Stanislava Kovalcikova

    BIOGRAPHY

    Stanislava Kovalčíková (b. 1988, The Slovak Republic) lives and works in Paris and Lens. She has completed degrees in painting under Tomma Abts and Peter Doig at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

    Stanislava Kovalčíková’s elegiac canvases are studies of painting itself. While drawing on perspectives of the human figure from past and present, she includes direct art historical references and styles in her work. Kovalčíková operates through a tradition of mythology, religion and mysticism. An exploration of the figure as an icon, the individual psychic experience portrayed in her work is always pointing to something larger—an archetype drawn from a collective narrative.

    Her selected solo exhibitions include Stanislava Kovalčíková: Rubigo, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, DE (2026); Source, Paris Internationale PI 10, Antenna Space & Emalin, Paris, FR (2025); ret rie vers, Emalin (The Clerk’s House), London, UK (2024); A Lover’s Discourse, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, US (2024); First Rays of the New Sun, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China (2023); Grotto, Belvedere 21: Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, AT (2022); am I dead yet, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE (2022); Duftmarken oder die Unfähigkeit sich mitzuteilen, sonneundsolche, Düsseldorf, DE (2022); Imaga, 15 Orient, New York, US (2021); Eastern Promises, Open Forum, Berlin, DE (2020); Cautionary Tales, Mamoth, London, UK (2020); Turn on inside, Ten Haaf Projects, Amsterdam, NL (2019); among others.

    She has participated in recent group exhibitions at Reiffers Art Initiatives, Paris, FR (2026); Emalin, London, UK (2026, 2024); Trautwein Herleth, Berlin, DE (2025); Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, BE (2024); Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf, DE (2024); Braunsfelder, Cologne, DE (2023); Antenna Space, Shanghai, CN (2023); Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK (2023); Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne, DE (2023); Michael Werner Gallery, London, UK (2022); Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, LIB (2022); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT (2021); Saska Kepa Salon, Warsaw, PL (2020); MAMOTH, London, UK (2020); Capitain Petzel, Berlin, DE (2020); Project Native Informant, London, UK (2019); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL (2019); among others.

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    • Stanislava Kovalčíková｜Rubigo

      April 16, 2026

      (Curatorial Essay, english version only)

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    • “Everything I do is painting”: Stanislava Kovalcikova at the Belvedere in Vienna | Numéro Berlin – Words: Antonia Schmidt

      Stanislava Kovalcikova’s paintings are haunting, unsettling. Above all, they are real, depicting motifs taken from postmodern life: Stress, mental health, fluid sexualities. “However in painting it makes sense to show these states since words mostly fail in these situations. It’s not a criticism, it’s just an observation,” says the artist herself. Why she calls the exhibition her little Stonehenge, why spiritual maters are important and why everything is painting.

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