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Jury
painter, university teacher (Slovakia)
He studied painting with Professor Mudroch and remained ever faithful to its "classical" position. Since the mid 1970s, he has worked as a teacher at various universities, currently at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica. Hološka is a significant representative of the analytical movement of painting, while its starting points are always reality-based. He is inspired by the world around him - as he himself says: “I have always believed that my feelings and states would always be evoked by very specific places, situations and stimuli. I try to get to know, map and verify them". In addition to painting, he is also intensively dedicated to drawing, having illustrated more than 80 book titles. However, he also reflects on the active art - he is also engaged in publishing activities, besides authoring several professional book titles, he regularly contributes to the periodicals Romboid, Výtvarný život (Fine Art Life), Profil, and other.
curator, writer and art publicist (Czech republic)
Promoter of contemporary art, author of many exhibition and educational projects. Winner of the prestigious Magnesia Litera literary prize for a book on art for children and young people Proč obrazy nepotřebují názvy (Why Paintings Don't Need Names), in 2018 a nominee for the prize for the novel Nebožtík (Dead Man). He runs his own show UM! about the art on the Stream.cz portal and at the same time works as the Head of Education Department at the Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague. The initiator of the lecture series Místa počinu o dejinách českých výstavných priestorov (Places of Action about the History of Czech Exhibition Spaces). Author of the Křeslo pro hosta (Armchair for a Guest) show, which featured the classics of modern Czech art at the Meet Factory in Prague. He has been leading the international educational platform "Máš umělecké střevo?" (“Have You Got an Artistic Gut?") for almost a decade. He is the author of the presentation projects Obrazy pro nevidomé (Paintings for the Blind) and Obrazy u seniorů (Paintings for Seniors) or Věznice: místo pro umění (Prison: A Place for Art).
painter (Hungary)
One of the most important contemporary artists of Hungary. His artworks are characterized by a special artistic language: he works mainly with humour and irony, which he wittily combines with melancholy or banality. The result is an impressive associative persiflage, which formally corresponds to the principles of late postmodernism - oftentimes a monochrome and symbolic image that serves the author to explore the form of painting and its meaning. He works across different media, but "traditional" figural painting is a constant priority of his author's program. He is particularly interested in the "banality" of the daily existence of a man (or an artist). He often works with the visuality of ordinary objects, combining them in unorthodox contexts and thus actually constructing humorous yet apt images of social or moral criticism.
art historian and curator (Austria)
A renowned expert on contemporary art, curator of the Kunsthalle in Krems, Austria. He studied art history at a university in Germany and from 1989 to 1999 he was active as an independent curator in Vienna, where he participated in various projects for several museums, galleries and exhibition premises in the Austrian capital. From 1999 to 2016, he was the main curator and art educator at the Essl Museum, one of the most important private collections of contemporary art in Europe. Since 2017, he has been the curator at Kunsthalle Krems, director of Air - Artists in residence Niederösterreich and since 2019 also the artistic director of KinderKunstLabor in St. Pölten. He is an active art publicist.