Vlado Baca

Vlado Bača is undoubtedly one of the best slovak photographers, active on the scene for quite a long time. Despite the fact that he deals with various motifs in his work, we can identify favorite, characteristic elements accompanying a significant part of his rich work. The person of a woman and an unconventional environment. Components that he often uses in the creation of advertising, thus avoiding the usual and worn-out ways of representation.

Vlado Bača's entire work so far presents his effort to see photography through different eyes and thus bring new ideas into this sphere, which is mainly documented by his work in the field of advertising photography, in an area where innovative ideas are more than welcome. However, it also brings substantial enrichment to the environment of nude and glamor photography or landscape photography.

The significance of his name in the context of Slovakian, but undoubtedly also world photography, is indicated by the considerable number of awards he has received during his life so far, or honors in the form of published photographs at home and abroad. However, the artist is undoubtedly most represented by his work itself, which speaks for itself and is also unforgettable thanks to the charm ...

In 1983 and 1987 he participated in Rencontres in Arles.
He photographed in New York 1994, 1995, 2009.
In his free creations gives to a landscapes and figure photography - nude, portrait.
In 2004 he obtained the QEP Certificate - Qualified European Professional Photographer
from the Federation of European Professional Photographers - FEP and the honours AFIAP.

AUTHOR´S EXHIBITIONS &:AWARDS
2004 Certificate QEP - Qualified European Professional Photographer (FEP – Brussels, Belgium)
2006 Awards nominee „Henkel Art Awards“, Wien, Austria, Awards nominee „Personality of Slovak photography”, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009 Silver and Bronze Awards FEP, Brussels, Belgium
2010 Gold Award FEP, Brussels, Belgium
2013 Silver award – The Epson Pano Awards, (Australia)
2014 FEP, Brussels (Belgium) finalist (landscape category)
2018 FEP, Dublin (Ireland) silver awards (landscape category)
2019 Slovak Press Photo 2019 finalist (environment category)
2022 Bronze award – The Epson Pano Awards, (Australia)

EXHIBITIONS & PUBLICATIONs (from 2000)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002 - "New York - The day before...", Pálfy palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
2003 - "New York - The day before...", Šariš gallery, Prešov, Slovakia
2007 - „Shapes of body“, Czestochowa, Poland
2008 - „ From Intimate diary“, The Museum of Art Žilina, Slovakia
2009 - „Pictures under Rozsutec Hill“, Karlsruhe, Germany
2010 - „ From Intimate diary“, Slovak Institut, Berlin, Germany
2011 - „From Intimate diary“, Orava Gallery, Dolný Kubín, Slovakia
2013 - „From Intimate diary“, Slovak Institut, Moscow, Russian...