contact: evelyn.bencicova@gmail.com
Natalia Evelyn Bencicova (b. Bratislava, 1992) is a visual creative specializing in photography and new media. Informed by her background in fine art studies (University for Applied Arts, Vienna), Evelyn’s practice combines her interest in contemporary culture with academic research to create a unique aesthetic space in which the conceptual meets the visual.
Evelyn constructs compelling narrative scenarios that blur the lines between reality, memory, and imagination “fictions based on truth”. Depicting multifaceted representations as illusions, Evelyn plays with the viewer’s perception to entice them into the labyrinth of imagination. Her disturbingly beautiful visual language set within curiously symbolic environments, allows for a deep exploration of the themes that take her works and images far beyond what they reveal at first glance.
EDUCATION:
Mgr. Art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
2015-2021
Department of Fine Art , class of photography (Gabriele Rothemann)
2016-2017
exchange semester
Applies Photography and Time-Based media (Maria Ziegelböck)
SOLO SHOWS:
2025 Immersion, Stiftung Reinbeckhallen Sammlung für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin
2025 Asymptote, Jaeger Art Gallery, Berlin
2024 Photo Paris solo booth presentation
2024 “Artificial Tears”, Groelle Gallery, Dusseldorf
2024 EMST Athens, Sungazing performance with Studio Labour, Athens
2023 “SimulacRaum”, Goethe Institut, Bratislava
2023 “Handle with Care”, Trippen, Berlin
2022 “Asymptote”, Alison Milne Gallery, Toronto
2022 “Anti-Atlantis”, UY CODESS, Berghain Halle, Berlin
2022 “SimulacRAUM”, FOG Gallery, Bratislava
2022 “Artificial Tears”, Slovak Institute in Prague
2021 “Anti-Atlantis”, Universität fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
2021 “MERROR”, Fotografiska Tallinn
2020 “Artificial Tears”, Sensorium Festival, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
2020 “Work in progress”, Barbara Thumm -New viewings, Berlin
2020 “Cure”, Alison Milne Gallery (part of Contact Photography Festival), Toronto
2019 “It is dark inside”, Synthesis gallery, Berlin
2019 “Notes on Hysteria”, Musica Sanae, Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge, Berlin
2019 “Portrait of an Anomaly”, CE contemporary gallery, Milano
2019 “Artificial Tears”, Berlin photo week, Kraftwerk, Berlin
2018 “MERROR”, Fotografiska Stockholm
2018 “Warstwy” Metavera Art Festival, Poland
2016 “Asymptote”, Slovak National Broadcast, Bratislava
GROUP SHOWS (selection):
2025 The cities wrapped around our bodies, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2025 Art Singapore
2024 This is how we look, this is who we are, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona
2024 Hollow Hour, London
2024 TACK, Groelle Gallery, Wuppertal
2024 Æther Chapter O, NUDE, Fotografiska Tallin
2024 Ustopia, Konnekt Archive, Berlin
2024 “Sungazing”, Offsite by Wehrmuehle, Berlin
2024 Aura's Present Decay, Art Biesenthal 2024
2024 Æther, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon
2024 Biennale for Visual and Sonic Media düsseldorf photo+
2024 ADAF - Athens Digital Art Festival, Techno(s)cene, Athenes
2024 Photo London
2024 ART Dusseldorf
2024 ART Singapour
2024 MOTUS, Pakt Cultural Centre, Bratislava
2023 Video Art, MOLT, Berlin
2023 MOTUS, Bratislava Design Week, Bratislava
2023 Phillips Auction exhibition, London Auction 21, 30 Berkeley Square, London
2023 Proof of People, curated by Vertical Crypto, Fabrics London
2023 “The house of plausible, probable, possible and preferable futures”, Kunsthalle Bratislava
2023 "Evolving Landscapes", Artemis Gallery, Lisbon
2023 “Nude”, Fotografiska Berlin
2023 “Not everything sucks”, Schaufenster, Berlin
2023 Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen
2023 Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode, Palais Galliera, Paris
2023 “Artificial Tears”, PHAIR- Photo Art Fair, Turin
2023 Photo London Fair, with Artemis Gallery, Somerset House, London (upcoming)
2023 DIGITAL SENSATION, Art in Space, Dubai
2023 POSTGENDER, UnicornDAO x Vellum LA Gallery, Vellum LA
2023 POSTGENDER, Zorlu Performing Arts Center Istanbul, Turkey
2022 “Convergence”, Optic Nerve, LA
2022 “Sungazing”, HAU - Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
2022 “P-RN”, The Gateway, Art Basel Miami, Miami
2022 “Out of Square” Photo Israel, Tel Aviv
2022 “Sungazing”, X100 by Atonal, Kraftwerk, Berlin
2022 “P-RN”, NeoshibuyaTV, curated by Unicorn Dao, Tokyo
2022 “nine-sum sorcery” Tehran Contemporary Sounds, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2022 “Ancient Futures”, Istanbul Archeology Museum
2022 “Aerial Palettes”, Wehrmuehle Biesenthal, Germany
2022 “Waking up in a World”, Artemis Gallery, Lisbon
2022 “NUDE”, Fotografiska New York
2021 “Direkte Auktion”, Postbank Tower, Berlin
2021 “NUDE”, Fotografiska Stockholm
2021 “Resonant Realities”, VR Art Prize exhibition, HaL, Berlin
2020 “I’d rather be in a dark silence then”, Factory Berlin
2020 “Living with the Arts”, Berlin Masters Foundation at KaDeWe Berlin
2020 “Portrait of Britain”, British Journal of Photography, UK
2020 “Looking Eastward”, Palazzo Tagliaferro, Andora
2020 Berlin Masters Award 2020 exhibition, BM Foundation, Berlin
2020 RASSON art gallery, Tournai, Belgium
2020 “Regenerations”, De School, Amsterdam
2019 "King Oedipus”, Czech National Theatre, Prague
2019 LUNCHMEAT festival, Prague
2019 PHOTO IS:RAEL festival, Tel Aviv
2019 “Glitch In the System”, Base Milano, Milano
2019 Taylor Wessing Portrait Photography prize exhibition, National portrait gallery, London
2019 MIRA -Digital Arts Festival, Barcelona
2019 “30 under 30 women photographers” by Artpil, Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris
2019 “Fresh Eyes” by GUP magazine, Tbilisi photo festival, Tbilisi
2019 “Mitra presents Nine-Sum Sorcery”, Atonal Berlin
2019 “Reverence”, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Minsk
2019 “30 under 30 women photographers” by Artpil, Maison de la Photography, Lilly
2019 “Next time, die consciously”, STRP festival, Eindhoven
2019 “Beyond Boundaries”, Lens Culture exhibition, Aperture Gallery, NYC
2019 “Golden Touch - Alchemy”, Berghain Saule, Berlin
2018 “Next time, die consciously”, Atonal Berlin
2018 Festival Fotografico Europeo, Milano
2017 OFF photo festival, Bratislava
2017 “So weit so Gut”, by Hant magazine, Kunsthalle Erfurt
2017 “Fumes and Parfumes”, Stuttgart
2016 “AJNHAJTCLUB”, Q21, Museumquartier Vienna
2016 “Age of no retirement”, OXO gallery, London
AWARDS AND HONOURABLE MENTIONS:
2024 J.P. Morgan Curators’ Highlights, Photo Paris
2024 ADAF Greece, open-call selected artist for the video art category
2023 OFF festival, short-listed, selected exhibiting artist
2023 Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer, short-listed
2022 Lumen Prize, short-listed
2021 Prix Picto De La Photographie De Mode 2021, Winner
2021 Kunstpreis Deutschland, winner
2021 FPU, Slovak Fund for Art Support, grant recipient
2021 Lumen Prize, long-listed
2021 Czech Grand Design Award, Nominee
2020 VR Art Prize, Grant recipient
2020 Berlin Masters 2020, winner
2020 Portrait of Britain, winner
2019 Young Guns class 17, winner
2019 Tokyo International Foto Award, New Talent of the Year
2018 Photography Grant, 2nd Place, Experimental category
2018 IPA photography awards, winner
2018 Winner of Emerging talent, Spotlight Awards for photographic Excellence
2018 Independent photographer, Open call winner
2016 Hasselblad Masters, winner, portrait category
2016 Broncolor GenNext winner
COLLECTIONS
Sammlung Stahlberg, Coburg
Palais Galliera, Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris
Fundación Medianocheo, Granada, Spain
Barbara Thumm Gallery, Berlin
RESIDENCIES
2020 Goethe Institute, VR Sum
2021 Schlieman Residency
2021 MOCDA Digital Residency
2021 Gazell.io, Gazellio Art House
2020 Callies Berlin
2020 Radiance VR
SELECTED PRESS
Flash Art, Der Tagesspiegel, Dazed Beauty, i-D, VICE Italy, Frieze Magazine, ZEIT Wissen Germany, Monopol Magazin, KUBAPARIS, Weltkunst, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Artribune, Vogue Portugal (cover story), Vogue Czechoslovakia (cover story), Vogue Spain, Vogue Korea, Numeró magazine, KINFOLK, Metal magazine, CAP 74024, The Opera magazine, 321 Magazine, HANT magazine, Musée Magazine, Moder Weekly China, GUP magazine, Odalisque magazine, Self-service, Gentlewoman, Sleek (cover story), Aesthetica, TUSH magazine, Bullet magazine, BLINK magazine, ELLE Czech, Schon magazine, Contributor magazine, DASH magazine, LÁV, PETRIe Inventory, Magazine Antidote, Normal magazine, PLASTIK magazine, Dokument, Sensitive Skin magazine, Safelight Paper, ArtConnect magazine, Swarm Mag, C41, Curated Lens, WEB: Juxtapoz, iGNANT.com, Fubiz, re:art, HuffingtonPost. Wertn, Artsy. net, NASTY,
SELECTED WEB INTERVIEWS:
Nasty Magazine (by Annalisa Fabbrucci)
Linked Spheres (by Sophie Nowakowska)
MOLT Artist Insight (by Madelen Isa)
Red-Eye (by Davide Andreatta)
KUBAPARIS Muse (by Ariana Krieger)
Atlas of Databodies (by Marlene Bart, Johannes Breuer, Alex Leo Freier)
Impeached Mag (by Ritty Tascum)
Some Magazine (by Huyen Thanh Nguyen Thi)
Resonant Realities artist talk (by Tina Sauerlander)
Dokument Magazine - in Slovak (by Jana Rajcova)
Artconnect (with Enes Guc)
RTVS - in Slovak (audio)
GUP magazine (by Tim Van Dijk)
Fotografiska Tallin podcast (Spotify)
MUSEÉ Magazine (by Federica Belli)
DAZED DIGITAL (by Nellie Eden)
Berlin Masters video (by Philipp Bollmann)
Radio FM - in Slovak (audio)
Odalisque Magazine (by Ksenia Sundin)
Hasselblad Heroines (podcast)
The wise fool podcast (by Matthew Dols)
Plastik Magazine (by Peter Speetjens)
METAL magazine (by NAEMEH SHIRAZI)