Olja Triaška Stefanović
Visual artist / Photographer / Associate professor /
EDUCATION:
2010 - 2017: Doctoral studies, Department of Intermedia and New Media, Academy of Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia (Art. D)
2004 - 2007 Master of Art, Department of Photography and New Media, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia ( Mgr. art )
2000 - 2004: Bachelor degree at the Department of Photography and New Media, Academy of Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia. ( Bc )
PRIZES:
2022 / 2023 Fullbright Scholar - Parsons School of Design / The New School in New York, NY.
2019: Laureate for 2019 Foundation Novum - Grant for contemporary Artist in Bratislava, Slovakia
2017: Laureate of the Mayor's Prize in Bratislava - Grant Bratislava, granted within the international photography competition Slovak Press Photo, Bratislava, Slovakia
2015: Photographer of the year in Slovakia, Prize declared by Central European House of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia
2015: International DAM, Museum of Architecture, Frankfurt, Germany - Architectural Book Award for the best book „Architect Friedrich Weinwurm“
2010: Finalist of 4th Award of National gallery in Prague and group ČEZ for young artist - “Award 333”, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2003: Laureate of the UNESCO – Bursaries for Artists artist in residence program, Centre Art i Natura, Farrera de Pallars. Spain
2002: Laureate of the UNESCO – Bursaries for Artists artist in residence program, Centre Art i Natura, Farrera de Pallars. Spain
COLLECTIONS:
Selection of artwork that are part of the permanent collections in following galleries in Slovakia:
Slovak National Gallery, in collection from 2018, Bratislava, (SVK)
Nitra Gallery, –in collection from 2015, Nitra, (SVK)
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
2023: Brotherhood and Unity, CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA
2021: Photo IS:REAL, Brotherhood and Unity, Tel Aviv, Israel
2021: Brotherhood and Unity, Photon Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2021: Brotherhood and Unity, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2020: Brotherhood and Unity, City Gallery - Mirbach palace, Bratislava, (SVK)
2019: Festival of Architecture and Design - DAAD, SUPERDESIGNSTUDIO, Bratislava, (SVK)
2018: New Bratislava, The Primate's Palace, Slovak Press Photo, Bratislava, (SVK)
2017: As if it never happened, Open Gallery, Bratislava, (SVK)
2016: Relay Race of Youth, House of Culture, Kamnik, Festival - PHOTONIC MOMENTS, Kamnik, Slovenia
2015: Emancipated: The first generation of Women Architects in Slovakia, STU, Faculty of Architecture, Bratislava, (SVK)
2014: Relay Race of Youth, Month of Photography, Z Gallery, Bratislava, (SVK)
2014: This could be a place for nice life , SULUV, Novi Sad, Serbia
2013: This could be a place for nice life, Design Factory, Bratislava, (SVK)
2010: Holes, Slovak Culture Institute, Month of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2010: Pink Shadows, Fiducia gallery, Ostrava Czech Republic
2010: OFF SEASON, Rajko Mamuzić Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
2011: Warnings from the Stage Central European House of Photography, Bratislava, (SVK)
2009: ZONES, Cyprian Majernik Gallery, Bratislava, (SVK)
2009: Pink Shadows, SLOVAK UNION OF VISUAL ARTS, Gallery, Bratislava, (SVK)
2004: For Rent, IZBA gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2022: Humanity, Pistoriho Palac, Bratislava, (SVK)
2022: Archive layers, Danube Festival of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad, Serbia
2021: Hommage á Isaac Bashevis Singer, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, (SVK)
2021: Sugar - Industrial Heritage and Colonialism, <rotor> contemporary, Graz, Austria, collaboration with Ilona Németh, Eastern Sugar project
2021: Windows, systems: Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2020: NO DEMOLITIONS! Forms of Brutalism in Prague, National Gallery, Prague Czech Republic
2020: Contemporary art from Slovakia in the time of pandemic, Virtual exhibition, Slovak Culture Institute, Berlín, Germany
2020: Sucre de l'est / Sugar of the East, La Box / ENSA, Bourges, FR, collaboration with Ilona Németh, Eastern Sugar project
2019: Urban fragments, OKNA gallery, Porto, Portugal
2019: Architect Alexander Skutecký, The Central Slovakian Gallery, Banska Bystrica, (SVK)
2019: Faces of Freedom, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, (SVK)
2019: Memories of the Future, Schemnitz gallery, Banská Štiavnica, (SVK)
2018: Eastern Sugar, KUNSTHALLE, Bratislava, collaboration with Ilona Németh, Bratislava, (SVK)
2018: Architekt Friedrich Weinwurm, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, (SVK)
2017: Nekem Trianon // For me, Trianon - OFF-Biennálé Budapest, Chimera project Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2017: Selection from acquisition 2011 – 2016, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, (SVK)
2016: Social Unit, Ernest Zmetak Gallery, Nove Zámky, (SVK)
2016: Neighbouring, Nomadic Arts Festival ´16: Neighbourhood and Territory, Tranzit.sk, Bratislava, (SVK)
2016: Fear from Unknown, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava, (SVK)
2016: White spaces in Slovak Photography, Leica Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2015: Art at the Age of (Non)emotionality, Danube Art Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
2014: Spätmoderne Slowakei: Gebaute Ideologie, Ringtum Vienna, Austria
2014: Disturbances, EMOP - European Month of Photography Ljubljana, Slovenia
2014: Slovakia country where I live , Youth Gallery – Nitra Gallery, Nitra, (SVK)
2012: DELETE, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, (SVK)
2011: Velocipede, Gallery NTK, Prague, Czech Republic
2002: NYBṺVITT – Furniture in Contemporary art, GJK – Synagogue – Centre of contemporary ART, Trnava, (SVK)
BOOKS:
Brotherhood and Unity, Olja Triaška Stefanović, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava Slovakia, 2020 - ISBN: 978-80-8189-038-3
BRATISLAVA/(UN)PLANNED CITY, Editor: Henrieta Moravčiková, SLOVART, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2020, Slovart - EAN 9788055646961,
EASTERN SUGAR, Ilona Németh, Editors: Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Slovak National Gallery, Stenberg Press, Berlin Germany, 2021, ISBN 978-3-95679-573-2
SHARED CITIES ATLAS, Post-socialist Cities and Active Citizenship in Central Europe, Editor: Helena Dudova, nai010 publishers, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2019 , ISBN 978-94-6208-521-3
AT THE END OF THE ROAD – CREMATORIUM IN BRATISLAVA / Matúš Dulla / Olja Triaška Stefanoviċ. -: Slovart, 2017, ISBN 978-80-556-2985-8
FRIEDRICH WEINWURM : ARCHITEKT / Author Henrieta Moravčíková. - SLOVART, 2014, ISBN 978-80-556-1158-7
ŠTAFETA MLADOSTI /RELAY RACE OF YOUTH: Olja Triaška Stefanovič, 2014 –Selfpublished, 1st edition
MODERNE AND / OR TOTALITARIAN IN ARCHITECTURE IN 20. CENTURY / Author Henrieta Hammer Moravčíková ... SLOVART, 2013. ISBN 978-80-556-1056-6
LECTURES / ARTIST TALKS
2023: Brotherhood and Unity, Photoalliance, San Francsico, USA
2023: Presence of the Part, UMass Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA
2021: Brotherhood and Unity, PHOTO IS:REAL, Tel Aviv, Israel
2021: Brotherhood and Unity, Inside Art, international conference of Contemporary Art, ArtMarket Budapest, Hungary
2021: Eastern Sugar, Book launch, Graz Muzeum, Graz, Austria
2021: Eastern Sugar, Book Launch, Festival of literature, Žilina, Slovakia
2020: „How to make a photobook“ , online ZOOM lecture, Artget gallery, Culture centre Belgrade, Serbia
2020: Brotherhood and Unity, book launch, City Gallery, Mirbach Palace, Bratislava,Slovakia
2020: Presence of the part, Festival of Contemporary Art, TEHLAREN, Liptovský Mikulaš, Slovakia
2019: About PHO BO - PHOTO books, PAPERLUST PHOTO BOOK FEST, Krakow, Poland
2019: What is the monument je, Cinema Úsmev, Košice, (SVK)
2019: MONUMENT, Pechtle Mechtle, STU, Faculty of Architecture, Bratislava, (SVK)
2019: Artist talk, SUPERDESIGNSTUDIO, Festival of Architecture and Design DAAD, Bratislava, (SVK)
2018: Presence of the Past, Slovak season, Lecture at UMPRUM, Prague, Czech Republic
2017: Art in Public Space, Kunsthalle, Bratislava, (SVK)
2015: Artistalk /Kunsthalle Bratislava, (SVK)
2013: Industrial Future, Culture Fabric, Heinburg, Austria
WORKSHOPS:
2021: Master class, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana Slovenia - lector
2020: Master class, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana Slovenia - lector
2020: Local Journal Academy of Arts, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - lector
2019: Local journal, Academy of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia - lector
2017: How to Make a Photo Zine – Photobook. BalkanPhotoFest, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - lector
2016: How to Make a Photo Zine, International photographic festival ORGAN VIDA, Zagreb, Croatia – lector
2013 STAGE-AUDITORIUM-APPLAUSE, Fachhochschule Bielefeld. Germany
2013 - CHAPTER 2 - Starting a New Chapter: Intercultural visual dialog between art students from Slovakia, Finland and Germany – Rostock, Germany - lector
2012 - CHAPTER 1 - Starting a New Chapter: Intercultural visual dialog between art students from Slovakia, Finland and Germany – Banska Štiavnica, (SVK) - lector
JURY:
2021: OFF FESTIVAL AWARD – The best student photography
2018–2020 Art of Fjužn, festival of minorities in Slovakia - Jury for visual art award, Bratislava, Slovakia
2019-2020 Photo journalism Award, Journalism Award – Open Society Foundation, Bratislava, Slovakia
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2019 – Departmental Chair, Department of Photography and New Media, Academy of Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
2019 - Associate professor, Department of Photography and New Media, Academy of Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
2019 – Habilitation , Associate professor of Visual Arts, Academy of Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017 – 2019 – Lecturer /Researcher, Department of Photography and New Media, Academy of Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009 – 2017 – Assistant, Department of Photography and New Media, Academy of Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
COURSES AT HOME INSTITUTION / ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS AND DESIGN BRATISLAVA,SLOVAKIA
Studio of photography and Critical practice – Main artwork consultations: Bc,MA and PhD programme
Creation of photo zines – Course for BC students: Photography and Visual Communications
Creation of Photo books - Course for MA students : Photography and Visual Communications
OVERVIEW OF PROJECT IMPLEMENTATIONS :
2019-2020 : Let’s talk about photography: 30th years of Department of Photography and New Media, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovak Arts Council, Contract Number: 20-143-00740 - Project researcher
2016 - 2018: Ministry of Education, Research grant – KEGA, “Inhabited History: 100 Years of the Modern Architecture in Slovakia” : Contract Number – 003STU-4/2016 (KEGA, 4. Art and Culture Development ) - Co – researcher
2016 – 2018: : Ministry of Education, Research grant – KEGA, „Creation of a photo book. From technology to art and design“, Contract Number – 003VŠVU-4/2016 (KEGA, 4. Art and Culture Development) - Co – researcher
2014: Tatra bank Foundation – More Art programme, Contract Number – 2013vu083, Chapter 2 - Project researcher
2013: Starting a New Chapter: Intercultural visual dialog of Slovakia between art students from Slovakia, Finland and Germany, Contract Number – 13203-1056/BRATISL04, Erasmus International Intensive program - Project researcher
2012: Starting a New Chapter: Intercultural visual dialog of Slovakia between art students from Slovakia, Finland and Germany, Contract Number – 13203-1056/BRATISL04, Erasmus International Intensive program - Project researcheR
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AT FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES
2021: Academy of Fine Arts, Novi Sad, Serbia, Erasmus Virtual teaching mobility
2021: Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Erasmus virtual teaching mobility
2019: The Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland, Erasmus Teaching mobility
2019 - Royal Academy of Arts, Hag, Netherlands, Erasmus teaching mobility
2018: University of Arts - Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade Serbia, Erasmus teaching mobility
2018:Academy of Fine Arts, Cetinje Montenegro, Erasmus teaching mobility
2017 - Royal Academy of Arts, Hag, Netherlands, Erasmus teaching mobility
2016: University of Arts – Faculty of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia, Erasmus teaching mobility
2013: Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, Erasmus teaching mobility
OTHER:
From 2013 - Moderator and author of the Triaska&Cejka_FM, 2 hours live radio talk show with the guest about visual art and culture at RadioFM, Radio and Television Slovakia