Ľudmila Hubová Machová: Overlooked Territory

Ľudmila Hubová Machová
Overlooked Territory
Curator: Viktória Pardovičová
Vernisáž / Exhibition Opening: Tuesday, 21.10.2025, 18:00
Duration of the exhibition / Duration: 22.10. - 23.11.2025
Galéria Medium / Medium Gallery

The Overlooked Territory project by the painter and visual artist Ľudmila H. Machová follows on from her residency in Paris and earlier projects Synanthrope (2024) or Archivist of Hybrids (2023). By sensitively observing and investigating the urban environment, shaped by technological planning and the typically human-shaped urban territory, the author gets to study specific forms of life - synanthropic plant species and weeds. He perceives them as an actor, able to resist adverse conditions and thus represent an alternative (often an unwanted revival) of concrete fields or strictly shaped and expensively maintained gardens. Through a spatial installation of paintings, objects and photographs, the author records, modifies and develops the narratives of these plants as a specific co-population of the city. In the cracks, niches and other (inter)spaces, situations and partnerships are then born, which with their capacity for resistance and resilience remind us of the need to return to empathy and non-hierarchical interspecies cooperation, but also the determination to face normative frameworks and dictated power structures.

Ľudmila Hubová Machová (*1990) studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. In 2017 and 2018, she was a finalist for the VÚB Foundation Award. He regularly participates in group exhibitions at home and abroad. Her independent projects included, for example, exhibitions at Medium Gallery in Bratislava, Liptovska Gallery P.M. Bohúňa, the City Gallery in Rimavská Sobota, the Nitrian Gallery or the Basement Studio in Olomouc. Her works, based on the medium of painting, naturally transform into object-based, multi-media installations. By means of expanded image forms, photographs, but also sound recordings, he explores the boundaries of landscape areas and urban environments or the relationships between organic bodies of plants and synthetic materials. The projects of Ľudmila H. Machová thus oscillate between imagination-stimulating environments of hybrid forms of entities - objects, images, shapes and meanings, but also open up the discourse of the coexistence of plant species, overlooked spaces or human (de)structured forms of perception.

The project was supported from public sources in the form of a scholarship by the Fund for support of art.
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The Overlooked Territory project of a painter and visual artist Ľudmila H. Machová follows on from her residency in Paris and earlier projects Synanthrope (2024) and Archivist of Hybrids (2023). Through sensitive observation and examination of the urban environment, shaped by technological planning and typically man-made urban areas, the author studies specific forms of life – synanthropic plant species and weeds. She perceives them as actors capable of resisting adverse conditions and thus representing an alternative (often unwanted revival) to concrete fields or strictly formed and expensively maintained gardens. Through a spatial installation of paintings, objects, and photographs, the author records, modifies, and develops the narratives of these plants as a specific co-population of the city. In cracks, niches, and other (inter)spaces, situations and partnerships are born that, through their ability to resist and endure, remind us of the need to return to empathy and non-hierarchical interspecies cooperation, as well as the determination to confront normative frameworks and dictated power structures.

Ľudmila Hubová Machová (*1990) studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, completed an internship at the University of Porto, Faculty of Fine Arts in Portugal, and a residency in Cité internationale des Arts in Paris (2024) under the auspices of VŠVU/AFAD. In 2017 and 2018, she was a finalist for the VÚB Foundation Award. She regularly participates in group exhibitions at home and abroad. Her solo projects include exhibitions at the Medium Gallery in Bratislava, the P.M. Bohúň Gallery in Liptov, the Municipal Gallery in Rimavská Sobota, the Nitra Gallery, and the Basement Studio in Olomouc. Her works, based on the medium of painting, naturally transform into multi-media installations. Through expanded forms of images, photographs, and sound recordings, she explores the boundaries of landscape areas and urban environments, as well as the relationships between organic plant bodies and synthetic materials. Ľudmila H. Machová's projects thus oscillate between the imagination of stimulating environments of hybrid forms of entities—objects, images, shapes, and meanings—while also opening up a discourse on the coexistence of plant species, overlooked spaces, and human (de)structured forms of perception.

Supported using public funds in the form of a scholarship from the Slovak Arts Council.