Viktor Frešo studied in Bratislava at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design and in Prague at the Academy of Fine Arts where he graduated and received his diploma in 2003. Frešo is considered among the most remarkable figures of European conceptual art in the region of the former Czechoslovakia. His work and overall approach to art is atypical in the way it reflects Eastern Europe's constantly evolving society and culture.

The artist materializes sophisticated concepts and projects, presenting them as seemingly simple ideas and works of art. Unafraid to challenge norms, his critical perspective sometimes expresses his contempt for the art scene itself albeit with a light, humorous and playful undertone. Characteristic of his creation is the counterpoint he creates between huge, grandiose ego-forward art with gesture-dominant work that is almost disarming with its irony and humility. His ability to reveal both dark and comical sides of his soul endears the viewer by allowing access to the artist's unflattering flaws and life stumbles regardless of consequence.

In sum, Viktor Frešo is interested in direct, efficient, visual tools. He prefers a short interval between action and reaction and enjoys when viewers have speedy, unmediated responses to his work. He has no compunction presenting radical and sometimes critical opinions of society that might irritate and provoke discussions about what is and what is not acceptable as contemporary art or what it means to be a whole-heartedly self-centered artist. Whether he intervenes in public spaces or exhibits in galleries, he takes care that his raw, creative actions show themselves in the works' final execution – a grand, critical, honest, artistic, gesture.

Viktor Frešo

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