Magdaléna Ševčík

Statement

Magdaléna Ševčík is a professional abstract painter. She has exhibited her work in Czechia, Slovakia, Netherlands and the UK and is one of the most prominent representatives of young Czech abstract painting.

Her paintings are both playful and bold. While the background of the artworks is a vague, sophisticated colorplay, the foreground consists of strict geometric lines. Motifs in the foreground do either negate or support the background.

She is fascinated by the human mind – anxiety, memory, and quantum interconnection. She creates unique abstract universes filled with thoughts, feelings and colors.

GlogauAIR Project

I intend to create a memory capsule and save my Berlin memories on canvas, preserving them with colors. Their uniqueness and fluidity.

The goal of my residency is to create a series of large-format (3D) paintings that respond to my experience and impression of Berlin. I aim to create a dialogue with the audience. I want to arouse its feelings and desires to interpret my memories within their life narratives. Which topics do they pay attention to? Which memory resonates with them the most and why?

I would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of the Deutsch-Tschechische Zukunftsfonds (ZF) in making this residency possible for me.

Painting

CV Summary

• 2022 Sotheby’s realty, solo exhibition, Prague, CZ
• 2021 STARÁ ČISTÍRNA GALLERY, Solo Maximal Entropy, Prague, CZ
• 2020 Art Week Rotterdam at VICTORYART Gallery, Pop-up exhibition, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• 2019 INDIGES GALLERY, Solo exhibition “No End Or Beginning”, Brno, CZ
• 2018 DANIEL RAPHAEL GALLERY, Group exhibition “Less is More”, London, UK
• 2018 NULTÁ GENERACE, Group exhibition of young Czech emerging artists, Jihlava, CZ
• 2018 Brno Art Jam 2018, CZ
• 2017 THE CULT HOUSE, Creative Debuts, exhibition “Abstractive”, London, UK
• 2017 KAVÁRNA CO HLEDÁ JMÉNO, Solo exhibition “Neither now nor ever”, Prague, Czech republic
• 2017 BLACK BOX, Solo exhibition “Colliding Planets”, Brno, Czech republic
• 2017 MINI ART GALLERY, Solo exhibition “Colliding Planets”, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2017 DOT CONTEMPORARY “Closing Hearts”, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2016 DOT CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Group exhibition “Until Now”, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2016 KULTURÁRIUM CAFE , Solo exhibition “Trapped”, Brno, Czech republic
• 2016 IMPACT HUB BRNO, Solo exhibition “Now forever”, Brno, Czech republic

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