Rubigo
Kunstverein Freiburg•Feb 21, 2026 — Apr 19, 2026
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For her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, Stanislava Kovalčíková creates an expansive installation made of red plasticine, a synthetic modelling clay, that serves as an environment for a series of paintings on discarded clock dials from Prussian church towers. The installation evokes the sensation of being enclosed within a body – a living mothership. But it is a sick, decaying organism. The yielding yet resistant materiality of the plasticine and its muffled acoustics amplify the impression of being inside an architecture of bodily tissue, or a padded cell.
In Rubigo, Kovalčíková interweaves imprints and rusted materials with emptied rituals and decomposing bodies, with relics of a vanishing world and extraterrestrial visions. On the enamelled surfaces of the weathered clock dials, the artist uses painting to probe the human figure – its vulnerability, pain and desire, dependency and estrangement. The figures appear in constellations yet seem detached from any shared…
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Rubigo
Kunstverein Freiburg•Feb 21, 2026 — Apr 19, 2026
Press Release
For her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, Stanislava Kovalčíková creates an expansive installation made of red plasticine, a synthetic modelling clay, that serves as an environment for a series of paintings on discarded clock dials from Prussian church towers. The installation evokes the sensation of being enclosed within a body – a living mothership. But it is a sick, decaying organism. The yielding yet resistant materiality of the plasticine and its muffled acoustics amplify the impression of being inside an architecture of bodily tissue, or a padded cell.
In Rubigo, Kovalčíková interweaves imprints and rusted materials with emptied rituals and decomposing bodies, with relics of a vanishing world and extraterrestrial visions. On the enamelled surfaces of the weathered clock dials, the artist uses painting to probe the human figure – its vulnerability, pain and desire, dependency and estrangement. The figures appear in constellations yet seem detached from any shared…
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