Klara Kusa

Klara Kusa is an emerging artist and activist, she appreciates techniques of appropriation (from post-war art, philosophy, research art to medicine), experimentation, and recycling of various found objects and materials. In her work, she uses performative gestures to create site-specific installations mixing sound, photographs, drawings, own movement in space, video, and archive materials. These strategies can be understood as institutional critique. Many of the author's projects are reactionary, the reactions towards them often create another project or its continuation. Her artistic practice is experimental, utilizing the tools and strategies of post-conceptual art.

Klara Kusa’s practice is an act of defiance—against institutions, rigid academic structures, and the commodification of artistic expression. Her work spans performance, sound, photography, and archival research, creating site-specific installations that challenge societal norms and power structures. In this conversation, Kusa reflects on her unconventional path, the struggles of being an emerging artist in Slovakia, and the necessity of making art outside of institutional constraints. With a sharp critical eye and an unapologetic voice, she shares her thoughts on appropriation, activism, and the precarious balance between survival and creative integrity.