About

Robert Slovak studied photography at the School of Applied Arts in Košice, Slovakia, and is currently studying at the Department of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. He photographs spaces and people, creating documentary series (Balkan Wedding, 2020; At Work, 2023 – ongoing). His work also explores the “negative” use of media intended to record events: photography that ultimately captures nothing (Set of Sunsets, 2007 – ongoing).

 

He creates videos, including music videos and films. Beyond audiovisual media, his practice conceptually focuses on several key areas: the human being and their inner experience; the search for the meaning of life and balancing on the boundary between life and death (La Dolce Morte, 2025); the individual as a victim of violence in relationships, with no hope for help from society (Neighborhood Witnesses, 2021); and the individual as a victim of systems, corruption, and the mafia (Immortal Truth, 2020).

 

His work often involves discovering new meanings and recontextualizing existing objects, states, and phenomena, exploring their significance and sense (Random Gallery, 2020 – ongoing).

 

Selected Works & Exhibitions

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2026 - SAMPLES - Solo presentation, selected through open call, Hidepark, Nitra, Slovakia

2026 - SET OF SUNSETS - Sunset featuring a Solar eclipse in Bilbao, Spain

2026 - LA DOLCE MORTE / Movie premiere, Prague, Czech Republic

2026 - 100 EUROPEAN ARTISTS / Book, selected, Palermo, Italy

2026 - CYRIL & METOD - Objects in public space, Bratislava, Slovakia

2026 - I TAKE IT PERSONALLY - Solo exhibition, Umrian Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

2026 - AFTER THE SEASON / Random Gallery - Non-intervention in public space in front of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands 

 

2025 - DETAINED TRAJECTORY / Random Gallery - Non-intervention in public space outside MACBA — Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

2025 - LA DOLCE MORTE / Movie premiere, Košice, Slovakia

 

2024 - TRAPPED FLOW / Random Gallery - Non-intervention in public space during Biennale Arte, Venice, Italy

2023 - FOREIGN BODY / Random Gallery - Non-intervention in public space at Rusovce Lake, near Bratislava, Slovakia

2022 - SUBTLE COLLAPSE / Random Gallery - Non-intervention in public space, Bratislava, Slovakia

 

2021 - IMMORTAL TRUTH - Neon installation, Bratislava, Slovakia

2021 - NEIGHBORHOOD WITNESSES - Installation in public space, Bratislava, Slovakia

2021 - FORGOTTEN OFFERING - Non-intervention in public space, Košice, Slovakia

 

2020 - IMMORTAL TRUTH - Neon installation at The European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium

2020 - BALKAN WEDDING - Photo series, Bački Petrovac, Serbia

2020 - XMAS BOX - Object, Photo, Installation, Bratislava, Slovakia

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