Pavla Malinová

Pavla Malinová is a graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Ostrava, where she studied in the painting studio. In 2019, she was a finalist for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award and has presented her work at prominent Czech and international institutions (for example, in Brussels, Berlin, or Krakow at the traveling exhibition Orient, or in Katowice at the Szara Gallery in the exhibition Labyrinth of the Soul).

Pavla Malinová is a highly distinctive painter whose work is among the most visible on the contemporary art scene. Malinová has a unique signature style; the robust figures on her canvases engage in ambiguous games and find themselves in situations somewhere on the edge of space-time, with a touch of both mysticism and everyday life. Malinová often expresses the rich inner world of the human and non-human beings she depicts. Her work evokes emotion and a desire to delve into mysterious depths and corners. She works with contemporary and archetypal symbolism, male and female principles, personal romanticism, and mythology in a post-factual era. Her paintings sometimes emerge from two-dimensionality into space to become object-based compositions, or conversely, are created in a site-specific manner directly onto the gallery walls.

Texts: Karina Kottová