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Oľga Bartošíková: Paintings at a Given Time

Exhibition: Oľga Bartošíková: Paintings at a Given Time
Venue: Záhorie Gallery of Ján Mudroch in Senica, Sadová 619/3, 905 01 Senica
Curator: Bohumír Bachratý
Opening: 18 August 2022 (Thursday) at 17:00
Concert performers: Belcanto Duo – Miloš and Mária Hoschek (piano and vocal)
Exhibition running: 18 August (Thursday) – 18 September 2022 (Sunday)

About exhibition

Academic painter Oľga Bartošíková (born 1922) is celebrating her one hundredth’ birthday in 2022. To mark this unique event in Slovak art culture, the artist’s hometown of Holíč has organised the first of a series of exhibitions curated by PhDr. Bohumír Bachratý. It is a selection of contemporary works from the artist’s property as well as pieces from a private collection and the collection of the Municipal Museum and Gallery in Holíč. On this occasion, the town has issued a commemorative zero banknote with a portrait of the artist.

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Another exhibition and homage to the artist has been planned for the second half of August and September in the Záhorie Gallery of Ján Mudroch in Senica, where the artist is presenting the works owned by the Záhorie Gallery along with her latest artwork. The opening of the exhibition is accompanied by a chamber concert performed by the Belcanto Duo (Miloš and Mária Hoschekovci, vocal and piano).

Born and bred in the region of Záhorie, Oľga Bartošíková has also drawn creative inspiration from her childhood and youth. She did her first drawings, sculptures, landscapes and portraits in her native Holíč and at the grammar school in Skalica. She studied with Professor Ján Želibský at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1945 – 1950. Since 1957 he has lived and worked in Bratislava. She became a member of the Union of Slovak Visual Artists, and in 1958 – 1966 a member of the unique Group 4 together with Jarmila Čihánková, Tamara Klimová and Viera Kraicová. Since 1989, she has been a member of the Slovak Union of Visual Art and a co-founder of the Society of Free Visual Artists. Oľga Bartošíková is still actively involved in the creative process. She has devoted herself to painting (oils and mixed media), but also to drawing and works of art for architecture projects.

Portraits, self-portraits, figurative compositions, still lifes with flowers and fruits dominate the wide range of her artwork and so do landscapes, nature, motifs of cathedrals, old Holíč in memories and symbolic monuments, memorials…

Quoting a poem, the artist tells us: “you just have to look” to see and to know.

Bohumír Bachratý

Oľga Bartošíková: Lapidárium I., 2010, plátno, olej, 80.0 x 120.0 cm, M 568
Zo zbierky Záhorskej galérie Jána Mudrocha v Senici

O autorke

Oľga Bartošíková
18 August 1922 Holíč
She lives and works in Bratislava.

1945 — 1950 studied painting with Ján Želibský at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.

1958 with painters Jarmila Čihánková, Tamara Klimová and Viera Kraicová founded the Group 4 (Skupina 4), disbanded in 1966
1995 — 2002 chairperson of the Slovak Union of Visual Art.
She is currently a member of the Slovak Union of Visual Art – Society of Free Visual Artists.
Oľga Bartošíková is engaged in free artistic creation – small size paintings and drawings, in the 1960s – 1980s she created works for architecture projects in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

The works of Oľga Bartošíková are included in the collections of Slovak galleries and in private collections.

Solo exhibitions – selection

1963 Paintings and Drawings, Cyprián Majerník Gallery, Bratislava
1970 Paintings and Objects, Jaroslav Král Gallery, Brno, Cyprián Majerník Gallery, Bratislava
1981 Selection from Work, Municipal House of Culture, Holíč
1987 Paintings, ZSVU Exhibition Hall, Bratislava
2004 Selection from Work, Záhorie Museum, Skalica
2006 Selection from Paintings, Holíč Chateau
2013 Paintings (1957 — 2013), Záhorie Gallery of Ján Mudroch, Senica; Town Hall, Holíč; Ján Koniarek Gallery, Trnava
Oľga Bartošíková – The Sixties, Sala Terrena Gallery, Presidential Palace, Bratislava
2014 1963 — 2013, House of Culture, Bratislava

Group exhibitions – selection:

1958 Exhibition of Young Artists, Brno
1959 4th Exhibition of Czechoslovak Visual Art, Prague – First exhibition Group 4, Bratislava
1963 Contemporary Visual Art, Prague
1966 Slovak Contemporary Visual Art, Bratislava, Sopoty, Poznań (Poland)
           Third exhibition of Group 4, Špála Gallery, Prague
           Third exhibition of Group 4, Cyprián Majerník Gallery, Bratislava
1968 Slovak Artists in D Gallery, Prague
           Contemporary Art Exhibition, Gladbach (Germany)
1969 1st Biennial of Painting, Košice
1970 Multi-Art Space I. Sculpture – Object – Light – Music, Piešťany
1976 3rd International Biennial of Painting 1976, Košice
1981 Still Life in Slovak Painting, Regional Gallery of M. A. Bazovský, Trenčín
1987 Artists from Záhorie, Kysuce Gallery, Čadca
1991 New Figuration, Society of Free Visual Artists, Slovak Union of Visual Art, Bratislava
1994 2nd Meeting of Artists from Záhorie, Záhorie Gallery of Ján Mudroch, Senica
2006 Biennial of Free Visual Art 2006, House of Art, Bratislava
2018 GROUP 4 1958 – 1966, Bratislava City Gallery