Mira Podmanicka

I develop various forms of perceiving, analyzing and creating of the space around us in my works.
I create installations assigned for the specific place with specific meaning. They link sculpture and architecture and support the perceiving and observing of the space, its three dimensions, possibilities of movement and its borders, its actual state, history, potential and the options for installations. Sculpture becomes part of the space, where it is installed, in some cases it fully fuses with the architecture.
Connection to textile (material and product – clothes) is visible in objects of smaller size. Clothes represent humans. It is their cover, shape, but it can suggest their absence too. They cover, protect and characterize us (as well as the era). The objects are inspired in the form and shape of an architecture (of a house, a landscape) and with textile (clothes, technique, material) they get closer to human. The results are exploring the space relations and support physical experience (exploring, haptic values).
I work with embroidery in my Herbarium series. I pick plants on my walks, in the streets, in the city, in the parks and find their names. I dry them and attach them on the paper by sewing. I finish the piece by thick...

2011 ArtD. degree AFAD, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009 Master specialisé, Academie Royale des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles, Belgium2006 MA degree in Fine Arts
Scholarships:
2002 - 2003 VUT Brno, Czech republic
2001 - 2002 University of Plymouth, Exeter, UK

Individual:
2020
SIENA/THE WALL, Arka Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Miejsca, Gallery Okno, Sľubice/Frankfurt, Poland/Germany
2019
Embroidered, K Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia (with Anna Mihoková)
HERBARIUM, The Ján Koniarek, Synagogue – Centre of Contemporary Art, Trnava, Slovakia
House is Your Fixed Point, Gallery X, Bratislava, Slovakia (with Robert Buček)
2018
MATERIALITY, Gallery X, Bratislava, Slovakia (with Kristýna Španihelová)
2016
Paris, K Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia (with Peter Roller)
2014
Stroj-Destroy-Hyöty, Nitra Gallery – Bunker, Nitra, Slovakia (with Niina-anneli Kaarnamo)
Mira Podmanická – Herbariums, Magna Gallery, Piešťany, Slovakia
2012
Micro-installations, Nitra Gallery – Bunker, Nitra, Slovakia
BBB, Čin Čin Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2011
White Memory, Gallery HotDock, Bratislava, Slovakia
PrieSTORY, Gallery 23 %, Bratislava, Slovakia
2010
White Place, GPMB, Centre of Koloman Sokol, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia