Viera Levitt
(formerly Viera Jancekova) worked as
a curator in one of Slovakia's leading Contemporary
Arts Museum, the Jan Koniarek Gallery located in the
historic town of Trnava from 1997. She became director
of this space in 2002, as the youngest director ever
in a public art museum in the Slovak Republic. Since
1996, she has curated or co-curated more than thirty
exhibitions in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany,
Austria, Luxembourg, and the USA.
She has given lectures or presentations about contemporary
art in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Berlin, Germany;
Rotterdam, Netherlands; Hiroshima, Japan; New Delhi,
India; Caracas, Venezuela and in Honolulu, Wakefield
and Providence, RI in the United States.
Viera Levitt has lived in Rhode Island as an independent
curator since 2006.
Viera Levitt in the exhibition spaces of
the Jan Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, Slovakia (Exhibition
of Alojz Klimo)
Curated for the RISD Museum, the video project presents
a rotation of three programs. Each program centers on
emerging questions specific to this post-communist region.
New Video Art from Central Europe, Part 1: Art
Power (pdf file)
With an eye for Central European artists' marked sense
of irony and sarcasm, this program explores contemporary
art's social side, its relationship to power, and how
it can be used or misused by artists such as the Azzoro
Group (with artists Oskar Dawicki, Igor Krenz, Wojciech
Niedzielko, Lukasz Skapski) of Poland, Anetta Mona Chisa
& Lucia Tkacova of Slovakia, and Little Warsaw (with
artists Andras Galik and Balint Havas) of Hungary.
New Video Art from Central Europe, Part 2: Global
Impact (pdf file)
Are artists from the Central European region dealing
with the same issues as Americans? This program underlines
the connections between Central Europe and United States,
looking at omnipresent globalization and notions of
civilization. Artists include Ilona Nemeth (Slovakia),
Pavel Mrkus (the Czech Republic), and Juraj Dudas (Slovakia).
New Video Art from Central Europe, Part 3: Their
Stories (pdf file)
The final instalment of this series, featuring artist
Pavlina Fichta Cierna (Slovakia), looks closely at the
stories of those who live on the margins of society;
and forgotten histories from the communist past in Zbynek
Baladran's video collages using the archive materials
(Czech Republic).
