Milan LovišKa

Milan Loviška (*Bratislava) is an undisciplinary artist with focus on performance, painting, installation, video and new technologies. He studied contemporary dance and performance at Duncan Centre Conservatory in Prague and at SNDO in Amsterdam. To balance art with science he obtained a master‘s degree in psychology at Charles University in Prague. Throughout his career he has been collaborating with numerous international artists as a performer, choreographer, and dramaturg, while creating own solo performances that has toured across Europe.
Milan Loviška uses acrylic painting to create a multiverse of distorted faces, transgressive bodies, and liminal spaces. His work blends fantasy with figuration, crafting eerie, unsettling narratives that evoke a strange yet familiar sense of closeness and solace. Some earlier pieces are self-referential, reflecting his performance practice.
Since 2011 he also makes works together with the stage and costume designer and performer Otto Krause. Their performance-based projects range from big theatrical stage productions and performances in public spaces to more intimate situations in galleries and site-specific venues.
The artists live in Vienna and present their work in galleries, venues, fest...

2010-2004 Master in Psychology (MA), Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Department of Psychology
2007-2003 Foundation degree (DiS.) in Contemporary Dance and Dance Theatre, Duncan Centre Conservatory in Prague
2007-2006 School for New Dance Development (SNDO), De Theaterschool, Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor Kunsten (AHK), Amsterdam; guest studies in dance & performing arts

Selection of Performance Works & Exhibitions
2024 QAnus – performance & group exhibition Is Queer Political?, Queer Museum Vienna; Vienna Pride
2024 Pony – group exhibition 5th Annual Pride A Collection, Gayt Gallery, Vienna
2024 門 [Gate] – solo exhibition, Studio Gross, Tokyo
2023 Corpus extinctum / Buttercup / NTB 1000 – performance & group exhibition, Der blöde dritte Mittwoch @ Parallel Vienna
2023 Slovak Splendid – performance, Queer Museum Vienna @ Volkskundemusem Vienna
2022 Furrious: Underwater – video, group exhibition Mob.Mobility, Aktionstag, Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Vienna
2022 Corpus extinctum – performance, Super Nature, Hohenau an der March
2022 enclosed pleasure – performance, YUP Festival, Kunsthalle Osnabrück
2020 Furrious – online group exhibition #JapanRevisited202x, Austrian Cultural Forum, Tokyo
2019 Thoughtography – performance, Unstable Nights, Impulstanz, mumok Hofstallung, Vienna
2018 Furrious – solo exhibition, Blitz, Valletta
2018 Furrious – performance & solo exhibition, Kunstraum NÖ, Vienna
2018 Furrious – work-in-progress performance, Trafó Studio, Budapest
2016 P.P.M. [Puzzled.Processed.Meshed.] – performance, Betwixt Festival, group exhibition Art & Bytes, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
2015 Third Li...