Ondrej Belica

I am artist balancing on the edge of art, architecture and design. I am interested in the intersections of these creating fields and I try to push their boundaries. Significant materials used in my spatial artworks are wood, steel, water and light, which probably come from my homeland in a post-industrial area in the Beskydy mountains.

My working process is based on a minimalistic, conceptual and contextual thinking method, which offers me countless possibilities of project media and scale. Connecting natural principles, traditional crafts and new technologies are a characteristic topic in my work and in my relationship to the world.

I usually work on the scale of the object, architecture, public space and landscape. In my practice I am experienced in sculpting, architectural design, exhibition design and public space design, where all these skills are present.

My studio projects are aimed at rethinking the traditional perspective on painting and sculpture.

I love to let the things and materials with their forces act to create the art. In my paintings, water drops on the steel sheets makes natural drawings and daylight makes linear shadows. I am obsessed with penetrating objects and spaces to show new points of view, which are ...

2015-2017
Faculty of Fine Arts BUT / Brno - Studio of non-figurative sculpture - prof. Ambrůz

2011-2018
Faculty of Architecture BUT / Brno - Architecture and Urbanism

2013-2014
Faculty for Architecture of the University of Ljubljana - Architecture and Urbanism

THROUGH, Multi-media installation, Galerie Věž, Frýdek-Místek, 2022 + Jan Adamus ​

EXPO - Virtual landscape project, Pragovka, Prague, 2021

Entreé V4, Budapest, Warsaw, Prague, 2018 

Brno Design Days, Jalta Passage, Brno, 2017 

​Festival DOM, Contemporary Art Festival, Bratislava, 2017 

Badespasstotal, Multigenre symposium, Hůrky, Czech Canada, 2017 

29 Diplomanti FaVU, Hous of Lords of Kunštát, Brno, 2017 

Noc vědců 2016, Technic Museum, Brno, 2016

​Krajina jako dílo, Mikulov Castle, 2016

​Galerie SOLO Offspace, Collective exhibition, Brno, 2016

Galerie TIC, collective exhibition, Brno, 2016 

Socha 2 v Mosilaně, Collective exhibition, Mosilana, Brno, 2016 

Fresh design, Collective exhibition, Wroclaw, Polsko 2015 

Architektura nedostatku, Gallery of Architektury, Brno, 2015 

Salon české scénografie 2013, Czech center, Prague, 2014 

Salon české scénografie 2013, National theatre Reduta, Brno, 2013