Stano Filko (1937, Veľká Hradná - 2015, Bratislava) was a key figure in the Slovak avant-garde, associated primarily with environment, installation, happening, and action. He began his studies at the School of Applied Arts in Bratislava (1956-59) and later studied Monumental Painting at the Academy of Arts, Bratislava (Prof. Milly and Prof. Matejka, 1960-65). He emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1981 to West Germany and the following year further to the United States. In 1990 he returned to Bratislava.
Stano Filko
2017 From Earth t Pluto, SODA gallery (SK)
2037, Kunsthalle Bratisvlava (SK)
2016 Stano Filko, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
2015 FILKO - FYLKO - PHYLKO, zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL)
Focus, Frieze Art Fair London, with Galerie Emanuel Layr, London (UK)
5.D., PlATO - platforma, Ostrava, Vitkovice (Cz)
Stano Filko, Kiki Kogelnik, Lira Gallery, Rome (IT)
Milos Laky and Ján zavarský, WHITE, Curated together with Fedor Blascák, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)
Postbigbang - Antebigbangsf, curated by Mira Keratová, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples (IT)
2014 WHITE (Essence), 1974, with
2012 erupekcia-orgiazmus-orgazmus-yang-jin=slnkomesiac-in like-love-entita-exist-beingsf-hermafrodit kazdemu podla svojich moznosti a schopnosti-v-in-5.4.3.d-pre zivot singular truths vsetkych ludi na tejto zemeguli-
tranzscendencie-v-in-existencii-len v 3.d., amt _ project, Bratislava (SK)
Stano Filko - White as an ontological space and the beginning of everything, Galeria Nedbalka, Bratislava
(SK)
Vernisáz výstavy TRANzSCENDENTEAOQ 5.D. (4.3.), Galéria Cypriána Majerníka, Bratislava (SK)
TRANzSCENDENTEAOQ 5.4.3.D = METODIKA = INTELIGENTEAOQ, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)
2008 Filkova archa a oltare sucasnosti, City Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
2005 UP 300000 KM/S tranzit workshops, Bratislava (SK)
2003 Stano Filko. SONDA EGOQ 1937-2037 GEMINIY, Galeria Slovenska sporitelna, Bratislava (SK)
FIYLKONTEMPLACIAKCIEQ, SONDA 1950-1969, SONDA 1971-1984, Statna galeria,Banska Bystrica (SK)
2000 EGOQ, Vychodoslovenska galeria, Kosice (SK)
1996 Galeria Tatrasoft, Bratislava (SK)
1986 FYLKO. Special Exhibit of Recent Work 1983 - 1985, P.S. 1- The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York (US)
1980 Stanislaw Filko. Transcendencja I.-II. 1978-1979, Mala Galeria PSP- zPAF, Plac zamkowy, Warsaw (PL)
1978 Stanislav Filko. Emotion-1977, Galeria LDK Labirynt, Lublin (PL)
1974 Biely priestor v bielom priestore. Stano Filk- Milos Laky- Jan zavarsky, Dum umeni, Brno (Cz)
1969 Stanislav Filko. Environnement Universel 1966-1967 und Grafik, Galerie Ursula Wendtorf- Kunstverein
Oldenburg-Düsseldorf (DE)
1967 Grafika, Galeria Vaclava Spaly, Prague (Cz)
Stano Filko. Obydli soucasnosti a skutecnosti, Galeria na Karlove namesti, Prague (Cz)
Externe prostredie- komunikacia, Galeria Cypriana Majernik, Bratislava (SK)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 MASMEDIÁLNE OBRAZY ŽENY, Bratislava City Gallery (SK)
2016 Kunst in Europa 1945-1968, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe (DE)
2015 Ludwig Goes Pop + The East Side Story, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest (HU)
Die Schule von Kyiv, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)
LISTE Basel 20 - Stano Filko, Benjamin Hirte, Lili Reynaud-Dewar and Ramaya Tegegne, Basel (CH)
The Soft Codes, Conceptual Tendencies in Slovak Art, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw (PL)
Shifters: Signaling in Latin America and Eastern Europe, GB Agency, Paris (FR)
2014 Lotte Sonnenstein: Bildbaumeister extended, curated by Angela Stief, Casa Roja Temporäre Kunsthalle Linz (AT)
Lotte Sonnenstein: Bildbaumeister, Parallel II Art Fair, Vienna (AT) Personal Hi-Stories, curated by Elena Yaichnikova and Nicolas Audureau,
Garage Project Space, Moscow (RU) Cosmos Calling! Art And Science In The Long Sixties, zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL) Strom zivota / Tree of Life, Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Bratislava (SK)
Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (US)
2013 The Earth Turns And All Things Slip Away, Hunt Kastner Artworks, Prague (Cz)
Collection 1 2 3 / The Tracks of History in Acquisitions - Part 3, GASK,
Galerie Středoceského kraje, Kutná Hora (Cz)
2012 Blood, Esterházy Palace, Bratislava (SK)
Fremde Überall - Foreigners Everywhere, zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Pomeranz Collection, Jüdisches Museum Wien, Vienna (AT) zero Years - Slovak Visual Art between 1999 and 2011 from Four Curatorial Perspectives, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen (HU) Delete - Art and Wiping Out, Esterházy Palace, Bratislava (SK)
Strata, Sammlung Lenikus, curated by Francesco Stocchi, Bauernmarkt 9, Vienna (AT)
as a poem might celebrate these, Stano Filko, Marjorie Keller, Rita Vitorelli, curated by Christian Kobald,
Pleasantpleasant, Copenhagen (DK)
Mit sofortiger Wirkung: künstlerische Eingriffe in den Alltag (with immediate effect: artistic interventions in the everyday), Kunsthalle project space karlsplatz, Vienna (AT)
Papier Kole, Czech and Slovak koláz / Collage of 20th and 21th centuries, East-Slovakian Gallery Kosice,
2011 The Present and Presence, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana (SL)
Eyes Looking for the Head to Inhabit, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz (PL)
11th Biennale de Lyon "A Terrible Beauty Is Born", Lyon (FR)
Ostalgia, New Museum, New York (US) curated by_vienna 2011: East by South West,... sein Dasein verlässt und seine Gestalt der Erinnerung übergibt (curated by Severin Dünser, Christian Kobald) Galerie Emanuel Layr,
Museum of Parallel Narratives. MACBA, Barcelona (SP)
2010 Porträt einer Sammlung, Kunstsammlung Chemnitz (CH)
Les promesses du passé, Centre Pompidou, Paris (F R)
Star City - The Future Under Communism, Nottingham Contemporary (UK)
2008 BETWEEN CONCEPT AND ACTION, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin (I T)
2007 Arta Slovaca 1960 - 2000, Nationals Museum of Contemporary Art,Bukarest (RO)
Prague Biennale 3, Prague (Cz )
tranzit, Kunstverein Frankfurt (DE)
OUT OF THE CITY Landart, City Gallery of Bratislava, Bratislava (SK)
2006 Kontakt, Mumok, Vienna, A I(ICH), Wiener Secession, Vienna, A and Futura, Prague (Cz)
Living Art - On the Edge of Europe, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (NL)
2005 51st Venice Biennial, Venice (IT)
2004 Collected Views from East to West, Generali Foundation, Vienna (AT)
2003 FIYLKONTEMPLACIAKCIEQ, SONDA 1950 -1969, SONDA 1971 - 1984, státna galéria (State Gallery), Banská Bystrica (SK)
Slovak Contemporary Art, Gallery Art Factory, Prague (Cz)
2001 Umenie akcie 1965 - 1980, Slovenská národná galéria (Slovak National Gallery), Bratislava (SK)
Slowakische Träume, Museum moderner Kunst, Passau (D E)
2000 Samizdat. Alternatice Kultur in zentral- und Osteuropa. Die 60er bis 80er Jahre, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (D E)
1999 Aspekte / Positionen. 50 Jahre Kunst aus Mitteleuropa 1949 - 1999, MMKSLW.
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Palais Liechtenstein, 20er Haus, Vienna (A T)
Global Conceptualism - Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, QMA - Queens Museum of Art, New York (US)
Slovak Art for Free, Biennale de Venezia, Venice (IT)
1992 zwischen Objekt und Installation. Slowakische Kunst der Gegenwart, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (DE)
1986 Off the wall, Kamikadze Gallery, New York (US)
Undercurrents in the Visual Arts, Wiesner Gallery, New York (US)
1982 Documenta 7, Kassel (DE)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 Gregorova Stach, Lucia - Hrabušický, Aurel: Poézia o priestore - kozme /
Poetry on Space - Cosms Bratislava: SNG, 2016.
Eckhart Gillen, Peter Weibel (eds.): Art in Europe 1945-1968, ZKM Karlsruhe, 2016
2011 Verwoert, Jan: World as Medium: On the Work of Stano Filko, e-flux journal #28, Oct 2011
2006 Georg Schöllhammer, Life in the 5.4.3. Dimension. A retrospective in
Bratislava rediscovers the work of Stano Filko, Die Springerin, Feb 2006
Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Portrait Stano Filko. 1945 I had my first post-modern thought, Spike, July 2006
2005 Grzonka, Patricia: Stano Filko. Arbor vitae, 2005
2002 Hoptman, Laura - Pospiszyl Tomás (ed.): Primary Documents. A Sourcebook for Eastern and Central
European Art since the 1950s, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2002
2000 Badovinac, zdenka - Weibel, Peter: Arteast 2000+. The Art of Eastern Europe.
A Selection of Works for the International and National Collections of Moderna galerija Ljubljana, Folio
Verlag, Bolzano - Vienna 2000
1999 Havránek, Vít (ed.): Akce Slovo Pohyb Prostor. Experimenty v umění sedesátýcj let/ Action Word Movement
Space. Experimental Art of the Prague 1999
1971 Filko, Stano: Stano Filko II. 1965/69, vlastním nákladem/self-published, Bratislava 1971
1968 Frank Popper, Origins and Development of Kinetic Art, New York, 1968