Stanislava Kovalcikova

Stanislava Kovalcikova (b. 1988, Slovakia) lives and works in Düsseldorf. She studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Peter Doig and Tomma Abts. She spent her childhood and youth living in various places around the world. In her art, she addresses the experiences of crossing borders, not belonging to a community, and motherhood. Her work examines issues of familiarity, alienation, self-perception, and the construction of identity.
 
Kovalcikova's previous solo exhibitions include First Rays of the New Sun, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China (2023); Grotto, Museum of Contemporary Art - Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria (2022); am I dead yet, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany (2022); Duftmarken oder die Unfähigkeit sich mitzuteilen, sonneundsolche, Düsseldorf, Germany (2022); Imaga, 15orient, New York, US (2021); Eastern Promises, Open Forum, Berlin, Germany (2020); Cautionary tales, MAMOTH, London, UK (2020); Turn on inside, Ten Haaf Projects, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2019) and among others.  Her works have been displayed in numerous group exhibitions, include Cadavre Exquis or the Voluptuous Decay of the Shivering Veril, curated by Stanislava Kovalčíková, BRAUNSFELDER, Cologne, Germany (2023); Horizions: Is there anybody out there?, curated by Robin Peckham, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China (2023); Hardcore, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK (2023); Landschaft, Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne, Germany (2023); Interior, curated by Andrew Bonacina, Michael Werner Gallery, London, UK (2022); Dark Light, Realism in the Age of Post Truth, Aïshti Foundaton, Beirut, Lebanon (2022); Do Nothing, Feel Everything, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (2021); Queer, queer Kasimir, Saska Kepa Salon, Warsaw, Poland (2020); If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, MAMOTH, London, UK (2020); On the politics of delicacy, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany (2020); Gubbinal, Project Native Informant, London, UK (2019); Painting also known as blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland (2019) and among others.