Daniel Grúň

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Daniel Grúň (1977) is an art historian, curator, and writer. He studied art history at Trnava University (Slovakia). In 2009, he completed his Ph.D. thesis on art criticism of the 1960s in Czechoslovakia. He co-curated the international retrospective Július Koller: One Man Anti Show (MSN/Warsaw, mumok/Vienna, Museion/Bolzano), and has been writing on artist archives, self-historicization, and legacy of Neo-avant-gardes. Currently, he is working as Assoc. Prof. at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and the Institute of Art History, Slovak Academy of Sciences. In addition, he is in charge of the Július Koller Society, lives and works in Bratislava. In 2010, he was awarded the Igor Zabel Prize for Culture and Theory. Recent contributions include What Will Be Already Exists: Temporalities of Cold War Archives in Central-East Europe and Beyond (eds. Emese Kürti, Zsuzsa László, transcript Verlag, 2021). (2024)

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  • co-editor, Tomáš Štrauss, Beyond the Great Divide: Essays on European Avant-Gardes from East to West, trans. Hayley Haupt and Jonathan Owen, Dijon: Les presses du réel, and AICA International, 2020, 192 pp. Anthology. Review: Arnoux (Critique d'art, FR). [2] [3] (English)
  • editor, Subjektívne histórie. Seba-historizácia ako umelecká prax v stredovýchodnej Európe / Subjective Histories: Self-historicization as Artistic Practice in Central-East Europe, Bratislava: VEDA SAV, 2020, 320 pp. Introduction. Publisher. Review: Gadó (ArtMargins). [4] (Slovak)/(English)
  • editor, AMA. Ľubomír Ďurček, Květoslava Fulierová, Július Koller a amatérski výtvarníci / Ľubomír Ďurček, Květoslava Fulierová, Július Koller and Amateur Artists, Vienna: Schlebrügge.Editor, Sep 2020, 340 pp. Texts by Ľubomír Ďurček, Květa Fulierová, Daniel Grúň, Július Koller, and interviews between Dagmar Gazdíková and Július Koller. Publisher. Review: Tuka (Artalk). [5] (Slovak)/(English)
  • editor, with Christian Höller and Kathrin Rhomberg, White Space in White Space / Biely priestor v bielom priestore, 1973-1982. Stano Filko, Miloš Laky, Ján Zavarský, Vienna: Schlebrügge, 2021, 228 pp. Project archive. Publisher. [6] [7] (English)

Catalogues[edit]

  • editor, Július Koller. Galéria Ganku, trans. John Minahane, Vienna: Schlebrügge, 2014. [8] (English)/(Slovak)
  • editor, with Kathrin Rhomberg and Georg Schöllhammer, Július Koller: One Man Anti Show, Vienna: mumok, and Cologne: Buchhandlung Walter König, 2016, 388 pp. [9] (German)
    • Július Koller: One Man Anti Show, Vienna: mumok, and Cologne: Buchhandlung Walter König, 2016, 320 pp. [10] (English)
  • editor, Haptická ozvena. Príroda, telo, politika v umení bývalej Juhoslávie a Československa, Bratislava: Galéria mesta Bratislavy, 2024. Exhibition. (Slovak)

Book chapters, Essays, Reviews, Talks[edit]

  • "Zmysel negácie. Nefiguratívny výtvarný prejav a avantgardné princípy v teórii Oskára Čepana", ARS 39 (2006), pp 93-109. (Slovak)
  • "Ľudský rozmer abstraktného obrazu. K interpretácii diel Mariána Čunderlíka a Rudolfa Filu v štúdiách Oskára Čepana", in Obrazy Oskára Čepana, eds. P. Zajac and B. Bodorová, Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo Michala Vaška, 2006, pp 205-208. (Slovak)
  • "Chvála banálnych paradoxov", in Paradoxy a hranice racionality, eds. R. Slavkovský, J. Vydrová and A. Vydra, Pusté Úľany: Schola Philosophica, 2007, pp 188-194. (Slovak)
  • "Against Demons of Modernity? Towards Interpreting Art of Sculpture in the 1960s Dominik Tatarka's Essays", Acta Historiae Artium 49 (2008), pp 206-214. (English)
  • "Der Kosmos der Slowakischen Neoavantgarde zwischen Utopie, Fiktion und Politik", in Crossing 68/89, eds. Jürgen Danyel, Jennifer Schevardo and Stephan Kruhl, Berlin: Metropol, 2008, pp 136-155. (German)
    • "Red Planet: Cosmic Imagery of the Slovak Neo-Avant-Garde", in Star City: The Future Under Communism, eds. Łukasz Ronduda, Alex Farquarson and Barbara Piwowarska, MAMMAL Foundation, Nottingham Contemporary, and Vienna: tranzit.at, 2011, pp 52-68. (English)
  • "Iva Mojžišová a jej kritika porozumením", in Iva Mojžišová, Giacomettiho smiech?, Bratislava: Vysoká škola výtvarných umení, 2009, pp 357-364. (Slovak)
  • "Projekt Verejná knižnica v kontexte urbánnej utópie", Flash Art SK 3:10, Nov 2008-Feb 2009. (Slovak)
  • "Pracovná pamäť a úder zenovej palice Milana Adamčiaka", Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition 3:13, Jun-Sep 2009, pp 50-51. [11] (Slovak)
  • "Archivovať U.F.O. Július Koller ako zberateľ 'kultúrnych situácií' z tlačových médií", Romboid 7 (2010), pp 56-63. (Slovak)
  • "Performatívne písanie Milana Adamčiaka", in Třídit slova. Literatura a konceptuální tendence 1949–2015, eds. Ondřej Buddeus and Markéta Magidová, Prague: tranzit.cz, 2015, pp 122-137. [12] (Slovak)
  • "Das Leben als Signal. Die kommunikative Provokation von Július Kollers künstlerischer Praxis", in Július Koller: One Man Anti Show, eds. Daniel Grúň, Kathrin Rhomberg, and Georg Schöllhammer, Vienna: mumok, and Cologne: Buchhandlung Walter König, 2016, pp 20-28. (German)
  • "Úvaha o chýbaní. Biele práce Stana Filka a Mladena Stilinovića", in Umění a revoluce. Pro Milenu Bartlovou, eds. Johana Lomová and Jindřich Vybíral, Prague: UMPRUM, 2018, pp 574-595. (Slovak)

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