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Michal Czinege
czinegemichal@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bio<\/strong>
Michal Czinege is a Slovak-born visual artist living and working in Finland. Czinege studied painting and earned his Doctor of Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, where he worked as assistant professor at the Painting Dept. until moving to Finland in 2016. Czinege\u2019s works have been widely exhibited internationally and can be found in several European collections, such as the Albertina Museum in Vienna, Kunsthalle Praha or the Slovak National Gallery.

Large-scale canvases and spatial installations have always been a natural means for Michal Czinege to explore borders of visual recognizability and the relationship between two-dimensional representations of space and real space, the virtual and the physical. His current practice negotiates imperceptible phenomena, such as how small changes in wavelengths of light can radically affect the way we experience, perceive and interpret the visible world.\u00a0Inert objects, images and large colour surfaces turn into transient perceptual events in Czinege\u2019s installations, while transience and impermanence are central questions also in his hand-bound artist\u2019s books.

CV<\/strong>
Michal Czinege
* 1980 in Bratislava, Slovakia, lives and works in Nurmes, Finland
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Education
<\/em><\/strong>2011 Doctor of Arts, Art.D., Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia
2006 MFA in Painting, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academic teaching
<\/em><\/strong>2011-15 Assistant professor at the painting department, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected solo exhibitions
<\/em><\/strong>2025<\/span>
<\/em><\/strong>\u2261<\/span>~~ <\/span>Double Negative <\/span><\/i>(with M. Laurinen), Gallery Fikka, Porvoo Art Hall, Finland
Garden of Death, <\/em>MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland. Part of the Lux Helsinki Light Festival<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023
Slow Painting, <\/em>Galleria Tyko, Nurmes, Finland
Garden of Death (Kimito\u00f6n islands), <\/em>Kulturhus Bj\u00f6rkboda, Kemi\u00f6nsaari, Finland
<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021\/22
Open Shells<\/em>, Gallery Cin Cin, Bratislava, Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021
Double Negative, <\/em>(with M. Laurinen) Pimento, Oulu
200 Milliseconds and Beyond, <\/em>(with M. Laurinen) Studio Mustanapa, Rovaniemi, Finland
You Were Never Really Her<\/em>e, Gallery Huuto, Helsinki, Finland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019
Disappearing Act <\/em>(with M. Laurinen), Gallery Ars Libera, Kuopio, Finland
Peter Schlemihl’s Shadow, Galerie <\/em>Pleiku, Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018
Behind the Moon,<\/em> Gallery MUU, Helsinki, Finland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017
Eat Snakes!, <\/em>Gallery Cin Cin, Bratislava, Slovakia
MATIKETO, <\/em>Galleria Tyko, Nurmes, Finland
Blind Spot,<\/em> Galleria Lapinlahti, Helsinki, Finland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015
<\/strong>Night Palette<\/em>, KulttuuriKauppila, Ii, Finland
The Loneliness of the Traveller, <\/em>Gallery Huuto, Helsinki, Finland
Hlava, cestovate\u013e a ostatn\u00e9<\/em>, Kabinet, Bratislava, Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014
This Is Not a Love Story<\/em>, Industrial Gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Look What I Found<\/em>, Blansko City Gallery, Blansko, Czech Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013
Have We Met Before?<\/em>,<\/em> Galleria Tyko, Nurmes, Finland
Na hranici vidite\u013enosti, <\/em>Slovak Institute in Budapest, Budapest, Hungary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011
Michal Czinege<\/em>, Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
There Must Be Something There<\/em>, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010
Land(e)scape<\/em>, <\/em>Galerie S\u00fdpka, Vala\u0161sk\u00e9 Mezi\u0159\u00ed\u010d\u00ed, Czech Republic
From Dusk Till Dawn<\/em>, <\/em>Soda Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
The Emergence of Figures, <\/em>Galerie Soga Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Deep in Grass, <\/em>Gallery F7, Bratislava, Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009 Michal Czinege, <\/em>Kressling Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2008 HORROR VACUI<\/em>, Slovak Institute, Rome, Italy
2007 Double Scapes<\/em>, Trnava synagogue, Trnava, Slovakia
2006 Lost Island<\/em>, Tranzit Studios, Bratislava, Slovakia
2005 New Connection<\/em>, Museumsquartier 21, Vienna, Austria
2004 Barto\u0161ov\u00e1-Czinege<\/em>, Slovak National Museum, Bratislava
2003 Symbioza<\/em>, Gal\u00e9ria mlad\u00fdch, Nitra, Slovakia, Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected group exhibitions
<\/em><\/strong>2025
<\/span>M_it\u00e4? Biennale of Contemporary Art, <\/em>KUMMA Kuopio Art Museum, Finland
BOOKED 2025, <\/em>MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, Helsinki, Finland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024
The Blast<\/em>, XXVIII M\u00e4ntt\u00e4 Art Festival, M\u00e4ntt\u00e4, Finland <\/span><\/span>
BOOKED 2024 @ It\u00e4, <\/em>Taidekeskus It\u00e4, Lappeenranta, Finland
Booked 2024<\/em>, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, Cable Factory,<\/em> Helsinki<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023\/24
Forest Line<\/em>, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023
The Artist\u2019s Book: Unique and Diverse<\/em>, Kristiansand Kunsthall, Kristiansand, Norway<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Beyond Everything<\/em>, Taidelaitos Haihatus, Joutsa, Finland
Bergen Art Book Fair, <\/em>presented by Codex Polaris, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Supermarket Art Fair<\/em>, Stockholm, Sweden
Trienale dum umen\u00ed II<\/em>, Gallery of Fine Arts in Zl\u00edn, Czech Republic
<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022
Booked 2022<\/em>, artists’ book exhibition, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre,<\/em> Helsinki
DaDaDaDaDa<\/em>, audiovisual performance<\/span><\/span><\/span>, Joensuu, Finland
Ground Zero<\/em>, ArtRooms Moravany, Moravany nad V\u00e1hom, Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021
Material Light<\/em>, Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu, Finland
Flash3 Biennale (<\/em>installation with M. Laurinen), Helsinki, Finland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020\/21
Material Light<\/em>, MUU Helsinki, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland
Fleeting Existence,<\/em> Joensuu Art Museum, Finland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019
Entrotopia<\/em>, Gallery Rantakasarmi, Helsinki, Finland
ArtFair Suomi, <\/em>Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017
Symphony for 5 Senses, <\/em>GUS, Spisska Nova Ves, Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016
5000 m2<\/sup>,<\/em> Lappeenranta, Finland
Symphony for 5 Senses<\/em>, Central Slovak Gallery, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
Slovak Painting \u2013 New Generation<\/em>, Gallerie d\u2019Italia, Milano, Italia
4 Elements of Innovation<\/em>, Council of the European Union, Brussels, Belgium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015
The 50th<\/sup> Anniversary of the Nitra Gallery<\/em>, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, Slovakia
10 Years of Painting<\/em>, Central Slovak Gallery, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia; Bratislava Castle, Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014
Freudenthal Show 2<\/em>, Galerie Freud&Thal, Brunt\u00e1l, Czech Republic
Zukunst 2014<\/em>, Valtick\u00fd z\u00e1mok, Valtice, Czech Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013
Like It, <\/em>Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
ArtD. No1<\/em>, House of Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia; Central-Slovak Gallery, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012
Nord Art 2012<\/em>, Kunstwerk Carlsh\u00fctte, B\u00fcdelsdorf, Germany
Indefinite Scenery<\/em>, The Gallery of Milo\u0161 Alexander Bazovsk\u00fd, Tren\u010d\u00edn, Slovakia; Gallery Medium, Bratislava
I LIKE turn around paintings<\/em>, Kressling Gallery, Bratislava<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011
September Harvest (Young Slovak Painting), <\/em>Caesar Gallery, Olomouc, Czech Republic
ObraSKovo<\/em>, Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010
Painting After Painting<\/em>, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
Drawing as Thinking<\/em>, Gallery Medium, Bratislava<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009
Black and White<\/em>, Kressling Gallery, Bratislava
M\u00e9tamorphoses<\/em>, Cit\u00e9 Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
11+1<\/em>, House of Art, Bratislava
Selection 11.1<\/em>, V\u00e1clav \u0160p\u00e1la Gallery, Praha, Czech Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2008
Cross Section of SLOVAK Visual Art<\/em>, Kressling Gallery, Bratislava
CZ \u2013 SK Contemporary Young Painting, <\/em>Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic
2 Dollars For All We Are So Small…<\/em>, Bastart Contemporary, Bratislava<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007
Felix Culpa<\/em>, with Walsh, Bicek, Czinege, Mrvov\u00e1, BASTART Gallery, Bratislava
Find 10 Differences<\/em>, SPACE Gallery, Bratislava
Workshop 001 <\/em>(Barto\u0161ov\u00e1, Czinege, Mrvov\u00e1), Tranzit Workshops, Bratislava
PitoreSKa<\/em>, Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2006
Made in Akryl<\/em>, Galerie AD Astra, Ku\u0159im, Czech Republic
Contemporary Art From Slovakia<\/em>, European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
For Some Seeds the Meal Is the End of the Journey<\/em>, Tranzit workshops, Bratislava
4th Zl\u00edn Youth Salon<\/em>, House of Art, Zl\u00edn, Czech Republic
Fresh Europe<\/em>, KOGART, Budapest, Hungary
Young Painting, <\/em>Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2005
Essl Award<\/em>, Gallery Medium, Bratislava
Forever Hungry!<\/em>, Tranzit workshops, Bratislava
Farbi100\/dikOBRAZovo\/<\/em>, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia; Nitra City Art Museum, Nitra, Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2004
Sv\u00e9tliny<\/em>, Gal\u00e9ria na bid\u00fdlku, Brno, Czech Republic
Trip na tri <\/em>(with M. Sedl\u00e1k, E. \u0160ille), \u0160t\u00e1tna gal\u00e9ria, Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica, Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2003
Laco Teren Paradiso perduto & guests Barto\u0161ov\u00e1 and Czinege<\/em>, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
Wasser, voda, v\u00edz<\/em>, Symposium in Bad Fischaubrunn, Vienna, Austria; Budape\u0161\u0165, Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia; \u0160opron, Slovakia; Poprad, Slovakia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Residencies
<\/em><\/strong>2023\u201324 \u2013 Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation\u2019s Artist Studio, Helsinki<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0
2016 \u2013 AiR Sandnes, Norway
2015 \u2013 Kulttuurikauppila, Ii, Finland
2007, 2008 \u2013 Taidetalo, Nurmes, Finland
2005 \u2013 Museumsquartier 21, Vienna, Austria

Works in collections
<\/em><\/strong>Albertina Museum Collection, Vienna, Austria
Bratislava City Gallery
The European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
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, Doln\u00fd Kub\u00edn, Slovakia
RikArt Artists’ Book Collection, Helsinki, Finland
Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memberships
<\/em><\/strong>Artists\u2019 Association of Finland
MUU ry, Finnish interdisciplinary artist association
FLASH, The Finnish Light Art Society
SOLU Bioart Society <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and grants<\/strong><\/em>
2025 \u2013 Project grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2025 \u2013 Working grant, Karjalaisen Kulttuurin Edist\u00e4miss\u00e4\u00e4ti\u00f6
2024 \u2013 Incentive grant, Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Finland
<\/span><\/span><\/span>2023 \u2013 Artist grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2022 \u2013 Working grant, Arts Promotion Centre North Karelia, Finland
<\/span><\/span><\/span>2021 \u2013 Working grant, Finnish Cultural Foundation
<\/span><\/span><\/span>2020 \u2013 Project grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2020 \u2013 Working grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland<\/span><\/span><\/span>
2019 \u2013 Project grant, Alfred  Kordelin Foundation, Finland
2019 \u2013 Project grant, Arts Promotion Centre North Karelia<\/span><\/span><\/span>, Finland
2018-25 \u2013 Project grant, City of Nurmes<\/span><\/span><\/span>, Finland
2018 \u2013 Working grant<\/span><\/span><\/span>, Arts Promotion Centre North Karelia, Finland
2017 \u2013 Travel grant, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2016 \u2013 Working grant<\/span><\/span><\/span>, Arts Promotion Centre Finland
2015 \u2013 Project grant, Slovak Ministry of Culture
2011 \u2013 Nomination for The Sovereign European Art Prize
2011 \u2013 Shortlisted for Strabag Kunstforum ArtAward
2006 \u2013 Laureate of MFA graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design
2006 \u2013 Winner, Painting of the Year competition, <\/em>VUB Foundation
2006-10 \u2013 Finalist of Painting of the Year competition, VUB Foundation
2005 \u2013 Finalist of Essl Art Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commissioned Public Artwork
<\/em><\/strong>2024 \u2013 Tree of Wishes \/collaboration with M. Laurinen, Elias L\u00f6nnrot park, Nurmes, Finland
2019 \u2013 Karhusaari \/collaboration with M. Laurinen, Pikku-Kaarle nursery courtyard, Nurmes, Finland<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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