Solo show at ZVE Bratislava 2024
Solo show at ZVE Bratislava 2021
Solo show at ZVE Prague 2020
Solo show at ZVE Bratislava 2018
Solo show at ZVE Bratislava 2015
Vladimír OSSIF (1954, Slovakia)
Lives in Paris (since 1982) and Bratislava.
Education
1974 – 1980 Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia
1983 – 1985 Ecole National Superieure des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
Residence
2009 – 2012 Living and working in New York, USA
2000 – 2008 Living and working in Prague, Bratislava, Paris, France
1995 – 1996 Residence in New York, USA
1991 – 2003 Living and working in Paris, working also at summer studio at Ortaffa, Catalonia, France
1989 – 1991 Grand Prix Casa de Velazquez, Living and working in Madrid, Spain
1984 – 1986 Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Collections
Musée d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
Ministere de la Culture, FNAC, Paris, France
Ministere de l´Education Nationale, France
Wesseling, RFA, Les Lilas, France
Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, Spain
Fonds Cantonal d´Art Visuel in Geneva, Switzerland
National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Regional Museums, Prešov, Košice, Trnava, Poprad, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Los Techos, curated by Zuzana Bartošová, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN Bratislava
2022 Genius Loci, solo exhibition curated by Katarína Bajcurová, Krajská galéria v Prešove, Slovakia
2021 Vladimír Ossif, curated by Zuzana Bartošová, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN Bratislava
2020 paternoster, curated by Jen Kratochvil (guests: Jan Domicz, Barbora Fastrová & Johana Pošová), ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Prague
2018 Sin Título / obras realizadas en La Habana 2015 – 2018, Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center in Havana, Cuba
2018 my man is married but not to me, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN Bratislava
2015 Abstract art? What’s going on?, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava, Slovakia
2013 Untitled, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava, Slovakia
2011 Harlem River N.Y., ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava, Slovakia
2010 BronxArtSpace, New York, USA
2008 City gallery, Stredoslovenská galéria, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
2007 City gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
2007 State gallery, Košice, Slovakia
2006 City gallery, Mirbachov palác, Bratislava, Slovakia
2005 City gallery, Opole, Poland
2004 City gallery, Museum Krnov, Czech Republic
2004 Rödl&Partner Gallery, Nürnberg, Germany
2004 CRE-ART-IVE Gallery, Nürnberg, Germany
2003 Forms in Memory, Slovak Cultural institut in Budapest, Hungary
2003 PPM Ventures in München, Germany
2002 My biology, Nitrianska gallery, Nitra, Slovakia
2002 Proffcomm Gallery in Nürnberg, Germany
2002 Motorola Gallery in Berlin, Germany
2001 My biology, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2001 My biology, French Cultural institut in Bratislava, Slovakia
2001 Nova Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
1999 French Cultural Institute in Vienna, Austria
1999 French Cultural Institute in Prague, Czech Republic
1999 Sans titre, Gallery Jana Koniarka, Trnava, Slovakia
1999 Sans titre,Tatranska Gallery, Poprad, Slovakia
1997 Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
1997 O schopnosti údivu, Castle in Zvolen, Slovakia
1997 O schopnosti údivu, Gallery Nova, Bratislava, Slovakia
1996 Sans titre, Toile Cirée Gallery Geneva, Switzerland; Sans titre, Středoevropská Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
1996 City gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
1994 Gallery Henry in Pau, France
1994 Fondation Carla De Lorenzi in Ceret, France
1993 Středoevropská Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic
1993 State gallery, Košice, SK; Sarisska Gallery, Prešov, SK; Pálffyho palác, Bratislava, Slovakia
1993 French Institut in Bratislava, Slovakia
1992 Janos Gallery, Paris, France
1991 French Institute in Madrid, Spain
1989 Argus Art Gallery in Eppingen-Mühlbach, Germany
1988 Gallery Jean-Claude Richard in Paris, France
1987 Gallery Der Stadt Wesseling, Köln, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 eye of the storm, curated by Silvia Van Espen, L’Atlas, Paris, France
2019 viennacontemporary, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2019 XIII Bienal de la Habana | collateral, Havana, Cuba
2017 Za prahom nového veku 2000 – 2017, Múzeum Vojtecha Lofflera, Košice, Slovakia
2017 SCOPE New York, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2016 Expedition 8+, Fábrica de Arte Cubano, Havana, Cuba
2016 Crossroads, London, UK, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2016 ARTEFIERA, Bologna, Italy, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2015 ARTEFIERA, Bologna, Italy, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2013 « J’ÉTAIS À LA MAISON ET J’ATTENDAIS QUE LA PLUIE VIENNE », Gallery of French institute, Bratislava, Slovakia
2013 ARTEFIERA, Bologna, Italy, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2012 ANOTHER WORLD, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava, Slovakia
2011 EXHIBITION ONE, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bratislava, Slovakia
2008 International Painting Triennial of Carpathians Region Silver, Quadrangle, Deri Muzeum, Medgyessy Ferenc Emlek, Muzeum Debrecen, Hungary
2008 International Painting Triennial of Carpathians Region Silver, Quadrangle, Muzeul Tarii, Crisurilor, Oradea, Rumania
2007 International Painting Triennial of Carpathians Region Silver, Quadrangle, Vychodoslovenska galéria, Košice, Slovakia
2006 International Painting Triennial of Carpathians Region Silver, Quadrangle, Galeria ARP, Zamek w Krasiczinie, Poland, (National Prize)
2004 Rödl&Partner Gallery in Nürnberg, Germany
2004 CRE-ART-IVE Gallery, Nürnberg, Germany
2003 Zo zbierok štátnej galérie, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
2002 Weber Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland
2002 Gallery CRE-ART-IVE in Nürnberg, Germany
2002 Gallery Proffcomm in Nürnberg, Germany
2002 Gallery Motorola in Berlin, Germany
2001 Slovak Art in Cite des Arts v Paris, France
2001 Slovak Art in Cite des Arts, Danubiana, Bratislava, Slovakia
2001 From collections of State gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
2000 From collection of gallery of J. Koniarek, Trnava, Slovakia
2000 Dimenzie abstrakcie, State gallery Košice, Slovakia
2000 Oravská galéria, Dolný Kubín, Obrazy zbierky I. Melicherčíka, Slovakia
2000 Gallery CRE-ART-IVE in Nürnberg, Germany
2000 National Gallery of Slovakia, XX. Storočie in Bratislava, Slovakia
1999 National Gallery of Slovakia, P.F.2000, Retrospektíva a súčasnosť žánru in Bratislava, Slovakia
1999 Gallery Z, 10. rokov skupiny Gerulata X in Bratislava, Slovakia
1999 Gallery CRE-ART-IVE in Nürnberg, Germany
1999 Gallery Weber, Genve in Switzerland
1998 Gallery Fricker in Paris, France
1998 Nové prírastky, Východoslovenská galéria, Prešov, Slovakia
1998 Gallery Toile Cirée in Geneva, Switzerland
1997 Gallery Pont-Neuf in Paris, France
1997 Gallery Weber in Geneva, Switzerland; Gallery Toile Cirée in Geneva, Switzerland
1996 Gallery Fricker in Paris, France
1996 Gallery Weber in Geneva, Switzerland
1996 Gallery Středoevropská in Prague, Czech republic
1995 Gallery Toile Cirée in Geneva, Switzerland
1995 Sarisska gallery in Presov, Slovakia
1995 Foire Internationale d´Art Contemporain in Geneva, Switzerland