Paula Gogola

Paula Gogola (b. 1998) is a Slovak-born Prague-based artist. She mostly works in the medium of painting, approaching figuration from different angles and exploring the language of morphology in relation to the body and its modification. Rooted in queer and feminist thought, her work reflects a sustained interest in the body as a porous, mutable form - one shaped by personal experience, cultural narratives, and speculative reimaginings.

Her approach is intuitive yet research-driven, grounded in both material sensitivity and theoretical curiosity. In her recent work, she has explored themes such as hormonal transformation, contamination, desire, and care - often through a soft, atmospheric visual language. Her visual language engages with figuration as a site of transformation, drawing attention to bodily fluidity, symbolic ambiguity, and the layered tensions between surface and identity.

Date of residency: 1. 8. – 31. 12. 2025

EDUCATION

2024–2025  Beaux-Arts Paris, Atelier of Mimosa Echard 
2024         UMPRUM, Department of intermedia - Dominik Gajarský, Michal Pěchouček
2023-2024   UMPRUM, Department of sculpture - Dominik Lang, Tereza Jindrová, Amálie Bulandrová
2022-2025    Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Department of Intermedia, Painting department MAL3 - Jakub Hošek, Josef Bolf 
2018-2022    Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, painting department - doc. Mgr. art. Klaudia Kosziba, ArtD
 

EXHIBITIONS (selected)
 

2025    Begone estrone, Medium - Bratislava, Slovakia

2025    Aurora Vessels, ACUD Gallery - Berlin, Germany 

2024    Crash Club, Crash Club projects - Warsaw, Poland

2024    NO SURPRISE, Longterm handstand hall - Budapest, Hungary

2024    Leering Despondency (solo), Vunu Gallery - Bratislava, Slovakia

2023    The rotten smell is you, Kunsthalle Bratislava - Slovakia

All information is valid as of 1 August 2025