Aliza Orlan
area: Intermedia Art
Key Facts
nationality
Slovakiaarea
Intermedia Artresidence
Bratislavarecommending institution
tranzit.org / ERSTE Stiftungtime period
July 2024 - August 2024Aliza Orlan (born 1990, Slovakia) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in the Department of Printmaking and Other Media. She works with the medium of drawing, installation, performance art, textiles and poetry.
Orlan is a production assistant for a contemporary dance festival and other events in Bratislava. As a curator, she works with young artists and students of the Academy of Fine Arts.
After graduating, she worked for several years as a high school teacher of drawing and typography in Trenčín, Slovakia.
The artist has had numerous exhibitions in Slovakia and other cities in Central Europe, including the solo exhibition "Gardens of my Fears and Passions" at Galeria Jula Bibera in Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia. "Spouting" White & Weiss Gallery in Bratislava. "History Hustory* / Museum of Self-Care", Queer Museum Vienna and "Sensory tales" at Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna.
During her residency at MQ, Aliza Orlan will continue to work on her ongoing project "in blue my sex blur". Her aim is to research transgender people from both a psychological and medical perspective. She will focus on transgender health care and the first endocrinologists in Central Europe and Vienna in particular. She will continue to focus on transgender health care and the first endocrinologists in Central Europe and Vienna in particular.
Trans people are still discriminated. For the artist, the colour blue is a symbol of healthcare and the struggle of queer and transgender people for their rights. She refers to the film "Blue" by director Derek Jarman. Orlan translates activist and political themes into poetic drawings and performances, using her own body as a means of expression. Performance and the written word form the two central pillars of Aliza Orlan's art.