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Petra Feriancová

Biography

Born 1977 in Bratislava (former Czechoslovakia)

2016

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

2002

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

1996

AFAD Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, SK

1995

Bratislava Institute of Art and Design, Bratislava, SK

Lives and works in Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Solo Exhibitions
2025

PETRA FERIANCOVÁ : Collapsed Pillar, ARCO, Madrid, SP

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, SK
ISOLITUDINE, ZACentrale, Palermo as part of BAM – Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Fondazione Merz, IT

2021

Seclusion II, Aquapetra, Telese, IT
DOMAIN:SEA, Zahorian Van Espen, Bratislava, SK
COMPLICITY IN MAKING, with Marko Tadic, Synagogue, Trnava, SK
PHYLUM: PORIFERA, Zahorian Van Espen, Prague, CZ
BREEDER: KINGDOM AVES, Július Koller Society, Bratislava, SK

2020

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

2019

LEBENSWELT, Significant Other, Vienna, AT
BLU, with Renata Boero, Gilda Lavia Gallery, Miart, Milano, IT

2018

PERSONALE, Gilda Lavia, Rome, IT
KLAVIATURA, VILTIN Gallery, Budapest (for Gallery Weekend Budapest), HU
I AM LOSING MY BEAUTY TOGETHER WITH MY INTEREST IN BEAUTIFUL THINGS, Baril, Cluj, RO
BECOMING ANIMAL, with Nicolas Lamas, TENDERPIXEL, London, UK

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

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

2011

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

2010

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

2009

EXIT GHOST, with D. Kenderová, J. Varga, Valentina Moncada Gallery, Rome, IT
SECLUSION, Parallel.cz, Prague, CZ
PYTHAGORAS DESCENT, HIT Gallery, Bratislava, SK
KING MIDAS HAS DONKEY EARS, Jama10, Ostrava, CZ

2008

NATURAL SELECTION, Moravian Gallery, Brno, CZ
RE:VIEW, Siemens Art_Lab, Vienna, AT

2007

POLIS, with K. Krakowiak, M. Moravcik, Valentina Moncada Gallery, Rome, IT

2006

BY THE WAY…, with Jesper Alvaer, Jiri Svestka, Prague, CZ

2002

TRANQUITANIE, MXM Gallery, Prague, CZ

2001

GREETINGS FROM LILIPUTTANIA, Valentina Moncada Gallery, Rome, IT

Group Exhibitions
2025

Sediments of the World, Bratislava City Gallery, curated by Naďa Kančevová, Bratislava, SK
Eye Grabbing, with Adéla Matasová and Paula Malinowska, Berlínskej model, Praha, CZ
Bodies of Time, Consulate General of the Slovak Republic in New York, New York, US

2024

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

2023

Lingua Franca, GMB, Bratislava, SK
Floor is Lava, Denis Kozerawski, Trafó gallery, Budapest
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, CZ
Floor is Lava, Denis Kozerawski, Kunsthalle Bratislava

2022

Janelas, Bibliothèque Jean Laude, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne, (MAMC), FR
Keep On Movin’, Stories from Collection Morra Greco, Fondazione Morra Greco, Palazzo Caracciolo di Avellino, Naples, IT
ISOLITUDINE, ZACentrale, BAM – Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Fondazione Merz, Palermo, IT
How To Deal With The World, Deutche Telekom Collection, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, DE
Do Animals go to Heaven?, Collezione Agovino, Chiesa del Purgatorio, Matera, IT
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, with Marko Tadic, Trnava Synagogue, SK
The hole is Less than the Sum of its Parts, GMB, Bratislava, SK
Novotvar 2021, GMB, Bratislava, SK
Inventory of Forgotten Knowledge, Flóra Gadó, Budapest Galéria, HU
Female Objectivity, a Perspective of Marvai Collection, Castello di Villanterio, IT

2020

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2014

Fragile Sense of Hope, ACT Art Collection, Me-Collectors Room, Berlin, DE,
Peninsula, Dotland, Berlin, DE
Fieldwork, Habitats in Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, IR
Object and Environment, Galerie Guido Baudach, Berlin, DE
Empty Pedestal, Fantasmi del’Est Europa, Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, IT
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, GR
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, SK
Manual Of Moments, Karlin Studios, Prague, CZ

2012

Spomalenie času, The Discovery Of Slowness, Tranzit, Bratislava, SK
Isolation, Meetropa, Berlin, DE
Family Talk, Futura, Prague, CZ
Sometimes, An Exhibition Of Texts, Capetown, ZA
Collector, Sabot, Cluj Napoca, RO

2011

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

2010

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

2009

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

2008

Crisis, From Our Stock, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, CZ
Video Reflex, Central European Festival Of Contemp. Arts, GJK Synagogue, Trnava, SK
Promenade, Soga, Bratislava, SK
Tropismi, Valentina Moncada Gallery, Rome, IT
Mediations Biennal, Poznań, PL
Tina B, Billboard Text Art, Emerging Wor(l)ds, Prague, CZ
Video Exchange, Valentina Moncada Gallery, Rome, IT
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, BG
YVVA- Oskár Čepan Award, Exhibition of the Finalists, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, SK
5th International Dada festival, D.I.V.O Institute, Kolín, CZ
Micro Narratives- Tentation des petites réalités, Musee d´art moderne de Saint-Etienne, FR
É tardi.. Hotel Kyjev Project, Time´s Up, Bratislava, SK
Article 23, ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, SL

2007

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

2006

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

2005

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

2004

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

2003

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

2002

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

2001

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

2000

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

1999

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

1998

Faunaflora, with D. Amstutz, Tatrasoft gallery, Bratislava, SK

Awards & Residencies
2019

Premio Level 0, ArtVerona, IT

2015

Premio Level 0, ArtVerona, IT

2011

International Studio & Curatorial Program ISCP, New York, US

2010

Oskár Čepan Award, SK

Publications
2021

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

2020

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

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