MARIA BARTUSZOVÁ Born 1936 in Prague, Czech Republic Died 1996 in Košice, Slovakia EDUCATION 1961 Academy of Applied Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague (studio of Prof. Otto Eckerdt, Department of Ceramics and Porcelain) 1955 Higher School of Applied Arts, Prague (Prof. Václav Šimek) SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Tate Modern, London, UK (forthcoming) 2016 Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK 2014 ‘Maria Bartuszová: Provisional Forms’, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany 2012 ‘Maria Bartuszová – Drawings / Anna Bartuszová – Recordings’, Galéria Cypriána Majernika, Bratislava, Slovakia 2011 Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany ‘Maria Bartuszová – Drawings / Anna Bartuszová – Recordings’, Mestská galéria, Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia 2009 Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany ‘Gino De Dominicis – Maria Bartuszová’, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany 2008 ‘Maria Bartuszová: Negative Volumes’, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany 2007 ‘Maria Bartuszová: A Selection of Sculptural Work’, CC Centrum, Bratislava, Slovakia 2005 ‘Germination: The Path to Organic Sculpture’, Slovak National Gallery Bratislava, Slovakia 1997 ‘Hommage a Mária (Dedicated to Mária Bartuszová 1936–1996)’, VLM Košice, Slovakia 1988 ‘Sculpture Works I, 1962–1987’, ZSVU Exhibition Hall, Košice, Slovakia ‘Sculpture Works’, Kontajner Gallery, UN Theatre Prešov, Slovakia 1983 ‘Maria Bartuszová: Transformations of Shape’, Galéria Miloša Alexandra Bazovského, Trencin, Slovakia 16–18 Berners Street, London W1T 3LN +44 20 7631 4720 alisonjacques.com 1983 ‘Sculpture Symposium II’, Elementary School for the Blind, Levoča, Slovakia 1981 ‘Maria Bartuszová: Exhibition to Mark the International Year of Invalids’ 1976 ‘Sculpture Symposium I’, Elementary School for the Blind, Levoča, Slovakia 1967 ‘Sculptures & Drawings’, Jalta Café, Košice, Slovakia GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 ‘Au Rendez-Vous des Amis: Modernism Meets Contemporary Art From the Sammlung Goetz’, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany ‘Crumple’, Vin Vin Gallery, Vienna, Austria ‘Untitled’, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy 2018 ‘A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women’, Museum Susch, Zernez, Switzerland ‘Intimate Infinite: Imagine a Journey’, Lévy Gorvy, New York, US ‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings’, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK ‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings’, Pallant House, Chichester, UK ‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings’, Tate St Ives, UK ‘Bumped Bodies’, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK 2017 ‘Disobedient Bodies: J.W. Anderson Curates the Hepworth Wakefield’, Hepworth Wakefield Gallery, UK 2016 ‘Sochárky’, East Slovak Gallery, Košice, Slovakia 2015 ‘Organic Sculpture’, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK 2014 ‘Matter & Memory’, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK ‘Fritz Winter: The Interior of Nature’, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany ‘KK-SK (Tribute to Stephen the Belgrade)’, Galéria Z, Zichyho palác, Bratislava, Slovakia 2013 ‘Happy Birthday! 20 Years of the Goetz Collection’, The Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany ‘30th Council of Europe Exhibition – The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe Since 1945’, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy ‘TRIKO – Triennial of the Contemporary Picture’, Kunsthalle Košice, Slovakia ‘Reprises: KUMU’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kraków, Poland ‘Reprises: KUMU’, Eesti Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia 16–18 Berners Street, London W1T 3LN +44 20 7631 4720 alisonjacques.com 2012 ‘Independent Scene, a Segment of Slovak Visual Art 1960–2000’, Exhibition Room of the Embassy of the Slovak Republic, 25 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, UK ‘The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe since 1945’, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany 2010 ‘Les Promesses du Passé, 1950-2010’, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France ‘Mária Bartuszová, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Miriam Cahn’, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, US ‘Light in Art – Light in Us’, Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Mirbachov palác, Bratislava, Slovakia ‘Gender Check’, mumok, Vienna, Austria ‘Limits of Geometry: Geometric and Constructive Tendencies in Slovak Art from 1960 to the Present’, Dom umenia, Bratislava, Slovakia 2009 ‘1960 – The Present/Slovak Art and Czech Guests’, Dům U zlatého prstenu, Prague, Czech Republic ‘Slovak Picture (Anti-Picture): 20th Century in Slovak Art’, Jízdárna Pražského hradu, Prague, Czech Republic ‘Best of Austria - Eine Kunstsammlung’, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria ‘From Plaster to Chewing Gum: Artists’ Techniques and Strategies’, Nitrianska galéria, Nitra, Slovakia ‘Awkward Objects: Alina Szapocznikow, Maria Bartuszová, Pauline Boty, Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Paulina Ołowska’, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej, Warsaw, Poland 2008 ‘Kontakt: Works from the Art Collection of Erste Bank Group’, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, Hungary ‘Financial Crisis: From Our Stock’, Galerie Jiřího Švestku, Prague, Czech Republic ‘Cutting Realities Gender Strategies in Art’, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, US 2007 Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany ‘A Passion for Collecting: Slovak Fine Art 1957-1970’, Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Mirbachov palác, Bratislava, Slovakia ‘Contemporary Slovak Fine Art 1960-2000’, Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia ‘East Slovak Gallery in KošIce - New Additions 1995-2005’, Východoslovenská Galéria, KošIce, Slovakia Contemporary Slovak Art from the Collection of the First Slovak 16–18 Berners Street, London W1T 3LN +44 20 7631 4720 alisonjacques.com Investment Group’, Sala de Expoziţii, Primăria Municipiului Sibiu, Romania ‘Out of the Town, Art in Nature’, Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Mirbachov palác, Bratislava, Slovakia ‘Reprises’, Muzeul Naţional de Artă Contemporană, Galeria Tetrul Naţional Bucureşti, Bucharest, Romania ‘Contemporary Slovak Art from the Collection of the East Slovak Gallery in Košice’, Galeria 72, Muzeum Narodowe, Chełm, Poland 2006 ‘Arta Slovakia: 1960-2000’, The National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, Romania ‘Contemporary Slovak Art 1960–2000’, Városi Művészeti Múzeum, Györ, Hungary ‘Retrospective X’, Mestská galleria, Rimavská Sobot, Slovakia 2005 ‘Contemporary East Slovak Art from the Collections of the East Slovak Gallery in Košice’, Ernst Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary ‘Contemporary East Slovak Art from the Collections of the East Slovak Gallery in Košice’, BKG-Studio, Haus der Jugend Barmen, Wuppertal, Germany 2004 ‘Contemporary Slovak Art from the Collection of the First Slovak Investment Group’, Galeria Międzynarodowego Centrum Kultury, Kraków, Poland 2003 ‘Slovak Visual Art 1970–1985’, Slovenská národná galéria, Bratislava, Slovakia ‘Contemporary Slovak Art from the Collection of the First Slovak Investment Group’, Gallery Art ‘Minisalon’, Czech Centre, Paris, France ‘Contemporary Slovak Art from the collection of the First Slovak Investment Group, Gallery Art Factory, Václavské nám, Prague, Czech Republic 2002 ‘Slovak Visual Arts 1970–1985’, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava ‘Minisalon’, Majapahit Mandarin Hotel, Surabaya, Indonesia ‘Minisalon’, Museum Puri Lukisan, Ubud, Indonesia ‘Minisalon’, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia ‘Eastern Slovak Gallery 1952–2002’, Východoslovenská galéria, Košice, Slovakia 2001 ‘Contemporary Slovak Art from the Collection of the First Slovak Investment Group’, Danubiana, Bratislava, Slovakia 2000 ‘20th Century’, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia 1999 ‘Reprises: Klub Konkrétistov’, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia 16–18 Berners Street, London W1T 3LN +44 20 7631 4720 alisonjacques.com ‘From the Work of East Slovak Artists of the 20th Century’, Východoslovenská galéria, Košice, Slovakia 1998 ‘Concretist Club’, Galerie výtvarného umění v Ostravě, Ostrava, Czech Republic ‘Reprises’, Oblastní galerie v Liberci, Liberec, Czech Republic ‘Minisalon’, Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium 1997 ‘60/90’, Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia ‘Minisalon’, Prague Castle, Czech Republic ‘Concretists’ Club after 30 Years’, Regional Gallery of Vysocina, Jihlava, Czech Republic ‘Hommage à Mária (dedicated to Mária Bartuszová 1936–1996)’, Múzeum Vojtecha Löfflera, Košice, Slovakia 1996 ‘Minisalon’, University Art Gallery, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, US ‘Minisalon’, McKissick Museum, Columbia, South Carolina, US ‘Minisalon’, Florida Gulf Coast University Art Gallery, Fort Myers, Florida, US ‘Minisalon’, Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, Florida US 1995 ‘Minisalon’, Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, US ‘The Sixties in Slovak Art’, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia ‘Minisalon’, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, US ‘Minisalon’, Cultural Center of Iowa, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US ‘Minisalon’, Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois, US ‘Trenčín ’95: A Selection of Contemporary Slovak Sculpture’, Galéria Miloša Alexandra Bazovského, Trenčín, Slovakia 1994 ‘Views of Contemporary Slovak Art’, Šarišská galéria, Prešov, Slovakia ‘Minisalon’, World Financial Centre Courtyard Gallery, New York, US ‘Minisalon’, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, US ‘Minisalon’, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, California, US 1993 ‘Art Hamburg’, International Fair of Eastern European Art, Hamburg, Germany ‘Power Station T’, Tatra Gallery, Poprad, Slovakia ‘Minisalon’, Beaux-Arts, Mons, Belgium ‘Minisalon’, Aux Anciens Abbatoirs de Mons, Mons, Belgium 1992 ‘Laboratory I – International Art Symposium’, Prešov, Slovakia 16–18 Berners Street, London W1T 3LN +44 20 7631 4720 alisonjacques.com ‘Grey Brick 35/92’, Gallery at the White Unicorn,