View of the Exhibition, Night Situations at Station Gallery (2022)
BIO
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 - ZONES OF CONTACT - Schemnitz Gallery, Banska Stiavnica
2023 - NIGHT PERIPHERIES - A7 Gallery, Banska Bystrica
2022 - FROM PICTURE TO PICTURE - Palffy Gallery, Bratislava
2022 - NIGHT SITUATIONS - Station Gallery, Bratislava
2022 - STILL LIFES, Forester's Lodge - Cervena Studna, Banska Stiavnica
2021 - NIGHT SHIFT/with J. Florek/ - City Gallery, Rimavska Sobota
2019 - ORAVA BEATING/with J. Florek/ - Orava Gallery, Dolny Kubin
2019 - MERINA /with J. Florek/ - Nova Vlna, Trencin
2019 - OIL LAKE /with J. Florek/ - Industrial Gallery, Ostrava (CZ)
2017 - COLOURS OF OSTRAVA PLEIN-AIR /with J. Toman/ - Vnitroblock, Prague (CZ)
2017 - PRAGUE SIGNALS! /with J. Florek/ - Studio PRAM, Prague (CZ)
2017 - PUCHOV SIGNALS! /with J. Florek/ - Zupny dom, Puchov
2016 - COLOURS OF OSTRAVA PLEIN-AIR /with J. Florek/ - Cineport Dolni Vitkovice, Ostrava (CZ)
2016 - Painting Biennale V.? Living Painting - City Gallery, Rimavska Sobota
2016 - Walks around the city, red socks, yellow digger and others - Gallery Koniaren, Trebisov
2016 - Machnac, Brano, and other pictures - with J. Florek, Nova Vlna - Trencin
2015 - CAFE, MUSKATS, PETER BEHRENS and OTHERS /with J. Florek/ - Sumec Gallery, BA
2015 - OUT OF THE CITY! /with J. Florek/ - Jozef Kollar Gallery, Banska Stiavnica
2015 - Us and Them/with J. Francak/ - Gallery of the City of Levoca
2014 - FLOREK AND TOMAN"/with J. Florek/ - Nastupiste 1-12, Topolcany
2014 - Paintings - Juraj Toman, Nova Vlna - Trencin
2011 - "Insiders as outsiders" /with Ivana Oroszova/ - PF 01 Gallery in Bratislava
2010 - Assumption, Escape, Time (Fi) /with Martin Rusina/ - 23 Percent Gallery
2008 - Dark side of the room - City Tower in Trencin
Group Exhibitions:
2022 - TITLE OF THE EXHIBITION /Together with J. Florek/ - Prostor Gallery - Znojmo, Czech Republic
2021 - ENVISION SADiS /Slovak art day in Sofia 2020-21/ - Academia gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2021 - Unlock - Schemnitz Gallery - Banská Štiavnica /Together with Adam Šakový, Lucia Dovičáková, Erik Schille, Dorota Sadovská, Jiří David, Robo Bielik, Eva Činčalová, Boris Sirka/
2020 - Contemporary Plenary /Together with Ľuboš Feranec, Martin Žovinec, Dušan Chrastina/ - Cultural House Horná Súča, Slovakia
2018 - TURBOPLENER 1500 - Nástupište 1-12, Topoľčany, Slovakia
2017 - ART IN PARK - Nová Vlna, Trenčín, Slovakia
2017 - URBAN POSITIVE - Latarka Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2015 - BIENALE MAĽBY V. ? - City Gallery, Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia
2015 - Sonda 015 - Exhibition of the Department of Painting Graduates, Academy of Fine Arts in Banská Bystrica - Western Terrace of the Bratislava Castle, Slovakia
2015 - New Romanticism - Radislav Matuštík Scholarship - Pálffy Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 - Regular Lines - Slovakia - Austria - BB-15 Gallery, Linz, Austria
2013 - PANEL STORY - GMB - Pálffy Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia
2012 - Painting into the Interior - Turčianska Gallery in Martin, Slovakia
2012 - Timelessness - Vojtech Löffler Museum, Košice, Slovakia
2012 - Timelessness - Central Slovak Gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
2011 - The Same, but Smaller or Equally Big, but Far - Gallery of Art in Nové Zámky, Slovakia
2011 - Painting 2011 - finalist of the VÚB Foundation Award for Painting at the Exhibition Hall of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic in Bratislava, Slovakia
2011 - And don't forget to wash behind the ears - Middle space gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2010 - Rules and Exceptions - Central Slovak Gallery in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
2010 - City Gallery - Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia
2010 - Club of Culture - Uherské Hradište, Czech Republic
2010 - SNG - Ľudovít Fulla Gallery in Ružomberok, Slovakia
2009 - Encounter - M.A. Bazovský Gallery, Trenčín, Slovakia
2009 - Found a New Virus - Slovak Visual Arts Union, Bratislava, Slovakia
Juraj Toman (1985) is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (studio of Klaudia Kosziba) and the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, where in 2014 he completed his doctoral studies with prof. Ľudovít Hološka. He has had a considerable number of solo and collective exhibitions at home and abroad.
Juraj Toman's artistic journey explores diverse themes, employing oil painting for spontaneous captures that transcend reality. His works move beyond mere portrayal, incorporating literary elements and navigating through layers of time and content. Toman introduces parallel realities, blending surrealism, postmodernism, and fantastic literature, creating mystifying art that invites viewers to decipher subtle hints, blurring lines between reality and unreality. Shifting focus to urban landscapes, he emphasizes architectural and industrial spaces, using gestural painting to evoke a nostalgic atmosphere. Toman's multilevel understanding of space manifests in paintings with multiple planes, evoking nostalgia and capturing a sense of absence in the present. Through a modern fine-art language with "retro" imagery, the artist portrays emptied town streets and "non-existent places." In his evolution, Toman reintegrates the figure into its spatial field, the artist's studio thus undergoes a retro-modernist update, repainting exterior scenes to represent nocturnal conversations between friends and collaborators.