Petra Feriancová

Petra Feriancová’s practice primarily uses the mediums of photography, sculpture and installation. Often working with archives of people closest to her and other materials, she interprets and re-organises them in a non-linear manner in the pursuit of finding alternative structures for how meaning and matter are constructed and perceived.

The artist lives and works in Bratislava, the Slovak Republic. Feriancová graduated from the Bratislava Institute of Art and Design in 1995, followed by the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, 1996, and L’Accademia delle Belle Arti, Rome, 2002. In 2016, she completed a PhD at the Department of Intermedia and Multimedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, the Slovak Republic. She has twice received ArtVerona’s Level 0 award, in 2015 and 2019, as well as the Oskár Čepan Award in 2010. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Slovak National Gallery, Slovak Republic; GMB Gallery of the City Bratislava, Slovak Republic; AGI Verona Collection, Italy; Fondazione Morra Greco, Italy; Palazzo Collicola Spoleto, Italy; Villa D’Este Tivoli, Italy; Collezione Planeta Palermo, Italy; Art Collection Telekom, Germany; Lawrence Benenson Collection, US; and European Investment Bank EIB, Luxembourg.

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"There is a common urge to work on personal structures which destroy a system somehow, or the common structures that seem like they are not working anymore. It looks to me as quite a universal phenomenon: there’s no system to trust or believe, to really accept as our own, and even that one, at least for me, is based on doubts and many questions."