Residency Program Telegraph Gallery accepts all forms of visual art. Artists working in the mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture, and new media are welcome to apply.
Residencies last 4-12 weeks. The artist's headquarters is a 50m² studio and a 35m² apartment right in the Telegraph. The artist is provided with an honorarium for food and materials to create. We also provide transportation to Olomouc and transport the resulting artwork to its destination.
If you are interested in a residency, please contact us: rezidence@telegraph.cz
Slovak artist Peter Cvik visited our residency in May and June 2021.
"I was extremely pleased with my stay in the Telegraph building. I was well impressed by the setting, which has a great architectural design and an interesting atmosphere. I was also impressed with the technical facilities of the studio and the team that helped me with the project. I have never experienced such a high level of service at a residence. The best conditions for work are provided here. In addition, the city of Olomouc influenced me in my work, but I did not find it a credible transcription of reality. I have transferred the spirit of the place into my paintings in a rather symbolic and abstract form."
Peter Cvik is a Slovak painter living in Bratislava and also a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts. He has been exhibiting mainly abroad for more than five years, where he also spends time on residencies. When creating his paintings, he originally used photography and computer software inputs, but gradually moved to painting himself. The result are paintings inspired by the artist's life, which are a synthesis of real scenery and expressive painterly inputs. His paintings are mostly perceptions and experiences that he decomposes in his mind and creates fragments of memories, which in the process of painting create a new context and a unique whole. Peter describes his work as an exploration of his own individual visual memory. He works a lot with landscape painting, in which there is a moment of repetition, which is the cause of the visualization of the experienced reality. Each of his paintings has its own distinctive story, but the formal approach places it in a series.
