Anit Baloghova

Anit is a Slovak artist and designer based in Barcelona, working under her artistic label by/Anit. Her artworks are made of construction materials, mostly steel nails, attached to canvas and painted with acrylic colours. This technique is her own visual form of expression based on her experiment with different media and materials shaped into visually distinctive 3D steel paintings. Her artworks translate a classical painting to painted steel object, deconstructing the visual foundation of the source of inspiration into a mosaic which uses steel nail-head as a point. Her works have been part of several international exhibitions in Prague, Bangkok, Houston, Amsterdam and in a various Slovak galleries.

Anit grew up on a construction site. She spent a lot of time discovering construction materials and playing with them. Her fascination with metals comes from her haptic preference and rule breaking need. In her late teens she was diagnosed with an allergy to certain metal alloys and was advised to avoid the touch with metals as much as possible. Since steel is an alloy which can contain different percentages of elements inducing skin allergy, she was supposed to avoid working with it. Her attachment to it however isn't based on stubbor...

Master of Fine Arts (2012)
Academy of Arts, Slovakia
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

UPCOMING: August 2023
Ocean Drive Barcelona, C/ d'Aragó 300, Barcelona, Spain

2023 (ongoing / until June 2023)
Steel by/Anit., Quiropráctica Eixample, C/Pau Claris 153, Barcelona, Spain

2023
Steel by/Anit., Virtual Gallery, Online exhibition, link to VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

2022
Female R-Evolution, DADA Dance Production, Barcelona, Spain

2015
At liberty to fly, Village, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia

2014
The Hipster Jugend, Impact HUB, Prague, Czech Republic

2012
19 hours, 12 minutes, Svetlik Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

2011
Put me wherever but quietly, The Underground, Prague, Czech Republic


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Misonny Art Festival, Barcelona / Catalina Gava Mar, Spain

2022
Open Art Barcelona, Artnumber23 Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2017
Young art show vol.10, House of Arts, Piestany, Slovakia

2011-2013
The 3rd Bangkok Triennial International Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bangkok, Thailand

2012
Kalene sklo, audio/ performance collaboration with Katarina Hruskova, Galeria +/- 0.0, Zilina, Slovakia

2012
I carry a tiny knife, audio/ performance collaboration with Katarina Hruskova, Weekender, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2012
YOUNG ART SHOW vol.5, House of Arts, Piestany, Slovakia

2012
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