Man Has Emerged Triumphant / Guided Tour
Join us for a guided tour of the exhibition Man Has Emerged Triumphant: Jan Medlen's Arena with its authors, Matej Gavula and Jonáš Gruska.
➺ When: March 10, 2026, at 6:00 PM
➺ Venue: tranzit.sk, Beskydská 12, Bratislava
The event will be held in Slovak language.
This exhibition entitled Man Has Emerged Triumphant explores oil extraction in the Záhorie region, the history and possible future of a society built on extraction, and a creative and curious man who worked with the essence from the bowels of the earth. Sound plays a central role: the suction and movement from one cavity to another shape the architecture of the exhibition. The barrel becomes Medlen's rotunda, and concrete and bronze castings function as allegories of fossil form and density. Archival photographs and video footage of explosions reveal an invisible landscape — one that continues to ferment beneath the surface and seep into the present.
Matej Gavula is a graduate of the Glass Studio of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. He works mainly with sculpture, but also with photography, video, and performance, and has been involved in exhibition architecture and scenography. In addition to exhibiting, he researches sculpture from the 1970s and 1980s and its impact on public space with a view to its connection to architecture. He currently runs the “Studio of Free Sculpture” at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design.
Jonáš Gruska is a multidisciplinary artist primarily dealing with aural phenomena, psychoacoustics and sonics beyond our hearing range. He has authored dozens of sound installations, site-specific performances and concerts. Jonáš is the founder of LOM — experimental music label, cultural venue and an instrument manufacturing company.
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ERSTE Foundation is main partner of tranzit.
Media partners: Artalk.info, Flash Art CZ & SK, Kapitál, GoOut.net
