Portrait

Slovak artist Jana Zatvarnická, based in Düsseldorf, explores spiritual and historical processes in society through her paintings, drawings, and installations. Her work experiments with various materials to create individual mythologies that trace human history and heritage.

Vita

born in 1988 in Michalovce, Slovakia

Education
since 2012 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf / Academy of Arts Düsseldorf, Germany
since 2014 studio of painting of prof. Siegfried Anzinger
2013-2014 studio of prof. Katarina Grosse
2011 Eesti Kunstiakademia/Estonian academy of Arts, Sculpture department at studio of Juri Ojaver, Tallinn, Estonia
2008-2012 VŠVU/AFAD – Studio of painting and other media of prof. Daniel Fischer, Bratislava, Slovakia

Solo exhibitions
2015 Exhibition in the Crypt, crypt of the Jesuit church, Bratislava, Slovakia
2015 Performance “Mimikri”, Lalafestival, Bordesholm, Germany
2011 Monopoly, Hopkirk, Bratislava, Slovakia

Group exhibitions
2015 Exhibition with Robert Švarc, AStA-Austellungsraum Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2015 “Wir graben den Schacht von Babel – paradise of mice”, Galerie PlatenGarten, Köln, Germany
2014 “Blended”, UPSTAIRS GALLERY, Oldenburg, Germany
2014 Studio of Katarina Grosse, Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen, Germany
2012 Exhibition in Raum Olga, Wuppertal, Germany
2012 Exhibition in Old townhall, Bratislava, Slovakia
2011 Práveže naopak, Tranzit gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2010 Lynch aquabelle, Subteren, Michalovce, Slovakia
2003-2007 Gymnázium Pavel Horov, Michalovce, Slovakia