Jaro Varga

Varga is a visual artist and curator, born in Slovakia and based in Prague, Czech Republic. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia; the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria; the Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław, Poland; and the Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions, including When Artists Speak Truth, The 8th Floor, New York (2016); the Bucharest Biennale 7 (2016); About Books, AlbumArte, Rome (2018), and History is His Story, NEST Space for Art, The Hague, the Netherlands (2019); The Yellow Book, Tàpies Foundation, Barcelona, Spain (2021); In Someone Else's Game, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest (2023); Our Silence Will Not Protect Us, Center for Contemporary Art, GJK Trnava, Slovakia (2024). As an artist in residence, Varga has worked at the Delfina Foundation, London, UK; Museums Quartier 21, Vienna, Austria; ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin, Germany; Triangle Arts Association, New York, USA; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea; and the SaSa Art Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

In his practice, Jaro Varga explores how spatial experience can be reshaped through movement and narrative. He often reconfigures familiar environments or invites visitors to enter fictional situations that shift their perception. By constructing new topographies, he encourages a rethinking of spaces that are otherwise fixed in our collective memory. During his residency Jaro will continue pursuing his recent interest in how, historically and in the present day, knowledge is created and our continued failure or inability to discover how things “really are.”