About the artist

IVANA ORVISKA is a Slovak visual artist working primarily in oil painting. 

Her practice explores the relationship between light, memory, place, and transformation through painting, observation, and long-term visual research. 

Working from direct experience as well as remembered impressions, she investigates how landscapes, rivers, gardens, and natural environments are perceived, remembered, and reimagined over time. Rather than documenting a specific view, her paintings explore how perception gradually becomes memory and how light continues to shape our emotional connection to place. 

Painting is her primary language of research. Through an intuitive and emotionally driven process, she seeks to understand how places, experiences, and moments remain present within memory long after the original encounter has passed. Light functions not only as a visual phenomenon but also as a carrier of atmosphere, experience, and recollection. Her project, The Memory of Light, brings together a series of interconnected bodies of work inspired by rivers, gardens, natural structures, and landscapes encountered through travel, residencies, and sustained observation. 

The subjects she paints are never chosen arbitrarily. They emerge from places, forms, and experiences that create a strong emotional resonance and continue to reveal new meanings over time. 

Recent work has expanded these investigations through themes of resilience, adaptation, continuity, and transformation found within living systems, including her current Sunflower Studies series. 

Ivana has exhibited internationally and participated in artist residencies in France, including Château de Cérisay, NG Art Creative Residency, and Château d'Orquevaux. 

She lives and works in Bratislava, Slovakia.

"Selected Publications, Exhibitions and Awards

Selected for

 The Almenara Collection Online Exhibition 2026

Selected as a Featured Artist for the publication The Art Influencers of Our Time by World Artists Organization. The publication includes a dedicated two-page presentation of recent artworks.