daniela mikulášková, anna zemánková
the long-suppressed swell of the sea
The Zahorian & Van Espen Gallery in Bratislava is presenting a duo show featuring two Czech artists, Anna Zemánková and the highly contemporary Daniela Mikulášková, born in 1974, untitled The Long-suppressed Swell of the Sea curated by Petr Kovář and Šimon Kříž.
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It was at the beginning of the 1960s that this humble Moravian woman began creating works, strikingly responding to impulses from the depths. At dawn, she would mentally gather flowers “that grow nowhere else,” making them emerge from the paper.
Anna Zemánková is an established figure of outsider art, to the point that she was honored in 2013 at the Venice Biennale before a significant collection of her works joined the collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Mumok.
In 2023, the gallery presented her in a solo show at Art Basel Paris, and the following year Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the Venice Biennale, exhibited a group of her works. In 2026, the Hermès Corporate Foundation in Brussels subsequently presented eight of her drawings.