Svätopluk Mikyta

*1973 , former Czechoslovakia
Lives and works in Banská Štiavnica and Brno

CONTACT: svatmik@yahoo.com

STUDIES, ART RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS:

Since 2009 co-founder and art-director the BSC international artist in residence centre
2009-2014 curator of YES LINO symposium
Since 2015 curator of EDITION BSC – graphic workshop
Since 2011 Head of the Drawing and Printmaking Studio at Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology, Czech republic

2012Strabag Art Studio, residence, Vienna (AT)
2011Strabag Art Award, the winner, Vienna (AT)
2009Oskár Čepan Award, the winner
Tatra Mountains Tiger Award , the winner
The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), residence, New York (USA)
2006PROGR-Artists in residence, Bern (CH)
2001-2002DAAD - one year creative scholarship, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (DE)
Klasse Malerei, Prof. Bernd Koberling
1999-2000Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava (AFAD), additional study at the Studio of Ceramics, Do. Ivica Vidrová-Langerová (SK)
1997-1999AFAD, MA, Studio of Free Colour Printmaking, Doc.Vojtech Kolenčík (SK)
1996-1997Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, guest study, Freie Grafik u. Malerei,
Prof. Wolfgang Gäfgen and Roland Winkler (DE)
1995-1996Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, scholarship "Künstlerwege“,
Freie Grafik und Malerei, Prof. Wolfgang Gäfgen (DE)
1992-1997AFAD, Bratislava, Studio of Free Colour Printmaking, Doc. Vojtech Kolenčík (SK)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2021

New nature, SODA Gallery, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

2019Fragments of fragments, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Prague v Jelení Gallery, Praha (CZ)
MOŽNÝ MIKYTA, I DON’T EXIST, WHEN YOU DON’T SEE ME, Etcetera Gallery, Brno (CZ)
Colaps Lapsus II, Gallery Zborovňa Nová Cvernovka, Bratislava (SK)
Colaps Lapsus I, Stredoslovenská galéria, Banská Bystrica (SK)
2018Hole in flag, ITO Projektraum, Stuttgart (DE)
2017PRESS, Krokus Gallery, Bratislava, (SK)

Zdroj, LUXFER Gallery, Česká Skalice, (CZ)

2016Ornamentiana, Fait Gallery, Brno, (CZ)

Ungold, Erika Deák Gallery, MIKYTA EXPORT IMPORT

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:

2020Unstable State of Things, Glassyard Gallery Budapest, Hungary

2019

Sillver vertigo, Jozef Kollár Gallery, Banská Štiavnica (SK)

2018Zeitgeistlos, Knoll Galerie, Vienna, (AT)

Greetings from Molsberg, Galerie Britta von Rettberg, Munich, (DE) Pigment – Zones of Visibility, Glassyard Gallery, Budapest, (HU) Magic, Emmanuel Walderdorff Gallery, Molsberg, (DE)

2017DOUBLE CODING, MUDAM, Luxembourg, (LU)
2016Intermarium, Futura Gallery, Prague, (CZ)
2015Moving Image Department, 2nd
Chapter: The Eclipse of an Innocent
Eye, National Gallery, Trade Fair
Palace, Prague, (CZ)

Liquid Muse, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, (SK)

2014This can’t possibly by true, Emil Filla Gallery- Armaturka, Ústí nad
Labem, (CZ)

Turning points, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, (HU)
Two landscapes, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, (SK) Haunting Monumentality II, Club Electroputere, Craiova, (RO)

2013Past Future II, House of Arts- Dum panu z Kunstatu, Brno (CZ)

REPRESENTED IN THE COLLECTIONS: 

Art Institute of Chicago (USA),
MUDAM Collection Luxembourg (L),
Museum of Applied Arts, Prague (CZ),
Slovak National Gallery (SK),
Bratislava City Gallery, Bratislava (SK),
Nitrianska Gallery, Nitra (SK),
Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica (SK), M.A. Bazovsky Gallery (SK),
The Municipal Museum, Pezinok (SK), The Orawa Gallery, Dolný Kubín (SK)

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS IN: 

Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, USA, Austria, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, Japan

PRESENTED AT ART FAIRS: 

Contemporary Istanbul (TR),
Art Forum Berlin (GER),
Preview Berlin (GER),
Art Amsterdam RAI (NL),
Art Frankfurt (GER), ART Brussels, Brussel (B),
Viennafair, Vienna (AT),
Volta Basel, Basel (CH),
Volta NYC, New York (USA)