Born in 1974 in Bratislava (Slovaquia)
Lives and works in Bratislava (Slovaquie) and Prague (République tchèque)

B I O G RAP H Y

Viktor Frešo studied in Bratislava at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in

Bratislava and in Prague at the Academy of Fine Arts where he graduated and

received his diploma in 2003. Frešo belongs to the most remarkable figures of

the contemporary art after the year 2000 in the region of the former Czechoslovakia.

His work and overall approach to art is rather untypical but at the same time they

reflect the situation in the society and culture. The artist creates sophisticated

concepts and projects presenting them as seemingly simple closed “Pieces of art”.

He is often critical in his works and aggressively expresses his contempt of the art

scene itself and its processes but with a light, humorous and playful undertone.

One of the most fascinating elements of his creation is the seeming counterpoint

of emphasis on huge, grandiose EGO connected with a Gesture in combination

with disarming self-ironic humility. His ability to reveal dark sides of his soul or

stumbles and throw them to the world regardless of consequences shift the

author ́s concepts to broader possibilities of perception of the reasons of his work.

Viktor Frešo is interested in direct, efficient, visual tools. He prefers short interval

between action and reaction and conditions of quick recognition of relations between

the expressing “me“ and the indication “he“. Therefore the form of a brief slogan suits

him. Whether he intervenes into public space or exhibits in galleries he takes care that

an immediate creative action shows itself in the execution – a GESTURE. Another very

typical aspect is the interference into the world of media where without any respect

he publicly presents his radical and often despising opinions of the society and art

scene which might irritate and provoke a discussion about what is and what is not

acceptable as contemporary art or just a self-centred affect of the artist. Recently

among other things the author devotes himself to the art of sculpture and painting.