ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN – contemporary art gallery Bratislava Praha

Štefan PAPČO (1983, Slovakia)

Education

2019 – 2020 HISK Laureate, Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium
2001 – 2007 Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Space Studio, Bratislava, Slovakia
2005 – 2006 term student stay, Facultat de Belles Arts, Barcelona, Spain
2004 – 2005 term student stay, Faculdade de Belles Artes, Porto, Portugal

Workshops and Symposiums

2011 Pinki, Viennafair, Vienna, Austria
2008 TB Dalane Kunstprosjekt, Stavanger 2008 (European City of Culture), Norway
2008 Dimensions of contemporary sculpture, Bratislava, Slovakia

Awards / Scholarships

2014 NOVUM foundation, Grand Prize, Slovakia
2014 Le Vent des Forêts, France
2013 Tatra Bank Foundation Art Award – Young Artist, Slovakia
2013 Artist in Residence, Residency Unlimited, New York, USA
2011 Artist in Residence, Triangle Arts Association, New York, USA
2011 Best Open Studio, Dumbo Arts festival, New York, USA
2011 DAF Grand Prize 2011, Dumbo Arts festival, New York, USA
2010 Finalist of Oskar Čepan Award, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009 Artist in residence, Florli, Norway
2009 Meulensteen Art Award, Meulensteen Museum, Slovakia
2006 The first prize, Erasmus exhibition, My Neighborhood, Porto, Portugal

Collections

UNESCO Heritage collection, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
MOCAK / Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland
M HKA Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium
S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
IKOB | Museum for Contemporary Art, Eupen, Belgium
Voorlinden Museum, Netherlands
Aegidius Collection, Luxembourg / Denmark
Messner Mountain Museum Collection, Italy
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Bratislava City Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Cyprián Majerník Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Liptov Gallery of Peter Michal Bohúň, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia
Orava Gallery in Dolny Kubin, Slovakia

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025/26 Becoming, curated by Silvia Van Espen, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava
2025 Floating Mountain, curated by Silvia Van Espen, Galerie POGGI, Paris, France
2023/24 Antigravity, East Slovak Gallery Košice, Slovak Rep.
2022 Earth as Bodily Matter, curated by Elena Sorokina, Galerie POGGI, Paris, France
2021/22 Where I Have Been Not, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN Prague
2019 Verticality as Fantastic Occupation, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava
2019 The Impossible Is Just One of The Possibilities, Le Guern gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2018/19 Cumulonimbus, with Lucia Papčová, Plusminusnula gallery, Žilina, Slovakia
2018 Vertical, Bluerider ART, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Sky Gravity / with Roman Ondak, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017/18 Psycho – Vertical, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia
2016 Up the Middle of the Wall, Galerie mesta Blanska, Blansko, Czech Republic
2016 Cumulations, Galerie moderneho umeni, Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic
2015/16 Štefan Papčo, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava, Slovakia
2015 Cardinality, Regional Gallery in Liberec, Czech Republic
2014 Brokeback Mountain, Young International Artists (YIA art fair) – Hors les Murs, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France
2014 Cardinality, Kunsthalle Kosice, Slovakia
2013 YIA #3 (Young International Artists), represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Paris, France
2013 All good things aim at the same point, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava, Slovakia
2012 Rock, Galerie Die Aktualität des Schönen…, Liberec, Czech Republic
2010 Moraine, City Gallery of Bratislava, Slovakia
2010 Terra Cognita (with Daniela Krajčová), Nitra Gallery – Bunker, Slovakia
2009 Brokeback Mountain, Pavilon Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2009 Tatra – Version, An ancient power station – LYSE, Florli, Norway

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026 Anniversary de l’Art, Galerie Poggi, Paris, France
2025 Ooidonk Art Festival, Gent, Belgium
2024 Rotes Gold, Museum of Gothic Art, Leongang, Salzburg, Austria
2024 Keep Moving, Galeria ASP w Krakowie, Poland
2024 faire corps, Fondation Villa Datris, France
2024 Chestnut Grenades & Shooting Sticks, Barbé Gallery, Gent, Belgium
2023/24 Metal, Ján Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, Slovak Rep.
2023 The First Stone, Galerie Poggi, Paris, France
2023 Ravel, Ravel, Ontsteking, Gent, Belgium
2023 Contemporary Models of Realism, curated by Maria Anna Potocka, Delfina Jałowik, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland
2023 SACO | Contemporary Art Biennale, Antofagasta, Chile
2022/23 Prologue. 12 Colours of Reality, curated by Dušan Buran, Lucia Gregorová Stach, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2022 ECCE HOMO, Du Magdalénien au Contemporain, group exhibition presented by Galerie Poggi, Hôtel Puyricard d’Agar, France
2022 Home and Abroad, curated by B. Kundračíková, L. Daněk, J. Frank, Museum of Art, Olomouc, Czech Rep.
2022 Le Fil du Temps, group exhibition presented by Galerie Poggi at Manifesta Lyon, France
2022 ROZETA 1995-2022, ROZETA, curated by Richard Gregor, Dorota Kenderová, East Slovak Gallery, Košice, Slovakia
2021 Peaks, Pics and Other Inconsistencies, curated by Łukasz Białkowski, Liptovská galéria P. M. Bohúňa, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia
2021 DIFFERENCES: HISK alumni exhibition, curated by Willem Elias, Gosset site, Brussel, Belgium
2021 Sonsbeek´s 20→24 Conjunctions programme, international contemporary art exhibtion, Arnhem, Netherlands
2021 Triennale Brugge: TraumA, Brugge, Belgium
2021 Stalen, curated by Koen van den Broek, Gallery de Filatuur, Bruxelles, Belgium
2020 – 21 In a Long Blink of an Eye, HISK laureates exhibition curated by Daniella Géo, Gosset site, Brussels, Belgium
2020 – 21 BEESTIG?, Stichting IJsberg,cStadsfestival Damme, Belgium
2020 CAST 2020, CAS | Contemporary Art Space, Zottegem, Belgium
2020 viennacontemporary, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2020 Acquisitions 2002 – 2019, Liptov Gallery of Peter Michal Bohúň, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia
2020 Reserved for the future, exhibition on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the founding of the Orava Gallery, Oravská galéria v Dolnom Kubíne, Slovakia
2020 Where Are the Lions? / Ubi sunt leones?, curated by Eva Riebová, Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Rep.
2020 Artivirals, Maalte Art, Maaltebruggekasteel, Gent, Belgium
2020 Middle European Mysticism, Thomas Erben Gallery, Chelsea, New York