Mgr. art. Vladimír Ganaj, ArtD.
Employment
2022-2024 University teacher of 3D and raster graphics, drawing and painting, Head of the Fine arts department at Prešovská univerzita v Prešove
2021-2022 Figural drawing, painting, 3D and raster graphics teacher at Súkromná škola umeleckého priemyslu v Nitre
2019-2021 Printmaking, drawing, art history and sculpture teacher at Súkromná škola umeleckého priemyslu v Kremnici
2019 3D environment, prop and level design at Neutraworks on the project Forgotten but unbroken, Nitra
Education
2016-2019 Doctor study, Atelier of drawing and classical painting techniques at prof. Ľudovít Hološka, Akadémia Umení v Banskej Bystrici
2014-2016 Master study, Atelier of painting at prof. Stanislav Balko, Akadémia Umení v Banskej Bystrici
Winter semester 2012-2013 Erasmus student mobility in Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny Illes Balears in Palma de Mallorca
2010-2014 Bachelor study, Atelier of drawing and classical painting techniques at prof. Ľudovít Hološka, Akadémia Umení v Banskej Bystrici
2006-2010 Gymnázium Jána Adama Raymana, Prešov
Qualification
2020-2022 Pedagogic education - fine arts department, Prešovská univerzita v Prešove
2007-2010 Private studies of drawing, printmaking and painting at doc. Peter Kocák, PhD., akad. mal.
2004-2009 Štátna Jazyková Škola v Prešove, state exam in English language at the C1 level
Freelance
2022-2024 Story, script and co-creator of the indie pc game Felvidek with Jozef (Brozef) Pavelka
2021 Jewellery modeller and renderer for jewel designer Mgr. Pavlína Pélyová
2021 Character modeller at Zimasoftware for the adventure PC game Polda 7
Solo exhibitions
Camera obscura, Oddelenie kultúry Bardejov, 2024 (curated by Mgr. Jozef Ridilla)
Medzimesto, NERV Platforma, Humenné, 2024 (curated by MgA. Maja Daneková)
Lesná cestička osvetlená semaforom, Galéria NBS - Múzeum mincí a medailí Kremnica, 2024 (with MgA. Maja Daneková, curated by Mgr. art. Adam Macko, ArtD.)
Characters, 2024, Vedecká knižnica v Prešove, Window gallery
S(TA)K, Oddelenie umenia - Podtatranská knižnica v Poprade, 2023-2024 (curated by MgA. Maja Daneková)
MIX, 2023, Univerzitná knižnica Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove (curated by Mgr. art. Adam Macko, ArtD.)
Planý vzduch (plein air), 2023, Vedecká knižnica v Prešove, Window gallery
Plané maľby, 2022, Snina Chateaux (curated by Mgr. Edita Kavčáková)
Atlas figúr v kyberkultúre, 2021-2022, NERV Platforma in Humenné (curated by Jana Bercelová, BA)
Vzťahy, 2020, Slovenské národné múzeum - Múzeum rusínskej kultúry in Prešov (curated by PaedDr. Daniela Kapráľová)
Intimita, 2019, Múzeum a kultúrne centrum in Trebišov (curated by Mgr. Jozef Ridilla)
Sociologická expresia, 2018, Nástupište 1-12 in Topoľčany (with Mgr. art. Patrik Kucha)
Archeológia obrazu, 2018, Šarišská galéria in Prešov (curator PhDr. Miroslav Kleban, PhD.)
Collective exhibitions
Wystawa poplenerowa – 18. Międzynarodowy Plener Malarski (International Plein Air Painting Stary Sącz), IMO Galeria, Stary Sacz, 2024
Jurorzy Triennale, GALERIA SZTUKI WSPÓŁCZESNEJ W PRZEMYŚLU, 2024
nature (at) work, Krajská galéria v Prešove, 2024 (curated by Mgr. art. Adam Macko, ArtD.)
The pain of others, international online collective exhibition by The starving artist initiative: starvingartist.cargo.site/the-pain-of-others, 2023
International Art Project “Art Axis”, Center for Architecture, Design, and Urbanism “Powder TOWER”, Lviv, 2023
International Art Project “Art Axis”, Art Gallery of the Yaroslav the Wise National Library, Kyiv, 2023
Nová citlivosť, part of the outdoors international festival Into the miracles organised by Divadlo Potôň, 2023 (curated by Pavel Bakajsa)
Senzibility zbierkotvorby, EQO Priestor interaktívnej kultúry, Spišský Hrhov, 2022 (curated by Mgr. art. Adam Macko, ArtD.)
Pomimo - Sedem hriechov, Múzeum Vojtecha Löfflera, Košice, 2021
Pomimo - Sedem hriechov, Galéria Artotéka, City library of Bratislava, 2021 (curated by Mgr. art. Dávid Marcin)
Skice, NERV platforma, Humenné, 2021 (curated by Jana Bercelová, BA and PaedDr. Daniela Kapráľová)
Priviati vol. I, EQO Priestor interaktívnej kultúry, Spišský Hrhov, 2020 (curated by Mgr. art. Adam Macko, ArtD.)
Salón - 55 kremnických výtvarníkov, Galéria NBS - Múzeum mincí a medailí Kremnica, 2020
OBRAZ Ateliér klasických maliarskych disciplín prof. Ľudovíta Hološku, Městské muzeum a galerie, Bystřice n. Pernštejnem (ČR), 2020
OBRAZ Ateliér klasických maliarskych disciplín prof. Ľudovíta Hološku, Galéria Statua, Bratislava, 2020
OBRAZ Ateliér klasických maliarskych disciplín prof. Ľudovíta Hološku, Kysucká galéria v Oščadnici, 2019-2020
OBRAZ Ateliér klasických maliarskych disciplín prof. Ľudovíta Hološku, Záhorská galéria Jána Mudrocha v Senici, 2019
Exhibition of Workshop of figural drawing of prof. Boris Jirků, 2019 in Gallery Fx in Banská Bystrica (placed among winners of the workshop)
Mladé kone I., Galéria Koniareň in Trebišov, 2018
Exhibition of Workshop of figural drawing of prof. Boris Jirků, 2018 in Gallery Fx in Banská Bystrica (placed among winners of the workshop)
Finish-down, 2017 in Gallery Fx in Banská Bystrica
Young Art Show 10, 2017 in Piešťany
AD: Čerstvé ruiny, 2017 in KLUB in Košice
AD: Čerstvé ruiny, 2017 in EQO Spišský Hrhov
Pracovný názov: Bez názvu, Synagogue in Brezno, 2017
Exhibition of Workshop of figural drawing of prof. Boris Jirků, 2017 in Gallery Fx in Banská Bystrica (placed among winners of the workshop)
Exhibition of Workshop of figural drawing of prof. Boris Jirků, 2016 in Gallery Fx in Banská Bystrica
Still not it, 2015-2016 in Košice
Exhibition of Workshop of figural drawing of prof. Boris Jirků, 2015 in Gallery Fx in Banská Bystrica (placed among winners of the workshop)
Kiállítás and Tornai Müinésztelep, 2014 in Moldava nad Bodvou
Exhibition of Workshop of figural drawing of prof. Boris Jirků, 2014 in Gallery Fx in Banská Bystrica
FIGURAMA 2014, 2014 in Kutná Hora
Exhibition of Workshop of figural drawing of prof. Boris Jirků, 2013 in Gallery Fx in Banská Bystrica
Exhibition of Workshop of figural drawing of prof. Boris Jirků, 2011 in Gallery Fx in Banská Bystrica
Exhibition of Workshop of figural drawing of prof. Boris Jirků, 2010 in Gallery Fx in Banská Bystrica
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Curating
INSTITUTO, paintings exhibition by Mgr. art. Adam Macko, ArtD., Galéria mesta Levoča, 2024
FIK#9 - FIKFESTIVAL 2024, (member of the international qualification board of GameJam for FIKMat), Ústí nad Labem, CZ, 2024
International painting triennial of carpathian region – silver quadrangle 2024, (member of the international qualification board), GALERIA SZTUKI WSPÓŁCZESNEJ W PRZEMYŚLU, PL, 2024
Výtvarné spektrum 2024, jury member of the national fine arts competition, Vihorlatské múzeum v Humennom, 2024
198X (exhibition of paintings by Mgr. art. Adam Macko, ArtD.), Univerzitná knižnica Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove, 2023-2024
Space voll. II. (exhibition of drawings by Frederik Suja), VD Laboratórium súčasného umenia, Banská Bystrica, 2023
Dúha (member of qualification board), Osvetové stredisko v Starej Ľubovni, 2023
Prosto Nebylytsi 2022 (member of international qualification board), Ukraine, 2023
Tribute to Bad (exhibition of drawings by Kristína Grežďová), SKLAD M1 - Akademie výtvarních umění, Prague, CZ, 2021
Lift me up (exhibition of paintings by Mgr. art. Adam Macko), Galéria súčasného umenia Koniareň, Trebišov, 2020
Zátišie (exhibition of paintings by Mgr. art. Matúš Niemiec), Malá Galéria MsKS v Michalovciach, 2019
Periférne koncentrácie súčasnosti vol.V (commentary on the exhibition Malé veci by Peter Cábocký), EQO v Spišskom Hrhove, 2018
Sociologická expresia, 2018, Nástupište 1-12 in Topoľčany
Protozoa, 2018 in Spišské podhradie (exhibition of paintings by Adam Macko)
Krivé zrkadlo, 2017 in GUS: essay for the exbition "Philosophical and psychological axioms of expressive art"
Finish-down, 2017 in Galéria Fx in Banská Bystrica
Pracovný názov: Bez názvu, 2017 in Brezno
AUDIT: Tektonická mytológia, 2017 in Brezno (exhibition of paintings by Adam Macko)
Workshops created
Medzimesto – plenér, NERV platforma, Humenné 2024
Workshop digitálnych interpretácii II, EQO, Spišský Hrhov 2023
Workshop digitálnych interpretácii, EQO, Spišský Hrhov 2023
Periferné koncentrácie súčasnosti 2, EQO, Spišský Hrhov 2020
Workshops attended
10x FIGURAMA in Banská Bystrica 2010 - 2019 (2012 in Litomyšl, CZ) tutored by prof. Boris Jirků (4x placed among winners)
POMIMO workshop of comic drawing in Kremnica 2019 (tutored by Mgr. art. Martin Schwartz)
Workshop of drawn animation at FVU AKU BB in 2018
Zprinter 650 workshop at UNIPO in Prešov, 2016
FARO 3D scanning workshop at UNIPO in Prešov, 2016
ARTCAMP Figural drawing in Pilsen na FDU ZČU in 2012 tutored by MgA. Mgr. Pavel Trnka
Summer school of figural drawing in Praque at AVU in 2009
Workshop of figural drawing in Praque at UMPRUM in 2009
Conferences
GDS - Game Developers Session, preparation of speech presentation about Felvidek, Prague (CZ), 2024
Game Days, speech about game Felvidek together with Jozef Pavelka, Košice (SK), 2024
GIC - Game Industry Conference, Felvidek has been nominated for CEEGA award in cathegory Hidden Gem, Poznań (PL), 2024
Cataloques, articles and publications
Forfest 2024 - Internation Festival of Contemporary Arts with Spiritual Orientation, text about my art as part of an essay by doc. Vladislav Grešlík, PhD. called "Contemporary works of visual artists from eastern Slovakia and its perception", Kromeříž, 2024
International Plein Air Painting Stary Sącz, IMO Galeria, Stary Sacz, 2024
My review of the exhibition of drawings by Ľudovít Hološka Denník koloristu at the ZGJM in Senica was published in PROFIL art magazine 1/2024
The pain of others, book publication of the international collective exhibition, Starving artist, 2023
The catalogue of the exhibition MIX, published by PULIB, 2023
FIGURAMA 2021
Pomimo 7 sins - open call, 2020
Priviati vol. I, EQO, 2020
Salón - 55 kremnických výtvarníkov, Galéria NBS - Múzeum mincí a medailí Kremnica, 2020
OBRAZ Ateliér klasických maliarskych disciplín prof. Ľudovíta Hološku, Záhorská galéria Jána Mudrocha v Senici, 2019
Young Art Show 10, 2017
FIGURAMA 2016
Projects
Publication of genetics research of the Department of biology at the FHPV, University of Prešov, member of KEGA project - illustrator and cover design, 2023-2024
Figural painting stipendium by FPU, 2021
Media and other
Articles about the exhibition Lesná cestička osvetlená semaformi in TASR, teraz.sk, kremnica.sk, muzeumkremnica.sk, muzeum.sk, slovensky-vecernik.sk, 2024
Reviews of the PC game Felvidek published on pcgamer.com, gamebot.cz, doupe.cz, vortex.cz, sector.sk, rpgfan.com, gamepressure.com, pcgamesn.com, pixeldie.com and many videoreviews on youtube.com, 2024
Interview about my solo exhibition Camera Obscura in BTV, 2024
Articles about the collective exhibition nature (at) work published in artalk.info, eastmag.sk, krajskagaleria.sk, psk.sk, 2024
Article about the collective exhibition Jurorzy Triennale 2024 published in kulturapodkarpacka.pl, 2024
Interview on Devín radio about the collective exhibition nature(at)work by the curator Mgr. art. Adam Macko, ArtD., 2024
Articles about my solo exhibition Medzimesto published in humenne.sk, islovak.sk, bratislavskenoviny.sk, 2024
Articles about my solo exhibition MIX published in newspapers TASR, MY, PIS, Slovenský Večerník, Na PULZE, 2023
Authors' poetry reading in Hidepark, Nitra, 2022
2x concerts of Genetically Modified (my poetry reading and music by Juraj Figura): EQO: Toto nie je fest 2019, SKLAD M1 AVU Praha 2022
Interview on HNTV about my exhibition Atlas figúr v kyberkultúre in NERV platforma, 2022
2x interview on RTVS 2 (Priviati vol.I 2019, Vzťahy 2020)
3x interview on Rádio Regina (Archeológia obrazu 2018, Intimita 2019, Lift me up 2020)
Article about my art and exhibition Archeológia obrazu in Večerník 2019
Article about collective exhibition OBRAZ in Art 2020
Article about collective exhibition Still not enough in Flash Art 2017
Article about my solo exhibition Expresia in Na PUlze in 2017
In 2018, my graphic (dry point intaglio) was sold to Slovak national art collection (placed in the deposit of Šarišská galéria in Prešov).
The book Zlato na Slovensku / Gold in Slovakia has been published in 2018 and it cointains my illustration of Celtic way of gold mining.
In 2014, my poetry together with an interview was published in the Dotyky 6/2014 magazine.
Article about my work during the FIGURAMA 2012 in Litomyšl in the Art3 magazine.
My poetry is published on pismak.cz (user vlad03).
Alternative rock albums Genetically modified (2008) and GM: It is happening again (2017) based on my poetry and music by Juraj Figura.
My work is placed in many private collections.
