Artist of many faces: Painter-carpenter, sculpturer-kombajn harvester driver, son of nature and child of a late-capitalist. His name is Jozef Mária Pilát (Mária-Nickname).
He was born in Slovakia in 1992 in a family with a long tradition of farming. He spent his childhood and life in the countryside.
In 2018, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Erazmus-2015 Uniwersität der Künste in Berlin)
Nowadays, he is working on ArtD. study at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. The topic of its research is the 'Sustainability of Utopia in Postfactual age'. How the global world influences the local narratives and how the local stories can influence the global world.
In his work, he hasn't limited to only one medium. The way of expression looks more like swinging between different means of communication. In the first place, he puts the stories in which his artworks take on heroes' role, which is truly presenting persons in real narratives.
SELECTED achievements
Individual exhibitions:
> 2020 – I'll be there even if it kills me, curator: Kaja Werbanowska, Warsaw,
> 2019 – Let's Make Paradise Together IZONE, kurátor: Kateryna Filyuk, Kijev,
> 2019 – ŠUŇAWOOD, Synagóga status quo ante Trnava, curator: Dominika Chrzánová
Awards:
> finalist of OSKAR ČEPAN award 2020,
>Entry competition 2019, > 2018 – A scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage for artistic achievements
Collective exhibitions:
> 2019 – ANTY GOLD RUSH, Obrońców Stalingradu 17, Szczecin, PL
> 2019 – ENTROTOPIA 1.0., curator: Ville Laksonen, Rantakasarmi Gallery, Helsinki, FIN > 2015 – Class Exhibition Prof. Valerie Favre, WHITE, gallery La Chaufferie, Strassburg, FR > 2015 – ÜBERDUMPSTERTHREESOME, gallery Zwitscher Maschine, Berlin, DE
> 2015 – Wollste nicht mal Bule werden? gallery Schröder und Dörr seit 1986 Köln, Germany, DE
