(*1991, Trnava)

She started her studies in 2011 at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica in the open studio of painting of Professor Ján Kudlička and Rastislav Podoba (finalist of the competition a few years ago). In 2013 she completed a study internship in the studio of Professor Andrzej Bednarczyk at the Academy of Arts in Krakow. She is currently studying in the studio of intermedia confrontation at the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Prague, where she works under the supervision of Associate Professors Jiří David and Milan Salák. She currently lives and works in Prague and Prievidza.

The painting included in the final set – Propagation by stem cuttings – is conventional with her previous work. For the compositions, she draws on her own memory and photographs, which she then further transforms in a painterly way. She favours a sketchy painterly expression, often employing a strong vigorous gesture, which, combined with her penchant for landscapes, fills one with visions of a literally luscious handwriting. It is first this painterly temperament that attracted the jury more than the chosen motifs. In her work, the author is interested in the relationship between man and the landscape, exploring the original form of the landscape, while trying to indicate their interconnectedness and link them into one whole: "I am trying to get people out of the city and into pure wild nature or a landscape that has no need to geometrize and organize everything, a landscape that arises spontaneously and uncontrollably."

(The text is from the catalogue for the competition Painting 2015, A. Kusá)

Read more about the author:

https://www.dotgallery.sk/kristina-bukovcakova-2/

https://www.galerialm.sk/vystavy/archiv-vystav-2017/kristina-bukovcakova-privretymi-ocami/