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Lilla Gombos: BOND

Invitations Studio 3EAM Painting

You are cordially invited to the solo exhibition BOND by Lilla Gombos, which will open on June 6 at the František Drtikol Gallery in Příbram. The curator of the exhibition is Magda Danel.

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When?

  • Opening: 6 June at 18:00

  • Duration: 6 June – 12 September 2025

Curator: 

  • Magda Danel

 

Lilla Gombos: BOND - invitation

Curatorial Text

Lilla Gombos and her exhibition BOND introduce a young Slovak artist who is graduating this year from the Department of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, in the 3EAM Studio led by Rastislav Sedlačík and Matej Fabian.

In her work, Lilla explores interior spaces and depicts strange and dark relationalities through prenatal allegories. Embryos carve out their own territories, and with the help of tentacles extending from the reliefs of her paintings, they define sovereign zones of living origins. Her portrayals of the world and of processes inside the maternal body express deeper meanings related to existence, development, or the transition from one state to another. Embryos or fetuses become symbols of new beginnings, ignorance, or other existential themes.

Lilla primarily works in painting, but also engages with objects, drawing, and site-specific installations through which she emphasizes ideas of posthumanism, interspecies symbiosis, alienation, and “weirdness.” A hallmark of her work is dislocation—she enjoys working with the genre of body horror. Through fictional narratives derived from unnatural visceral transformation, degeneration, or destruction of the physical body, she raises questions about the fundamental principles of existence, the origins of life, and relationships.

Her canvases are characterized by a dark atmosphere from which figurative narratives emerge. Seeping reflections of beings or mythic creatures momentarily appear in the misty iridescence of water surfaces, mysterious mirrors, or monstrous portals. A palpable ambiguity and timelessness keep the viewer in constant doubt. Where the eye tries to focus and decipher the scene, it is already too late—we do not know whether we are victims of a predator circling above or witnesses to interspecies transformation. We are strangers in a landscape where beings live in peaceful symbiosis, yet still evoke intense unease.

The exhibition is part of the thematic cycle Child, which began last year with the exhibition Inner Child by Andros Foros, who was nominated for the Discovery of the Year award by the Czech Academy of Visual Arts for this work. The cycle also includes the exhibition of applied art by Libuše Niklová and Petr Nikl titled Inherited Fauna, which runs in parallel with Lilla Gombos’s BOND in GDP.

A diverse accompanying program will take place alongside the exhibition.