Michal Czinege
czinegemichal@hotmail.com
* 1980 in Bratislava, Slovakia, lives and works in Finland
Education
2006-11
Postgraduate studies, Art.D., Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
2000-06
MFA in Painting, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
Academic teaching
2011-15
Assistant professor at the painting department at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
Selected solo exhibitions
2023
Slow Painting – Hitaita maalauksia, Galleria Tyko, Nurmes, Finland
Garden of Death (Kimitoön islands), Kulturhus Björkboda, Kemiönsaari, Finland
2021/22
Open Shells, Gallery Cin Cin, Bratislava, Slovakia
2021
Double Negative, (M. Laurisen kanssa) Pimento, Oulu
200 Milliseconds and Beyond, (M. Laurisen kanssa) Studio Mustanapa, Rovaniemi, Finland
You Were Never Really Here, Gallery Huuto, Helsinki, Finland
2019
Peter Schlemihl’s Shadow, Galerie Pleiku, Berlin, Germany
2018
Behind the Moon, Gallery MUU, Helsinki, Finland
2017
Eat Snakes!, Gallery Cin Cin, Bratislava, Slovakia
MATIKETO, Galleria Tyko, Nurmes, Finland
Blind Spot, Galleria Lapinlahti, Helsinki, Finland
2015
Night Palette, KulttuuriKauppila, Ii, Finland
The Loneliness of the Traveller, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, Finland
Hlava, cestovateľ a ostatné, Kabinet, Bratislava, Slovakia
2014
This Is Not a Love Story, Industrial Gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Look What I Found, Blansko City Gallery, Blansko, Czech Republic
2013
Have We Met Before?, Galleria Tyko, Nurmes, Finland
Na hranici viditeľnosti, Slovak Institute in Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2011
Michal Czinege, Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
There Must Be Something There, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia
2010
Land(e)scape, Galerie Sýpka, Valašské Meziříčí, Czech Republic
From Dusk Till Dawn, Soda Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
The Emergence of Figures, Galerie Soga Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Deep in Grass, Gallery F7, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009
Michal Czinege, Kressling Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2008
HORROR VACUI, Slovak Institute, Rome, Italy
2007
Double Scapes, Trnava synagogue, Trnava, Slovakia
2006
Lost Island, Tranzit Studios, Bratislava, Slovakia
2005
New Connection, Museumsquartier 21, Vienna, Austria
2004
Bartošová-Czinege, Slovak National Museum, Bratislava
2003
Symbioza, Galéria mladých, Nitra, Slovakia, Slovakia
Selected group exhibitions
2023/24
Forest Line, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia
2023
The Artist’s Book: Unique and Diverse, Kristiansand Kunsthall, Kristiansand, Norway
Trienale dum umení II, Dum umeni Zlín, Czech Republic
Kaiken takana / Beyond Everything, installation with M. Laurisen, Taidelaitos Haihatus, Joutsa, Finland
Bergen Art Book Fair, presented by Codex Polaris, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2022
Booked 2022, taitelijakirjanäyttely, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland
DaDaDaDaDa, audiovisual performance, Joensuu, Finland
Nulový bod/Ground Zero, ArtRooms Moravany, Moravany nad Váhom, Slovakia
2021
Material Light, Pohjoinen valokuvakeskus, Kulttuurikeskus Valve, Oulu, Finland
Flash3 Biennale, installation with M. Laurisen kanssa, Helsinki, Finland
2020/21
Material Light, MUU Helsinki, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland
Fleeting Existence / Pieniä huomioita olemassaolon tavoista, Joensuun taidemuseo, Finland
2019
Entrotopia, Gallery Rantakasarmi, Helsinki, Finland
ArtFair Suomi, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland
2017
Symphony for 5 Senses, GUS, Spisska Nova Ves, Slovakia
2016
5000 m2, Lappeenranta, Finland
Symphony for 5 Senses, Central Slovak Gallery, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
Slovak Painting – New Generation, Gallerie d’Italia, Milano, Italia
4 Elements of Innovation, Council of the European Union, Brussels, Belgium
2015
The 50th Anniversary of the Nitra Gallery, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia
10 Years of Painting, Central Slovak Gallery, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia; Bratislava Castle, Slovakia
2014
Freudenthal Show 2, Galerie Freud&Thal, Bruntál, Czech Republic
Zukunst 2014, Valtický zámok, Valtice, Czech Republic
2013
Like It, Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
ArtD. No1, House of Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia; Central-Slovak Gallery, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
2012
Nord Art 2012, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, Germany
Indefinite Scenery, The Gallery of Miloš Alexander Bazovský, Trenčín, Slovakia; Gallery Medium, Bratislava
I LIKE turn around paintings, Kressling Gallery, Bratislava
2011
September Harvest (Young Slovak Painting), Caesar Gallery, Olomouc, Czech Republic
ObraSKovo, Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
2010
Painting After Painting, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
Drawing as Thinking, Gallery Medium, Bratislava
2009
Black and White, Kressling Gallery, Bratislava
Métamorphoses, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
11+1, House of Art, Bratislava
Selection 11.1, Václav Špála Gallery, Praha, Czech Republic
2008
Cross Section of SLOVAK Visual Art, Kressling Gallery, Bratislava
CZ – SK Contemporary Young Painting, Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
2 Dollars For All We Are So Small…, Bastart Contemporary, Bratislava
2007
Felix Culpa, with Walsh, Bicek, Czinege, Mrvová, BASTART Gallery, Bratislava
Find 10 Differences, SPACE Gallery, Bratislava
Workshop 001 (Bartošová, Czinege, Mrvová), Tranzit Workshops, Bratislava
PitoreSKa, Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
2006
Made in Akryl, Galerie AD Astra, Kuřim, Czech Republic
Contemporary Art From Slovakia, European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
For Some Seeds the Meal Is the End of the Journey, Tranzit workshops, Bratislava
4th Zlín Youth Salon, House of Art, Zlín, Czech Republic
Fresh Europe, KOGART, Budapest, Hungary
Young Painting, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia
2005
Essl Award, Gallery Medium, Bratislava
Forever Hungry!, Tranzit workshops, Bratislava
Farbi100/dikOBRAZovo/, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia; Nitra City Art Museum, Nitra, Slovakia
2004
Svétliny, Galéria na bidýlku, Brno, Czech Republic
Trip na tri (with M. Sedlák, E. Šille), Štátna galéria, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
2003
Laco Teren Paradiso perduto & guests Bartošová and Czinege, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
Wasser, voda, víz, Symposium in Bad Fischaubrunn, Vienna, Austria; Budapešť, Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia; Šopron, Slovakia; Poprad, Slovakia
Works in collections
Bratislava City Gallery
The Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg, Austria
The European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Marek, A Collection of Contemporary Czech and Slovak Art, Czech Republic
The Slovak National Gallery
Nitra Gallery, Slovakia
The Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic
The Orava Gallery, Dolný Kubín, Slovakia
Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
Residencies
2023/24 Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation’s artist studio residency, Helsinki
2016 AiR Sandnes, Norway
2015 Kulttuurikauppila, Ii, Finland
2007, 2008 Taidetalo, Nurmes, Finland
2005 Museumsquartier 21, Vienna, Austria
Memberships
FLASH, The Finnish Light Art Society
MUU, Finnish interdisciplinary artist association
Artists’ Association of Finland
Awards and grants
2023 Working grant, Arts Promotion Center Finland
2022 Working grant, Art Promotion Center North Karelia
2021 Working grant, Finnish Cultural Foundation
2020 Working grant, Arts Promotion Center Finland
2019 Project grant, Art promotion center North Karelia
2019 Project grant, Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Finland
2018-23 Project grant, City of Nurme, Finland
2018 Working grant, Arts Council of North Karelia, Finland
2018 Project grant, City of Nurmes, Finland
2017 Travel grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2016 Working grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2015 Project grant, Slovak Ministry of Culture
2011 Nomination for The Sovereign European Art Prize
2006 Best MA graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava
2006 Winner of Painting of the Year competition, VUB Foundation
2006-10 Finalist of Painting of the Year competition, VUB Foundation
2005 Finalist of Essl Art Award