Petra Feriancova

• Name — Petra Feriancová • Birth Name — Petra Feriancová • Awards — Oscar Capan Award • Website — petraferiancova.com • Known for — Photography, sculpture, installation

Feriancová was born in 1977 in Bratislava, Slovakia. She studied at the Accademia delle Belle Arti, Rome, Italy and Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2010, she was the recipient of the Oscar Capan Award for Young Fine Artists, presented by the FCS Civil Society Foundation. Feriancová represented Slovakia and the Czech Republic at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.

2024 • Filtrating / Self-Renewal / Mimetic Body (with Roberta Zábojník), Old wastewater treatment plant, Prague, CZ 2023 • ETERNITY, HER RESPONSIVE BODY AND OTHER STORIES, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, IT 2022 • DISTRACTION/ÉLAN/VITAL/ECHO/ALPHA, Gilda Lavia, Rome, IT • PORIFERA II, Tranzit.sk, Bratislava, SL • ISOLITUDINE, ZACentrale, Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Fondazione Merz, Turin, IT 2021 • Seclusion II, Aquapetra, Telese, IT • PHYLUM: PORIFERA, Zahorian Van Espen, Prague, CZ • BREEDER: KINGDOM AVES, Július Koller Society, Bratislava, SL 2020 • SHE WAS UNAWARE OF HER BORDERS./EGO INHABITAT, HDLU, Bacva Gallery, Mestrovic Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia, HR • FABVLAE, Santuario di Ercole Vincitore, Villa D'Este, Tivoli, IT 2019 • LEBENSWELT, Significant Other, Vienna, AU 2018 • KLAVIATURA, VILTIN Gallery, Budapest, HU • BECOMING ANIMAL, with Nicolas Lamas, TENDERPIXEL, London, UK 2016 • SYSTEMS, INDIVIDUALS AND MEASURING TOOLS, Bòlit Centre d'Art Contemporani, Girona, SP • SURVIVALS, RELICS, SOUVENIRS and POLITICS OF LIFE, Apoteka, Dignano, Croatia • An exhibition on doubt, Art Museum of the province of Nuoro, Nuoro, Sardinia, IT 2015 • Vulnerable yet everlasting, A Check Your Head! project, Viltin Gallery, Off Biennial, Budapest, HU 2014 • THINGS THAT HAPPEN, AND THINGS THAT ARE DONE. ON BEGINNINGS AND MATTER, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT 2011 • Theory of the City or the Possibilities of an A4, International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA • Postsriptum to Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, SK

• There's More to the Problem, Meta Spatiu, Timisoara, RO • Extraction in Peratic Sanctuary, Medium gallery, Bratislava, SL

• Lingua Franca, Bratislava City Gallery, Bratislava, SK • Another Summer, Center for contemporary Arts, Kurzor, Prague, CZ

• Janelas, Bibliothèque Jean Laude, Musée d'art moderne, Saint-Étienne, FR • How To Deal With The World, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, DE • Do Animals go to Heaven?, Chiesa del Purgatorio, Matera, IT

• The Time Has Come to Talk of Many Things, The National gallery, Sofia BL • Inventory of Forgotten Knowledge, Budapest Galéria, HU

• Keeping In Balance, Works from Art Collection Telekom, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, HU

• 30 years after, Art Collection Telekom, Carré d'Art, FR

• 10, Viltin Gallery, Budapest, HU • I Made A Line, SODA gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia, SK • Useful Photography, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, SL • I Am the Mouth, from Art Collection Telekom, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia

• Utopian Display: Props and Tools, FM Centro per l'arte contemporanea, Milan, IT • Revolving Truth, Symposium, Królikarnia, Warsaw, PL