Alena Adamkova creates projects connecting the idea of communication with classic art techniques linked to new media expressed as blurred images of broken transmission signal and theme of miscommunication, and explores experimental approach to painting that creates new meaning. She collaborated with a team members of The Wig on various experimental art projects. She explores painting into three dimensional space with interactive body & mind entrance using painting as primary technique with the the conjunction of the new media, space, objects, photography, and other technologies. She currently hold studio in Stryx Gallery where she exhibits he latest project in solo show "Lost & Found" based on the personal journey of lost and grief, with the use of fluorescent paintings, UV lights, installation and image projection.
ALENA ADAMKOVA
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION
2009 – 2011 MA Art and Education, MA, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
1998 – 2000 Master of Fine Art – Mgr.art, Academy of Fine Art and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
1994 – 1998 Bachelor of Art – Bc., Academy of Fine Art and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
1995 – 1997 Art Teacher, State Exam, Academy of Fine Art and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
1987 – 1991 Adult Nursing, School of Nursing, Slovakia
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Lost & Found”, Stryx, Birmingham, UK
2003 „ KOMUNIKATOR“, PGU Gallery, Žilina, Sk
2003 KOMUNIKATOR – PICTURES, Gallery of Cik Cak Center, Bratislava, Sk
2003 NonPainting, UniBank, Malacky, Sk
2000 NonPainting, UniBank, Bratislava, Sk
2002 Another Spaces, Galery of Young, Nitra, Sk
2002 Under Skin - Under Canvas, The Synagogue Center of Contemporary Art, GJK, Trnava, SK
2002 FEEDBACK, Buryzone, Bratislava, Sk
2001 NEOBRAZY (non-paintings – new- paintings), LINEA Gallery, Bratislava, Sk
1996 Alena Adámková, Živa Gallery, Bratislava, Sk
1996 My open studio, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
1994 Alena Adámková, Theatre of Trnava, Trnava, Sk
STUDENTSHIP - 1996 Exhibition “My Open Studio” - University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
SYMPOSIUMS WITH EXHIBITION
2003 1. Symposium of Painting, Békescsaba, HU
2003 47. Symposium of Oil Painting, Zrenjamin, YU
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2023 Stryx Studio Holders Show, Stryx, Birmingham, UK
2023 Birmingham Open Studios, Stryx Studio, Birmingham, UK
2023 Stryx JQ Studio Holders Show, Stryx, Birmingham, UK
2021 Stryx Studio holders Show, Stryx, Birmingham, UK
2015 The Wig Collective Studio, Birmingham UK
2012 Junction Art Festival Wolverhampton, UK
2012 British Glass Biennial Stourbridge, Stourbridge, UK
2007 Painting, Slovakia Art Gabfest, Bratislava, Sk
2007 Painting, Culture Centrum Istropolis, Bratislava, Sk
2006 Draught in Slovak contemporary painting, City Gallery Prague, CZ
2005 Draught in Slovak contemporary painting, PGU Gallery Žilina, Sk
2004 Disconnected image Jan Koniarek Gallery Trnava, Sk
2004 Disconnected image Gallery Rimavska Sobota, SK
2004 Disconnected image National Gallery of Banska Bystrica, Sk
2004 The sculpture and the object IX, GMB, Bratislava, Sk
2003 Painting, Symposium Békescsaba, Hungary
2003 Painting in oil, Zrenjamin, Serbia
2003 Sculpture and Object VIII, GMB, Bratislava, Sk
2001 Lighthouse, Jan Koniarek Gallery Trnava, Sk,
2001 Lighthouse, PGU Gallery Žilina, Sk
2001 Pudding generation, Bulgarian Cultural Centre, Bratislava, Sk
1999 Pudding generation, Synagogue, Trenčín, Sk
1997 AFAD Student show, Wolfsburg Gallery, Wolfsburg, Germany