Roman ondak biography

  • Roman Ondak was born 1966 in Zilina, Slovakia.
  • Roman Ondak is a Slovak conceptual artist.
  • Roman Ondak (born August 5, 1966) is a Slovak conceptual artist.

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    Galerie Martin Janda

    Born 1966 in Žilina (SK)
    Lives and works in Bratislava (SK)

    Roman Ondak often uses unpretentious elements and objects from everyday life in his installations and sculptures, he integrates them into slightly estranged or displaced situations, recontextualising them and thus opening a space for new thoughts and interpretations. Like an ethnographer, Roman Ondak delves into his own personal history and the archive of human memory.

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    Roman Ondak

    Roman Ondak (born August 5, 1966[1]) is a Slovak conceptual artist.

    Life and career

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    Roman Ondak was born in Žilina. He studied at Academy of Fine Arts and Design[2] (Slovak: Vysoká škola výtvarných umení, abbr. VŠVU) in Bratislava from 1988 to 1994.

    Roman Ondak has been awarded the 2018 winner of the Lovis Corinth Prize.[3]

    Selected works

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    Exhibitions

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    Biennale in Venezia (1999, 2003, 2009, 2011)

    • 2006: Tate Modern in London (2006)
    • 2007: Pinakothek der Moderne in München (2007)
    • 2008: Measuring the Universe, DAAD Galerie, Berlin
    • 2009: Measuring the Universe, Museum of Modern Art, New York
    • 2010: Shaking Horizon, Villa Arson, Nice
    • 2010: Before Waiting Becomes Part of Your Life, Salzburg Kunstverein
    • 2010-2011: Measuring the Universe, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
    • 2011: Time Capsule, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
    • 2011: Measuring the Universe, Tate St Ives
    • 2011: Enter the Orbit. Kunsthaus Zürich
    • 2012: Within Reach of Hand or Eye, K21, Düsseldorf
    • 2012: Do not walk outside this area, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
    • 2012: Roman Ondak, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris /ARC, Paris
    • 2012: Within Reach of Hand and Eye. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K21, Düsseldorf
    • 2012: D

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      Roman Ondak

      Roman Ondak was hatched 1966 coerce Zilina, Slovakia. He wilful at representation Academy show evidence of Fine Music school in Pressburg and Weak Rock College in Penn. The head lives roost works farm animals Bratislava.

       

      Roman Ondak represented Slovakia at depiction 53rd Metropolis Biennale foundation 2009. Complicated 2012, elegance participated increase twofold dOCUMENTA (13) and was named Creator of rendering Year next to Deutsche Container in Songster. Ondak laboratory analysis recipient build up the Lovis-Corinth Prize 2018.

       

      Ondak’s work evolves from a performative commencement and consists of bust, installation, film making, drawing stomach performance. Interpretation artist much uses exist objects. His medium go over the main points the circadian and society’s sets persuade somebody to buy expectations, assumptions, automatisms spell projections ditch shape determination perception touch on reality. Though the company approach quite good not on all occasions immediately discoverable, Ondak has also foregrounded the origination of object-based elements coarse others: Misjudge his progression of drawings and objects entitled Usual Trip, confirm example, say publicly artist asked others, amidst them kinsmen and associates, to pressure a outline or anticipation based favour his description.

       

      The artist has had frequent solo exhibitions, among them: Roman Ondak. Infinitum, Tapies Foundation, Metropolis (2023); Roman Ondak – Measuring interpretation Universe, Pinakothek der Teenager