Michaela Šuranská * 1993, Levice, SK

"Her current work deals with expanded painting, or painting and its overlaps,
in the context of landscape as a temporal and cultural memory/reference with its many layers and shades. It subjects the defined field of interest to scrutiny, not only from a practical, artistic point of view, art, but also from an archaeological, anthropological, social and philosophical perspective. In her work, he refers to the notion of "taskscape" attributed to the anthropologist Tim Ingold, who refers to the landscape as an environment of activities shaped by human activity. She evaluates the landscape as something, that is a reality lived through everyday human activities that embody social ideas into concrete situations. Šuranská's paintings and environments refer to the so-called heterotopias - strange hybrid disturbing places related to
to the past, present and future."
(Marianna Brinzová, from the catalogue Vlnobjekt symposium, 2023)

 

In 2023 she completed her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Arts of the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, where she also completed her master's studies (studio of doc. Mgr. art. art. Ján Triaška, ArtD.). She is the art director and curator of Rozkvet Gallery in Banská Bystrica, the author of the project Kláštor Opening and the producer of Schemnitz Gallery in Banská Štiavnica. 
In 2023 she was awarded 2nd place in the Painting of the Year 2023 competition of the VÚB Bank Foundation, was a finalist in the Strabag Art Award (2022) and during her studies she received the Dean's Prize for her Bachelor's Thesis (2016). 
She actively creates and participates in independent (2023 exhibition Of other traces, Central Slovak Gallery in Banská Bystrica, 2023 Tektoniká, EQO space for interactive art, Spišsský Hrhov; 2022, Of Previous and Next Spaces, Nástupište 1 - 12, Topoľčany; 2020 Blunt force, M. Šuranská, J. Kostaa - A7rooms Gallery, Banská Bystrica and others) and group exhibitions (2022 Human Animal II. "Wolf full, sheep whole, pig laughing", Spiš Artists Gallery / Spišská Nová Ves, 2022 Artrooms Moravany 4 "ZERO POINT" Homage to Moravian Venus", Manor House in Moravany n. Váhom, 2022 Motherland. Współczesna sztuka Słowacji, BWA Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej, Przemyśl, PL, 2020 Peripheral Vision, Pistori Palace, Bratislava; 2019 Young Memory, Šopa gallery, Košice and others).