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Petra Feriancová

Biography

Born 1977 in Bratislava (former Czechoslovakia)

 

2016

ArtD, AFAD Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia

2002

MA, L’Accademia delle Belle Arti, Rome, Italy

1996

AFAD Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia

1995

Bratislava Institute of Art and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia

Lives and works in Bratislava, the Slovak Republic

Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2025

PETRA FERIANCOVÁ : Collapsed Pillar, ARCO, Madrid, Spain

2024

FILTRATING/ SELF-RENEWAL/ MIMETIC BODY, Old wastewater treatment plant, Prague, Czechoslovakia

2023

ETERNITY, HER RESPONSIVE BODY AND OTHER STORIES,  Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy

2022

DISTRACTION/ÉLAN/VITAL/ECHO/ALPHA, Gilda Lavia, Rome, Italy
PORIFERA II, Tranzit.sk, Bratislava, Slovakia
ISOLITUDINE, ZACentrale, Palermo as part of BAM – Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Fondazione Merz, Italy

2021

Seclusion II, Aquapetra, Telese, IT
DOMAIN:SEA, Zahorian Van Espen, Bratislava, Slovakia
COMPLICITY IN MAKING, Synagogue, Trnava, Slovakia
PHYLUM: PORIFERA, Zahorian Van Espen, Prague, Czechoslovakia
BREEDER: KINGDOM AVES, Július Koller Society, Bratislava, Slovakia

2020

CUM NATURA, 5th edition of Hydrozoa, Centraleuropean gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
EGO IN HABITAT, Gilda Lavia, Rome, Italy
SHE WAS UNAWARE OF HER BORDERS./EGO INHABITAT, HDLU, Bacva Gallery, Mestrovic Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia
FABVLAE, Villa D’Este, Santuario di Ercole Vincitore, Tivoli, Italy

2019

LEBENSWELT, Significant Other, Vienna, Austria
BLU, Gilda Lavia Gallery, Miart, Milano, Italy

2018

PERSONALE, Gilda Lavia, Rome, Italy
KLAVIATURA, VILTIN Gallery, Budapest (for Gallery Weekend Budapest), Hungary
I AM LOSING MY BEAUTY TOGETHER WITH MY INTEREST IN BEAUTIFUL THINGS, Baril, Cluj, Romania
BECOMING ANIMAL, TENDERPIXEL, London, UK

2016

SYSTEMS, INDIVIDUALS AND MEASURING TOOLS, Bòlit Centre d’Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain
SURVIVALS, RELICTS, SOUVENIRS, Apoteka, Dignano, Croatia
AN EXHIBITION ON DOUBT, MAN Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy
POLITICS OF LIFE, (FROM ARCHIVE OF KVĚTA FULIEROVÁ), Apoteka, Vodnjan, Croatia

2015

PETRA FERIANCOVÁ, ArtVerona, Verona, Italy
VULNERABLE, YET EVERLASTING (ARCHIVE OF KVĚTOSLAVA FULIEROVÁ), Viltin Gallery, Off Biennale, Budapest, Hungary

2014

THINGS THAT HAPPEN, AND THINGS THAT ARE DONE. ON BEGINNINGS AND MATTER, Fondazione Morra Greco Napoli, Italy
EVERY DAY HAS ITS NOON, amt _ project, Bratislava, Slovakia

2013

BIRDS, MYTHS and TUSKS, Frame, Frieze London, UK
THE INTRIGUES OF THE GODS ARE BEHIND EVERYTHING, Vojtech Loffler’s Museum, Košice, Slovakia
STILL THE SAME PLACE, Czech and Slovak Pavilion, Giardini, 55th Venice Bienale, Italy
Solo presentations at ARCO, Madrid, Spain

2012

A STUDY OF THE SECONDARY PLAN, DUMB, The House Of Arts, Brno, Czechoslovakia
WEIKENDORF, Kunstraum Weikendorf, Publicart, Austria
A REPORT ON THE TIME SPENDING, Jiri Svestka, Berlin, Germany

2011

POSTSCRIPTUM TO CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
CREATOR 2008, Photolumen Foundation, Budapest, Hungary
THEORY OF A CITY OR THE POSSIBILITIES OF AN A4, International Studio & Curatorial Program, ISCP, New York, USA

2010

TALES AND POEMS, White Fish Tank, Ancona, Italy
REPETITION, CUT, PAIR AND AGAIN, amt _ project, Bratislava, Slovakia

2009

EXIT GHOST, Valentina Moncada Gallery, Rome, Italy
SECLUSION, Parallel.cz, Prague, Czechoslovakia
PYTHAGORAS DESCENT, HIT Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
KING MIDAS HAS DONKEY EARS, Jama10, Ostrava, Czechoslovakia

2008

NATURAL SELECTION, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czechoslovakia
RE:VIEW, Siemens Art_Lab, Vienna, Austria

2007

POLIS, Valentina Moncada Gallery, Rome, Italy

2006

BY THE WAY…, Jiri Svestka, Prague, Czechoslovakia

2002

TRANQUITANIE, MXM Gallery, Prague, Czechoslovakia

2001

GREETINGS FROM LILIPUTTANIA, Valentina Moncada Gallery, Rome, Italy

Group Exhibitions
2025

Sediments of the World, Bratislava City Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Eye Grabbing, Berlínskej model, Praha, Czechoslovakia
Bodies of Time, Consulate General of the Slovak Republic in New York, New York, USA

2024

There’s More to the Problem, Meta Spatiu, Timisoara, Romania
Dilithium, chapter 2: doppelgängers, EXILE, Vienna, Austria
Group Therapy, GMP, organized by Deutche Telekom collection,
MIART, Milano with Gilda Lavia, Italy
Extraction in Peratic Sanctuary, Medium gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2023

Lingua Franca, GMB, Bratislava, Slovakia
Floor is Lava, Denis Kozerawski, Trafó gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Merci Facteur ! Mail Art #6, Janelas Agathe Eristov Genghis Kha, BPS22 – Musée d’art de la Province de Hainaut, Belgium
Another Summer, Center for contemporary Arts, Kurzor, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Floor is Lava, Denis Kozerawski, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia

2022

Janelas, Bibliothèque Jean Laude, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne, (MAMC), France
Keep On Movin’, Stories from Collection Morra Greco, Fondazione Morra Greco, Palazzo Caracciolo di Avellino, Naples, Italy
ISOLITUDINE, ZACentrale, BAM – Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Fondazione Merz, Palermo, Italy
How To Deal With The World, Deutche Telekom Collection, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, Germany
Do Animals go to Heaven?, Collezione Agovino, Chiesa del Purgatorio, Matera, Italy
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Elizabeth Xi Bauer, London, UK

2021

The Time Has Come to Talk of Many Things…from the Art Collection Telekom, Boryana Valchanova, The National gallery, Sofia, BL
Complicity in Making, Trnava Synagogue, Slovakia
The hole is Less than the Sum of its Parts, GMB, Bratislava, Slovakia
Novotvar 2021, GMB, Bratislava, Slovakia
Inventory of Forgotten Knowledge, Flóra Gadó, Budapest Galéria, Hungary
Female Objectivity, a Perspective of Marvai Collection, Castello di Villanterio, Italy

2020

Keeping In Balance, Works from Art Collection Telekom, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Straperetana, Produttori di silenzio, Pereto, Abruzzo-Aquila, Italy
Ecologies of the Ghost Landscape/The Word for World is Forest, Tranzit.sk, Bratislava, Slovakia
History repeats History, Fondazione Zimei, Pescara, Italy

2019

The Milky Way, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
30 Years After, Art Collection Telekom, As part of the Rencontres de la Photographie, Carré d’art contemperain, Musée d’art contemporain de Nimes, France
Architecture display of Peter Bartos exhibition: Environmental Aesthethics, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy
Výťah-Elevator, Temporary Parapet, Bratislava, Slovakia, Slovakia
LISTEN TO US – ARTISTIC INTELLIGENCE, Works of Deutsche Telekom Collection, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Vladimír Havlík: Jako pták, Caezar, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia

2018

Sonda, Tendencies in Conceptual and Post Conceptual Art in SK and CZ, GHMP, Prague City Gallery, Czechoslovakia
10, Viltin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
I Made A Line, SODA gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Useful Photography, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
ZOO of Peter Bartoš, DAMA non profit programme, Turin, Italy
(A.) ORALITY; OR, A GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON DELAY, For Květa Fulierová, Jan Kaps Gallery, Cologne, Germany
I Am the Mouth. Works from Central and Eastern European Artists from Art Collection Telekom, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Hungar

2017

Utopian Display: Props and Tools, FM Centro per l’arte contemporanea, Milano, Italy
Pompei @ Madre», Materia archeologica, MADRE, Napoli, Italy
Revolving Truth, Symposium, Królikarnia / National Museum in Warsaw, Poland
Temporary Encounters – Galerija Galzenica, Galerija Apoteka v Galežnici, Velika Gorica Zagreb, Hungary
PÓŁPRAWDA | HALF–TRUTH, Works by Central and Eastern European Contemporary Artists from Art Collection Telekom, Królikarnia / National Museum in Warsaw, Poland
Mushrooms on the Ruins, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid, Spain
Pyeong Chang Biennale. The Five Moons: Return of the Nameless and Unknown, South Korea, Korea

2016

Animal Mirror, ISCP, NYC, US
Playgrounds, Garage Museum, Moscow, Russia
Sitting Together, Tranzit.sk, Bratislava, Slovakia
Osamelí, GMB, Pálfyho palác, Bratislava, Slovakia
Cities and (Velo)cities, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland
Coated in Pre-Existence, Elisabeth Xi Bauer, The Cob Gallery, London, UK
Cities and (Velo) cities, De Markten, Brussels, Belgium
Miart, amt _ project, Boccanera gallery, Trento, Milano, Italy
On Directing Air, amt _ project, Milano, IT

2015

The Fountainhead, Fondazione Zimei, Pescara, Italy
Homeland, amt _ project, Bratislava, Slovakia
Beyond The Obvious, Viltin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
The Infinite Lawn, Tenderpixel, London, UK
The Soft Codes: Conceptual Tendencies in Slovak art, Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland

2014

Fragile Sense of Hope, ACT Art Collection, Me-Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
Peninsula, Dotland, Berlin, Germany
Fieldwork, Habitats in Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Object and Environment, Galerie Guido Baudach, Berlin, Germany
Empty Pedestal, Fantasmi del’Est Europa, Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, Italy
Interact, East Wing Biennial at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK

2013

Grüße aus Venedig, Hilger Next, Vienna, Austria
ReMap 4, In the Studio, Kunsthalle Athens, Greece
Narrative Structures, Stryx Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Our Creatures, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Birmingham, UK
M(i)esto medzi pamäťou a nepamäťou, Turčianska galéria, Martin, Slovakia
Manual Of Moments, Karlin Studios, Prague, Czechoslovakia

2012

Spomalenie času, The Discovery Of Slowness, Tranzit, Bratislava, Slovakia
Isolation, Meetropa, Berlin, Germany
Family Talk, Futura, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Sometimes, An Exhibition Of Texts, Capetown, South Africa
Collector, Sabot, Cluj Napoca, Romania

2011

Spomalenie času, The Discovery of Slowness, Kulturfabrik Tabačka, Košice, Slovakia
Loophole To Happiness, amt _ project, Bratislava, Slovakia
ReMap 3, Collector, Athens, GR
Dla dzieci i dla dorosłych, BWA WROCLAW, Poland
Afterimage, Meetfactory, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Free Port of Art, CEI Trieste contemporanea, Trieste, Italy
Quiet like a Lake, Unosunove Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
I Fought The X Won And The X Won, National Museum of Fine Arts Valetta, Malta
Flashbulb Memory, Institut Hongrois, Paris, France
Loophole To Happiness, Futura, Prague, CZ
Whatever We Do We Can Not Connect With You, Prague Biennale 5, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Gallery By Night, Studio Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Echo Videotime, Místodržitelský palác, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czechoslovakia
I Fought The X Won And The X Won, Muzeul de Artă Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Diorama, Oifuturo, Rio De Janeiro, Brasil, Brazil
Loophole To Happiness, Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Lodz, Poland

2010

Loophole To Happiness, Trafó House Of Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Polslov, Warszawa, Poland
Planting Ideas Symposium, DIVO Institute, Kolin, Czechoslovakia
Where Do We Go From Here?, Secession Museum, Vienna, Austria
The Exhibition of the Finalists of Oskar Cepan Award, Medium gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Perfection, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Our Time, LCCA, Riga, Latvia
Non totalmente immemori, né completamente nudi, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di
Monfalcone, Monfalone, Italy
Arrivals and Departures Europe, Arrivi e Partenze Europa, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
Romanticism of my past, Future of my nostalgy, Central-Slovakian Gallery, Dominik Skutecky House, Banska Bytrica, Slovakia

2009

Tusovka, New Act, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
Romanticism of my past, Future of my nostalgy, Cinema Hviezda, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Our Time, Pavilhao 28, Lisboa, Portugal
Tusovka, atto II, Neon Campobase, Bologna, Italy

2008

Crisis, From Our Stock, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Video Reflex, Central European Festival Of Contemp. Arts, GJK Synagogue, Trnava, Slovakia
Promenade, Soga, Bratislava, Slovakia
Tropismi, Valentina Moncada Gallery, Rome, Italy
Mediations Biennal, Poznań, Poland
Tina B, Billboard Text Art, Emerging Wor(l)ds, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Video Exchange, Valentina Moncada Gallery, Rome, Italy
7th Bulgarian Biennal of Contemporary Art, Sarah’s Journey. Is it still possible and thus necessary to get lost in the age of google maps?, Varna, Bulgaria
YVVA- Oskár Čepan Award, Exhibition of the Finalists, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
5th International Dada festival, D.I.V.O Institute, Kolín, Czechoslovakia
Micro Narratives- Tentation des petites réalités, Musee d´art moderne de Saint-Etienne, FR
É tardi.. Hotel Kyjev Project, Time´s Up, Bratislava, Slovakia
Article 23, ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2007

Saint-Etienne – Bratislava: un point de vue, Musee d´art moderne de Saint-Etienne, France
Mesto žensk /City of Women, Festival Of Contemp. Arts, Ljubljana, Slovakia
Micro-Narratives, 48th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
Central Europe Revisited, Esterhazy Palace, Eisenstadt, Austria
Accrochage 2007, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Skuter I, Biennale of Young Artists, Poprad, Slovakia
Prague Biennale 3, Glocal & Outsiders: Connecting Cultures in Central Europe, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czechoslovakia
F/Stop 1st International Photography Festival, Leipzig, Germany
Skuter I, Biennale of Young Artists, GJK, Trnava, Slovakia
Evolution de l´Art, Bratislava, Slovakia

2006

Process, International Symposium for the interdisciplinary process in contemporary art, River Town, Prague, Czechoslovakia
F.ck the Guilt, Bastart Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Grand 1st:Cult Media, Bastart Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
New Heroes, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czechoslovakia

2005

IBCA, ´Artists Unto Themselfs´, National Gallery / Kinsky Palace, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Forza Motrice, Officine Trambus, Rome, Italy

2004

Welcome!, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
Mothers, Oxford House, London, UK
Elettricita, Palazzo Comunale, Terni, Italy

2003

Olympia, The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czechoslovakia
The Bold and The Beautiful, Rmit project space, Melbourne, Austria
Utopia, Biblioteca Casanetense, Rome, Italy
Incontro a Roma, Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy

2002

Nitratto d’argento, Studio Lipoli & Lopez, Rome, Italy
Visioni-Visions, MicroMuseum, Palermo, Italy

2001

Prototipi.01, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome, Italy
YIA II, Young International Artists at SantAmbrogio, Rome, Italy
Videolounge, Museo d´arte contemp., Ciampino, Italy

2000

Fuori di qui, Austrian Cultural Institute at Rome, Italy
Femminile altrove, Arti Visive Gallery, Rome, Italy

1999

Cortili aperti (Award), Palazzo Pio V, Rome, Italy

1998

Faunaflora, Tatrasoft gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

Awards & Residencies
2019

Premio Level 0, ArtVerona, Italy

2015

Premio Level 0, ArtVerona, Italy

2011

International Studio & Curatorial Program ISCP, New York, USA

2010

Oskár Čepan Award, Slovakia

Publications
2021

ČS koncept 70. let (CS concept of the 1970s), Fait Gallery, Brno, Czechoslovakia

2020

Ego in Habitat, with Tiago De Abreu Pinto, Gilda Lavia Gallery, Rome, Italy

2019

Petra Feriancová: Vol. IV Species, Archiving Air Press

2015

Petra Feriancová: Vol. I Family, Eros Press

2013

Index, An Order of Things I, Mousse Publishing

Collections
PE

Mario Testino Collection

IT

AGI Verona Collection
Fondazione Morra Greco
Palazzo Collicola Spoleto
Villa D’Este Tivoli
Collezione Planeta Palermo

US

Lawrence Benenson Collection

DE

Art Collection Telekom
Siemens Collection

SK

Slovak National Gallery
GMB Gallery of the City Bratislava

LU

European Investment Bank EIB

Private collections in Europe and North America