City Art Fest

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Program

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Actions

Friday 2.10. + Saturday 3.10., 1 p.m. – 7 p.m.

City Park (Sihoť)
nomadSPACE | Traveling gallery: videoart in a van
Artists: Vasil Artamonov & Alex Klyukov & Václav Magid, Pavlína Fichta Čierna, Eva Jiřička, Jana Kapelová, Jaroslav Kyša, Monika Pavlechová
Curator: Eliška Mazalanová

Friday 2.10. + Saturday 3.10., from 2 p.m.

beginning on the bank of River Nitra, next to the bridge on A. Hlinka Avenue
Dušan Krnáč, „Silence Kills“: performance

Saturday 3.10., 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Svätopluk Square, podium
Eja Devečková, „Karaoke“: interactive sound installation

Saturday 3.10., from 1 p.m.

main entrance to the shopping mall Mlyny
Richard Fajnor, „Body Graffiti“: interactive performance - painting graffiti on artist’s back

Saturday 3.10., from 10 a.m.

various locations in the city centre
Veronika Šramatyová, „Clean Job“ - art for money: live painting of Nitra’s scenery

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Artworks

Aktivnagruppa, „FAIL”:  installation in front of Andrej Bagar Theatre, Svätopluk Square

Christian Eisenberger (AT), „Formula 1“: 2 objects on the roundabout on Župné Square + in front of the shopping mall Mlyny

David Fišer (CZ), painting on the wall under the pub Pod Agátmi

Michaela Ivaníková, „Celebrity Wall“, 4 interactive installations with Slovak celebrities; Svätopluk Square + Kupecká Street + At the Synagogue Street + square near Tesco on Štefánik Avenue

Mário Kastelovič: „Slam-a Poetry“: acoustic-spatial installation, shopping mall Mlyny, side entrance

„Anomal Planet“: installation and performance – intervention into diversified biotopes, lake in City Park near bridge on Vodná Street

Martin Keniž, „Cross-Cultural Social Project, London-Nitra“: installation, Štefánik Avenue, beginning of the pedestrian zone

Dušan Krnáč, „Silence Kills“, 4 installations – speech bubbles, bank of River Nitra next to the bridge on A. Hlinka Avenue + corner of  Štúrova Street and Štefánik Avenue + clock in pedestrian zone +  Župné Square

Magdaléna Kuchtová, „Lost Postcard” (28.9.-11.10.): a change in the nocturnal cityscape; Piaristic church of St. Ladislav + Church of the Mother of God on the Calvary

Lukáš Matejka, „StructScan“: videodocumentation and canvases from performance – scanning of facades with canvas, show-window of the shoe store Soňa on the pedestrian zone, Štefánik Avenue 14

Kristián Németh, „Are You Sure?“: posters on  advertisement panels, pedestrian zone

Igor Ondruš, CRAZYMOTHERFUCKER ART (6 sculptures):
1. „Our Future Is Uncertain“: building of the Andrej Bagar Theatre, Svätopluk Square
2. „Unknown Soldier“: park on Svätopluk Square
3. „Our Homes Are Our Graves“: Svätopluk Square
4. „Playground“: Svätopluk Square
5. „2109“: sewer on the crossing from Mostná Street to Svätopluk Square
6. „Human Worm“: Župné Square

Matej Rosmány, „Against the Wind“: installation, square in front of the City Office, Štefánik Avenue 60

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Accompanying events

Friday 2.10., 5 p.m. – 7 p.m., Nitra Gallery, Župné Square 3

Presentation/discussion
Mira Keratová: “Public space. Collectivization or privatization?”

Discussion on the issue of public space since Normalization to the present. In the context of the topic a presentation of public art projects organized by the billboard gallery europe (bg); about the contexts of public space, urban design and quality of life in a high-rise building housing development – exhibition Fantasies of the Beginning. Documentation of actions and interventions by Ján Budaj and his Dočasná spoločnosť intenzívneho prežívania (Interim Society of Intense Experience), the story of a state-owned public space under the socialist regime.

Friday 2.10., 8 p.m. – 10 p.m., Svätopluk Square, podium

Screening of animation films
(in cooperation with Fest Anča)

Saturday 3.10., Svätopluk Square, podium

Concert
18:30-19:30 Kotúče DM (www.kotucedm.sk)
19:45-20:45 Kvety nikotínu (www.kvetynikotinu.com)
21:00-22:00 Nové mapy (www.novemapy.sk)

Friday 2.10., 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. + 2 p.m. – 5 p.m., Nitra Gallery (studio), Župné Square 3

Wafličky workshop
Workshop for pupils. Only for previously signed up groups!
Results of the workshop will be displayed on the Svätopluk Square
During the whole festival: sale of traditional Dutch waffles on the pedestrian zone (www.waflicky.sk)

 

PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE!

free admission to all events

You can buy souvenirs with motifs of the festival in the Nitra Gallery.