Jaroslav Varga
Born 10th of August 1982, Trebisov Slovakia
Lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic
Education
2010-2014: Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Department of Intermedia, degree: Doctor of Art (Art.D.), gained in June 2014, Dissertation: “Expanded Role of Artist”
2005-2010: Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Department of Intermedia, degree: Master (Mgr.art), gained in June 2010
2000-2005: University of Presov, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, Department of Arts: degree: Master (Mgr.), gained in May 2005
Scholarships
2011: Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria, Doctoral research scholarship (awarded by Ministry of Education of Slovak Republic)
2009: Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, Department of Fine Arts, USA
2007: Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, PL Erazmus Program
Selected Exhibitions
2017
The Hacked Dream, SPZ Gallery Prague
In Someone’s Else Dream, SODA Gallery Bratislava
Art Paris, SODA Gallery selection (with Stano Filko and Lucia Tallova)
Jaro Varga, Gallery Bistro 8, Prague
Laziness, Kulturfabrik Tabačka, Košice
Volta Art Fair, SODA Gallery selection, Basel
In Someone’s Else Dream IV, East Slovak Gallery Kosice (upcoming)
In Someone’s Else Dream III, Ivan Gallery Bucharest (upcoming)
2016
What are we building down there? Bucharest Biennale 7, Bucharest RO
When Artists Speak Truth, The 8th Floor Gallery, New York City, USA
Texture of Time, Flatgallery Bratislava
Slovak State, Slovak National Gallery / Kunsthalle Bratislava
2015
Imagined Communities, Personal Imaginations, Budapest Gallery and the Kiscell Museum, Budapest, HU
LIBRARY 26.10.2015-3.1.2016, Gdanska Galeria Miejska, Gdansk, PL
Life: A User's Manual, Gallery Prozori, Zagreb, Croatia
In the shade they flourish, public art project, Imago Mundi Foundation Krakow, BWA Tarnów, Tarnów, Poland
Mirror and Mask, Soga, Bratislava, SK
Lost Library, Muzeum Contemporary, Slovak National Museum, Betliar, SK
Triennale of Small Object and Drawing, Gallery of Jozef Kollár, Banská Štiavnica, SK
Soft Codes, Museum of Contemporary Art in Wroclaw, PL
Tektonika paměti, Dom umění in Brno, CZ
Private Nationalism, Open Gallery in Bratislava, SK
2014
Tektonika paměti, Gallery of Emil Flla, Ústí nad Labem, CZ
The First Man Was an Artist, Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica, SK
"Was ist Kunst?", Gallery HIT, Bratislava, SK
Plato's third eye, Meetfactory, Prague, CZ
Private Nationalism, Ostrale, Dresden, DE
Private Nationalism, Zsolnay Cultural Quater, Pécs Gallery m21, Pécs, HU
Ptolemaiovy děti, NTK Gallery, Prague, CZ
Situace 50, Pavilon Gallery, Prague, CZ
Private Nationalism, Kunsthalle Kosice, SK
Circular Ruins, French Institute in Prague, MeetFactory Prague, CZ
Private Nationalism, Divus, Prague, CZ
2013
Dysraphic City, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, DE
Open studio, Triangle Arts Association, New York City, USA
Metaphysik der Disziplin, Czech Center, Berlin, DE
Vulnerable Failures, National Art Studio Chang-Dong, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea, Seoul, South Korea
„Katalog Entropii Sztuki“, Gallery Entropia, Wroclaw, Poland
Prague Biennale 6, Prague, CZ
Subterranean Echoes, Center for Art and Urbanism, Berlin, DE
Blind spot, NTK Gallery, Prague, CZ
Panel Story, Bratislava City Gallery, Bratislava, SK
M(i)esto medzi pamäťou a nepamäťou, Turčianska Gallery, Martin, SK
Panel Story, Turčianska Gallery, Martin, SK
2012
The Discovery of Slowness II, Tranzit SK, Bratislava, SK
On Boredom, Kulturfabrik TABAČKA, Košice, SK
At the End of Universe, Berlínskej model, Prague, CZ
WHAT’S HAPPENING THESE DAYS?, Etc.Gallery, Prague, CZ
Delete. Art and Wiping out, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, SK
Master and Disciple 4, Ilona Németh & Jaro Varga, Magma Contemporary Art Space, Sfântu Gheorghe, RO
Zlínsky salón mladých 2012, Dům umění ve Zlíne, CZ
Lost Library, Gallery Heppen Transfer, Warsaw, PL
„My sme podstavec“, Vymenník, Košice, SK
Intervencion 2012, Public art project Trebišov, SK
2011
Eleventh Hour, Gallery FUTURA Prague, CZ
Public Folklore, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AT
Why do I keep reading the same books?, AMT project, Bratislava, SK
MAPY/MAPS, Bratislava City Gallery, Bratislava, SK
LIBRARIANISM, Gallery NTK, Prague, CZ
PRIMS, The Orchard Centre, Sheffield, UK
TWIST- Tuica/Tusovka, 91mQ Art project space, Berlin, DE
2010
“Where do we go from here?”, Secession Vienna, AT
“Der Drang nach Osten”, Gallery HIT Bratislava, SK
Transart Communication- Public Dialog, Komarno, Komarom, SK HU
Startpoint, Gask Gallery, Kutna Hora, CZ
Priestor / Prostor Z(I)LIN(A), Povazská Gallery in Zilina, Krajska Gallery in Zlin, SK,CZ
Exhibition of finalists of Oskar Cepan Award, Gallery Medium, Bratislava, SK
Perfection, Gallery Medium, Bratislava, SK
The Romance of my Young Days, the Future of my Nostalgia, Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica, SK
Open Studio, Karlin Studios, Prague, CZ
Urban Exploration, Open Gallery Bratislava, SK
Touristic Routes, D Raum Museums Quartier, Vienna, AT
2009
Rhetoric of Fiction, Site-specific at Cinema HVIEZDA, Banská Bystrica, SK
Exit Ghost, Gallery Valentina Moncada, Rome, IT
Fantazies of Beginning Documentation, Central Slovakian Gallery Banská Bystrica, SK
BRATISLAVA, Slovak Cultural Institute, Rome , IT
Fantazies of Beginning, Billboard Gallery Europe, Bratislava, SK
2008
Library in Library, Bailey Library, Slippery Rock University, USA
Videokunst vs künstlerische Dokumentation, KOLONI, Dresden, DE
Exhibition of finalists of Oskar Cepan Award, Gallery Medium, Bratislava, SK
ENDING, One-week international art residency at Hotel Kyjev, Bratislava, SK
2007
International Media Art Biennale WRO 07, Wroclaw, PL
SURVIVAL, Public Art Festival in Wroclaw, PL
BEST WEST, Gallery Entropia, PL
BRIDG:ING, Gallery of Ministry of Culture of Slovak Republic, Bratislava, SK
TACTICS OF RESISTANCE X GLOBAL POLICE ACTION, Exhibition Centre Constantin Brancusi, Chisinau, MD
2006
Tourist Route, Street art project, Nitra, SK
Dangerous sequences, Gallery HIT, Bratislava, SK
Lectures/Talks
2016: “Artist as Researcher”, Anglo American University in Prague, CZ
2016: “Artist with an Attitude”, Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest, RO
2015: City Diary - Piotr Bujas, Ewa Łączyńska-Widz, Katarzyna Trzeciak in conversation with Jaro Varga, BWA Tarnów, PL
2015: artist talk Jaro Varga & Edgar Heap of Birds, The 8th Floor Gallery, New York City, USA
2015: “SK/AT” Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava
2015: “Library – artist book”, Ex Libris Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava
2013: Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan, South Korea (artist lecture)
2012: artist talk – exhibition DELETE, Slovak National Gallery Bratislava
2011: ENTER CARTOGRAPHY, Zentrum fur Kunst und Wissenstransfer, Vienna, AT
Publications
2015: Who is playing?, ed. Jaro Varga, Exhibition Catalogue, published by MeetFactory in Prague
2015: 15000 Years of Sameness ed. Jaro Varga & Karina Kottova, Exhibition Catalogue, published by MeetFactory in Prague
2015: Jaro Varga: City Diary, artist book, published in collaboration with Imago Mundi Foundation in Krakow, PL
2014: Revolution without Movement, Exhibition Reader, ed. Jaro Varga, Berit Fischer, Dorota Kenderova, published by Tranzit SK, Gallery HIT in Bratislava
2014: Is the future boring?, ed. Jaro Varga & Dorota Kenderova, published by Gallery Hit in Bratislava
2014: Jaro Varga: Untitled, artist book 2015
Awards
2015: Award for Art in category Young Artist under 35, Awarded by Tatrabanka Foundation in Slovakia
2012: Slovak winner of Henkel Award
2010: Finalist of Oskar Cepan Award (Young Visual Artist Award)
2010: Finalist of Start Point, Gask, Czech Republic
2008: Finalist of Oskar Cepan Award (Young Visual Artist Award)
Art Residencies
2015: Artist in Residence, Imago Mundi Fundation, Krakow, PL
2014: Center for Art and Architecture ZK/U, Berlin, DE
2014: Artist in Residence, Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica, SK
2013: Center for Art and Architecture ZK/U, Berlin, DE
2013: National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, National Art Studio, South Korea
2013: Triangle Art Association, New York City, USA
2013: Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan, South Korea (artist lecture)
2012: Visegrad Artist Residency at Gallery Heppen Transfer, Warsaw, PL
2012: Artist in Residence, AIR Krems, AT
2012: Flow - Festival of conversation for culture and science, Ruse, BG
2011: XEROX - short art residency at Banska Stanica, Banska Stiavnica, SK
2011: ENTER CARTOGRAPHY, Zentrum fur Kunst und Wissenstransfer, Vienna, AT
2010: Art Residency, Gallery Futura, Prague, CZ
2010: Artist in Residence, Museums Quartier 21 Vienna, AT
2010: Flow - Festival of conversation for culture and science, Chisinau, MD
2009: Art Residency, Castel Trebesice, CZ
Selected Curatorial Projects
2017: Dreams & Dramas. Law as Literature, NGBK Berlin (co-curated with Agnieszka Kilian)
2017: The Shell Game, MeetFactory Prague, (co-curated with Lucia Gavulova)
2016: Time after Time, MeetFactory Prague (co-curated with Zuzana Jakalova)
2016: Spirit World Rising: Anežka Hošková, Anders Grønlien, Gallery Kostka Prague
2016: The Portent of Light (co-curated with Lucia Tkacova) Gallery MeetFactory Prague
2016: Fightlessness: Little Warsaw, Gallery MeetFactory Prague
2015: Who is playing? Gallery MeetFactory Prague
2015: 15000 Years of Sameness: Dan Perjovschi & Matěj Smetana (co-curated with Karina Kottova) Gallery MeetFactory, Prague
2014: Revolution without Movement (in collaboration with Berit Fischer and Dorota Kenderova), Galeria HIT & tranzit.sk, Bratislava
2012: On Boredom (with Dorota Kenderova), Tabacka Kulturfabrik, Kosice
2012: The Discovery of Slowness II, (with Dorota Kenderova) tranzit.sk, Bratislava
2011: The Discovery of Slowness I, (with Dorota Kenderova) Tabacka Kulturfabrik, Kosice