JANA BEDNÁROVÁ
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