Stanislava Kovalcikova

“If you compare it to organic processes like mushrooms under the earth, that all of a sudden pop out, but which is way smaller than the entire system. And sometimes I really have to wait for years, I know if I do it too early then I ruin the painting.”

—Stanislava Kovalcikova

Peres Projects is pleased to present the debut solo exhibition of Stanislava Kovalcikova (b. 1988 in Czechoslovakia) at the gallery in Berlin.

Stanislava Kovalcikova’s elegiac canvases which depict human figures, are studies of painting itself. Drawing on contemporary and historical perspectives of the human figure, her work directly references art historical styles. Equally, Kovalcikova’s work operates through a tradition of Eastern orthodox mysticism. An exploration of the figure as an icon, the individual psychic experience portrayed in her work is always referential to something larger – an archetype from a collective narrative.

Kovalcikova has completed degrees in painting under Tomma Abts and Peter Doig at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Recent solo exhibitions include at Imaga, 15orient, New York, Eastern promises, Open Forum, Berlin and Cautionary tales, Mamoth, London. She has also participated in group exhibitions Do Nothing, Feel Everything, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, On the politics of delicacy, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Everything is personal, Tramps, New York and Painting also known as blood, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. In 2022, she has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Belvedere 21 in Vienna. She will also present her first solo exhibition at Peres Projects.