Biography

 Inik

She was born in 1974 in Žilina (Slovakia). In the years 1993—2000 she graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, specialization in colour graphics and printmaking, at the studio of Assoc. Prof. Vojtech Kolenčík. She creates in the area of graphic experiment, photography, object, installation, light art, site specific art and happening. She is devoted to free fine-arts work and also to pedagogic activities. She is interested in art-therapy and creates various animations and work-shops. She participated at many arts symposia, individual and collective exhibitions in Slovakia and abroad (Poland, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, France, Lithuania, Romania, Spain). She presented her work at an international project White Night in yrs. 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 and also at music and arts festival Pohoda in 2015. She improved her arts management and language skills through the Erasmus + learning programme in an independent cultural space Művelődési Szint in Budapest in 2016. She also participated in Erasmus + learning mobility organized by ShipCon Limassol Ltd (emotional intelligence topics) in Palermo in Italy (2021). She is a member of the art group STROJ.

Residences

→ Suvenir Contemporary art&craft, Žilina, 2023 (SK)
→ Yad Vashem − The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, Jerusalem, Israel, 2022 (IL)
→ Erasmus + learning mobility organized by ShipCon Limassol Ltd, Palermo, 2021 (IT)
→ Home residences II, Creative Industry Košice, 2020 − 2021 (SK)
→ Project Created in Slovakia, The Gallery of Spiš Artists, Spišská Nová Ves, 2020 (SK)
→ Project Created in Slovakia, The M. A. Bazovsky Gallery, Trenčín, 2018 (SK)
→ Erasmus + learning programme, Művelődési Szint, Budapest, 2016 (HU)
→ Project Created in Slovakia, Čičmany, 2015 (SK)

Selected solo exhibitions

→ The Secret II, in cooperation with Samuel Čarnoký, Nástupište 1-12, Topoľčany, 2018 (SK)
→ The Secret, in cooperation with Samuel Čarnoký, Tabačka Gallery, Košice, 2017 (SK)
→ “MATKY TEREZY / MOTHERS OF TERESA”, in cooperation with Ivana Pančáková, Művelődési Szint (Community & Art Floor), Budapest, 2016 (HU)
→ Cosmic Girl, Puccs Contemporary Art, Budapest,  2015 (HU)
→ The Art of the Spirit – Return of contemporary art to the temple, Jesuit chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows in Piešťany, 2015 (SK)
→ Couples, in cooperation with Samuel Čarnoký, The Gallery of Spiš Artists, Spišská Nová Ves, 2014 (SK)
→ HEart, VOS Humenné, 2012 (SK)
→ My space (Cosmic Design II), Observatory and Planetarium, Prešov, 2008 (SK)
→ Mimoděk, Reduta, Uherské Hradiště, 2007 (CZ)
→ Natural, The Koloman Sokol Centre, Liptovský Mikuláš, 2007 (SK)
→ ZOO-M, IC culture train – Contemporary Art Centre, Košice, 2006 (SK)
→ Thirty, Vojtech Löffler Museum, Košice, 2005 (SK)
→ The Sediments, Mala Galeria, Nowy Sacz, 2004 (PL)
→ Second hand, CC Centre, Bratislava, 2003 (SK)
→ Second hand, The Považská Gallery of Arts, Žilina, 2003 (SK)
→ Teleskop II, VOS, Humenné, 2002 (SK)
→ Teleskop, The Saris Gallery, Prešov, 2002 (SK)


Selected collective exhibitions 

→ ROZPTYL, at 24 Karpatská Street in the Old Town of Bratislava, Bratislava, 2023 (SK)
→ VI International Mini Print Cantabria, Faro Cabo Mayor Art Center, Santander, 2023 (ES)
→ Interactive installation Discreet Zone / The Night of Museums and Galleries, Vojtech Löffler Museum, Košice, 2023 (SK)
→ Mini Print Cantabria Collection in Lublin, UMCS University Art Gallery / University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin, 2022 (PL)
→ From Mimesis to Hyperreality, The Gallery of Spiš Artists, Spišská Nová Ves, 2022–2023 (SK)
→ How to See Art… 4, The Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica, 2022 (SK)
→ TEACHER + STUDENT + GUEST / Tribute to the victims of the Holocaust / in the synagogue in Stupava, 2022 (SK)
→ CRISS-CROSS, The Gallery of Spiš Artists, Spišská Nová Ves, 2021–2022 (SK)
→  IV International Mini Print Cantabria, Faro Cabo Mayor Art Center, Santander, 2021 (ES)
→ Collection Mini Print Cantabria, La Mer et les Phares à Bordeaux, Cervantes Institute in Bordeaux, 2021 (FR)
→ Telescope / Universe in the Collection, The Gallery of Spiš Artists, Spišská Nová Ves, 2021 (SK)
→ Created in Slovakia_Suvenír Spiš 2020, The Gallery of Spiš Artists, Spišská Nová Ves, 2021 (SK)
→ Vojtech Kolenčík and graduates: Between White and Black II, Zahorie Gallery of Jan Mudroch in Senica,  2020− 2021 (SK)
→ III International Mini Print Cantabria, Faro Cabo Mayor Art Center, Santander, 2020 (ES)
→ Between White and Black, The Pisztory Palace, Bratislava, 2020 (SK)
→ GOOD LINEUP, Rosenfeld Palace, Žilina, 2019 (SK)
→ UTOPUS ČSR / TIME FOR NEW UTOPIA, The Gallery of Spiš Artists, Spišská Nová Ves, 2018 (SK)
→ Indigo dyeing at Bazovsky, project Created in Slovakia, The M. A. Bazovsky Gallery, Trenčín, 2018 (SK)
→ PUZZLE, The Spiš Artists’ Gallery, Spišská Nová Ves, 2018 (SK)
→ Mass Media Images of Women, Bratislava City Gallery, Bratislava, 2017 (SK)
→ Relay Graphics, exhibition of the graphic book in the gallery of The State Scientific Library in Banská Bystrica, 2017 (SK)
→ DADA100 – Tabacka Kulturfabrik Gallery, Kosice, 2016 (SK)
→ Sonda – exhibition of Slovak art, Zagreb, Galerija Matice Hrvatske, 2015 (HR)
→ Studio of free and colorful graphics at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Vojtech Kolenčík and his students, The Saris Gallery, Prešov, 2015 (SK)
→  AVFG. Pheno(u)menon – Studio of free and colorful graphics at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Corridor Gallery, FU OU in Ostrava, 2014 (CZ)
→ Exhibition Sacral Elementum (reprise), Kasárne/Kulturpark, Košice, 2014 (SK)
→ Biennale of Creative Visual Arts, The Umelka Gallery, Bratislava, 2014 (SK)
→ eNRA, Limes Gallery, Komárno, 2013, reprise in the Hungarian National Museum Gallery in Esztergom and the Art Gallery of IX-XI, Budapest, 2014 (HU)
→ Cosmic Design 2013, Observatory and Planetarium, Prešov, 2013 (SK)
→ Medzicentrum IV, The Heat Exchanger Štítová, Košice, 2013 (SK)
→ Exhibition Sacral Elementum, The Spiš Artists’ Gallery, Spišská Nová Ves, reprise in The Zemplin Museum in Michalovce, 2013 (SK)
→ Exprimo 2013, Young Contemporary Graphics, The Subteren Gallery, Michalovce, 2013 (SK)
→ Tags, Studio of free and colorful graphics at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, The Medium Gallery, Bratislava, 2013 (SK)
→ Biennale of Creative Visual Arts 2012, The Dom umenia, Bratislava, 2012 (SK)
→ Diversity, The Saris Gallery, Prešov, 2012 (SK)
→ Slovak Contemporary Graphic 17 (Triennial), The Stredoslovenská Galéria, Banská Bystrica, 2011 (SK)
→ POKE, Festival of Contemporary Art, Drienovská Nova Ves, 2011 (SK)
→ Exhibition of Contemporary Art – Ice Hockey, Vojtech Löffler Museum, Košice, 2011 (SK)
→ Sejfbook, The Saris Gallery, Prešov, 2010, reprise Krosno, 2011 (PL)
→ Biennale of Creative Visual Arts 2010, The Dom umenia, Bratislava, 2010 (SK), reprise in The Gallery S. V. U. Diamant Manes, Prague, 2010 (CZ)
→ ARTWALL, Wave Club, Prešov, reprise in The East Slovak Gallery, Košice, 2010 (SK)
→ The Safe II, The Rotunda Gallery, Košice, 2010 (SK)
→ The Metal Age, The Provincial House Gallery, Stará Ľubovňa, 2010 (SK)
→ TAMAP, The Per Spectrum Gallery, Prešov, 2010 (SK)
→ Biennial of Design and Applied Art 2009, The Umelka Gallery, Bratislava, 2009 (SK)
→ The Safe, The Rotunda Gallery, Košice, 2009 (SK)
→ Biennale of Creative Visual Arts 2008, The Umelka Gallery, Bratislava, 2008 (SK), reprise in The Gallery S. V. U. Diamant Manes, Prague, 2009 (CZ)
→ The International Sculpture Women Symposium from V4 countries and Ukraine, The Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art, Medzilaborce, 2008 (SK)
→ Legyező-Nyelv, The Gallery Városi Müvészeti Museum, Miskolc, 2008 (HU)
→ Exhibition of Per Spectrum Members, Bronislaw Chromy Gallery, Krakow, 2008 (PL)
→ Exhibition of Per Spectrum Members, The Umelka Gallery, Bratislava, 2007 (SK)
→ The Synergy, The Gallery 1-3, Nyíregyháza, 2007 (HU)
→ The Regional Salon 2006, The Saris Gallery, Prešov, 2006, reprise in Nowy Sacz, 2007 (PL)
→ Young East Slovakian Artists, IC Culture Train – Centre of Contemporary Arts, Kosice, 2006 (SK)
→ Slovak Contemporary Graphic 16 (Triennial), The Stredoslovenská Galéria, Banská Bystrica, 2005 (SK)
→ The Serendipity, The Saris Gallery, Prešov, reprise The Považská Gallery of Arts, Žilina, 2005 (SK)
→ Album for Koloman Sokol, The P. M. Bohúň Gallery, Liptovský Mikuláš, 2004 (SK)
→ International Print Biennial, Rokycany, 2004 (CZ)
→ Regional salon 2004, The Saris Gallery, Prešov, reprise in Krosno, 2004 (PL)
→ ZLESAMÁVAŤ, Vojtech Löffler Museum, Košice, 2004 (SK)
→ Biennale Internationale in 2003, Sarcelles, 2003 (FR)
→ Slovak Contemporary Graphic 15 (Triennial), The Stredoslovenská Gallery, Banská Bystrica, 2002 (SK)
→ Salon 2002, The Dawna Synagogue Gallery, Nowy Sacz, 2002 (PL)
→ Without Borders, exhibition of students of Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, NBS Gallery, Kremnica, 2001 (SK)
→ Art Žilina ’98, The Považská Gallery of Arts, Žilina, 1998 (SK)
→ Change of Positions, The Považská Gallery of Arts, Žilina, 1997 (SK)
→ Department of Graphic Exhibition, The Medium Gallery, Bratislava, 1997 (SK)

Presentations

→ Pecha Kucha Night Special Edition Suvenir Contemporary art&craft, Žilina, 2023 (SK)
→ Presentation and workshop about mail art at music and arts festival Pohoda, Trenčín, 2022 (SK)
→ Presentation at Contemporary Art Gallery, Jurkovičova tepláreň, Bratislava, 2021 /project of suvenir contemporary art and craft/ (SK)
→ Pecha Kucha Night, Created in Slovakia, The M. A. Bazovský Gallery, Trenčín, 2018 (SK)
→ Art as an escape from the chaos, professional meeting and colloquium, The Spiš Artists’ Gallery, Spišská Nová Ves, presentation at Pecha Kucha Night (2018)
→ Pecha Kucha Night Košice #44, 2017 (SK)
→ Relay Graphics, presentation and book launch event, Kunsthalle / Club / Bratislava, 2017 (SK)
→ International festival Nuit Blanche − White Night, Košice, 2016 (SK)
→ Light-camp, Koniareň Trebišov, 2015 (SK)
→ Presentation at music and arts festival Pohoda, (as a part of the international festival White Night), Trenčín, 2015 (SK)
→ Orbis Pictus: Talks about art: Couples: Eva Tkáčiková + Samuel Čarnoky, The Spiš Artists’ Gallery, Spišská Nová Ves, 2015 (SK)
→ Pecha Kucha Night, Volume 29, Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, Žilina, 2014 (SK)
→ International festival Nuit Blanche – White Night 2014, Toilet Pictures – recycling and infiltration of artwork to households / performance in Pokhoi, Košice, 2014 (SK)
→ International festival Nuit Blanche − White Night 2013 in cooperation with S. Čarnoký and N. Šošková, Košice, 2013 (SK)
 IGNITE, (as a part of project Medzicentrum IV), Prešov, 2013 (SK)
→ International festival Nuit Blanche − White Night, Košice, 2012 (SK)
→ Pecha Kucha night, Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, Žilina, 2011 (SK)
→ Pecha Kucha night, Kasárne/Kulturpark, Košice, 2010 (SK)

Symposiums

→ Workshop Park Camp IV. (lecturer), Koniareň Trebišov, 2017 (SK)
→ Light-camp, Koniareň Trebišov, 2015 (SK)
→ Workshop The OpenSpace VI, Observatorium Kolonica, 2015 (SK)
→ Workshop The Open Space V, Košarovce, 2014 (SK)
→ Rovás Artcamp, Tihany, 2014 (HU)
→ Rovás Artcamp, international art symposium, Aita Medie, 2014 (RO)
→ Public-art project Medzicentrum IV, Košice, 2013 (SK)
→ Rovás Artcamp, Tihany, 2013 (HU)
→ Workshop The Open Space IV, Košarovce, 2013 (SK)
→ Workshop The Open Space III, Košarovce, 2012 (SK)
→ Workshop The Open Space II, Košarovce, 2011 (SK)
→ Workshop The Open Space, Lackovce, 2010 (SK)
→ ZLESAMÁVAŤ, art symposium, Ružín, 2004 (SK)