VisionsInConflict

Fall 2018 -

Visions in conflict

Žolt Kovač

As part of the Future of Work 2018 Conference

In his “ArtWORKs” series of paintings, Belgrade-based artist Žolt Kovač explores the topic of work in contemporary society. Lead by his own experience of burnout after more than a decade of being parallely present on several creative and activist scenes, his works analyze changes and problems of the contemporary notion of work – such as working time, precarious work, multitasking, exhaustion, parenthood, productivity and other. Problems of work are processed in a visual language that uses a mixture of street art, graphic design, typography and abstraction, all of which together increase the communicative and expressive potential of the images.
ZoltanKovac

žOLT kOVAČ

b. 1975 in Pančevo

Born in Pančevo in 1975. After graduating from the Mathematical Gymnasium in Belgrade in 1994, he enrolled at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Painting, where he obtained his master’s degree in 2002 and completed his doctoral studies in 2016. From 2000 to 2002, he attended the School for the History and Theory of Art at the Center for Contemporary Art in Belgrade. He has exhibited in 25 solo and over a hundred group exhibitions in Serbia and abroad (Slovenia, Germany, Austria, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, France, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Russia, Macedonia). He works as a professor of vocational studies at the Academy of Technical Vocational Studies in Belgrade. He is a co-founder and editor of the online magazine for contemporary art Supervizuelna (www.supervizuelna.com). He is also involved in graphic design. He played bass guitar in the alternative band Jarboli. He lives in Belgrade.