EXHIBITIONS
Wall Creeping
2025
Torula Gallery, Győr, Hungary
Wall Creeping* is a collective exhibition featuring painting students from various art studios at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (Yannick Booth, Clemens Grömmer, Juan Malte Haussen, Enrico Pacella, Ivan Penčev, Lisa Pirker, Karolina Svård, Julia Szczerbowska)
and students and graduates from the Ateliér mal+by (Studio of Painting) at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (Anna Mária Beňová, Martina Červenková, Tereza Darášová, Miroslav Klimek, Taja Kolesnyk, Martin Mikláš, Linda Olejárová, Jaromír Šplíchal).
In addition to shared themes defined and distinguished by the programs of individual studios, the exhibition primarily focuses on an active engagement with the development of perceptive thinking skills and independent artistic expression.
Joint discussions on the iconography of abstraction, figuration, metaphysics, or mysticism in current artistic strategies, and above all on the very nature of painting and drawing, highlight the significance of the painting process itself, which reveals itself through thought and physical effort. The exhibition will feature an examination of the temporal dimension of painting through collaborative work — a piece produced collaboratively during the exhibition’s installation, based on joint proposals and executed in one of the most demanding painting methods — buon fresco. Since fresco painting** involves working with plaster through various application stages, painting with this previously described state of urgency inherent to the technique can allow what is essential to easily emerge as most important.
*The title of an exhibition, which features varied themes and almost exclusively painterly approaches, was inspired by the elusive and rare bird, the Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria). The only representative of its family, the “Tichodromidae,” owes its name to ancient Greeks, meaning literally "which runs on the walls”.
The exceptional patience needed to spot the bird and its particular movement along wall and rock crevices, is metaphorically tied to the anticipation of the right moment (of painting) and to the performativity of the image.
The idea of the appearance of imagery in unexpected places becomes a matter of exploring the dimensionality of painterly presentations, both visually and through touch, often quite literally physically “climbing” the paintings and visually scaling the walls in search of images.
**a technique of painting on wet plaster, in which pigment and plaster chemically bond as they dry, creating a permanent part of the wall
exhibition review :
https://www.artmagazine.cc/content134980.html
and students and graduates from the Ateliér mal+by (Studio of Painting) at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (Anna Mária Beňová, Martina Červenková, Tereza Darášová, Miroslav Klimek, Taja Kolesnyk, Martin Mikláš, Linda Olejárová, Jaromír Šplíchal).
In addition to shared themes defined and distinguished by the programs of individual studios, the exhibition primarily focuses on an active engagement with the development of perceptive thinking skills and independent artistic expression.
Joint discussions on the iconography of abstraction, figuration, metaphysics, or mysticism in current artistic strategies, and above all on the very nature of painting and drawing, highlight the significance of the painting process itself, which reveals itself through thought and physical effort. The exhibition will feature an examination of the temporal dimension of painting through collaborative work — a piece produced collaboratively during the exhibition’s installation, based on joint proposals and executed in one of the most demanding painting methods — buon fresco. Since fresco painting** involves working with plaster through various application stages, painting with this previously described state of urgency inherent to the technique can allow what is essential to easily emerge as most important.
*The title of an exhibition, which features varied themes and almost exclusively painterly approaches, was inspired by the elusive and rare bird, the Wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria). The only representative of its family, the “Tichodromidae,” owes its name to ancient Greeks, meaning literally "which runs on the walls”.
The exceptional patience needed to spot the bird and its particular movement along wall and rock crevices, is metaphorically tied to the anticipation of the right moment (of painting) and to the performativity of the image.
The idea of the appearance of imagery in unexpected places becomes a matter of exploring the dimensionality of painterly presentations, both visually and through touch, often quite literally physically “climbing” the paintings and visually scaling the walls in search of images.
**a technique of painting on wet plaster, in which pigment and plaster chemically bond as they dry, creating a permanent part of the wall
exhibition review :
https://www.artmagazine.cc/content134980.html
Horse Woman, Oil on canvas, 150x100 cm, 2025
Pick me girl, oil on canvas 180x120 cm, 2025
This project has been supported using public funds provided by Slovak Arts Council
