Ján Kralovič
Ján Kralovič is art historian based in Bratislava. He graduated in History of Art and Culture at the Faculty of Arts, University of Trnava in Trnava. From 2012-2016 he worked as a researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. Currently, he works at the Department of History and Theory of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he lectures on the history of 20th century Slovak art, history of new media, book culture and illustration, and conducts seminars focused on the theory and interpretation of artworks. He regularly publishes review articles, professional texts and scientific studies on neo-avant-garde and contemporary art and book culture in professional journals (Jazdec, Ostium, FlashArt, artalk.cz, Fraktál, Profil, Vlna, etc.). Occasionally he is engaged in curatorial activities. In 2014 he published Teritórium ulica [Street Territory: Action Art in Urban Space in 1965-1989 in Slovakia] and in 2017 a monograph focusing on residential exhibitions and artistic activities in the period of normalization entitled Majstrovstvo za dverami [Championship behind the Door]. (2023)
Publications[edit]
Books[edit]
- Teritórium ulica. Umenie akcie v mestskom priestore v rokoch 1965-1989 na Slovensku, Bratislava: Slovart (Teória), and Bratislava: Vysoká škola výtvarných umení, 2014, 283+[48] pp. [1] [2] (Slovak)
- Majstrovstvo za dverami: Majstrovstvá Bratislavy v posune artefaktu (1979-1986) v kontexte bytových výstav 70. a 80. rokov 20. storočia, Bratislava: Slovart (Dejiny), and Bratislava: Vysoká škola výtvarných umení, 2017, 327 pp. [3] [4] [5] (Slovak)
Book chapters, articles[edit]
- "Prechádzka ako situačná a komunikačná umelecká aktivita", in Ani spolu, ani bez sebe... Intermedialita v dějináh umění, eds. Filip Komárek and Michal Konečný, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2010, pp 31-36; upd. as "Prechádzka ako komunitná a umelecká aktivita. Prechádzka ako možnosť stretávania sa a umeleckej komunikácie v okruhu bratislavskej neoficiálnej scény 70. rokov", in Bratislava Conceptualism?, 2017, pp 146-159. (Slovak)
- "The Stroll as a Community and Artistic Activity: Strolls as a form of meeting and artistic communication in Bratislava’s unofficial scene in the 1970s", in Bratislava Conceptualism?, 2017, pp 118-145. (English)
- "Nutnosť intenzívneho prežívania (Poznámky k akčnému umeniu v mestskom priestore na Slovensku v 70. rokoch 20. storočia)", in Umenie na Slovensku v historických a kultúrnych súvislostiach 2010, eds. Bernadeta Kubová and Ivan Godič, Trnava: Milan Uličný - BEN, 2011, pp 215-226. (Slovak)
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