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Paula Gogola, Natália Sýkorová: Begone Estrone

Invitations Medium Gallery Alumni club Painting

We invite you to the opening of the exhibition by Paula Gogola and Natália Sýkorová at the Medium Gallery on July 22, 2025, at 6 PM.

Where?

  • MEDIUM Gallery,

  • Hviezdoslavovo nám. 18, Bratislava

When?

  • Opening: Tuesday, 22 July 2025, 18:00

  • Exhibition duration: 23 July 2025 – 31 August 2025

 

Creative Team:

  • Curator: Zuzana Jakalová
  • Exhibition architecture: Adam Rýznar
  • Graphic design: Prokhor Maserov
  • Music: Johannes Tröstler

Annotation

‘Begone Estrone’ is a collaborative exhibition that brings together practices of two artists Paula Gogola and Natália Sýkorová, whose work intersects at the convergence of personal identity, technological landscapes of female bodies, both of which they explore through the perspective of female health and care. The exhibition coalesces their individual critical practices into a meticulously constructed environment activated through Adam Rýznar’s exhibition design and Johannes Tröstler’s sound compositions. 

At the core of this exhibition is an inquiry into the bathroom as a heterotopic space, a site where the intersection of public and private, the ritual and the mundane, purity and contamination. The artists collectively transform this banal, often overlooked site into a complex topography of power, identity, and survival. The simulacrum presented here functions as a critical rearticulation of the space—one that foregrounds the socio-political anxieties embedded within its very materiality. The bathroom, reimagined as a site of liminality, encapsulates the tension between a sanctuary and a space of profound vulnerability. Here, the bathroom becomes a stage for a tension-filled narrative, where ritual, angels, estrogen injections, alchemy, urban decay and their aesthetic become a potent symbol of broader societal issues, particularly those surrounding gender, identity, and the body.

 

A performance will take place during the exhibition opening. Performers: Teuta Jonuzi, Exegesis, Sam Novak.

 

Poster for the exhibition "Begone Estrone" by Paula Gogola and Natália Sýkorová, taking place at Medium Gallery, Bratislava. The design features abstract, futuristic architectural and graphic elements in blue and white tones. Exhibition opening on July 22, 2025, at 6:00 PM, with the exhibition running from July 23 to August 31, 2025. Curator: Zuzana Jakalová, Architecture: Adam Ryznar, Soundscape: Johannes Tröstler. Supported by the Slovak Arts Council and Bratislava Self-Governing Region.

 

  • Supported using public funds in the form of a scholarship from the Slovak Arts Council.
  • This project was financially supported by the Bratislava Self-Governing Region.