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Erik Binder
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MKK002
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Mail: erik.binder@artgallery.sk
Year/Place of Birth: 1974 - Hnúšťa Likier - SR
Education: VSVU in Bratislava, Free Graphics Studio (R. Jancovic),Painting Studio +- XXL (D. Fischer)
Erik Binder is a great mystifying wizard who likes to draw his helpless viewers into his artistic games. His creations are extremely diverse (from digital manipulations, through multimedia objects and set-ups, all the way to paint-sprayed canvases and skateboards… his most recent role is the one of an “art lab” gallery artist). His art work “can be recognized by its characteristic humour, at times even childish uncurbed playfulness, by its recycled material, but also ideas, as well as by its combined subculture influences (comics, graffiti, hip-hop, global criticism, eco, socialistic or even kung-fu)”.
“Binder’s work is typified by his full scale approach to his creation as well as his sincere dealing with visual memory and visual messages, as well as the history of art.” It all results in “mixed” artefacts and media, into which his life style, music and family are included. The whole of its entirety is called Kunst fu project, or Kunst fa artistic arrangement (or something else…) It is exactly this anarchic sincerity of his creation process that allows him “to do a lot of things while creating a lot of mess at the same time”, and that is what makes him such an authentic and unique artist in the Slovak art scene.
In the years 2002 and 2007 he was a finalist of Oskar Cepan’s Award
SINGLE EXHIBITIONS
2004 Berlin (Go and Kill It! Galerie & Projekte Mathias Kampl)
2004 Warsaw (Intercosmos, Gallery Raster)
2004 Vienna (Smbdy Calling You! Siemens ArtLab)
2003 Venice (Superstart- together with Kamera skura, Czechoslovak Pavillion, Biennial in Venice)
2002 Bratislava (Wariant C-Kunst-Fu- with Zbynek Baldran, Open Gallery)
2002 Rimavska Sobota (2JA- Erik & Gabriela Binder) City Gallery
2001 Usti nad Labem (Youth Forbidden, Emil Filla Gallery)
2001 Bratislava (Windows of Space Wide Open, Space Gallery)
2000 Kosice (jaZERO (The Lake/MeZero), Vojtech Loffler Museum
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Poznan (Mediation Biennale 08, Mediation Biennale)
2008 Bratislava (DIG IT ALL, Space Gallery)
2008 Vienna (On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Hilger Contemporary)
2008 Bari (La nuova Estetica…Continuo e discontinuo, Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari)
2008 Saint-Etienne (Micro-narratives: tentation des petites realites, Musee d’Art moderne de Saint-Etienne)
2008 Zilina (Visuality Vs. Reality, Art Gallery of Povazie)
2007 Bratislava (Rez a ry, Bratislava City Gallery)
2007 Belgrade (48th October Salon- Temptation of Small Realities- micro
2007 Communities, Oktobarski Salon)
2007 Nitra (We have to Eat! Nitra Gallery)
2007 Eisenstadt (Central Europe Revisited 1, Schloss Esterhazy)
2007 Darmstadt (Baby Body-Das Motiv Saugling in der zeitgenossischen Kunst,Kunsthalle Darmstadt)
