Viktor Frešo is considered among the most remarkable figures of European conceptual art in the region of the former Czechoslovakia. His work and approach to art are highly personal, while reflecting larger concerns and attitudes in global society and the art world. He studied in Bratislava at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design and in Prague at the Academy of Fine Arts where he graduated 2003.

Frešo addresses sophisticated cultural concepts and autobiographical themes using deceptively simple methods. 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 creations is the tension he creates between huge, grandiose ego-forward art with quieter paintings and humble found objects from his family's history. His ability to unabashedly reveal his dark, sentimental, and comical sides endears the viewer by unselfconsciously allowing access to the artist's inner quirks, memories, and desires.

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

Frešo is in the permanent collection of the Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL; Florida Museum of Photographic Art, Tampa, USA,;Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, SK; Bulgaria National Gallery, Sofia, BG; Czech National Gallery, Prague, CZ; Bratislava City Gallery, Bratislava, SK; Prague City Gallery, Prague, CZ; Colección Arte Al Límite, Santiago de Chile, CL; Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, SK; East Slovak Gallery, Košice, SK; Ján Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, SK; Museum Art.Plus, Donaueschingen, DE.

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