Nikola Balberčáková & Markéta Slaná

NIKOLA BALBERČÁKOVÁ

Nikola Balberčáková holds a BA from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and a masters degree from UMPRUM Academy in Prague, she creates within the range of performance art, video and spatial installations. In her practice, she weaves various methods of narration using cinematography, storytelling, honesty and irony to create a specific language for emotional landscapes reflecting today’s society. She spotlights many non-prevailing identities; hyperbolized, affective, naive or nerd characters which are creating fiction and reconstructing dominant scenarios. By using fragments of pop culture, the future and the ancient or a cliché as a possible strategy to disconnect from certain stereotypical roles and to highlight their possible emancipating, anarchistic or deconstructive potential within power structures.

MARKÉTA SLANÁ

Markéta Slaná is a multidisciplinary artist whose work navigates the liminal spaces between the grotesque and the sublime, post-ironic detachment, and the enigmatic terrain of digital mysticism. Her practice centered in performance and installation, delves into the rhythms of contemporary life, where feelings of dissociation, the numbing cadence of doomscrolling and the search for meaning converge. Slaná simultaneously embraces the absurdity and mundanity of a hyperconnected yet disconnected world, offering a nuanced reflection on the complexities of modern existence where the search for meaning, success and connection becomes both – a game and a deeply felt struggle.