Monika Vitanyi

In recent years, my work has centred on a personal family mythology through the material of zeolite. This mineral is inseparable from the story of my grandfather, who lost his orchards when the state expanded a local zeolite mine. At the same time, it is intrinsic to the landscape in which I grew up. I am drawn to zeolite for its inherent ambivalence: it appears solid yet disintegrates when exposed to water, transforming into a substrate capable of regenerating soil. This paradox positions zeolite as a conceptual material through which I connect personal statement with broader questions of ecological transformation, loss, and memory.
My artistic practice explores environmental issues, local history, and the relationship between people and landscape. I respond to felling of trees, mining, and the social perception of ecological change. Working with natural materials—primarily stone, wood, and minerals—in combination with concrete and industrial elements, I investigate their physical transformation and their capacity to embody the memory of place.

In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Paintingcourse authorized by The Museum of Modern Art, 2021
The Private Studio of Fine Art - Karol Petreš , 2012-2019
University of Prešov, Faculty of Arts 2018-2020
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Arts , 2015- Univesity of Copenhagen :Søren Kierkegaard - Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernityt, certificate, 2017
The State Art School Košice, 2008-2012

2024 "Aperi Okulos" Löffler Museum in Košice, Slovakia
2024" Enviromental Art Joint" PKO Prešov
2024 "Memory as part of the day, night of echoes", Rakoczi Family Tomb, The Castle Čičva
2023 "The Art&Rail", The exhibition for the 150th anniversary of our local railway line, Ruskov, SK, Railway station
2022 "The Global Pain" , Gallery of Alexander Eckertd, Košice
2021 "Panta rhei" Corona response 365+, Kotolňa Košice
2020 " Stream of Consciousness", Use the City Festival Košice
2018 "Sapere Aude is Blue" , Výmenník Štítová, Košice
2015 Exhibition Solo during " ONE WORLD" -festival of documentary films
2013 " Express yourself" Sarospatak, Hungary
2012 " Poets of painting" Vranov nad Toplou
2012 " Bipolarity" Košice, Výmennik Obrody
2011 " Afinita" Mini gallery of Alexander Eckertd
2011 " Hľadanie " La Ventana, Košice
2010 Vranov nad Topľou, Slovakia