Nina Smidek

~ ...Because it is high time to sublime nature,
remember the essence of the soul and invent some magic of being... ~


In all the different themes I work with (Floral motifs – Monet’s Water Lilies – Landscapes – Prague, homage to Jakub Schikaneder – Allegories – Tales - Nudes and Portraits), I try to evoke the poetry of solitary moments, miracles of nature, mysteries of life and reflections of the soul.

Imagination sometimes urges me towards the evocation of the supernatural or even the fantastic.
Silence allows introspection with its freezing of time.
In silence, I realize visions I carry within me as long as it takes, until I am certain to know how to breathe life into them through the image.
My efforts approach the work of a painter. The floral works appear as if the vegetation extends beyond its framework to penetrate into a dimension where the silences that rhythmize my pictorial music resound.

My approach is one of slowness and isolation.
I let childhood come back to life inside that perceives life through all the senses.
When a work is born, it is as if a miracle had come from elsewhere.
This elsewhere is, however, the most intimate part of oneself.

Nina Šmídek was born in Prague, as a family, cultural, geopolitical and intellectual inheritress of the World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig and of the Central European Secession.

She has developed a deep awareness of the fragility of peace, the importance of memory, identity, and respect of the unknown...
Of the supremacy of nature over man...

She takes a very distant look at modernity and the deviations it imposes on deep human values.
and to the current way of life, whose eagerness takes us away from listening to our bodies, distorts the relationship to others and in which cosiness destroys what is most precious - our land.

Her works, as a gentle reminder, choose escape into an imaginary, fantastic, symbolist world,
where reign the cycles of nature, where the unconscious shines through and the supernatural comes to life.

It is as if the image breathes into us the sometimes comic, sometimes painful beauty, necessary for the moment of truth, imposes introspection on us, takes us to the rendez-vous with oneself.

Classical musician, Argentine tango dancer and passionate traveller, curious about the elsewhere and the human things, she alternates between travels, with her camera and long periods of creation in the soli...

Solo exhibition 2022: FLEURS
Galleria Acta International, Rome, Italy

Salon Comparaisons de Art Capital 2022
Grand Palais Éphémère, Champs de Mars, Paris, France

Salon d'Automne 2021
Champs Elysées, Paris, France

Contemporary Art Salon
Bryoullov Palace, Saint Petersbourg, Russia

Salon Comparaisons de Art Capital 2020, Grand Palais
Champs Elysées, Paris, France

Auction of the Via Fundation 2019
Zofin palace, Prague, Czech republic

Cascinafarsetti 2019
Palazzo Velli, Trastevere, Rome, Italie

Salon d'Automne 2019
Champs Elysées, Paris, France

Fuori Luogo
Officine Forte Marghera, Venise, Italie

Prague Photo 2019

Salon d'Automne de Xi’An
International Children’s Art Museum, Xi’An, Chine

Salon Comparaisons de Art Capital 2019, Grand Palais
Paris, France

"SULLA STRADA"
Krom’Art Gallery, Rome, Italie

Salon of Czech photography
Salon Topič, Prague, République Tchèque

Salon d'Automne 2018
Champs Elysées, Paris, France

Cascinafarsetti 2018
Palazzo Velli, Trastevere, Rome, Italie

Résidence Plenair Obzor
Obzor, Bulgarie

Prague Photo 2018
Clam Gallas Palace, Prague, République Tchèque

Salon Comparaisons de Art Capital 2018, Grand Palais
Champs Elysées, Paris, Franc...