ZUZANA ŽABKOVÁ

Zuzana Žabková born in Slovakia and based currently in between Prague and Frankfurt, is doing art, dance and choreography, working in the frame of performance, video and installation. She likes thinking in permaculture ways and questioning failing utopias. She works alone and together and apart from her solo projects she likes collaborative projects that reconsider ways of valuing labour, and care in non human manner. She has worked in collaborations with Apart collective, Bjornsonova, Caroline Creutzburg, Catalina Insignares, Fero Király, René Alejandro Huari Mateus, Laura Eva Meuris, Lucie Mičíková, Eva Priečková, Tanja Sljivar, Nik Timková or Else Tunemyr. Zuzana holds a M.A. in Visual Art Academy and B.A. in Performing Arts and Dance Academy in Bratislava in Slovakia. Currently she is finishing a M.A. program Choreography and performance in Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen in Germany with guidance of Slovenien philosopher Bojana Kunst. She is a winner of the Oscar Cepan Award 2017 (YVAA). She is a recipient of a 2016 artist-in-residence in Triangle Arts Association, New York, and a 2016 danceWEB scholar at ImPulsTanz in Vienna under the mentorship of Tino Sehgal. In 2015 she was a recipient of a Salzburg Academy scholarship, ERSTE Stiftung, Austria, an artist in residence in Meetfactory Prague, Czech Republic. In 2014 an artist in residence in Regular Line Santa Cruz, California, U.S., 2013 an artist in residence in AQB, Budapest, Hungary, 2012 an artist in residence in Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany. She is the 2013 winner for the Essl Art Award for Slovakia within the VIG special invitation. She likes to move as an octopus walking back to the water.

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Zuzana Žabková

Born 19th of March 1987 Košice, Slovakia

Slezská 110, Prague, Czech Republic

jugeaster@gmail.com

+421 904 375 967

Education

2014- 2019 Institute for Applied Theatre Studies- CUP: Choreography and Performance MA, Giessen, Germany, Prof. Dr. Bojana Kunst (SLO)

2010-2013 Academy of performing arts- Choreography BA, Bratislava, Slovakia

2006-2012 Academy of fine arts and design - department of intermedia and multimedia, Bratislava, Slovakia, Doc. Ilona Németh, DLA (SK)

2009-2010 Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade do Porto, Portugal, Fernando José Pereira (PT)

2008-2009 guest professors: Andreas Fogarasi (AT), Dr. habil Szabolcs KissPál, DLA (HU)

Languages

english, french

Residencies

2018: Resident in Meetfactory Prague, CZ

2017: Resident in Fleetstreet - Theater with C.Creutzburg, C.Insignares, Hamburg, GE

2016: Triangle Arts Association Residency, FUTURA, Visegrad Fund, New York, U.S.

2015: Rezidenca Petrolio, Serra Nova, Puglia, IT

2015: Resident in Meetfactory Prague, CZ

2014: Resident in Regular Line Santa Cruz, California, U.S.

2014: Resident in AQB, Budapest, HU

2013: Resident in FUTURA, Prague, CZ (Visegrad Fund)

2012: Resident in Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany, DE (K.a.i.r.)

Awards

2017: Winner of Oscar Cepan Award, SK (YVAA)

2013: Essl art award winner for SR and VIG special invitation, SK/AT

2013: Finalist of Oskar Cepan Award (Young Visual Artist Award)

Scholarships

2016: DanceWeb Scholarship - ImpulsTanz Vienna, AT

2015: Salzburg Academy scholarship, ERSTE Stiftung, AT

2009: Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade do Porto, Portugal; Erasmus Program

Selected exhibitions & performances

2019

Women with stones with Caroline Creutzburg, Catalina Insignares, René Alejandro Huari Mateus, Misha Goldberg, Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main, DE

2018

Dreams of burning puppets performance in Tranzit, Bratislava, SR

The touch was the only guide with Nik Timková Berlínskej model, Prague CZ

Harvesting darkness with Lucie Mičíková, Nik Timková, Gallery Futura, Prague CZ

BnMW with K. Bodhoki, R.A.H. Mateus, L.E. Meuris, L.Mičíková, E. Priečková, N. Timková, Gallery Futura, Prague CZ

Coming back from where i go with Fero Király, Bratislava - Wien Tram, SR

…and I want to remember all your shapes with M.G. Arie, C. Insignares, R.A.H. Mateus, L.E. Meuris, N. Timková, Move festival, Košice, SR, festival KIOSK - Zilina Zárečie, SR

i have nothing else to do, Tanec Praha, Praha CZ

Peeing arcs and vulgar plants, performance within Evil twin sister, Botanic garden, Krakow, PL

Harvested darkness with Lucie Mičíková, Nik Timková, Lucia Kvočáková, Synagogue Kosice, SR

The Melancholy of Marissa Cooper with Nik Timková , FUGA, Bratislava, SR

PULP with and by Carolina Mendonca, Catalina Insignares, Rodrigo Andreoli, Ida Daniels, Kustlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main, DE

Demanding the void with Else Tunemyr, Meetfactory, Prague, CZ

Bodies in trouble with Eva Priečková, FUGA Bratislava, SR

2017

If you're asking whether I can make myself entirely photosynthetic, I'd say that first, you'd have to stop moving entirely, second, you'd have to become see-through, Nitra Gallery Oskar Čepan Award, SR with Apart collective, Katarína Hrušková, Nik Timková

Tomorrow, will be interesting too, East Slovak gallery, Košice SR

…and I want to remember all your shapes with M.G. Arie, C. Insignares, R.A.H. Mateus, L.E. Meuris, Tanja Sljivar, Institute for applied Theater studies, Giessen DE

NEWFOUNDLAND Mechelen, BE

LUPE with R.A.H. Mateus, Tabačka Kulturfabrik, Košice SR

Weary with E.Tunemyr, C.Insignares, Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main, DE

2016

49 times softly, RIAP, Rencontre internationale d’art performative Quebec ; VIVA! Art Action, Montreal, Canada; Pioneer works New York, U.S.

Attitudes, Dům umění- House of Arts, Brno, CZ

Botulus with Fero Király Nástupište 1-12, Topoľčany, SR

helio x kato, Gallery 207, Prague, CZ

LUPE with R.A.H. Mateus Theatermachine, Institute for applied Theater studies, Giessen; Rough Proposals, Mousonturm, Frankfurt, DE

2015

The House freed from its floors with L. Mičíková, Kostka Gallery, Prague, CZ

When the Peaks of Our Sky Connect, Our House Will Have a Roof, with L. Mičíková, East Slovak Gallery, Košice, SR

Jiří Kristus with L. Mičíková, combined technic, the Fridge, Prague, CZ

The orbit of planets and the path of the cannon ball, Mousonturm, Frankfurt, DE

Model Mitana with B. Janáková, F. Király, P. Mazalán, J. Pišek, E. Priečková, M. Zajíček

Slovak National Radio, Bratislava, SK

To hide under the shade of dark and do invisible things with L. Mičíková, M. Wiederman, Abandoned recreation, Artfilm, L.D. Machnac, Trencianske Teplice, SK

VII. Zlín salon of young artists, Zlin, CZ

2014

The orbits of planets and the path of the cannon ball, SODA gallery, Bratislava, SR

Singing pylon, with Dora Kenderová, Martin Vongrej, Lucie Mičíková, Eva Priečková, Jakub Juhás

Bratislava, SR

To be followed, with F. Király, Fringe Santa Cruz, California, U.S.

Lead and follow, Gallery Alfa, Košice, SR

On the stage, Gallery Apart, Rome , IT (Ich ruf zu dir, Small odysey II)

Neighborhood Playgrounds, with S. Rechlin, M. Schweiger, E. Friedl,J. Pišek

BB15, Linz, AT

Junge Kunst, Ringturm, VIG, Vienna, AT

2013

Pro Rrózu, Gallery AM.180, Prague, CZ

Ich ruf zu dir with Otvorené dvere, Nudance fest, A4, Bratislava, SR

Ich ruf zu dir, gallery HIT, Bratislava, SR

Pomalé plié, K4 gallery, Prague, CZ

Transcending cultures, Essl Art Award Cee 2013, Essl museum, Wien, AT

Rommantic apprehensions, Athens, GRE

Une étoile s´éteint, Karlin studios, Praha,CZ

Hunky dory, Karlin studios, Praha, CZ

Mysl je sval, Meetfactory, Praha, CZ

Ich ruf zu dir, Halle 14, Leipzig, GE

2012

Une élevation arrondi retirée, IDA, Prague, CZ

First of the last days, A4- nultý priestor, Bratislava, SR

Ich ruf zu dir, Halle 14, Leipzig, GE

On boredom, Tabačka Kulturfabrik, Košice, SR

Slowness, Tranzit, Bratislava, SR

Pohyb na míste, IDA, Prague, CZ

Performance group, Mira Gaberova´s appartment, Bratislava, SR

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