Miroir Noir

Started in 2007, Miroir Noir is an artistic cooperation between the Slovak painter and illustrator Miloš Kopták (1969) and the Catalan artist Rai Escalé (1964). Their joint paintings are truly created together in Bratislava or Barcelona, where they meet regularly.

Spring 2026 // On the verge of a 20th anniversary

Miroir Noir is approaching now its twentieth year, and we are still not entirely sure what it is.

What began as a studio experiment between Barcelona and Bratislava has survived distances, exhibitions, failures, pandemics, and more flights and emotions than either of us cares to count. At some point it stopped feeling like a temporary project and became part of the structure of our lives.

That might be what surprises us most. Not that there is still work to be done—there always is, if you look for it—but that the conditions that make it possible are still there. Work continues because the agreement to keep going still holds. We're still two, searching for that one unstable third voice, and we enjoy it whenever we can speak with it.

Those twenty years don't feel like a finish line. They feel more like a point where, finally, some things are clearer than they were at the beginning. Not that we recall that much—it's more...

Solo Shows

2026 'Salon de Beauté' @ Galga Art, Girona, CAT

2024 'Panorama' @ AIGUA, Bràfim, CAT.

2022 'Cecilizmus', Galéria Čin Čin, Bratislava, SVK

2020 'Cecilizmus' / Nitrianska Galéria /Nitra, SVK (Apr)

2020 Oravská Galéria / Miloš Kopták & Miroir Noir / 'Niečo ako domov' / Dolny Kubin, SVK (Apr)

2020 Turčianska galéria v Martine / MRB II / Martin SVK. (Jan)

2018 Miloš A. Bazovsky Gallery / MRB / Trencin, SVK

2017 Dub Gallery / Nocturama / Pelhrimov, CZR

2016 Hell Gallery / Cecilismus / Barcelona, CAT

2016 Konvent Puntzero / Cecilismus / Berga, CAT

2015 Bratislava City Gallery / Parallel Universes / Bratislava, SVK

2015 Reg. Muzeum Mikulov / Počátek (Origins) / Mikulov, CZR

2014 Eat Meat Gallery / Propter Nuptias / Barcelona, CAT

2013 Blokker Gallery / Propter Nuptias / Madrid, SPA

2013 Rochuskapelle / Propter Nuptias / Landshut, GER

2012 Východoslovenska Galéria / Dve telá, jedna duša (Two bodies,one soul) / Kosice, SVK

2011 Festival Konvent.0'11 / Main artist / Berga, CAT

2011 Eat Meat / Bateau ivre / Barcelona, CAT

2010 FruFru Gallery / Miroir Noir / Bratislava, SVK

2009 Galerie Kolomana Sokola / Miroir Noir / Liptovsky Mikulas, SVK

2007 Barbakoak / Miroir Noir / Pamplona, SPA