Maria Corejova

Maria Corejova is a graduate of prof. Daniel Fischer `s painting school at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. Until now she has been known especially as a painter, a video artist and a diligent cultural organizer /burundi,
13m3/. As a painter we could name Maria Corejova a portraitist. Obviously not in a classic sense. She has for example portrayed a butter, cars parking in front of block of flats, ring-shaped cake, sofa, beddings, but also a thick sauce with a fried egg. Her artistic direction has been characteristic of aestheticization of the banal, exploration of the ordinary almost naturally commonplace. She has not pointed only to the aesthetic dimensions of depicted objects but searched for their deeper inner essence. As a cultural organizer Maria Corejova has not been indifferent to the cultural life in Bratislava and she has systematically strived to create the space for presentation and re*ection of contemporary art. Firstly, under the civic association burundi /a historical follower of famous Buryzone/ and at the moment it is the organization 13m3, a virtual civic association
organizing the activities taking place at still new venues. Drawings of Maria Corejova can in a certain sense be characterized as ...

2000-2004 Doctorate at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, SK
2002-2003 Art Institute of Boston, MA USA
1994-2000 Academy of fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, SK, Department of Painting and New Media
1998-1999 University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, TX USA
1997-1998 Slippery Rock University, PA USA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (past & upcoming)
2014 IDENTITIES / Lightness of Searching, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, curator: Diana Majdakova (with Alena Adamikova)
2013 – 2014 CONVERSATIONS LEADING ELSEWHERE, House of Culture / Kunsthalle, Bratislava, curators: 13 kubikov
2013 DRAWINGS…AND CONTENTS, Kubik Gallery, Porto, Portugal, curators: 13 kubikov, Joao Azinheiro
2013 CONVERSATIONS LEADING ELSEWHERE, Central Slovakian Gallery, Banska Bystrica, curators: 13 kubikov
2012 EO INSTANTO, Galery 19, Bratislava, curator: Marian Meško
2011 MIND GAMES, Kasárne-Kulturpark, Košice, curator: Juraj Čarný
2011 MIND GAMES, Stanica Žilina-Záriečie, curator: Juraj Čarný
2011 MIND GAMES, Space gallery, Bratislava, curator: Juraj Čarný
2010 MIND GAMES, Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna, AT, curator: Juraj Čarný
2008 THE COMMON DAY, room 19_21, Central Slovakian Gallery, Banska Bystrica, curator: Zuzana Majlingová (with M. Nociarova)
2006 THE POINT OF VIEW, GJK, Synagoge – Centre for contemporary art, Trnava, curator: Ivana Moncoľová (with M. Nociarova)
2004 BETWEEN…, Cik-Cak Centre, Bratislava, curator: Mira Putišová (with M. Nociarova)
2001 THE COMMON LEVEL, Slovak Institute; Galery Medium, Bratislava, curator: Mária Rišková (with M. Nociarova)

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