Rastislav Podhorský

Rastislav Podhorský (b. 1990) graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Bratislava in 2009 - 2015 (at doc. Klaudie Kosziby and later at Prof. Daniel Fischer). In 2015 - 2021 he received a doctoral title ARTD at VŠVA. At the same time, he led the painting studio (2017 - 2021, along with Martin Špirec).

Since its beginnings, Rasťo Podhorský has been a distinctive solitaire - focused, meditative, but unmistakable intellectual. In his subtle, poetic-philosophical drawings and paintings, he works with recognizable realities almost as with old-world pictorial attributes whose bearers are lonely figures in intimately known yet strangely disturbing situations and contexts.

Podhorský is a well -known author of a young but already established generation, has had solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. He is a laureate of artistic awards (the winner of the important Slovak Painting of the Year 2015). He publishes, his dissertation ("ferryman - about people in non -exhaustion and figures in art", 2017), is also published, but is also an occasional but imaginative curator of fine art exhibitions.