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 combina- tion 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 a

nd reaction and conditions of quick recognition of relations between the expres- sing “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.