Sasa Makarova

Alexandra “Saša” Makarová was born in Košice, Slovakia and studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (Vysoká škola výtvarných umení Bratislava) from 1987 to 1991. With the fall of the Wall and the opening of the Iron Curtain, she moved to Austria in 1991 and studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, in the master class of the painter and sculptor Professor Adolf Frohner, who had shaped Viennese Actionism and, among other things, in 1970 at the Venice Biennale was shown. In 1997 she finished her studies with a scholarship and a diploma with distinction. Study trips to Nepal, Iran, India, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Japan and China followed.

Since her first solo exhibition in 1996 in the Stadtturmgalerie in Innsbruck, her works have been shown in numerous solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and participation in trade fairs, such as the Museum Morsbroich, the Künstlerhaus Wien, the Galerie Hilger, Wien, the Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, and Art Karlsruhe, the Viennafair and the ARCO Madrid, Madrid. Makarová's oeuvre is a figurative exploration of the theme of "woman and femininity". In the form of challenging self-portraits, with impasto floral and ornamental elements that are reminiscent of Henri Matisse, but also of the expressive coloring of the Brücke painters. She works with subjects from myths and fairy tales, with which she creates her own world in her pictures, based on the gestural painting of the Fauves, the Neue Wilden, whose main representatives in Austria included Adolf Frohner, and the painter and action artist Hermann Nitsch and Hubert Schmalix. Makarová mixes her oil paints herself, using intensely luminous pigments that give her paint application a deliberate graininess. The picture grows out of the canvas, so to speak. Echoes such as the woodcut-like figures and bright, intense colors are reminiscent of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner or Emil Nolde. Makarová's painting is not art for its own sake. The style, the choice of color and form, is always Makarova's conscious means of encouraging the viewer to embark on an emotional journey into the inner life of the artist's soul: the pictures capture intimate scenes of tense ambiguity, clothed in the aesthetic cloak of Sensuality. They tell of love, dependencies and sexuality in mythological form, always from the perspective of self-determined femininity.

solo exhibitions

1996 City Tower Gallery, Innsbruck

1997 Tobacco Museum, Vienna

1999 Golden Engl Gallery, Hall

2000 Artothek gallery, Vienna

2001 artLab, Ernst Hilger Gallery, Vienna

2001 Christmas exhibition Gallery Goldener Engl, Hall

2003 "Thinking is Action", Boston Consulting Group, Munich

2004 Gallery 12, Innsbruck

2004 Hilger contemporary special exhibition, Vienna

2006 Gallery Ernst Hilger, Vienna (catalogue)

2006 "Players", Gallery 12, Innsbruck

2006 Künstlerhaus Vienna

2008 Galeria d`Arte Moderna A. Bonzagni, Palazzo del Governator Cento, Italy

2008 Galleria de Faveri Arte, Feltre, Italy

2009 Ernst Hilger Gallery

2009 Museo del Risorgimento e della Resistenza, Ferrara-Palazzo del Diamanti

2009 Museum V.Löfflera,Kosice, Slovakia

2009 Esterhazy Palace, Eisenstadt

2009 Gallery pour art, Bratislava

2010 Gallery Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin

2012 Ernst Hilger Gallery, Vienna

2012 Vienna Museum, Karlsplatz, Vienna

2014 Friedmann-Hahn Gallery, Berlin

2015 Gallery Szaal, Vienna

2016 "This is how Europe sounds,, Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin

2017 Friedmann-Hahn Gallery, Berlin

2019 Gallery Szaal, Vienna

2019 Friedman-Hahn Gallery, Berlin

2020 Gallery Szaal,Vienna

2020 Friedman-Hahn Gallery, Berlin

Group exhibitions, participation in trade fairs

1995 East Slovak National Gallery Július Jakoby, Košice

1995 Gallery "Station U3", Vienna

1999 Gallery Museum on Demand, Vienna

1999 Shedhalle St. Pölten

1999 Gallery Schmidt, Reith im Alpachtal

2000 artLab, Ernst Hilger Gallery, Vienna

2000 artLab in the Burgenland State Gallery, Eisenstadt

2000 Art Vienna, MAK

2000 Christmas exhibition Galerie Schmidt, Reith im Alpachtal

2001 Museum Quarter, Siemens artLab, Vienna

2001 Art Vienna, MAK

2001 Art Advent Calendar, Vienna City Hall

2002 Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen

2002 Art Frankfurt

2002 Summer Stage, Vienna (with Gunter Damisch, Alfred Hrdlicka, Otto Zitko)

2002 "Central - artLab: New Art from Vienna", Gallery Binz and Kramer, Cologne

2002 City house Ulm

2002 "Central - artLab: New Art from Central Europe", MAK Galerija, Sarajevo and artLab Gallery, Vienna

2002 "Central", Mannheim Art Association

2002 "Mythos Marilyn", Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna

2002 Padulo Gallery, Miami, USA

2002 art vienna, MAK

2002 Art Advent Calendar, Vienna City Hall

2003 Hilger contemporary, Vienna

2003 Art Frankfurt

2003 Art Vienna, MAK

2004 Mondsee Castle, Salzburg

2004 Art Cologne

2005 "Bread & Roses", TechnoloEnergy Center BAWAG, Vienna

2006 "Artiste, Teppiste", Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bondeno and Galleria Artè, Ferrara, Italy (catalogue)

2006 "Insights" from the collection of the OENB - Culture Days 06 - ECB, Frankfurt

2007 Vienna Fair

2007 “Eredità del Symbolismo. Mitology, ethnography, esotericism.", Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna “Aroldo Bonzagni", Cento, Italy

2007 "Cycle 2.0 Slovakia: Contemporary Art Slovakia - Lower Austria", Lilienfeld Abbey

2007 "Vette Incantate, Boschi Fatati, Acque Magiche - Visioni simboliste e fantastiche della montagna e della natura", Galleria de Faveri Arte, Sovramonte, Italy

2008 Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin

2009 Friedmann-Hahn Gallery, Perspectives, Berlin

2009 Arco, Madrid

2010 Contemporary View of Woman Reading Forbes Museum Galleries-Forbes Collection, New York

2010 art fair, Viennafair, Vienna

2010 Art and Fashion, Palazzo Ducale, Sabbionetta, Italy

2011 Die Galerie, Frankfurt, Austrian painting of the 20th century.

2011 Gallery Friedmann-Hahn,

2011 Gallery Schmid, Reitht im Alpbachtal, winter dance,

2012 Art Cologne

2015 Art Karlsruhe

2016 Vienna fair, Art Contemporary,

2016 Art and Antiques Fair, Vienna

2016 100 Heads, The Gallery, Frankfurt am Main

2017 WIKAM Fair,Vienna

2018 Art Karlsruhe

2018 WIKAM Fair,Vienna

2019 Museum MoCA Contempery Art, PashminArt Management, China Beijing

2019 Art Fair ,Pashmin Art Management ,China Beijing Art Fair

2020 Chongqing Pashim Art Management Museum, China Chongqing

2020 Art Center Chongqing Pashmin Art Management ,China Chongqing

2020 Art Fair , Pashmin Art Management , China Beijing

2020 Archive Museum Contemporary Art, Pashmin Art Management China Beijing

2020 Pashmin Art Gallery, group exhibition, Hamburg

special projects

2005 Kaffeesiederball, Vienna Hofburg: banners, women's donation

2006 Art in the Church - Installation in the Ruprechtskirche, Vienna

2006 Design of the "Europay Austria" calendar 2007, presentation on November 23, 2006 in the Vienna Künstlerhaus (with a solo exhibition)

2008 MIA-Award 2008, design of the awards for the 5 winners

2009 Haydn Year, cover design

2009 Golden Bean, Tassimo - coffee machine artistic design

2009 Portraits in the City, design of the calendar, (with solo exhibition) Kosice

2012 Red Cross Edition lithograph with Kurt Zein

2016 "This is how Europe-Slovakia sounds", project of the Federal Ministry d. Finance, Germany with Slovakia

2018 Cooperation with the fashion label "Anni Carlsson GmbH Spring/Summer2018

2019 Art Karlsruhe, Friedmann-Hahn Gallery

2019 WIKAM Fair,Vienna

2019 Art Beijing

2019 The Crossroads of the World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing

2020 Art Beijing

2020 Chongqing Museum

2020 Beijing Museum

2021 Palais Ferstl Gallery Szaal