Olga builds camera obscuras at the place, and leaving the pinhole cameras to be exposed for days, weeks and months, captures the night sky. Doing so, she is questioning what is the time and how our time is projected through our eyes and undercovers the meaning of the reality and illusion.

At Joya: AiR Olga collaborated with other artist Tere Chad and installed 12 pinhole cameras, made from the beer cans on Tere’s sculpture called “The Re-Englightment.”

Olga Suchanova

Olga Suchanova @ Joya: AiR

Olga Suchanova @ Joya: AiR

Olga Suchanova @ Joya: AiR