Svetlana Fialová

Blooming Cherry, Indefinite Clouds

Svetlana Fialová has for a long term and continuously developed her work in the medium of drawing while trying to push the usual boundaries and speculations about its exhaustibility. At the exhibition entitled Blooming Cherry, Indefinite Clouds, the author presents the latest works with the features of a graphic experiment, inspired by a residency in Tokyo and the Japanese woodcut technique ‘ukiyo-e‘. She develops sudden and random revelations of eternal questions about the last meaning of life in typical, complicated compositions. The set of multi-layered woodcuts is complemented by smaller formats given by a simple but distinctive relief drawing.

Svetlana Fialová (*1985) was born and lives in Košice. She graduated from the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the Studio of Painting II under the guidance of doc. Vladimír Skrepl and doctoral studies with the supervisor prof. Daniel Fischer at the VŠVU in Bratislava. She completed a one-year internship at the Red Gallery in London as part of the ERASMUS + scholarship program during her PhD. studies.

Fialová is a laureate of the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013, a finalist in the Essl Art Award for the Czech Republic, the Critics’ Award for Young Painting and VUB Paintings of the Year in 2020, 2015 and 2012. She has exhibited solo in Paris, Vienna, Prague and Bratislava. At the turn of 2018-2019, she participated in a two-month residency at Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo as part of the KAIR project. She currently works as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts in Košice in the Studio of Graphics and Experimental Creation under the guidance of prof. Peter Rónai.

The exhibitions of this gallery and the realization of the author’s work in the form of a stipendium is supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council.

Slovak Arts Council is the main partner of the project.

The project is also financially supported by City Košice.