Emília Rigová (born 1980) is a visual artist coming from the Slovak Republic. In addition to her engagement with art, she teaches art courses (object, multi-media, inter-media) at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica.

For Rigová, an object in the form of an installation or as a performance or a site-specific intervention is a basic element of her art language. Further, she expresses herself through 2D interface of a computer graphics, informed by the fundaments of classical painting.

Concerning the content of her work, she explores intersubjective of emotion modified by a specific socio-cultural environment. The main themes of her works are cultural or social stereotypes, alter ego, Romani identity, and psychological shadows.

She is a laureate of Oskar Čepan Award 2018 and a laureate of Roma Spirit 2018.

Solo Exhibitions

2018 Icons of Peripherals, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, SK

2018 Lost Forest, ERIAC, Berlin, DE

2018 Lost Identity, Q21, Electric Avenue, Showrooms, Vienna, A

2016 (out of) the deadlock, Galery8, Budapest, HU

2016 Archetyp Pra Bari, České Centrum, Praha, CZ

2015 Bari Rakori, Radnica,Banska Bystrica, SK

2013 Intimate public catharsis, with Ukradena Galerie, Praha, CZ, Dresden, DE, Písek, CZ, Telč, CZ, Č. Krumlov, CZ, Linz, A

2012 Randez Vous, AVO AVO (s K. Boborová) Nitra, Outdoor Gallery, SK

2011 Black Box, Stredoslovenská galéria Banská Bystrica, Obhajoba dizertačnej práce, SK

2011 Feminist Funeral, AVO AVO (s K. Boborová) Bunker, Nitrianska galéria, SK

2010 Atraktiv art - ANTIART (s A. AKO) Zvaz architektov, Banská Bystrica, SK

2010 Memory Object, Výstava doktorandiek, Stredoslovenská galéria, Banská Bystrica, SK

Collective exhibitions

2018 My Art Is My Reality, MMSU, Rijeka, HR

2018 Time After Time, Nominee in Oscar Čepan Award, Bratislava, SK

2018 Constant Methamorphosis, Nadikhuno museumos/Invisible museum,Tranzite.sk, WienaContemporaty, A

2018 The Roma Spring: Art as Resistance, ERIAC, Berlin, DE

2017 (out of) the deadlock, Vybrané videní, Galerie Emila Filly, Ostrava, CZ

2017 Constant Methamorphosis, Nadikhuno museumos/Invisible museum,Tranzite.sk, Bratislava, SK

2017 The Blind man, Segregation, Galerie AVU, Praha, CZ

2017 Crrosing Black/Selfportrait, O kosmo hino kalos/The universe is black, Moravská galerie, Brno, CZ

2017 Constant Methamorphosis, Kali Berga/The great black Mount, Kai Dikhas Galery, Berlin, DE

2016 Constant Methamorphosis, Kali Berga, Ksiegarnia Wystawa / Krakow, PL

2015 Čo si urobil pre slovenský performance?, AVO AVO. Týždeň súčasnèho umenia, Trenčín, SK

2014 Ikony periférie, Jaw Dikh, JCC Cetrum, Krakau PL

2014 Ikony periférie, Dik I Na Bistar Look and Don’t Forget Krakow, PL

2014 Vizuálny Archetyp, HALA Merina, Týždeň súčasnèho umenia, Trenčín, SK

2013 Gory Box, Týždeň súčasného umenia, HALA Merina, Trenčín, S

2012 Insipiracje Garbatka - Letnisko, Poľsko, PL

2012 Slepá Baba, Medzicentrum III., Banská Štiavnica, SK

Occupation

Matej Bel University, Pedagogic Faculty, Banská Bystrica, The Department of Visual Arts, Assistant Professor