Samuel Velebný je výtvarný umelec, kurátor a teoretik. Zdroje jeho práce tvorí širšia škála (sub)kultúr a umeleckých foriem, od insitného umenia futbalových štadiónov, cez muraly, grafiky a digitálne animácie, po videoeseje, texty a kurátorské projekty. Formálne Samuel pracuje na báze nájdeného objektu, ktorý redizajnuje a rekontextualizuje za použitia ďalších materiálov, pôvodom alebo poetikou vychádzajúcich zo zvolenej témy. Ako kurátor, dramaturg a grafik spolupracuje s košickými galériami VUNU a Galériou Tabačka. V roku 2022 uviedol svoju prvú sólo výstavu vo VUNU, taktiež absolvoval literárnu rezidenciu Vyšehradského fondu v Krakowe a pripravuje sa na umeleckú rezidenciu SKUSY Air v Aténach. Od roku 2021 je denným doktorandom na Fakulte umení TUKE.
Samuel Velebný is a visual artist, curator and theorist. The sources of his work are a wide range of (sub)cultures and art forms, from the non-professional art of football stadiums, to murals, graphics and digital animations, to video essays, texts and curatorial projects. Formally, Samuel works on a basis of a found object, which he redesigns and recontextualizes using other materials that originate from a chosen topic, either poetically or because of their genesis. As a curator, dramaturge and a graphic designer, he cooperates with the VUNU Gallery and Tabačka Gallery in Košice. In 2022, he presented his first solo exhibition at VUNU, he also took part at a literary residency of the Visegrad Fund in Krakow and he is now preparing for his SKUSY Air art residency in Athens. From 2021, he’s been a full-time PhD. student at the Faculty of Arts at TUKE.
EDUCATION
Since 2022 PhD. studies at Faculty of Arts, Technical University Košice, Studio of New Media | 2018 – 2020 Mgr.art Faculty of Arts, Technical University Košice, Studio of New Media | 2015 – 2018 Ba Glasgow School of Art (University of Glasgow), Digital Culture/Interaction Design | 2017 Erasmus Kunstuniversität Linz Zeitbasierte und Interaktive Medien | 2009 – 2014 Bc. Faculty of Arts, Technical University Košice, Architecture and Urbanism
AWARDS
2022 art residence and scholarship of the Visegrad Fund at Villa Decius Association, Krakow | 2022 first scholarship holder of a residential programme SKUS a.i.r., Athens | 2021 a rectorial prize at Technical University in Košice for the best presentation of a PhD. thesis