New Interfaces 04/ Alexandra Tamásová: Naked Truths. The Female Body in the Work of Contemporary Slovak Artists

MEDIUM Gallery, Hviezdoslavovo Square 18, Bratislava

We encounter images of naked women almost everywhere. In galleries, museums, advertisements, and films. These are usually images created by men. The women in them are beautiful, slim, and above all passive. Thanks to feminism, we now understand that such depictions are neither true nor innocent. For several decades, many female artists have been rebelling against them and showing that women can also be old, fat, loud, or angry. In this lecture, we will look at the different statements about the female experience offered by the work of contemporary Slovak painters. Or what it looks like when a woman paints a naked woman.

Mgr. Alexandra Tamásová, PhD. (1985), art historian, critic, and curator. From 2012 to 2025, she worked at the Slovak National Gallery as curator of the Modern and Contemporary Art Collections. She currently works at the Research Center at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. She focuses on contemporary art with an emphasis on themes of nature, the body and physicality, identity, marginalized groups, and expanded consciousness. She curates exhibitions, writes scholarly articles and reviews, moderates discussions, and prepares the Modranský Kabaret.

The leitmotif of the fourth edition of the lecture series New Interfaces 04 is the body and corporeality in the age of digital technologies. We are interested in themes of embodiment as well as the sublimation of the bodily within digital interfaces, non-normative bodies, the animality of corporeality, and the body’s memory, which artists explore in their works across various media and forms.

Supported using public funding by the Slovak Arts Council.