Mira Podmanicka

Mira Podmanicka

Bratislava, Slovakia

About Mira Podmanicka

As an artist-sculptress I am interested in various forms of perceiving, analyzing and creating of the space (by author and also by the viewer). I create installations, mainly site-specific installations intended for specific place with specific meaning. They are based on interconnecting of sculpture and architecture, which qualify the perception of the space either form inside (form the view of a sculpture) or from outside (from the view of the architecture) and of course the other way around. I unite in my works these two sections even more literally. I analyse and unfold the architecture and create out of it the objects, which are, once again, set in the space (of a gallery). The other thing which I am interested in is the connection and intersection of art and design. I cooperate with ceramic designer Markéta Nováková on our collection of vases/objects for the interior. They overstep there and back the imaginary border between designed functional object and its shape/inspiration, which intertwine and at the same time disclaim their elementary qualities.

Education:

2011 ArtD. degree AFAD, Bratislava, Slovakia
2006 MA degree in Fine Arts
Scholarships:
2008 - 2009 Academie Royale des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles, Belgium
2002 - 2003 VUT Brno, Czech republic
2001 - 2002 University of Plymouth, Exeter, UK

Events:

Awards:
2013
Nomination Prix Louis Schmidt, Brussels, Belgium
Grand Prix Biennale Form, Bratislava, Slovakia
2011
Nomination Neu/Now online Festival
2007
Finalist of Essl Award, Bratislava, Slovakia

Exhibitions:

2016
Paris, K Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia (with Peter Roller)
2014
Stroj-Destory-Hyöty, Nitra Gallery – Bunker, Nitra, Slovakia (with Niina-anneli Kaarnamo)
Mira Podmanická – Herbariums, Magna Gallery, Piešťany, Slovakia
2013
Mira Podmanická – Sleep, Galllery X, Bratislava, Slovakia
2012
Micro-installation, 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

Collective Exhibitions:
2016
Focus: Vessel, Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany
Objects to Touch 2, Janina Monkute-Marks museum-gallery, Kédainiai, Lithuania
Viac je viac, Rona Gallery, Slovak Glass Museum - Lednické Rovne, Slovakia
Expo-Vente, ULB, Salle Allende, Brussels, Belgium
Designblok 2016, Prague, Czech Republic
Dialogues SK, Small and Larger Topics in Slovak Design, Berlin, Madrid, London, Vienna, Waszaw, Bratislava
Bratislava Design Week, Zoya Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Ceramic sculpture, Franciscan Monastery, Kadaň, Czech Republic
K.E.G.A., Medium Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
ON THE TABLE, Gallery X, Bratislava, Slovakia
RR 4.1 – Slušné dievčatá sa nepozerajú, Mining Museum, Rožňava, Slovakia
DEKOR2, Gallery CZECHDESIGN, Prague, Czech Republic
2015
Bunker Specific, Nitra Gallery – Bunker, Nitra, Slovakia
Schmuck Wander, Sculpture Association, Ljubliana, Slovenia
Ceramic Event, Galerie de L’Ô, Brussels, Belgium
DEKOR, Gallery X, Bratislava, Slovakia
The IX. International Biennial of Textile Miniatures, Janina Monkute-Marks museum-gallery, Kedainiai, Lithuania
The IX. International Biennial of Textile Miniatures, Galerija Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania
National Price for Design, Satelit, Bratislava, Slovakia
Vase, Galéria Slovenského inštitútu, Praha, Czech Republic
2014
Tutti Frutti festival, Nová Tržnica, Trnavské mýto, Bratislava, Slovakia
Vase, Gallery X, Bratislava, Slovakia
Terytorium dialogu, Gallery Kobro, Łodz, Poland
VII. Nový zlínský salón, Zlín, Czech Republic
Talente, Munich, Germany
2013
Prix Louis Schmidt, Salle Allende, Bruxelles, Belgium
Panel Story, Turiec Gallery in Martin, Martin, Slovakia
Inspiration by Paper II., Gallery X, Bratislava, Slovakia
Panel Story, GMB, Bratislava, Slovakia