Sarah Avni

Sarah I. Avni is a young contemporary artist from Slovakia who currently resides in Prague. She is also focused on artistic photography and interior design in addition to painting.

Avni received her artistic education at Graphic Art School in Jihlava in the Czech Republic where she studied drawing and painting. She then decided to travel and gain experience abroad, where she collected inspiration during her journeys through Europe and which has since made its way into her artistic work. She returned to Slovakia in 2006 and began to fully focus on painting and photography. Given her positive relationship to travel and the fact that foreign peoples and cultures are an important part of her life that have carried over into her art work, she emphasized these bonds by continuing her education at the University of Central Europe in Skalica (SVK) from which she graduated in 2009 with a degree in International relations and diplomacy.

Avni finds her inspiration rather in eastern philosophy and its approach than in western painting. Her work is recognizable at first glance also thanks to a special technique, which she invented. It is a specific structure creating impasto effect, but also old gilding techniques and mixed pigments which allow her to play more effectively with lights and shadows.

She has had over 80 solo exhibitions on three continents and her artworks are part of art collections of collectors from all around the world.

In 2019 she revealed a special collection of “rock” paintings where she was inspired by the music of a fantastic Slovak band, INSIDE. This unique collaboration of artists aims to deepen the cultural experience. The paintings will be on display during some of the INSIDE concerts as well as on their album cover named Čas (EN: Time).

Since 2018 is the project that includes the paintings from the collection “Party in the 21st Century” a part of Slovakia official brand GOOD IDEA SLOVAKIA.

CIRCLE, an international art magazine, published one of the paintings from the collection “Party in the 21st Century” in spring issue in 2018. Those are published artworks regarded as current trends and original practices in visual art worldwide.

Collection “Party in the 21st Century” was chosen by Re:publika, one of the greatest cultural festivals in Czech Republic, as the only one art exhibition presenting Slovakia in the festival.

Collection “Party in the 21st Century” received a Certificate of Excellence by Artavita, an international active online gallery, in 2017.

A video clip by Inside and Peter Cmorík, “Odraz duše”, released in 2016, was inspired by Sarah's life.

Since 2016, she has been the main artist of a very successful folklore-artistic project: Party in the 21st century. The works from this collection inspired by the Slovak crafts were created in collaboration with LSZ photography and were introduced already at over 20 exhibitions on three continents.

In 2016, a few of her paintings were printed in the 100th edition of the British Vogue.

In 2015, she was ranked by an international cultural portal theculturetrip.com among 10 Slovak artists you should know.

She is an author of the world's best sport-themed stamp from 2011 awarded by the StampNews International.

Works (collections):

• Abstract (Endless Possibilities, Genesis, A Moment in All Dimensions, Your Dreams Come True,...)
• Around the World (painting and a map, all in one artwork)
• Art for office
• Flower Power
• For Joy
• Party in the 21st Century (artworks based on a ethnological research
• Symbolic (Non Sufficit Una, Flower of Life,...)

Exhibitions / List of selected exhibitions:

• 2019 / Ella Design in Vevey, Switzerland / CURRENTLY RUNNING
• 2019 / Hotel Carlo IV. in Prague / CURRENTLY RUNNING
• 2019 / Hotel Vienna House Andel´s in Prague / CURRENTLY RUNNING
• 2019 / SC Central in Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2019 / Clarissine Church in Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2019 / Slovak Institut in Moscow
• 2019 / Gallery Vazka, Trencin, Slovakia
• 2019 / MaxMara in Bratislava

• 2018 / Slovak Institut in Berlin
• 2018 / Tatra Museum Poprad, Slovakia
• 2018 / Rivington Street Gallery in New York
• 2018 / Slovak Embassy in Washington DC and in International Club DC
• 2018 / Ottawa City Hall
• 2018 / Festival Re:publika in the Czech Republic, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Czechoslovakia
• 2018 / Kulturpark in Košice, Slovakia
• 2018  / Slovak Institute in Prague
• 2018 / Olympic Games in the South Korea

• 2017 / Slovak Institute in Vienna
• 2017 / The House of Arts in Piešťany, Slovakia
• 2017 / Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Ottawa
• 2017 / Crowne Plaza, Manhattan in New York at Slovak Fashion Night
• 2017 / Bratislava Castle in Slovakia
• 2017 / Chateau Mcely in the Czech Republic

• 2016 / Exhibition at the Slovak Presidency of the EU Council in Brussels
• 2016 / Fashion Club in Prague
• 2016 / Garden Agape in Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2016 / Chateau Rothschild in Austria

• 2015 / Basel Art Center (Gift 4 You) in Switzerland
• 2015 / Basel Art Center (Osteropäische abstrakte Kunst) in Switzerland
• 2015 / Esterhazy Palace (Gallery Merikon Art Room) in Vienna

• 2012 / The Presidential Palace in Bratislava
• 2012 / BMW in Bratislava, Slovakia

• 2011 / Gallery Harfa in Prague
• 2011 / SPP Gallery in Bratislava, Slovakia