Glassyard is pleased to present the first solo show of Svätopluk Mikyta as the artist represented by the gallery.

Svätopluk Mikyta: What Time is Now?
8 December 2022 – 10 February 2023
Glassyard Gallery, Budapest

In recent years, the artist has been making drawings and prints, working with ceramics and other traditional techniques - for example, experimenting with workers from famous Bohemian glass-blowing factories - and collecting natural and found objects in mountain forests and urban environments, which he combines into complex ensembles. The organic materials he collects and accumulates during his regular hikes in the mountains are juxtaposed with the detritus of urban waste, weaving dense webs of associations around his sometimes poetic, sometimes bizarre or banal associations of materials. He appropriates forms from nature, creating radical contexts with sophisticated craft techniques to construct a vision of a more livable, sustainable way of being in a more harmonious relationship with nature.

Svätopluk Mikyta (1973) is a visual artist and co-founder of the residency program and printmaking studio, called Banská Stanica Contemporary in Banska Stiavnica. Since 2011, he has been running the drawing and printmaking studio at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Technical University of Brno. In 2003, he was shortlisted for the Oskar Čepan Prize and in 2008 he won the most prestigious prize for young Slovak artists. Svätopluk Mikyta's works are held in public collections at the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), MUDAM Luxembourg (L), Strabag Kunstsammlung, Vienna (A), Museum of Applied Arts, Prague (CZ), Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava; Bratislava City Gallery; Central Slovakian Gallery; Banská Bystrica Nitrianska Gallery, Nitra (SK), as well as in private collections in Germany, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary.