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Plein-air painting became the characteristic art technique for Bednarova as she focuses on the immersion to the landscape of North-East India, where she currently lives and works. Walking in pristine untouched nature and discovering hidden sceneries of rain forests may be in future only utopic recall stored in our memory. Bednarova works with the image of nature which we used to know. The paintings on canvas by acrylic or on raw silk by natural pigments tell the story about the wild nature, which can inspire humans for survival by its biodiversity and ability to grow in the uneasy terrains. Documenting the sceneries from jungles by landscape painting is an attempt to portray the wild nature and preserve those images of harmony, mutuality and co-existence which are disappearing from human eyes.

EDUCATION:

2014  Master of Visual arts degree at Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayjirao University of Baroda

           Gujarat, India, ICCR Scholarship

2012  BA degree at Department of painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, VUT Brno, Czech Republic

2011  Department of painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava, CEPUS Scholarship

2009  Department of painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, UVP/ EHU, Spain ERASMUS Scholarship

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

 

2024 Kolónia Pralesov / Colony of Rainforest, curated by Adrián Kobetič, Zahorie Gallery of Jan Mudroch
https://www.zgjm.sk/en/exhibitions/archive-of-exhibitions/2024-2/jana-bednarova-colony-of-rainforests/

 

2023 Osobný Biotop / Personal Biotope, curated by Beata Jablonská, Zichy Gallery, Bratislava https://www.staremesto.sk/sk/events/showEvent/id:7181/section:visitor

 

2022 Dôverné Teritórium/Confidencial Territory,  currated by Martina Ivičič, Gallery of Miloš Alexander  Bazovský in Trenčín, Slovakia 

 http://www.gmab.sk/vystavy-a-podujatia/jana-bednarova-doverne-teritorium.html?page_id=16195

 

2021  Splynúť s divočinou / To blend into the Wilderness, currated by Martina Ivičič, Atelier XIII Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia https://www.atelierxiii.com/jana-bedarova-%E2%98%85-splynut-s-divocinou/

 

2019  Root Bridges, Solo Exhibition, currated by Martina Ivičič, Cin Cin Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

 https://www.galeriacincin.sk/gallery/jana-bednarova-2019

2017  Rastúce Kamene, Art Cafe Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia

2016  Stories from East, FOYER Gallery, Staré Divadlo Karola Spišáka, Nitra, Slovakia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

 

2023  Decembrové stopy, Cin Cin Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

https://www.galeriacincin.sk/gallery/decembrove-stop-y-8-2019

2022-Festival Dom, Garden /group exhibition, curated by Mariana Brindzova & Martina Ivičič, Prüger-Wallner's Garden, Nekrasovova 1, Bratislava, Slovakia. https://festivaldom.com/dom-2022/

 

2022- Príroda je Ona (Nature is Her), Group Exhibiiton curated by Valentina Kasper Rosputinska, Penati Golf Resort, Šajdíkove Humence, Slovakia 

https://www.penatigolfresort.sk/rezort/novinky/priroda-je-ona/

 

2021-NEW WAVE, Group Exhibition curated by Mária Horváthová, T.O.P. Auto Premium Art Gallery, Jaguar Landrover Showroom, organized by Turuk & Art Collective
https://turukartcollective.com/vystavy/kolektivna-vystava-nova-vlna-t-o-p-auto-premium-art-gallery

2020  ARTBASE, curated by Zuzana Dankova, Dot. Contemporary Art Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia 

https://www.dotgallery.sk/elementor-4830/

 

2020  Maľba 2020, Group Exhibition of the finalists of the art competition for young art, Nedbalka

Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

https://www.nedbalka.sk/en/exhibitions/malba-2020/

           

2019  Decembrové stopy, Cin Cin Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

https://www.galeriacincin.sk/gallery/decembrove-stop-y-8-2019

 

2019  Maľba 2019, Group Exhibition of the finalists of the art competition for young art, Nedbalka Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

 

2019  Cultural Mosaic, Art Novelty Gallery in collaboration with Indian Council for Cultural Relation,

Vanapa Hall, Aizawl, Mizoram, India

 

2018  Decembrové stopy 7, Cin Cin Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

https://www.galeriacincin.sk/gallery/decembrove-stopy-2018 

 

2018  Abode of Clouds,  Gallery Annexe,India International Centre, New, Delhi, India

https://www.picassopupils.com/adobe-of-clouds-2018


2016  Beyond the Mist in Vadodara, self curated project organized by Picasso Pupils and The Embassy of The Slovakia in New Delhi on the occasion of the Slovak Presidency of the Council of EU,

exhibited in SPACE STUDIOS Gallery, Baroda, India and  AlFACS Gallery, Delhi, India 

https://sk.picassopupils.com/beyond-the-mist-delhi


2014  Full on, short movie festival, screening of the video “Legend form Basista village”, Faculty of fine Arts,  MSU Baroda, India

 

AWARDS:

2023 Slovak Arts Council Schollarship for one year project "Terrarium" and art mobility Project „Dzuko Valley“

2022 Slovak Arts Council Schollarship for art mobility Project „Plener in Kaziranga“

2021 Collaboration Grands of Asia-Europe Foundation for video „Portraits“  
         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ8wmUBs-I0

2020 Slovak Arts Council Schollarship for production

2019 and 2020  finalist of Painting Art Contest for young contemporary visual artists, MALBA VUB

IN ART COLLECTIONS:

Nedbalka Gallery

Čin Čin Gallery

Gallery Atelier XIII
Tourism Department, Government of Meghalaya

DC Office, Government of Meghalaya

Private Collectors from Slovakia, Czech Republic, India and Dubai

CULTURAL PROJECTS:

 

2016 - 2023  organizing international Art Residency “Artists’ Point” in Meghalaya, India

artists www.picasspupils.com


2017 - 2023     Kopanice bez hranice, Art Symposium and festival, Organizer https://www.facebook.com/kopanicebezhranice

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