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Born in Trnava (SK)

 

 

living and working in Banska Bystrica (SK)

 

 

Emília Rigová (born 1980) is a visual artist coming from the Slovak Republic. In addition to her engagement with art, she teaches art courses (object, multi-media, inter-media) at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica. For Rigová, an object in the form of an installation or as a performance or a site-specific intervention is a basic element of her art language. Further, she expresses herself through 2D interface of a computer graphics, informed by the fundaments of classical painting. Concerning the content of her work, she explores intersubjective of emotion modified by a specific socio-cultural environment.  The main themes of her works are cultural or social stereotypes, alter ego, Romani identity, and psychological shadows. She is a laureate of Oskar Čepan Award 2018 and a laureate of Roma Spirit 2018.

 

 

Education

 

2007 - 2011

graduated in artis Doctor / PhD. / , Free Fine Art, under doc. Juraj Sapara supervision

Theme: Sculpture like a methalepsis in digital age

1999 - 2005

Academy of Fine Arts, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, Faculty of Fine Art, Depertment of Sculpture

under prof. Ján Hendrych supervision, graduated in Magister of arts / Mgr. art./

1995 - 1999

School of applied arts, Bratislava (SK) The department of sculpture and stonecarving

 

 

 

 

Solo exhibitions:

 

* 2018  "Icons of Peripherals", Gandy Gallery, Bratislava /SK/

* 2018  "Lost Forest", ERIAC, Berlin, /GER/.

* 2018   "Lost Identity", Q21 , Electric Avenue, Showrooms, Vienna, /A/.

* 2016  "(out of) the deadlock, Galery8, Budapest  /HU/

* 2016   "Archetyp Pra Bari", České Centrum, Praha /CZ/

* 2015   "Bari Rakori" Radnica,Banska Bystrica, /SK/

* 2013   "Intimate public catharsis“, with Ukradena Galerie, Praha /Cz/, Dresden /DE/, Písek /Cz/, Telč /CZ/, Č. Krumlov /CZ/, Linz /A/

* 2012   " Randez Vous" AVO AVO ( s K. Boborová) Nitra, Outdoor Gallery  /SK/

* 2011   "Black Box " Stredoslovenská galéria Banská Bystrica, Obhajoba dizertačnej práce /SK/

* 2011   "Feminist Funeral " AVO AVO (s K . Boborová) Bunker, Nitrianska galéria /SK/

* 2010   "Atraktiv art - ANTIART" ( s A. AKO) Zvaz architektov, Banská Bystrica /SK/

* 2010   "Memory Object", Výstava doktorandiek, Stredoslovenská galéria, Banská Bystrica /SK/

 

 

Collective exhibitions:


* 2018  “ My Art Is My Reality “, MMSU, Rijeka /HR/

* 2018  “Time After Time “, Nominee in Oscar Čepan Award, Bratislava /SK/

* 2018  “ Constant Methamorphosis “, Nadikhuno museumos/Invisible museum,Tranzite.sk, WienaContemporaty /A/

* 2018  "The Roma Spring: Art as Resistance", ERIAC, Berlin, /GER/.

* 2017  “(out of) the deadlock “, Vybrané videní, Galerie Emila Filly, Ostrava /CZ/

* 2017  “ Constant Methamorphosis “, Nadikhuno museumos/Invisible museum,Tranzite.sk, Bratislava /SK/

* 2017  “The Blind man “  Segregation, Galerie AVU, Praha /CZ/

* 2017  “Crrosing Black/Selfportrait “, O kosmo hino kalos/The universe is black, Moravská galerie, Brno/CZ/

* 2017  “Constant Methamorphosis”,Kali Berga/The great black Mount, Kai di Khas Galery, Berlin /GER/

* 2016  "Constant Methamorphosis", Kali Berga, Ksiegarnia Wystawa / Krakow (PL)

* 2015  "Čo si urobil pre slovenský performance?" AVO AVO. Týždeň súčasnèho umenia, Trenčín, /SK/

* 2014 "Ikony periférie", Jaw Dikh, JCC Cetrum, Krakau (PL)

* 2014  "Ikony periférie"Dik I Na Bistar Look and Don't Forget Krakow /PL/

* 2014  "Vizuálny Archetyp" HALA Merina ,Týždeň súčasnèho umenia, Trenčín, /SK/

* 2013  "Gory Box" Týždeň súčasného umenia, HALA Merina, Trenčín, /SK/

* 2012  " Insipiracje Garbatka - Letnisko" Poľsko /PL/

* 2012  "Slepá Baba" Medzicentrum III.,  Banská Štiavnica /SK/

 

 

 

Occupation:

 

Matej Bel University, Pedagogic Faculty, Banská Bystrica, The Department of Visual Arts, Assistant Professor

 

 

 

Contact:

Mail: milka0rigova@gmail.com

 

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