Stanislav Filko

Stanislav Filko, 2007

Stanislav "Stano" Filko (born June 15, 1937 in Veľká Hradná , Okres Trenčín , Czechoslovakia ; † October 23, 2015 in Bratislava ) was one of the most important exponents of Slovak conceptual art .

life and work

Stanislav Filko, also called Stano Filko, studied painting from 1956 to 1959 at the Vysoká škola výtvarných umení v Bratislave (Academy of Fine Arts) with Dezider Milly and Peter Matejka . In 1981 Filko emigrated and lived and worked in Germany, Canada and the United States. He returned to Bratislava in 1990 .

In the mid-1960s, Filko began designing environments , installations , pneumatic sculptures, and utopian architecture. Fluxus , happenings and actions in public space are also part of his oeuvre. In 1965 he declared with Zita Kostrova and Alex Mlynarčík in the manifest Happsoc (Happening and Society) of 2 to 8 May 1965 living in Bratislava work of art.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1967 - Filko. External environment - communication / Externé prostredie - komunikácia, Galéria Cypriána Majerníka, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 1967 - Filko - Grafik, Galéria Václava Špály, Prague, Czech Republic
• 1967 - Stano Filko, Apartment Present and Reality / Obydlí současnosti a skutečnosti, Galerie na Karlove náměstí, Prague, Czech Republic
• 1969 - Stanislav Filko, Environnement Universel 1966–1967 and graphics, Ursula Wendtorf Gallery, Oldenburg-Düsseldorf
• 1974 - White Space in White Space / Biely priestor v bielom priestore / A White Space in a White Space / Espace blanc dans l'espace blanc. Stano Filko - Miloš Laky - Ján Zavarský, Dům umění / Kunsthalle, Brun, Czech Republic
• 1978 - Stanislav Filko, Emotion-1977, Galeria LDK Labirynt, Lublin, Poland
• 1979 - Transcendencja 1978. Stano Filko. Galeria GN ZPAF, Gdańsk, Poland
• 1980 - Stanisław Filko I. 1978. Transcendencja II. 1979. Mała galeria PSP - ZPAF, Plac Zamkowy, Warszaw, Poland
• 1985 - Stano Filko: Białe przestrzenie - prace z lat 1973–1978. Galeria Wschodnia, Łódź, Poland
• 1986 - Fylko, Special exhibit of recent work 1983–1985, P, p. 1 - The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York, USA
• 1996 - Galéria Tatrasoft, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2000 - Egoq, Východoslovenská galéria, Košice / Kaschau, Slovakia
• 2003 - Stano Filko, Sonda egoq 1937–2037 Geminiy, Galéria Slovenská sporiteľna, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2003 - Fiylkontemplaciakcieq, sonda 1950–1969, sonda 1971–1984, State gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
• 2005 - Up 300000 km / s tranzit workshops, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2008 - Filkova archa a Oltáre súčasnosti, Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2012 - Tranzscendenteaoq 5.4.3.d = metodika = inteligenteaoq, Emanuel Layr Gallery, Viedeň, Rakúsko
• 2012 - Erupekcia - orgiazmus - orgazmus - yang - jin = slnkomesiac - in like - love - entita - exist - beingsf - hermafrodit každému podľa svojich možností a schopností - v - in - 5.4.3.d - pre život singular truths všetkých tejto zemeguli -tranzscendencie - v - in - existencii - len v 3.d. AMT_PROJECT, Bratislava, Slovensko
• 2012 - Stano Filko - Oklif Onats / Tranzscendenteaoq 5.D. (4.3.), Galéria Cypriána Majerníka, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2012 - Tranzscendeteaoq 5.4.3.d = metodika = inteligenteaoq, Galerie Emanuel Layer, Vienna, Austria
• 2012 - Stano Filko - Oklif Onats / Tranzscendenteaoq 5.D. (4.3.), Slovenský inštitút, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2014 - Postbingbang - Antibigbang. Fondazione Morra Grecco, Naples, Italy
• 2014 - Stano Filko (with Jiří Kovanda): Erupekcia - Orgiamus - Orgazmus - Yang - Ying = Slnkomesiac - In Life - Love - Entita - Exist - Beingh SF - Hermafrodit ..., Everyone Among His Options And Abilities 5.4. 3.D. - For Life .., Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy
• 2014 - Stano Filko - Miloš Laky - Ján Zavarský - White (Essence), Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria
• 2015 - Filko - Fylko _ Phylko, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warszawa, Poland
• 2015 - Stano Filko (SK): 5.D. PLATO. Galerie města Ostravy, Ostrava, Czech Republic
• 2015 - Stano Filko, Kiki Kogelnik, Lira Gallery, Rome, Italy
• 2015 - Stano Filko (with Janina Kraupe-Świderska), Kiedy ludzie krążą po mieście, Muzeum Narodowe, Kraków, Poland
• 2016 - STANO Filkon Poetry about Space and Cosmos / Poézia o priestore a kozme, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2016 - Stano Filko in Žiline. Fragment of the exhibition / fragment výstavy, New Synagogue, Žilina, Slovakia

Collective exhibitions (selection)

• 1959 - Exhibition of graphics and paintings, Osvetový dom, Trenčín, Slovakia
• 1961 - Graphic exhibition, Reduta, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 1964 - S. Filko, L. Gajdoš, A. Mlynárčik, I. Vychlopen, Foyer editorial diary Smena, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 1964 - Výstava mladých, Moravská galéria, Dům pánů z Kunštátu, Brun, Czech Republic
• 1965 - 5 cecoslovacchi, Galeria Numero, Florencia, Rím, Milano, Italy
• 1965 - Celoslovenská výstava. Umenia Cathedral, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 1965 - object, Václava Špály Gallery, Praha, Czech Republic
• 1966 - 5 cecoslovacchi. Galeria Zahlo, Benátky / Venezia, Macerata, Italy
• 1966 - Malarstwo. Rzeźba. Grafika Bratislawy, Pawilon wystawovy, Kraków, Poland
• 1966 - Výstava mladých. AICA (on the occasion of the AICA International Congress), Moravská galerie, Brun, Czech Republic
• 1967 - 13 from Slovenska. Václava Špály Gallery, Praha, Czech Republic
• 1967 - Czechoslovakian graphics, Sonninhalle of Kiel Castle, Kiel
• 1968 - Cinétisme - Spectacle - Environnement. Maison de la Culture, Grenoble, France
• 1968 - Contemporary Prints of Czechoslovakia. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
• 1968 - Danuvius 1968. Dom umenia / Kunsthalle, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 1968 - Izložba savremene čehoslovačke grafike. Muzej savremene umetnosti, Belgrade, Serbia
• 1968 - Nová citlivost I. / New Sensibility, Dům umění, Brun, Czech Republic
• 1968 - Nová citlivost I. / New Sensibility, Oblastní galerie, Karlsbad / Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
• 1968 - Nová citlivost I. / New Sensibility, Mánes, Prague, Czech Republic
• 1968 - Situácia. Výstavné siene SSVU, Dostojevského rad, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 1969 - III. Rassegna Internazionale d´Arte Contemporanea. Acirea le Turistico Termale, Catania, Sicilia, Italy
• 1969 - Ars Popularis. Pictures - objects - graphics by 18 artists from Belgium, Germany and the CSSR. CENTRUM gallery in the Siemers skyscraper, Hamburg
• 1969 - Arte Contemporanea in Cecoslovacchia. Galleria Nazionale d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM), Rome, Italy
• 1969 - Sixiéme biennale de Paris 1969, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paríž, Paris, France
• 1969 - Environnement lumino-cinětique. La Place de Chalet, Center National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
• 1969 - Plans and projects as art, Kunsthalle Bern, action space Munich
• 1969 - Four Aspects of Contemporary Art, Kunstverein, Oldenburg
• 1969 - Súčasné tendencie v slovenskom maliarstve, Dom kultúry, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 1970 - Art Concepts from Europe, Bonino Gallery, New York (Spojené štáty) - Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 1970 - Contemporary Trends (Le dynamisme du présent). EXPO Museum of Fine Arts, Ósaka, Japan
• 1970 - Engravers tchécoslovaques contemporains. Cabinet des Estampes (Cabinet d´Arts graphiques), Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
• 1970 - Happening & Fluxus, materials, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
• 1970 - International Festival of Contemporary Art. Municipal Art Museum, Yokohama, Japan
• 1970 - Polymusic rooms I., II., III., Piešťany, Slovakia
• 1970 - Slovenské výtvarné umenie 1965–1970, Valdštejnská jízdárna, Palác Kinských, Mánes, Prague, Czech Republic
• 1971 - Arte de Sistemas. Centro de Arte y Communication en el Museo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 1971 - Young Czechoslovakian Artists, Information Center for Events, Bielefeld
• 1971 - Súčasná slovenská grafika 1971. Oblastná galéria, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
• 1974 - Czech artist. Wendtorf-Swetec Gallery, Düsseldorf
• 1975 - 9th Biennale de Paris. Manifestation international des jeunes artistes. Musée d'Art Moderne / Musée Galliera, Paris, France
• 1979 - Correspondence Art, Ai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• 1980 - Contact - Od kontemplacji do agitacji. Photo Medium Art (Ośrodka Kultury i Sztuki we Wrocławiu), Wroclaw, Poland
• 1980 - Plener Pytań, Słupsk, Poland
• 1982 - Pictures from Slovakia 1965–1980, Galerie Pragxis, Essen-Kettwig
• 1982 - Documenta 7, Kassel
• 1984 - Mysterious Figurative, Annual Exhibition, Staten Island Museum, New York, USA
• 1984 - Four Painters. Jack Tilton Gallery (57th Street), New York, USA
• 1984 - Paintings. Esta Robinson Gallery, New York, USA
• 1985 - Eastern Europeans in New York. La Galerie en El Bohio, New York, USA
• 1986 - Off the Wall, Kamikadze Gallery, New York, USA
• 1986 - Undercurrents in the Visual Arts, Wiesner Gallery, New York, USA
• 1987 - Working in Brooklyn: Painting, Brooklyn Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
• 1991 - Sen o múzeu? Považská galéria umenia, Žilina, Slovakia
• 1992 - Between Object and Installation, Slovak Contemporary Art, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
• 1992 - Arte Contemporanea ceca e slovacca 1950–1992. Palazzo del Brolletto, Novarra, Italy
• 1994 - Enter for Computer. Kunsthaus, Vienna, Austria
• 1994 - Torso - Slovak Photography. Design Works, Durham, New Castle, Ireland
• 1995 - Šesťdesiate roky v slovenskom výtvarnom umení, Slovenská národná galéria, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 1996 - Sculpture in Time. Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku, Poland
• 1999 - Akce Slovo Pohyb Prostor. Experimenty v umění šedesátých let / Experiments in the Sixties, Prague City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
• 1999 - Aspects / Positions. 50 Years of Art from Central Europe 1949–1999, MMKSLW, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
• 1999 - Ludwig Foundation Vienna, Palais Liechtenstein, 20er Haus, Vienna, Austria
• 1999 - Global Conceptualism - Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, qma - Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
• 1999 - Slovak Art For Free, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
• 2000 - Aspect / Positions. 50 Years of Art in Central Europe 1949–1999, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
• 2000 - Aspect / Positions. 50 Years of Art in Central Europe 1949–1999, John Hansard Gallery, City Gallery Southampton, Southampton, Great Britain
• 2000 - Samizdat. Alternative culture in Central and Eastern Europe, the 60s to 80s, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
• 2000 - Global Conceptualism - Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, MIT / List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, USA
• 2001 - Umenie akcie 1965–1980, SNG (Slovak National Gallery), Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2001 - Slovak Dreams, Museum of Modern Art, Passau
• 2003 - Fiylkontemplaciakcieq, sonda 1950–1969, sonda 1971–1984, State Gallery (now Central Slovak Gallery), Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
• 2004 - Collected views from east to west, Generali foundation, Vienna, Austria
• 2005 - 51st Venice Biennial / Model of the World / Quadrophony. Giardini di Castello - Pavilion of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Venice, Italy
• 2006 - Living art on the edge of Europe, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
• 2006 - Contact ... from the collection of the Erste Bank Group. Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
• 2006 - I (Ich), Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria
• 2007 - Arta Slovaca 1960–2000, Nationals Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
• 2007 - Prague biennale 3, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2007 - Tranzit, Kunstverein Frankfurt
• 2008 - Between Concept and Action, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin, Italy
• 2008–1960 - Súčasnosť / Slovenské umění + čeští hosté. Dům U Zlatého prstenu, Praha, Czech Republic
• 2010 - Portrait of a Collection, Chemnitz Art Collection
• 2010 - Les Promesses du passé, Center Pompidou - Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paríž, France
• 2010 - Star city - The Future under Communism, Nottingham Contemporary, Great Britain
• 2011 - The present and presence, Moderna galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia
• 2011 - Eyes looking for the head to inhabit, Muzeum sztuki w Łodzi, Poland
• 2011 - 11th biennale de lyon “a terrible beauty is born”, Lyon, France
• 2011 - Ostalgia, The New Museum, New York, USA
• 2011 - Curated by_Vienna 2011: East by south west,… leaving his existence and his memory, Austria
• 2011 - handed over (cur. Severin Dünser, Christian Kobald), Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria
• 2011 - Museo de las narrativas paralelas. En el marco de la International. Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona, ​​Spain
• 2012 - With immediate effect: artistic interventions in the everyday, Kunsthalle Wien project space Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria
• 2015 - Conceptual art and Communism 1965–1989, Gallery BBLA, New York, USA
• 2018–2019 - Sonda 1, Galerie hlavního města Prahy, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2018–2019 - Who Was 1968? , Lentos Art Museum, Linz , Austria
• 2019 - SIGNAL - The Story Of (Post) Conceptual Art In Slovakia , Ludwig Museum, Budapestť, Hungary
• 2019 - ZERO GRAVITY - Apollo 11 and the new notion of space (20 Jul - 30 Nov 2019), Eres Foundation , Munich

literature

• Katarzyna Banachowska (ed.): Plener Pytań. ( Manifest and text S. Filko) . Słupsk: Młoddziezova agencja wydawnicza, 1980.
• BROZMAN, Dušan - GRZONKA, Patricia. Stano Filko . Praha: Arbor vitae, 2005.
• Encyclopenia of Living Artists in America . Second edition. Renaissance, CA: Directors GUild Publishers, 1987 (Filko Stan)
• FILKO, Stanislav - VRBATICKÁ, Eva. To všetko som ja - aj o tom, ako prežil klinickú smrť . In. Práca, 49, September 7, 1993, č. 208, p. 7.
• HAVRÁNEK, Vít. Stano Filko. In .: HAVRÁNEK, Vít (Ed.): Akce Slovo Pohyb Prostor. Experimanty v umění šedesátých let = Action Word Movement Space. Experimental Art of the Sixties. Praha: Galerie hlavního města Prahy, 1999, pp. 162–173.
• HRABUŠICKÝ, Aurel. Stano Filko - pierwsza połowa czasu / Stano Filko - First Half of Time. In: Zachęta czerwiec, lipiec, sierpień 2015. Warszawa: Zachęta - Narodowa Galeria Sztuki. 2015.
• MOULIN, Raoul-Jean. Filko Stano. In. Noveau dictionnaire de la sculpture modern. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1970, p. 101.
• STRAUSS, Thomas. In. Pictures from Slovakia 1965–1980. Fila, Filko, Sikora . Essen-Kettwig: Galerie Pragxis, 1982
• Contact: The Art Collection of Erste Group and ERSTE Foundation . Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2017. 429 s., [2] s. ISBN 978-3-96098-267-8 .
• Feature; Statements. Basel: Art Basel, 2018. 108 p.
• WEIBEL, Peter - GILLEN, Eckhart. Facing the Future: Art in Europe 1945–1968 . Tielt: Lannoo; [Brussels]: BOZAR Books; Karlsruhe: ZKM, 2016. 493 s. ISBN 978-94-014-3708-0 .
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• POKORNÝ, Marek - KUSÁ, Alexandra. Model sveta / Quadrophony = Model of the World / Quadrophony: Stano Filko, Ján Mančuška, Boris Ondreička, Marek Pokorný. Bratislava: SNG, 2005. 50 p. ISBN 80-8059-106-7 .
• BADOVINAC, Zdenka. - WEIBEL, Peter. 2000+ Arteast Collection: the art of Eastern Europe: a selection of works for the international and national collections of Moderna galerija Ljubljana : Orangerie Congress-Innsbruck, November 14-21, 2001. Vienna: Folio, [2001?]. 248 s. ISBN 3-85256-201-5 .
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• Ján Zavarský: Scénografia; Biely priestor v bielom priestore = A White Space in a White Space = Espace blanc dans l'espace blanc = White space in a white space. Bratislava: Národné divadelné centrum, 1998. [64] s. ISBN 80-85455-73-0 .
• FUCHS, Rudi H. Documenta 7th volume 1. Kassel: D + V Paul Dierichs GmbH and Co KG; Successor to Druck + Verlag GmbH, 1982. 447 s. ISBN 3-920453-02-6 .
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• FILKO, Stano. Stano Filko. 2., 1965–69, Tvorba = Works - Creation = work - creation = ouvrages. Bratislava: A-Press, informačné center ZSA, [approx. 1970]. [166] s.
• FILKO, Stano - MLYNÁRČIK, Alex. Happsoc II, Bratislava, Československo; Filko - Mlynárčik: 7 dní stvorenia = 7 jours de la création. Bratislava: [sn] [1965].

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zomrel výtvarník Stanislav Filko. In: webnoviny.sk , October 23, 2015, accessed October 24, 2015 (Czech).
2. ↑ Catalog: documenta 7 Kassel  ; Volume 1: (Visual Biographies of the Artists); Volume 2: (Current works by the artists), p. 130, Kassel 1982, ISBN 3-920453-02-6 .
3. ↑ Stano Filko. In: monoskop.org , accessed on May 5, 2015 (English).
4. ^ Jan Verwoert: World as Medium: On the Work of Stano Filko. In: e-flux.com , accessed on May 5, 2015 (English).
5. ↑ Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist : In 1945 I had my first postmodern thought. In: emanuellayr.com , accessed on May 5, 2015 (PDF).