Neue Fotografie aus der Slowakei

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Dorota Sadovská, “Korporalits”, 2003, C-Print, 100 x 100 cm

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Robo Kočan, “Isle of the Sky”, 2003 C-Print, 60 x 45 cm

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Lucia Nimcová, “Nuns after the mass of Holy Father (John Paul II.)”, Petrzalka, Slovakia

FOTOHOF is showing four positions of contemporary Slovak photography that approach the medium with very different pictorial strategies. Starting with a decidedly subjective documentary photography (Nimcová), the exhibition ranges from surreal photographic interventions in the landscape (Kočan) to an examination of the body, which wants to be understood as a process-like sculpture and proliferates into the space on the one hand as a panel image, but also as an extended installation (Sadovská), to the questioning of the photographic image, which mutates into a painterly-looking, abstract image through digital commands (Kvetan). The construction of the fantastic, as well as elements of the documentary, refer to a (still existing) common tradition with the neighbouring Czech Republic, whereby the increasing international networking and the media interweaving of academic offerings in recent years have given Slovak photographic art a distinctive identity.