Saša Makarová

The Austrian-Slovakian painter Saša Makarová approaches her subjects through a colour-intensive, expressive visual language: self-confident female figures and the game of seduction, which embodies eroticism and danger at the same time.

The Austrian-Slovakian painter Saša Makarová approaches her subjects through a colour-intensive, expressive visual language: self-confident female figures and the game of seduction, which embodies eroticism and danger at the same time.

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Saša Makarová

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

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Exhibition list

Solo Exhibitions

2022
"Traum und Wirklichkeit", Museum Angerlehner, Thalheim bei Wels, Austria
2021
"WIR LIEBEN UNS ALLE!", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany
2019
"Wild at Heart", Galerie Szaal, Wien, Austria
2017
"La Grande Bellezza", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany
2014
"In bester Gesellschaft", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany
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Group Exhibitions

2023
"Private Choice", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany
2020
"European Art Comes to Chongqing", Hong Art Museum, Chongqing, China
2020
"European Art Comes to Chongqing", Hong Kong Museum of Art, Chongqing, China
2011
Die Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2010
Forbes Museum Galleries - Forbes Collection, New York City, USA
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Vita

With her expressive and colour-intensive works, Saša Makarová transports us into her pictorial worlds, always based on myths and fairy tales, on stories of self-confident and beautiful women. The bright oil colours are applied forcefully and impasto and reflect the strength of the depicted women. Makarová's representations are based on the ornamentation and colouring of the early Expressionists such as Matisse and Vlaminck.

The artist first studied restoration in Bratislava and was discovered after the fall of communism by Adolf Frohner, who invited her to join his master class at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. There, however, Makarová quickly withdrew from the almost exclusively taught abstract art and turned to figuration, in particular the female figure.
Lives and works in Vienna
1966
Born in Kosice, Slovakia
1987
Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava
1991 -  1997
University of Applied Arts in Vienna with Prof. Frohner
1997
Scholarship for gifted students, diploma with distinction
1997 -  2010
Various study visits to Central and Eastern Asia
1998 -  1999
Working scholarship of the ministry of science and transport

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