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Andrea Mikyska graduated from the Supermedia Studio at the University of Art and Design in Prague and during her studies, she completed an internship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and an internship at the Universität Berlin der Künste in Berlin. Her work draws on the immensity of data content on the Internet and her own experience of presence in the online space. The work of Andrea Mikyska often touches on those issues of the popular visual culture associated with their own identity and self-reflection in relation to fashion trends. Her videos and installations are playing with the young generation, the ubiquitous tension of the constant intersections between these "public" and the intimate spaces of individuals.

I look at the practice of art as an integral part that needs to be shared and communicated. My work is united by the symbolism and aesthetics of the 1990s in which I was born and began to introduce new media. As a video artist, I seek to answer questions about the ecology of human identity – questions such as: how do objects in our lives affect our daily ritual; how does change in a place influence our experience of it; and what do our relationships with other people, organisms, computer systems and current technology affect our lives. My work is mainly focused on digital narrativedialectic as the subtext of different life-processes: landscapes, environment, situations, organisms, programs, or places as an emergent fabric of events, simultaneously woven together amidst constant change. I believe at Anthropocene concept is the way in which it universalizes the roots of the eco-crisis by situating it among the anthropos-humanity in general, when it is, in fact, the result of a specific set of actions taken by a specific set of individuals, which is to say unbridled global capitalism and its agents and beneficiaries, especially as connected to the exploitation of the environment in all its forms in search of ever-increasing profit.



In my work, I address the issue of private and public property, which is currently increasingly affected by digital works that are propagated on the Internet and the whole space is beginning to lack uniqueness and integrity.I would call my style post meta digital. My visual research balances between future and past, body and void, beauty and creeps, pain and pleasure, disappointment and chance. My great inspiration is all living organisms and their challenges. I fell in love with new techniques and discovering new software – that makes me feel like being on a trip to the future. Plus, thinking about the future and potential consequences of today's acts and trying to involve them in the art is what I find really enjoyable during my creative process.



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Selected project


2021

WRONG TV - Acropolis Remix

Denver Digerati - digital animation festival, Regeneration,USA

Weserhalle gallery - virtual group exhibition, DE

2020

Kensington + Chelsea Art Week, (KCAW)

-Little Voices curated by Amy Jackson, UK

Hinter den Fassaden Online - curator: Lily Fürstenow - online exhibition, DE

Surface Gallery - On Point, UK

Videokanava - video art festival, Contemporary Art Centre Pispala, FIN, and VBKÖ Vienna, AUT

2019

Berlinskej model - Rigged game, Prague, CZ

Basement Olomouc, Rude Awakening, CZ

Boys don't cry, Pragovka gallery, CZ

Choker, Gallery Šachta, CZ

2018

Kultura.digital - Kunsthalle im Lipsius-Bau, Dresden, DE

Topografie pozornosti, Gallery Hraničář, CZ

2017 Museum of Savers, Video NoD, Prague, CZ

2016 Virtual Modality, NoD Gallery, Prague, CZ

The Guest as Host, Deutsches Haus, NY, USA

Uberdumpstertthreesome, Zwitschermaschine Gallery, Berlin, DE

Das Portret, Scotty Enterprises Gallery, Berlin, DE

2015

Smart Generation, NTK Gallery, Prague, CZ

Super Special Natural, GHMP, Prague, CZ



Residency


2019 WET productions, Artistres, UK

2014 ART and ACT, Emir Kusturica , SRB



Education


2014 – 2017 Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design, Prague, CZ, Supermedia, doc. Mgr. David Kořínek

2011 – 2014 University of West Bohemia, Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of design and Art, Pilsen, CZ, Intermedia

2015 Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, CZ Studio of Visiting Artist, Josef Dabernig - internship, AUT

2015 – 2016Universität der Künste, Berlin, DE

Experimental film, prof. Nina Fischer, Moving Images, prof. Anna Anders - internship



Mentions





https://thewrong.tv/acropolis-remix

https://acropolisremix.eu.org/

https://weserhalle.com/artwork/spring-auction/andrea-mikyska/

https://denverdigerati.org/silent-screen-2021

https://www.transienttt.co.uk/2021/july

https://pragmatacollective.co.uk/OpenFragment.html

https://app.lapentor.com/sphere/stay-connected-ve3

https://www.little-voices.co.uk/andrea

https://e-mergingartists.blogspot.com/2020/08/andrea-mikyska.html

https://www.surfacegallery.org/on-point

https://superrare.co/miu_spell

https://tzvetnik.online/article/midas-touch-at-the-regional-art-gallery-liberec


http://www.zwitschermaschine-berlin.de/archives/1688 


https://www.digitalamerica.org/a-response-to-true-match-kate-wiley/ 


https://origoo.cz/cs/magazine/choker-right-pointing-index-mikyskova-pavlickova-a-krissak-vystavuji-v-holesovicke-sachte 


https://kurzorkolektiv.wordpress.com/2015/09/12/andrea-mikyskova-quick-monday/ 


https://hranicar-usti.cz/galerie-hranicar/topografie-pozornosti/ 


https://www.artmap.cz/andrea-mikyskova-tomas-benadik-cmd-start/ 


https://www.unesco-czech.cz/900_463997_andrea-mikyskova-a-tomas-benadik-museum-of-savers/?photoID=132#page_start


http://milanmikulastik.blog.cz/gallery/generation-smart-galerie-ntk/picture/101485927 
 https://arthasnohistory.com/tag/digitalni-hygiena/ 


http://basement-project.art/329-2/ 


http://www.designmag.cz/udalosti/73758-studenti-a-absolventi-atelieru-supermedia-na-umprum-vystavuji-v-ntk.html

https://www.avu.cz/event/2015-06-15/strahovsk%C3%BD-stadion-%C5%A1sc-%C5%A1aloun-social-club-3635 
 http://www.petrohradskakolektiv.com/event/nova-lista-123-talk/ https://artfacts.net/artist/andrea-mikyskova/555948


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