{"id":28008,"date":"2025-10-31T14:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zgjm.sk\/?page_id=28008"},"modified":"2025-10-31T15:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:14:16","slug":"dusana-vrbovska-finding-the-way","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.zgjm.sk\/en\/exhibitions\/archive-of-exhibitions\/2025-2\/dusana-vrbovska-finding-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Du\u0161ana Vrbovsk\u00e1: Finding the Way\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Du\u0161ana Vrbovsk\u00e1: Finding the Way\u2026<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Exhibition of the artist\u2019s latest paintings and accompanying catalogue launch.<\/strong><\/p>

Artist, exhibition title<\/strong>: <\/strong>Du\u0161ana Vrbovsk\u00e1: Finding the Way\u2026
<\/strong>Venue<\/strong>: <\/strong>Z\u00e1horie Gallery of J\u00e1n Mudroch in Senica, Sadov\u00e1 619\/3
Curator: <\/strong>Bo\u017eena Jur\u00ed\u010dkov\u00e1
<\/strong>Opening<\/strong>: <\/strong>October 17, 2025 (Friday) at 5:00 p.m.<\/strong>
<\/strong>Musical guest at the opening<\/strong>: <\/strong>Stanislav Po\u010daji (guitar)
<\/strong>Duration of the exhibition<\/strong>: <\/strong>October 17 \u2013 November 30, 2025<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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About the Exhibition<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Shortly after her solo exhibition at the Gallery of Fine Arts in Hodon\u00edn, young artist Du\u0161ana Vrbovsk\u00e1, a graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Academy of Arts in Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica (2013\u20132019) and a two-time finalist of the \u201cPainting \u2013 VUB Foundation Award\u201d competition, now presents her work to the Senica and regional public. The exhibition, aptly titled Finding the Way<\/em>, represents her most extensive and comprehensive presentation of her painting to date.<\/p>

In her intimate body of work, Du\u0161ana Vrbovsk\u00e1 develops a concept focused on a distinctive lyrical and metaphorical reflection of the organic world of nature\u2014an approach she first established in her master\u2019s thesis. The exhibition, which maps the artist\u2019s creative period of the past seven to eight years, comprises two main thematic and conceptual sections. In the first collection, based on examples taken from the natural environment and its unique transformations over time, she explores the ambivalence of life, being, and non-being. Using local sensory impressions, digital pre-images, and other technical methods, she conveys the processes of the natural life cycle through classical \u201cold master\u201d painting techniques. With almost documentary precision, she observes the growth and decay of pure organic matter\u2014seemingly banal fragments of various vegetative structures found in everyday surroundings. From spring to winter, she captures the carousel of dying and sprouting, withering and blooming, rotting and ripening, extinction and regeneration\u2014the endlessness of being. In her work, the natural sphere becomes an analogue for human time and space. The cyclical nature of phenomena, the processual mysticism of nature, is metaphorically interpreted as a parallel to the mysteries of human life.<\/p>

In her latest body of work, which gives the exhibition its title, Vrbovsk\u00e1 moves toward exploring the relationship between the pure world of nature and environments marked by traces and flaws of civilization. The fundamental principles of her art\u2014including her painterly articulation\u2014remain consistent. However, this is no longer merely a meditative reflection on the story of life but rather a demonstration of the vitality, boundless energy, and enduring regenerative power of the natural world. Through examples of small, plant-based vegetation sprouting not only in gardens and parks but even amid construction debris or by the roadside\u2014despite extreme conditions\u2014Vrbovsk\u00e1\u2019s work speaks to universal and strikingly contemporary themes. In evocative associative layers, grounded in symbolic values and imbued with both factual and lyrical poetics, she expresses an unexpectedly optimistic vision for humanity\u2014a belief in the indestructibility of nature\u2019s life-giving forces and of life itself on this planet.<\/p>

Bo\u017eena Jur\u00ed\u010dkov\u00e1<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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About the Artist<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Mgr. art. Du\u0161ana Vrbovsk\u00e1<\/strong> was born in Skalica in 1992. Between 2008 and 2012, she studied at the School of Applied Arts in Kremnica. From 2013, she continued her studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Academy of Arts in Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica. She completed her bachelor\u2019s studies (2013\u20132017) in the Studio of Classical Painting Disciplines under Prof. \u013dudov\u00edt Holo\u0161ka, academic painter, and her master\u2019s studies (2018\u20132019) in the Open Painting Studio under Assoc. Prof. Rastislav Podoba, ArtD.<\/p>

In 2016, she participated in a study stay at the University of West Bohemia in Plze\u0148, Faculty of Design and Art, in the Painting Studio under Assoc. Prof. Ale\u0161 Ogoun, academic painter.<\/p>

She is a two-time finalist of the \u201cPainting \u2013 VUB Foundation Award\u201d (2018, 2023). Since 2022, she has held four solo exhibitions (Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica, Trebi\u0161ov, Bratislava, Hodon\u00edn) and, since 2017, has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. She lives and works in Senica.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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