ceramic tiles, steel, textile, 2024
Pruger- Wallner Garden, Bratislava
There are personal memories that carve themselves into our minds and become part of our personalities, shaping who we are. And then there are those that belong to everyone, passed down through oral history and shared within the society and circles we grow up in, especially within close families. We inherit grand stories and place-specific peculiarities without realizing they have become part of us and are shaping us.
Mosaic based on my family's gathering of nettles in the spring.
400x160 cm
festival Biela Noc, Bratislava
photo credit: Ondrej Koscik
On February 5, 1850, floating ice blocked the sides of the Danube to such an extent that it prevented the river from flowing freely, causing the water to overflow onto both banks of Bratislava. This was the largest flood in history to affect the capital. To this day, markers in the city centre remind us of this event—they indicate the height the water reached.
The ice installation Flood 1850 subtly evoked this historical event through the gesture of melting while also highlighting the climate changes the city is currently experiencing. During the White Night festival, the wall made of ice blocks slowly melted, eventually leaving only a pile of river stones frozen inside. Visitors could take stones with a design inspired by river waves as a souvenir from the installation.
Kunsthalle,Bratislava, 2023
curator: Ema Cabová
photo credit: Ján Kekeli
main canvas was made by the author and children with dual visual and hearing disabilities 400x500 cm, acryl and charcoal on cotton
How do children who see and hear poorly perceive nature? How do they get to know the environment that surrounds them?
The works from the Perceive White series are the result of my collaboration with the Evangelical United Boarding School for children with dual visual and hearing disabilities. My collaboration with the school began in the first half of 2022 and continued into 2023 as a long-term project with teachers and students, mapping their relationship to nature.
The school is located in a natural environment, in a small settlement in eastern Slovakia. Pupils’ contact with nature is one of the basic requirements for the education of children with dual visual and hearing disabilities. The works were inspired by flowers that I brought, picked from nearby meadows, natural materials from my own studio, and nature motifs taken from books.
The purpose of the project was to make children with this diagnosis and their families more visible, to find a shared space for communication, and to spend quality time with them while creating the works together.
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ceramic objects
up to 50 cm
Nová Synagóga, Žilina
photo credit:
Moths became a symbol of my collaboration with children with visual impairments. Moths navigate through scent and are fragile in our human world, yet they remain beautiful...
watercolor and dra pastel on paper, 50x70 cm
2021
Nehemiah Grew, a 17th-century English botanist, was among the first to reveal the inner structure and function of plants. He transformed his microscopic observations into detailed drawings and collected them in his book The Anatomy of Plants, thereby paving the way for the science of plant anatomy.
Grew’s illustrations became the inspiration for two series of drawings by Monika Pascoe Mikýšková: the works from the series Small Shapes and the series titled Nehemiah. The drawing Untitled from the Small Shapes series (2021), approaches Grew’s legacy from a contemporary female perspective. With the distance of more than three centuries, the artist engages with his work from a primarily visual standpoint, paying tribute to his pioneering observations while reinterpreting them through her own artistic language.
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Smal
At Home gallery , Šamorín
photo credit: Adam Šákový
Small shapes is the name of a series of works as well as installations for Šamorín Synagogue. The exhibition draws from the natural shapes and transforms them into new contexts and materials. It`s main inspiration was the abstract shape of the seed, which is repeatedly used and multiplied in each of the exhibited works. The main element of the exhibition are two free-standing steel stands, which are holders for ceramic round plates and symbolizing clay tablets in ancient Mesopotamia as the source of knowledge.They also hold fragile objects made of paper and leather, both levitating in air. Steel constructions are a depiction of the fragility and variability of the natural in human hands.
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2004 University NewCastle Upon Tyne, New Castle, GB
studio prof. Roxy Walsch
2007 graduated at the Academy of Fine art and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia, Studio of Painting and Other media, prof. D. Fischer
2014 finished Phd. study at the Academy of fine art and design Bratislava, studio of Painting and other media, prof. Daniel Fischer
Symposium
Artist in residence
- NOVUM foundation 2020
-VUB Painting 2007, 3-rd prize for young artist
-Essl Art Award Cee, Collectors Invitation Prize, 2015
2024 Crossing Borders, Central European Women in Art, MAK, Vienna
2023 Organization for Tropical Studies, Las Cruces, Costa Rica
2009 Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus – Schwandorf, Germany
2015 BANSKA-ST-A-NICA, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
selected group exhibitions
2025 “ Soft Echoes” Staré Lýceum, Bratislava, SK
2024 “Claude Glass” Krystal gallery, Havířov,CZ
2024 “ Perceive White” New Synagogue, Žilina, SK
2023 “Lost and Found in the Smallest Structures” OTS, Las Cruces research center,CR 2022 “Sublimation” Jiří Švestka gallery, Prague, CZ
2021 “Natural Environment” Arosita gallery, Sofia, BG
2021 “Poetry about cells and seeds” East Slovak Gallery, Kosice, SK 2020 „Small Shapes“ At Home Gallery, Šamorin, SK
2019 „Monika Pascoe Mikyšková/ Veronika Vlková“ Jiří Švestka, Prague, CZ
2018 „Botanika“ AtelierXIII, Bratislava, SK
2018 „ Plants“ Bratislava city Gallery, Bratislava, SK
2017 „ In Time“ Berlin Model gallery, Prague, CZ
2017 „ Searching for the rare minerals“ Wolfrum, Wien, AT
2015 „ Evolution“ Schemnitz, Banská Štiavnica, SK
2025 “Botanical mystery” East Slovak Gallery/ Botanical garden, Košice, SK 2025 “As we don't know them” Nitra gallery, SK
2025 “ Nature of the body” kasárne/ kulturpark, Košice, SK
2023 “ Sea” Nitra gallery, Nitra, SK
2023 “ Art Triennial Zlín” House of Arts, Zlín, CZ
2023 “ Call me if you need me” Oskar Čepan Prize, Kunsthalle, SK
2023 “ In Autumn” Gallery Kurzor, Prague, CZ
2023 “ Human Animal” GUS, Spišská nová Ves, SK
2023 “ Dig Deep” Slovak Institute Prague, CZ
2023 “Zeichnung Aktuel” Städtische Galerie Cordonhaus Cham, DE
2023 “ Heat wave” 4D gallery, Galanta, SK
2022 “ Renewal” Biennale Zielona Góra, PL
2021 “ Calm/Still life” Tsekh gallery, Kyyiv, UA
2019 “ Divočina/ Wilderness” Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, SK
2016 “ Telling lines“ Lappeenranta art museum, FI
2016 “ Alien“ Gallery Lista Fyr,NO
2016 “Body and Soul“ ESSL Museum , Wien, AT
2016 “ Oyster“ gallery Zoya, Bratislava,SK
2015 “Diversity of Voices“ ESSL Art Award Cee-Nominees 2015, Vienna, AT
Pascoe Mikyšková M.:Record of Silence. Bratislava: Pascoe Mikyšková, 2015
https://secondaryarchive.org/artists/monika-pascoe-mikyskova/
https://artalk.info/news/ts-coc-2022-monika-pascoe-mikyskova
https://flashart.cz/2023/04/20/skupinova-terapia-pre-cenu-oskara-cepana/
https://flashart.cz/2022/01/29/sen-ve-snu-fantazie/
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textile instalation, steel, drawings (oil pastel on paper)
curator: Edith Jeřábková
PLATO gallery, Ostrava, CZ
photo credit: Domonika Goralska, PLATO
Who do memories belong to?
A meadow on a hill, we are bending over together and gathering yellow flowers. I am at my grandmother’s side, I am four or five years old. I ask what the herbs are used for, and my grandmother answers, for cleansing. This is the oldest memory I have of us together. A year after her son died, she is gathering St. John’s wort at our cottage. — Monika Pascoe Mikyšková
Perforate St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum, known colloquially in Czech as enchanter or St. John’s blood) is known for its use as a nerve calmer, a sleep aid, and an antidepressant. The word hypericum comes from the Greek hyper (above) and eikon (icon), after a custom of hanging the herb above icons as a protection against evil. In ancient Greece and Rome, it was often burned to ward off evil spirits and diseases. When cows ate St. John’s wort in their pastures, its red fluid turned their milk pink, which people in the Middle Ages incorrectly attributed to an evil spirit possessing the cows.
Monika Pascoe Mikyšková is interested in plants and their medicinal effects. The memories of St. John’s wort thus become not just her memories, but also those of her grandmother – and, at the same time, the memories of all those who have ever gathered it.
oil pastel and charcoal on paper
50x70 cm, 2025
photo credit: Dominika Goralska, PLATO
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oil pastel on paper, 160x150 cm (each), 2025
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object from clay and yarn
up to 35 cm, 2025
Soft echoes
textile object, 400x250 cm, ink, acrylic and yarn on cotton
curator: Lucia Gregorová Stach
photo credit: Michal Konc
Monika Pascoe Mikyšková's solo exhibition Silent Echoes is an exploration and
personal creative meditation on the intercommunication between different forms of life -
human, plant and animal. The intimate constellation of paintings, textile compositions
and ceramics presented in the Old Lyceum invites visitors into the polyphony of natural
communities.
The exhibition was inspired by the ethnobotanical research of Renata Soukãnd and the
work of Julia Prakofyeva. The artist naturally transforms
scientific research and analysis into a poetic and visual language.
Through careful layering of fibers, threads, colors, pigment and clay, Mikyšková attunes
our senses to the muted transmissions of nature - to the cycles of bloom, blossom, fade,
seed, death and birth. We listen to the ephemeral whispers that resonate through
organic textures and perceive the quiet echoes of persistent layers of memory woven
into each surface. The works on display serve as vessels filled with memories of
buzzing meadows filled with insects, pollen particles of plants, flowers and also hidden
tiny organisms. Delicate stitched textiles and intricate painterly structures carry forward
the repetition of ancestral patterns in the inherited wisdom of ancient rhythms of
emergence, coexistence and decay.
mosaic, ceramic tiles, steel
photo credit: Michal Konc