The exhibition OLEG ŠUK: A MAN, A HOUSE AND A BOAT is the first retrospective exhibition of painter and Zen teacher Oleg Šuk presenting his post-minimalist paintings from 2010-2020, including his last cycle. Many of the more than thirty paintings were never exhibited, others were presented on small, individual exhibitions without a proper contextualization. His paintings offer insight into his religious experience, exploration of emptiness and silence, and can be seen as contemplative objects. These introvert paintings not only show the process of creating a painting, but pay immense attention to detail and emotion, with almost no attention paid to the outside world. He combines a limited palette of colors – white, gold, and blue, with transparency and reflection. A man in his paintings is reduced to his basic anthropological situation represented by a house and a boat. In his interconnected cycles, Oleg Šuk explores basic coordinates, up and down, with and without, balance, topics important for post-abstraction and Eastern spiritual practice.
The architecture of the exhibition, a contemplative space of a white cube, which creates a mental and spiritual space for these works, were created by the designer duo Peter and Mira Maukš.
Supported using public funding by Slovak Art Council

Curator of the exhibition - Ivana Komanická
Exhibition date: 17.12.2022 – 26.2.2023