ABOUT ME
Peter Sit is an artist, curator and organizer. He is oscillating between Bratislava and New York City. He was co-founder of art collective and platform APART (2012 - 2022).
Together with Apart he exhibited in Kunsthalle Bratislava, Karlín Studios in Prague, Easttopics in Budapest, Plusmínusnula in Zilina, Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno, CCA Chronicle in Bytom, MoMA in NYC. He received various grants, fellowships, awards and residencies (Salzburg Summer Academy, Art in General New York). He is editor of various books and curator of exhibitions and projects such as Harun Farocki: Shaping of Our Present at A Promise of Kneropy, 2022, Life, Death, Love and Justice with Didem Yazici at Yapı Kredi in Istanbul, 2022 or 9th Futurological congress: Future of Language with Julieta Aranda at Slovak radio building, 2019. He organized and participated in several lectures and discussions about conceptual art in the context of (art) education or mental health.
He writes on topic Art in Times in Anxieties and Depressions. He currently working as a Image editor of e-flux journal and as freelance photographer.
Selected exhibitions and projects:
2022
Biennale Matter of Art 2022 @ GHMP, Prague
Needle & Balloon @ Jan Koniarek Gallery in Trnava
Abysses @ Promise of Kneropy, Bratislava
2021
No Art Today? New Acquisitions from the Collections of Prague City Gallery
2020
Die Sonne does not shine like Słońce @ TRAFO, Szczecin
Jindrich Chalupecky Award @ PLATO, Ostrava
From Matter to Data: Ecology of Infrastructures @ MoMA, New York City
2019
Rhodiola @ Alserkal Art Fundation, Dubai
Surface Depression and the Emergence of New Habitats @ Easttopics, Budapest
2018
The Most Beautiful Catastrophe @ CCA Kronika, Bytom
The Bratislava BAK Summer School: Art in Time of Interegnum @ AFAD, Nová Cvernovka, Bratislava
2017
Continuously growing horizontal underground stems: Geopoetics in times of anthropocene - APART collective with Matej Gavula, Chaosdroid, Lukáš Likavčan @ Plusminusnula gallery, Žilina
What can we do? conference about art education organised by Studio without master@ Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
A Part of a Monolith by APART Collective @ Karlin Studios, Prague
Possibility of Preserving by APART Collective @ Kunsthalle Bratislava
2016
Milan Adamčiak - Panphilia, guests: Mate Gavula, APART @ Zahorian & Van Espen, Bratislava
LESSON OF RELATIVITY @ Zoya Gallery, Bratislava
Darkness Does Not Exist. It is Only Us Who Do Not See the Light @ AMT _ project, Bratislava
27th Brno Biennial 2016 @ The Moravian Gallery in Brno
Handle With Care - Fragile - Thank You @ Photoport, Bratislava
2015
Diversity of Voices @ ESSL MUSEUM, Vienna
There Is No Place Like Home. East or West, Home Is the Best @ Kunsthalle, Košice
7. Zlín Youth Salon 2015 @ Regional gallery of fine arts in Zlin
Essl Art Award Cee 2015 @ Gallery MEDIUM, Bratislava
29. August @ Flat of Miroslav Csolle, Bratislava
Anima Mundi @ Armaturka (Malá galerie), Ústí nad Labem
2014
Weightiness of the Consciousness of the World, an Inability of the Soul to Breathe @ Laurinská 14, Bratislava
Revolution Without Movement @ Galéria HIT in cooperation with tranzit.sk, Bratislava
Diversity Required @ SNG, Bratislava
A Process @ Neue Galerie im Höhmannhau, Augsburg
Young medium III @ Slovak East Gallery, Košice
2013
Apartment 24/7 @ Photoport gallery, Bratislava
Books:
2019 Klimatická kríza. txt ed. Peter Sit
Residencies:
2022
e-flux, New York City
2021
Banská ST A NICA, Banská Štiavnica
2019
Art in General, New York City
Salzburg Summer Academy with Marina Fokidis @ Salzburg / stipendium by tranzit.org
2016
Athens Partahhiana @ Are, Athens
Awards and nominations:
2020
finalist of stipend program by NOVUM foundation
finalist of Jindřich Chalupecký Award with Extrasensory Aesthetics Research Working Group
2017
finalist of Oskár Čepan Award with APART collective
2015
Winner of ESSL award 2015
2013
Finalist of Photo of the year VÚB
Selected (co-) curated projects:
2022
Life, Death, Love and Justice, co-curated with Didem Yazici@Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat, Istanbul
Farocki: Shaping of our Present@ A Promise of Kneropy, Bratislava
2021
Archiving Care@ Kunsthalle Bratislava
Series of talks on intersectionality of climate crisis w/ Julieta Aranda, Quinn Latimer, Alexandra Pirici@ APART, online
Life, Death, Love and Justice, co-curated with Didem Yazici@ tranzit.sk, Bratislava
2018
9th Futurological Congress: Future of Language (TALK TO ME) withwith Julieta Aranda, Daniel Grúň, Nicoline van Harskamp, Karl Holmqvist, Chaosdroid & Boris Vitázek, Boris Ondreička, Ayumi Paul, radioee.net, Peter Sit, Tony Yanick@ Slovak Radio Building, Bratislava
Art is Work curated by Apart in collaboration with: APART collective, Feministická (umělecká) instituce, Liam Gillick, Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova, Jana Kapelová, Barbora Kleinhamplová, Bojana Kunst, Nulová mzda, Mohammad Salemy, Krisdy Shindler, Jiří Skála, Tereza Stejskalová, Pavel Sterec, Raša Todosijević, Anton Vidokle, Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.)@ Krokus Gallery, Bratislava
2017
Reading of xenofeminist manifesto with Kristína Országhová, works by Diann Bauer, Patricia Reed @ Apart studio, Bratislava
Anton Vidokle, Arseny Zhilyaev - Art Without Dead@ Kunsthalle Bratislava
Nikhil Chopra - Drawing a Line Through Landscape@ Bratislava, SK & Kassel collaboration with Documenta 14
Hands-Antennas: Protocols from Extrasensory Aesthetics w/ Matěj Pavlík, Jan Kolský, Vojtěch Märc@ Josef Sudek Studio, Prague / FOTOGRAF FESTIVAL
Babi Badalov - Electronic Dadaist Poetry@ HIT Gallery, Bratislava
2016
Mehraneh Atashi - Safe Landing@ HIT Gallery, Bratislava
Rocket Launch and Reflection on The School of Kyiv with Hedwig Saxenhuber, Joseb Dabernig, Boris Ondreička@ Kino Mladosť, Bratislava
Zbigniew Libera - Walser@ Kino Mladosť, Bratislava
A Forming of Inevitable Blue@ HIT Gallery, Bratislava
Performances / Lectures/ Screening / Talks:
2022
TERRITO/REALITIES @ Deck, Singapore
INQUIRIES INTO THE FUTURE @ Goethe Institut, Bratislava
Independence and Self-Organization @ Neuer Kunstverein Wien
Art in Times of Anxieties and Depressions @ Umprum, Prague
2021
From informal encounters to alternative ways of institutionalization @ FAMU, Prague
B-open 2021, Bergen
2020
Discussion “Past’s Futures: Anthropocene or Capitalocene?” @ MoMa, New York
Resist Like Woods @ Institute of Anxiety, Czech rep.
2019
Curatorial School 2019: Collaborative practices @ Swimming Pool, Sofia
The Most Beautiful Catastrophe, introduced by Peter Sit @ Bar Laika by e-flux, New York
Work Hard Play Hard @ Minsk
2018
Work Hard Play Hard @ Minsk
How to weather the shrit storm ? organized by Pavel Sterec and Kuba Szreder @ Praha v Brne,
2017
Discussion: Conceptual art in the context of (art) education w/ Anna Remešová, Jiří Žák @ Tranzitdisplay, Prague,
2016
Chicks on Speed, Boris Ondreička, APART - VEILLANCE @ Pohoda festival, Trenčín
HARVEST @ RED Gallery, London
2013
Les Rencontres d’Arles @ Arles
Represented:
in City Prague Gallery, Slovak national gallery and in private collections