MeetFactory, o. p. s.
Ke Sklárně 3213/15
150 00 Praha 5
GPS:
50.053653
14.408441
Opening hours:
13:00 do 20:00 + based on evening program
Masha Kovtun (b.1993, Dnipro, Ukraine) graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in the painting studio of Jiří Černický and Michal Novotný at the Prague UMPRUM, where she finished her master’s studies in the studio of Fine Arts III under Michal Pěchouček and Dominik Gajarský. She also spent a study internship at the Angewandte in Vienna (Henning Bohl painting studio). In Ukraine, where Kovtun comes from, she earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture at PGASA. She works in the medium of an installation consisting of painting, video, sculpture and performance with an emphasis on the mutual understanding of nostalgia with melancholy and the search for one’s own identity, determined by the specificity of the situation of an immigrant living in Prague for a long time. Her work relates to the theme of home in the broadest sense of the word, as a loss of intimacy and security in a world based on the endless flow of a present becoming rapidly obsolete.
EDUCATION
2024 AAAD in Prague, studio of intermedia, Michal Pechouček and Dominik Gajarský (CZ)
2020 Angewandte in Vienna, painting studio of Henning Bohl (AT)
2019 AAAD in Prague, studio of visiting teacher, Justin Fritzpatrik and Slava Sobotovičová (CZ)
2019 AAAD in Prague, studio of sculpture, Dominik Lang and Evá Kotatková (CZ)
2017 AAAD in Prague, painting studio of Jiří Černický and Michal Novotný (CZ)
2015 PGASA architecture studio, Dnipro, Ukraine (UA)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Serenade of Shadows, w/ Olga Krykun, 427 Gallery, Riga (LV)
2022 Without You, PAF festival, Vertigo, Olomouc (CZ)
2021 The Beautiful Far Away, Berlinskej Model, Prague (CZ)
2020 Evroremont, City Surfer Office Gallery, Prague (CZ)
2019 What Would Flower Say w/ Klara Jakesova, Berlinskej model, Prague (CZ)
2019 Cold Prey, Underground Flower, Lubov Gallery, New York (USA)
Date of residency: 01.08. – 31.12.2024