Mária Švarbová (1988)
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Mária Švarbová is a Slovak photographer who has gained recognition in an international context with her distinctive style. In her photographs, she focuses especially on experimenting with space, colour, and atmosphere, and they mainly reflect her interest in the architecture and public space of the socialist era. She creates visually clear, carefully composed scenes with modern freshness. The captured person, often seemingly depersonalised with the absence of emotions, is precisely embedded in them, and aesthetically connected with the surrounding space. This young award-winning artist, who became known to the public mainly thanks to her still unfinished series entitled Swimming Pool, is also the author of advertising campaigns for Apple and the Museum of Ice Cream in NYC, laureate of the Hasselblad Masters Award, and has been involved in the Forbes “30 Under 30” list.
Selected exhibitions:
Fragile Concrete, Solo exhibition at Unité d'habitation Le Corbusier, Marseille, FRA, 2021
Summer Art Salon, KODL Gallery, Prague, CZ, 2021
Sand – Water, Art Angle Gallery, Taipei, TWN, 2020
212 Photography Istanbul, International Photography Festival, Istanbul, TR, 2020
Kyotographie, International Photography Festival, Art Angle Gallery, Kyoto, JPN, 2020
PhotoVogue, Milano, IT, 2016
Mária Švarbová is a Slovak photographer who has gained recognition in an international context with her distinctive style. In her photographs, she focuses especially on experimenting with space, colour, and atmosphere, and they mainly reflect her interest in the architecture and public space of the socialist era. She creates visually clear, carefully composed scenes with modern freshness. The captured person, often seemingly depersonalised with the absence of emotions, is precisely embedded in them, and aesthetically connected with the surrounding space. This young award-winning artist, who became known to the public mainly thanks to her still unfinished series entitled Swimming Pool, is also the author of advertising campaigns for Apple and the Museum of Ice Cream in NYC, laureate of the Hasselblad Masters Award, and has been involved in the Forbes “30 Under 30” list.
Selected exhibitions:
Fragile Concrete, Solo exhibition at Unité d'habitation Le Corbusier, Marseille, FRA, 2021
Summer Art Salon, KODL Gallery, Prague, CZ, 2021
Sand – Water, Art Angle Gallery, Taipei, TWN, 2020
212 Photography Istanbul, International Photography Festival, Istanbul, TR, 2020
Kyotographie, International Photography Festival, Art Angle Gallery, Kyoto, JPN, 2020
PhotoVogue, Milano, IT, 2016
No Diving II, Horizon
2020
digital photography
100 × 80 cm
sold
Horizon Yellow, Horizon
2020
digital photography
100 × 80 cm
sold
Girl Power2020
digital photograph, 1/10
100 × 80 cm
ARTIST'S RECORD SALE
sold at 87th KODL Gallery Auction
Gréta
2014–2017
digital photography, numbered 6/25
90 × 90 cm
sold
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