Erik Binder
Erik Binder (21 February 1974, Hnúšťa-Likier - 5 June 2023, Bratislava) studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava in the studios of Róbert Jančovič and Daniel Fischer and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague with associate professor Vladimír Kokolia.
Since 2000 he has had dozens of solo exhibitions in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Serbia, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Poland, France, Switzerland, Germany and the USA, and dozens of group exhibitions. In 2003 he represented Slovakia together with the group Kamera skura at the 50th Venice Biennale. In 2021 he had a solo exhibition at the Slovak National Gallery, Avatsýv. Erik Binder's Labyrinth.
His oeuvre was extensive and diverse. Besides painting and printmaking, he worked with video, object and installation, often using waste and ephemeral materials. His works are in the collection of the Slovak National Gallery and in a number of other public and private collections. (2023)
He lived in Bratislava.
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