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Alexandra “Saša” Makarová was born in Košice, Slovakia and studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (Vysoká škola výtvarných umení Bratislava) from 1987 to 1991. With the fall of the Wall and the opening of the Iron Curtain, she moved to Austria in 1991 and studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, in the master class of the painter and sculptor Professor Adolf Frohner, who had shaped Viennese Actionism and, among other things, in 1970 at the Venice Biennale was shown. In 1997 she finished her studies with a scholarship and a diploma with distinction. Study trips to Nepal, Iran, India, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Japan and China followed.
Since her first solo exhibition in 1996 in the Stadtturmgalerie in Innsbruck, her works have been shown in numerous solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and participation in trade fairs, such as the Museum Morsbroich, the Künstlerhaus Wien, the Galerie Hilger, Wien, the Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, and Art Karlsruhe, the Viennafair and the ARCO Madrid, Madrid. Makarová's oeuvre is a figurative exploration of the theme of "woman and femininity". In the form of challenging self-portraits, with impasto floral and ornamental elements that are reminiscent of Henri Matisse, but also of the expressive coloring of the Brücke painters. She works with subjects from myths and fairy tales, with which she creates her own world in her pictures, based on the gestural painting of the Fauves, the Neue Wilden, whose main representatives in Austria included Adolf Frohner, and the painter and action artist Hermann Nitsch and Hubert Schmalix. Makarová mixes her oil paints herself, using intensely luminous pigments that give her paint application a deliberate graininess. The picture grows out of the canvas, so to speak. Echoes such as the woodcut-like figures and bright, intense colors are reminiscent of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner or Emil Nolde. Makarová's painting is not art for its own sake. The style, the choice of color and form, is always Makarova's conscious means of encouraging the viewer to embark on an emotional journey into the inner life of the artist's soul: the pictures capture intimate scenes of tense ambiguity, clothed in the aesthetic cloak of Sensuality. They tell of love, dependencies and sexuality in mythological form, always from the perspective of self-determined femininity.
solo exhibitions
1996 City Tower Gallery, Innsbruck
1997 Tobacco Museum, Vienna
1999 Golden Engl Gallery, Hall
2000 Artothek gallery, Vienna
2001 artLab, Ernst Hilger Gallery, Vienna
2001 Christmas exhibition Gallery Goldener Engl, Hall
2003 "Thinking is Action", Boston Consulting Group, Munich
2004 Gallery 12, Innsbruck
2004 Hilger contemporary special exhibition, Vienna
2006 Gallery Ernst Hilger, Vienna (catalogue)
2006 "Players", Gallery 12, Innsbruck
2006 Künstlerhaus Vienna
2008 Galeria d`Arte Moderna A. Bonzagni, Palazzo del Governator Cento, Italy
2008 Galleria de Faveri Arte, Feltre, Italy
2009 Ernst Hilger Gallery
2009 Museo del Risorgimento e della Resistenza, Ferrara-Palazzo del Diamanti
2009 Museum V.Löfflera,Kosice, Slovakia
2009 Esterhazy Palace, Eisenstadt
2009 Gallery pour art, Bratislava
2010 Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin
2012 Ernst Hilger Gallery, Vienna
2012 Vienna Museum, Karlsplatz, Vienna
2014 Friedmann-Hahn Gallery, Berlin
2015 Gallery Szaal, Vienna
2016 "This is how Europe sounds,, Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin
2017 Friedmann-Hahn Gallery, Berlin
2019 Gallery Szaal, Vienna
2019 Friedman-Hahn Gallery, Berlin
2020 Gallery Szaal,Vienna
2020 Friedman-Hahn Gallery, Berlin
Group exhibitions, participation in trade fairs
1995 East Slovak National Gallery Július Jakoby, Košice
1995 Gallery "Station U3", Vienna
1999 Gallery Museum on Demand, Vienna
1999 Shedhalle St. Pölten
1999 Gallery Schmidt, Reith im Alpachtal
2000 artLab, Ernst Hilger Gallery, Vienna
2000 artLab in the Burgenland State Gallery, Eisenstadt
2000 Art Vienna, MAK
2000 Christmas exhibition Galerie Schmidt, Reith im Alpachtal
2001 Museum Quarter, Siemens artLab, Vienna
2001 Art Vienna, MAK
2001 Art Advent Calendar, Vienna City Hall
2002 Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen
2002 Art Frankfurt
2002 Summer Stage, Vienna (with Gunter Damisch, Alfred Hrdlicka, Otto Zitko)
2002 "Central - artLab: New Art from Vienna", Gallery Binz and Kramer, Cologne
2002 City house Ulm
2002 "Central - artLab: New Art from Central Europe", MAK Galerija, Sarajevo and artLab Gallery, Vienna
2002 "Central", Mannheim Art Association
2002 "Mythos Marilyn", Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
2002 Padulo Gallery, Miami, USA
2002 art vienna, MAK
2002 Art Advent Calendar, Vienna City Hall
2003 Hilger contemporary, Vienna
2003 Art Frankfurt
2003 Art Vienna, MAK
2004 Mondsee Castle, Salzburg
2004 Art Cologne
2005 "Bread & Roses", TechnoloEnergy Center BAWAG, Vienna
2006 "Artiste, Teppiste", Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bondeno and Galleria Artè, Ferrara, Italy (catalogue)
2006 "Insights" from the collection of the OENB - Culture Days 06 - ECB, Frankfurt
2007 Vienna Fair
2007 “Eredità del Symbolismo. Mitology, ethnography, esotericism.", Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna “Aroldo Bonzagni", Cento, Italy
2007 "Cycle 2.0 Slovakia: Contemporary Art Slovakia - Lower Austria", Lilienfeld Abbey
2007 "Vette Incantate, Boschi Fatati, Acque Magiche - Visioni simboliste e fantastiche della montagna e della natura", Galleria de Faveri Arte, Sovramonte, Italy
2008 Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin
2009 Friedmann-Hahn Gallery, Perspectives, Berlin
2009 Arco, Madrid
2010 Contemporary View of Woman Reading Forbes Museum Galleries-Forbes Collection, New York
2010 art fair, Viennafair, Vienna
2010 Art and Fashion, Palazzo Ducale, Sabbionetta, Italy
2011 Die Galerie, Frankfurt, Austrian painting of the 20th century.
2011 Gallery Friedmann-Hahn,
2011 Gallery Schmid, Reitht im Alpbachtal, winter dance,
2012 Art Cologne
2015 Art Karlsruhe
2016 Vienna fair, Art Contemporary,
2016 Art and Antiques Fair, Vienna
2016 100 Heads, The Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
2017 WIKAM Fair,Vienna
2018 Art Karlsruhe
2018 WIKAM Fair,Vienna
2019 Museum MoCA Contempery Art, PashminArt Management, China Beijing
2019 Art Fair ,Pashmin Art Management ,China Beijing Art Fair
2020 Chongqing Pashim Art Management Museum, China Chongqing
2020 Art Center Chongqing Pashmin Art Management ,China Chongqing
2020 Art Fair , Pashmin Art Management , China Beijing
2020 Archive Museum Contemporary Art, Pashmin Art Management China Beijing
2020 Pashmin Art Gallery, group exhibition, Hamburg
special projects
2005 Kaffeesiederball, Vienna Hofburg: banners, women's donation
2006 Art in the Church - Installation in the Ruprechtskirche, Vienna
2006 Design of the "Europay Austria" calendar 2007, presentation on November 23, 2006 in the Vienna Künstlerhaus (with a solo exhibition)
2008 MIA-Award 2008, design of the awards for the 5 winners
2009 Haydn Year, cover design
2009 Golden Bean, Tassimo - coffee machine artistic design
2009 Portraits in the City, design of the calendar, (with solo exhibition) Kosice
2012 Red Cross Edition lithograph with Kurt Zein
2016 "This is how Europe-Slovakia sounds", project of the Federal Ministry d. Finance, Germany with Slovakia
2018 Cooperation with the fashion label "Anni Carlsson GmbH Spring/Summer2018
2019 Art Karlsruhe, Friedmann-Hahn Gallery
2019 WIKAM Fair,Vienna
2019 Art Beijing
2019 The Crossroads of the World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing
2020 Art Beijing
2020 Chongqing Museum
2020 Beijing Museum
2021 Palais Ferstl Gallery Szaal
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Sasa Makarova
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