Photographer Robo Kočan
Born Poprad, Slovakia, 1968
Education
1983 – 87 High School of Applied Arts, Kosice
1989 – 96 Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava
(Majoring in photography under Lubo Stacho)
1993 The Nottingham Trend University, Nottingham (GB)
1993 Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Dijon (F)
Contact Jarna 11, 058 01 Poprad, Slovakia
Phone – 0903 958 875
www.robokocan.com
kocan.robo@gmail.com
Awards
2005 FIAP – “XXV Krajobraz Gorski” Nowy Targ (PL)
1999 “Young Artist of the Year”, Slovakia
1995 Jury Prize, “Images of Europe”, Amsterdam (NL)
1992 Jury Prize, “Images of Europe”, Amsterdam (NL)
Aartist residency
2003 World Artist Program in Spaces Gallery (6 weeks) – Cleveland (USA)
2004 CROSS ROADS (2 weeks) – Glamorgan – Wels (GB)
Representation in collections:
Slovak National gallery -Bratislava (SK), National gallery -Praha(CZ)
Stat gallery -Banska Bystrica(SK), Galéria Umelcov Spiša (SK)
Museum of Fine Arts -Houston-Texas(USA),
European Central Bank -Frankfurt(D),
Private colectin in Slovakia, Czek republik, Poland, Austria,
Nederland, Francúzsku, USA, Canada, Australia
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Not just the Guardian Angel – mini gallery Lahodne nebo – Poprad (SK)
(Un) Usual – Slovak Institute in Budapest, Month ofPhotography – Budapest (H)
2019 Bridges– Oravská galéria – Dolny Kubín (SK)
Robo Kočan dle Prekopa– Starý zámek – Dačice (CZ)
Robo Kočan– Month of photography – Pistoriho palác – Bratislava (SK)
2018 The Bridges – Tatranská galéria – Poprad (SK)
2016 Images of memories– Komorní scéna Aréna – Ostrava (CZ)
Stories – Galéria umenia Ernesta Zmetáka – Nové Zámky (SK)
By the Light into the Darkness,– Galeria Mala – Slubice (PL)
2012 Zo štvrtej strany – GUS – Spišská Nová Ves (SK)
2011 Stories from other side – three exhibition in Piešťany (SK)
2010 Stories from other side – photo-decorative ART gallery-Poprad (SK)
The Stories – 20. Mesiac fotografie – Dom umenia – BA (SK)
2009 Tajomné priestory – photo-decorative ART gallery-Poprad (SK)
Potulky svetom-ČINA – cukráreň Domenico – Poprad (SK)
2008 Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Gallery Bazilika, Ceske Budejovice (CZ)
Robo Kocan, Café Korzo, Levice (SK)
2007 Portraits of the Sky, Bibiana, Bratislava (SK)
2006 Inspirations, FOTART Gallery, Szczecin (PL)
Spaces of Light, Gallery at a sitting Angel, Kezmarok (SK)
2005 Lines of Light, Gallery of P. Matejko, Nove Mesto nad Vahom (SK)
Shadows of the Spirits, Gallery Fiducia, Ostrava (CZ)
Encounters of the Third Kind, Bibiana, Bratislava (SK)
Shadows of the Spirits, Gallery FOMA, Hradec Kralove (CZ)
2004 Stories by the Night Light, Gallery of Kolman Sokol, The Slovak Embassy, Washington (USA)
Robo Kocan, Gallery G4, Cheb (CZ)
Lines of Light, Gallery of M.A.Bazovsky, Trencin (SK)
2003 By the Light into the Darkness, Shambala Gallery, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Stories by the Night Light, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland (USA)
2002 Shadows of the Spirits, Gallery of Antoni Rasza, Zakopane (PL)
2001 Photo Play, National Gallery, Banska Bystrica (SK)
Photography, Gallery SIEMENS, Bratislava (SK)
2000 By the Light into the Darkness, PF Gallery, Poznan, Radom, Warszaw, and Krakow (PL)
Gardens of Eden, Folks Bank, Poprad (SK)
Photo Play, TG, DF, Folks Bank, Café Domenico, and Hotel Garny, Poprad (SK)
By the Light into the Darkness, National Gallery, Banska Bystrica (SK)
1999 Searching (33), Gallery Akcent, Bratislava (SK)
Folks Bank, Poprad (SK)
Café Domenico, Poprad (SK)
1998 By the Night into the Darkness, Gallery Velryba, Prague (CZ)
National Bank, Poprad (SK)
1997 Myself, Museum of V. Loffler, Kosice (SK)
Month of Photography, Bibiana, Bratislava (SK)
1995 Portraits Work, Gallery, Nove Zamky (SK)
Month of Photography, Regional Museum, Bratislava (SK)
Group Exhibitions
2020 Little fantasies – MART-photo center – Jekaterinburg (RUS)
Czechoslovak photography of the 80s – Rondo Stuki – Katowice (PL)
Kočan a Prekop – Days of Photography in Levice – Levice (SK)
Dokument 2020 – galéria M. A. Bazovského – Trenčín (SK)
2019 Crossroads of ideas – Galéria umelcov Spiša – SNV (SK)
2018 Anniversaries – Galéria umelcov Spiša – SNV (SK)
2017 Old and New– Mestská galéria – Rimavská Sobota (SK)
Stories in storehouses – Synagóga, Dni fotografie v Leviciach (SK)
2016 Tatry otherwise – Vila Flóra – Starý Smokovec – TG Poprad (SK)
Old and New– Kulturpark – Košice (SK)
Old and New – Rimavská Sobota (SK)
Generation in new intimacy C+S – Szymbark (PL)
2015 Exhibition to open the Art center Gallery 4 – Cheb (CZ)
Oltáre světa – Tatranská galéria – Poprad (SK)
Oltáre světa – Ekocentrum Sosna – Družstevná při Hornáde (SK)
Old and New – Radnica v Levoči (SK)
Generation in new intimacy C+S – Východoslovenská galéria – Košice (SK)
2014 Pictures of time II. – projekcia Genius loci LEVOČA – TG – Poprad (SK)
2013 V4 Through my eyes – Dom fotografie – LiptovskýMikuláš (SK)
Pictures of time – projekcia Genius loci CASSOVIA – DIGallery – Košice (SK)
2012 V4 Through my eyes – Slovenský inštitút v Budapešti (H)
From the fourth party– Galéria umelcov Spiša – Spišská Nová Ves (SK)
Pictures of time– projekcia – synagoga Košice (SK)
Pictures of time – projekcia – TG elektráreň PP (SK)
2011 V4 Through my eyes – EESC´s Jacques Delors Building – Brussel (B)
2D & 3D – INSPIREdedesign – Poprad (SK)
Anatomy of the space – gallery P.M.Bohúňa – Liptovský Mikuláš (SK)
V4 Through my eyes – OFF festival Bratisalva (SK)
From a third party– Dom fotografie – LiptovskýMikuláš (SK)
2010 Robo Kočan & Zbyněk Prokop …from other side… – Múzeum Vojtecha Lofflera
Košice (SK), galéria PER SPECTRUM – Prešov (SK), KONVERGENCIE
Kasárne/Kulturpark -Košice (SK)
VRTOCHY – galéria Barbakan – BA (SK)
FENOMÉN F.KAFKA 2010 – TG-Elektráreň Poprad (SK)
40.rokov SUPŠ – Košice – Východoslovenská galéria Košice (SK)
2008 He and Me, Gallery at a sitting Angel, Kezmarok (SK)
2007 Lustro Natury, Wroslaw (PL)
Photography, Embassy of USA, Bratislava (SK)
2006 Plays with Art, Tatranska Gallery, Poprad (SK)
Contemporary Art of Slovakia, European Central Bank, Frankfurt (G)
4for4, European House of Photography, Bratislava (SK)
4for4, Gallery Turleja, Krakow (PL)
Portrait, Photo-Biennale CONCHES (F)
2005 Crossing Roads for Ideas, House of Photography, Poprad (SK)
1.New Zlin Salon, Art House, Zlin (CZ)
2004 The Other Land, Gallery of P.M.Bohun, Liptovsky Mikulas (SK)
New Slovak Photography, Gallery FOTOHOF, Salzburg (A)
Crossing Roads for Ideas, The month of Photography, Bratislava (SK)
German-Czech cultural festival, New Town Hall, Weiden (G)
2003 Slovak Photography 1925–2000, City Gallery of Prague (CZ)
The View From Here: Recent Pictures from Central Europe and the American Midwest, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, Minnesota; SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio; Riffle Gallery, Columbus, Ohio (USA); Stone Bell House, City Gallery of Prague (CZ)
Slovakia Goes Ahead – Young Slovak Photography, St. Michel & Temple Bar, Dublin (GB)
The Other Land, House of Photography, Poprad (SK)
2002 Mountains in Photography, House of Photography, Poprad (SK)
The View From Here, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest (H)
Czech and Slovak Photography of the 1980s and 90s, Art House Bratislava (SK)
2001 New Connections, World Financial Centre, New York (USA)
Slovak Photography 1925-2000, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
Czech and Slovak Photography of the 1980s and 90s, National Gallery, Olomouc (CZ)
2000 Contemporary Slovak Photography, Warsaw, Wroclaw (PL)
Slovak Art of the 20th Century, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
Artfilm, Trencianske Teplice (SK)
Krajobraz Gorski, MOK, Nowy Targ (PL)
Spirits, Klarisky, Bratislava (SK)
1999 Invisible exhibition, Pezinok (SK)
Together again?, Arhus (Denmark)
Contemporary Slovak Photography, Budapest (Hungary), Bucharest (Romania)
Dialogues, Poprad (SK)
Young Artist of the Year, Gallery of Koniarik, Trnava (SK)
1998 Altered Worlds, FOTOFEST, Houston, Texas (USA)
Contemporary Slovak Art, Oslo (Norway)
Intimacies, Athens (Greece)
New Art of Slovakia, Zofllner Arts Centre, Betlehem (USA)
1997 Slovak Imaginary Photography, Thessaloniky (Greece)
International Photography, Buffalo, New York (USA)
Young Slovak Photography, House of Photography, Poprad (SK); Thessaloniky (Greece), Erfurt (G)
1996 Communications, Gallery of Spis, Spisska Nova Ves; Saris Gallery, Presov; Gallery of J. Jakoby, Kosice, Gallery of P.M.Bohun, Liptovsky Mikulas (SK)
Young Slovak Photography, House of Photography, Prague; Ostrava; Opava (CZ); Thuringen (G)
Schatenwerfer, Forum schloss Wolkensdorf (A)
Month of Photography, Bratislava, Banska Stiavnica (SK)
Dissertation, Slovak National Muzeum, Bratislava (SK)
Confrontations, Myslenice (PL)
1995 Portrait II, Photogallery Bilder, Vienna (A)
Photography, Gallery Donauraum, Vienna (A)
Communications, Tatranska Gallery, Poprad; Povazskas Gallery of Art, Zilina; Muzeum of Warhol, Medzilaborce (SK)
BilboArt, Bratislava (SK)
Across the Sea (Month of Photography), Bratislava (SK)
1994 Der Molussische Torso, Vienna (A), Berlin (G)
Profiles 94 – International, Skoki (PL)
Exploration 2, Povazska Gallery of Art, Zilina; Gallery Medium II, Ruzomberok (SK
1. International Salon of the Mountain Photography, Tatranska Gallery, Poprad (SK)
1993 Slovak Cultural Festival, Karsruhe (G)
Images of Europe, Amsterdam (NL)
Lubo Stacho and Company, Bratislava (SK)
North England in Northern Slovakia, Tatranska Gallery, Poprad (SK)
Slovaks in Dijon, Dijon (F)
Month of Photography, Bratislava (SK)
1992 Blow-up, International Student Photography, Bratislava (SK)
Without Name, Humenne (SK)
44 Ateliers of Artists, Paris (F)
Slovak Dozen, Dortmund (G)
Month of Photography, Bratislava (SK)
1991 The Wall, The Fall, Colorado (USA)