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Andréa Stanislav, Ascent at Giant Rock, 2025, mixed media collage, 36” x 36” x 3”
Melissa Morgan Fine Art
Opening Reception: Andrea Stanislav
Melissa Morgan Fine Art is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of internationally renowned multimedia artist Andréa Stanislav, opening Friday, January 2, 2026, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm, with a public reception at the gallery. Stanislav’s hybrid practice traverses sculpture, immersive installation, video, public art, and site-specific commissions. Her work is notable for its synthesis of materials, discipline-crossing processes and global perspectives—exploring the intersections of architecture, empire, nature, popular culture, and the sublime. Born in Chicago in 1968, Stanislav works between New York City and Bloomington, Indiana. She holds an MFA from Alfred University and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has exhibited widely across the U.S. and internationally. Her work has been featured in major exhibitions and is held in numerous museum, public, and private collections worldwide.
Select Museums Exhibitions• The Russian Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN• Museum of Non-Conformist Art, St. Petersburg, Russia• The Mattress Faculty Museum of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA• St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO• Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI• Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Select Public and Private Collections• Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN• Museum of Cosmonautics, Moscow, Russia• 21c Art Museum, Louisville, KY• The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI• Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE• Royal Caribbean International Ltd, Miami, FL; Oslo, Norway Stanislav creates visual worlds that are at once poetic and unsettling—deploying video, sculpture and installation to probe themes of memory, migration, time and transformation. The opening reception on January 2 will be an opportunity to meet the artist, explore the works and engage in conversation about her process and vision. All are welcome.
Czech Center NYC
Moderated by Christopher Harwood. Presenters (in alphabetical order) include: Livia BLAYLOCK (behavioral therapist), Peter CIKHART (cinematographer), Tamara KRAMAR (singer and musician), Kristyna and Marek MILDE (environmental artists), Oliver OTSASEK (founder and innovator), Jarmila PTÁCKOVÁ (sinologist and tibetologist), Andréa STANISLAV (artist and educator), and James M. STEVKO (actor and dancer).
Andréa Stanislav, Alex De Large, glitter, vinyl and resin on board, 96” x 144” x 3”
WE ARE HAVING THE TIME OF OUR LIVES - Works form the Brook Smith Collection brings together with works by Jeppe Hein, OluOguibe, Letitia Quesnberry, Thaniel Ion Lee, Andréa Stanislav and SUPERFLEX.
RHOS 10th Anniversary Sculpture Garden features a curated group exhibition of artists who's studios and galleries reside in Red Hook. The exhibition includes works by Ian Callender, Dave Cortes, Sarah Crofts, Tom Fruin, Kaputar, Tom Kotik, Lobbin Liu, Anastasios Poneros, Pavel Radetzki, Raphaele Shirley, Andréa Stanislav, Ian Swordy, and is curated by Andréa Stanislav.
The exhibition occupies the Erie Basin Park in celebration of the Red Hook Open Studios 10th Anniversary, October 11-12, 2025. There will be several site-specific interactive performances scheduled on October 11. The Erie Basin Park will transform into a visually engaging pathway connecting the east and west sides of Red Hook through sculpture, installations, and performances.
The park features landscaped green lawns, plantings, a winding greenway walking and biking path with remarkable views along the waterfront. The sculptures, installations, and performances included in the exhibition respond to the unique industrial site, history, landscape and vistas. The exhibition is on view Oct 11-Nov 9, and is free and open to the public.
Andréa Stanislav, Starfall, 2025, 1/4-mile-long interactive public pathway mural, where the public is invited to write a wish inside of the stars with colored chalk (compliments of IKEA Brooklyn), Erie Basin Park, Brooklyn, NY, as part of the RHOS 10th Anniversary Sculpture Garden Exhibition.
Opening June 8th, 2024, and running through September 2024
Andrea Stanislav, Cosmist Reconstructions - Memories of Earth, solo exhibition TMORA
PRE-SALE Surmatants Mars Rising LP /Booklet
Designed by William Magdziarz
The Surmatants - Mars Rising LP/catalogue booklet includes 1 translucent red vinyl LP, with music for the installation by Jesse Gelaznik. A three page color gate-fold jacket with a 12 page color catalog booklet with exhibition essay by Charlotta Kotik, and her interviews with Andréa Stanislav, Jesse Gelaznik and Zeljko Jergan. Also included is the digital download of music, catalog booklet, and video including an installation walk-through, three channel full length video composite, and video interview with Andréa Stanislav and Jesse Gelaznik. Pre-order your copy today for the September Release!
Shop online at the Mattress Factory Museum Shop:
https://www.mfshop.org/pre-sale-surmatants-mars-rising-lp-booklet/
Surmatants White and Red T-shirt
Designed by William Magdziarz
Surmatants T-Shirt in White for Factory Installed 2021 artist Andréa Stanislav.
Surmatants – Mars Rising is an elegiacally visceral response to the CV19 pandemic in three acts — informed by Pittsburgh’s Slavic immigrant labour history, and 13th century bubonic plague imagery — through a release of dance. Tenants of Russian Cosmisim and transcendence are evoked through Jesse Gelaznik’s musical compositions, paired with renowned choreographer – Željko Jergan and John Harbist’s dances performed by the Tamburitzans. The installation is structured through a physical ascent, connecting three spaces (the white room, red room, and black room) — crescendoing to three channel circular video projection transmitting a human resurrection on Mars from the future.
https://www.mfshop.org/surmatants-white-t-shirt/
EXHIBITION | VISUAL ART
September 13, 2021 - November 12, 2021
One MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY
This group exhibition unites six artists who creatively address issues of fantasy, spirituality and the human condition in their work.
https://www.brookfieldproperties.com/en/our-approach/events/dreamscapes-exhibition-36.html
Andréa Stanislav Discusses Her Installation "Surmatants - Mars Rising"
Mattress Factory artist-in-residence Andréa Stanislav discusses her new installation, "Surmatants - Mars Rising" with composer & sound designer Jesse Gelaznik - on view through November 14, 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yOILyLkWoQ
Andréa Stanislav Mattress Factory Residency Featured in National Geographic:
https://mattress.org/andrea-stanislav-mattress-factory-residency-featured-in-national-geographic/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/how-museums-are-staying-alive-during-coronvirus
Andréa Stanislav Brings Cosmism to the Bruno David Gallery
Drawing inspiration from the Russian philosophical and cultural movement of Cosmism, Andréa Stanislav has transformed the Bruno David Gallery into haven of art exploring the nature of the universe and humankind's place within it. Both her two dimensional art and her sculptures draw heavily on themes of the space race, animal symbolism, the hope of immortality, and the nature of death. "Cosmist Reconstructions" will be available to the public through January 20, 2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELbMDKtnLFw&t=1s
link to Cosmist Reconstructions
The Future, CYFEST - 11, CYLAND MediaArt Lab, Saint Petersburg, Russia 2/2/18 - 2/11/18
delighted to be the featured artist at the Melissa Morgan Fine Art Group Exhibition, originally on view till March 2017...Melisa Morgan Fine Art, 73040 El Paseo, Palm Desert, CA 92260 760.341.1056 http://melissamorganfineart.com....this exhibition has been extended until June...
lovely interview with Brainard Carey on his program on Yale Radio, click the logo and go listen, please...this is a great site with scads of interviews with folks who do "cultural production" in the visual arts...he does a great interview (not always my forte) and we talked about my ongoing Russian Project, Forget Your Past.
Transposistions II show at the Museum of Non-Conformist Art in St Petersburg, Russia, which just closed, was reviewed in Art Forum. A massive shout out to curator Anastasia Patsey, director of the museum. There was also a very comprehensive catalogue.
