Michal Janiga is a native of Pružina. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he graduated from the Studio of Figural Sculpture and Medals. He lives in Prague, where he works in own studio. He has had several author exhibitions and realizations in Slovakia, Norway, Italy and the Czech Republic.[3]
Selected works
Carl Gustav Swensson Memorial
In 2021 was the co-author of the Carl Gustav Swensson Memorial in C. G. Swensson Park in Žilina.[4] He designed and created the Swensson's portrait. The author of the memorial sculpture is the landscape architectMarek Sobola. The collaboration of these two artists created the largest memorial dedicated to a prominent Swedish landscape architect in Europe. The work combines pigmented concrete, stainless steel and elements of the green infrastructure.
"Mimo predpoklad". Exhibition with Petra Lomnická, MG Gallery, Považská Bystrica, Slovakia (2018)[3]
Author of Ondrej Sobola's portrait, which was based on the only surviving photograph. Ondrej Sobola's story was the impetus for the creation of the international Tree of Peace initiative (2018).[6]
Exhibition "Negative Realism" (You're Broken When Your Heart's Not Open), Lienemann-Stifung für Bildung und Kunst Award, Tschechisches Zentrum, Berlin, Germany (2019)[3]
"The Run Slovakia" (relay race). Realisation of trophies and medal, production cooperation with Hydro Extrusion Slovakia (2019).[7]
Second place in art competition for monument of the 700th anniversary of the Žilina town, Slovakia. Cooperation with Marek Sobola in 2021.[8][9][10]
Exhibition "Nesnesitelné teplo domova", garden of the Cultural center H55, Prague, Czech Republic (2021).[11]
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