Robert Bielik is a fascinating example of resilient individualism on the Slovak art scene. He was discovering his personal artistic direction at a time when painting was marginalized, surviving on the edges of “high” art and art theory, viewed as an obsolete, inflexible medium that did not merit consideration equal to that of other forms in the art discourse of the time. In addition, choosing at the beginning of his creative life to adopt historical Romanticism as his mode of expression resulted in the natural transfer of the role of “romantic outsider” from Bielik’s chosen medium to himself, or rather, to several different, externally perceived artistic personae.
Visual inspirations evidently come first from the very core of his personality, where religious and philosophical motifs intertwine, then from allusions to historical topics and finally from personal fascinations and frustrations. This artist’s paintings literally absorb viewers through a nerve-wracking baroque pathos, illuminating the eternal vanity of human existence, and then - returning them to their current reality via a tiny, little detail (the modern clothing of the characters, a box of cigarettes, or an airplane on the horizon), however, perhaps, to a reality maybe just slightly different from the one they have previously known.
1963 Born in Levice and Lives in Bratislava
1978 - 1982 SŠUP Bratislava, prof. Juraj Gavuľa
1987 – 1993 VŠVU Bratislava, doc. Gabriela Balažovičová, prof. Rudolf Sikora
1994 - 2014 Worked as a pedagogue at Univerzite Konštantína filozofa in Nitra
solo exhibitions
2018 Bellart Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2017 Galéria Mesta Levoča, Slovakia
2016 Art Glass Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2015 Galéria Miloša Alexandra Bazovského, Trenčín, Slovakia
2015 Galéria Bratislavského hradu, Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 Galéria u anjela, Kežmarok, Slovakia
2014 Schemnitz gallery, Banská Stiavnica, Slovakia
2014 Ampithia mawata monastery, Kandy, Sri Lanka
2013 Galéria LINEA, Bratislava, Slovakia
2013 Gradska galerija Kragujevac, Serbia
2013 Gradska galerija Užice, Serbia
2012 Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Bratislava, Slovakia
2011 Galéria 19, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009 Galéria Byzant, Bratislava, Slovakia
2008 Galéria Soga, Bratislava, Slovakia
2007 Galéria Bonjour, Bratislava, Slovakia
2006 Galéria CI Holding, Bratislava, Slovakia
2005 Galéria Palisády (SŠUP), Bratislava, Slovakia
2004 Galéria Akcent, Nitra, Slovakia
2003 3x Painting, Residence of the Permenent Representative the Slovak Republic to the United Nations, New York, USA
2002 Instytut Slowacki, Varšava, Poland
2001 Galéria Siemens, Bratislava, Slovakia
1999 Galéria Nova, Bratislava, Slovakia
1998 Monk school, Gelukpa Tibetian monastery, Likkir, India
1997 Nitrianska štátna galéria, Nitra, Slovakia
1997 Burmeese monastery, Bodhgaya, India
1996 Galéria Tatra Soft, Bratislava, Slovakia
1995 Galéria Gerulata, Bratislava, Slovakia
group exhibitions
2017 Príbehy o smrti, Nitrianska galéria, Slovakia
2016 Galéria Schemnitz, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia
2015 Zoya Muzeum, Pezinok, Slovakia
2014 Dve krajiny, Slovenská národná galéria, Bratislava, Slovakia
2013 Pekná maľba, Pisztoryho palác, Bratislava, Slovakia
2013 Zbierka manželov Sovčíkovcov, Roman Fecik galery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2013 - Hranice tela, Galéria Cypriána Majerníka, Bratislava, Slovakia
2012 Galéria Zajezdnenia Instytut Sztuk Pieknych, Lublin, Poland
2011 Inter view II., Nitrianska galéria, Slovakia
2011 3(a)LOG, Galéria Kragujevac Univerzity, Užice, Serbia
2011 Galerie zámku Linhartovy, Czech Republic
2011 Lovu zdar, Nitrianska galéria, Slovakia
2010 Maľba po maľbe, Slovenská národná galéria, Slovakia
2010 Očami /ne/viditeľné, Dom umenia, Slovakia
2010 Mladá slovenská maľba, Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Slovakia
2010 Svetlo v umení. Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Slovakia
2009 Tolerance in Art, Meulensteen Art Museum Danubiana, Čuňovo, Slovakia
2009 Čo máme nové, Nitrianska galéria, Nitra, Slovakia
2009 Olejomaľba, Galéria Cypriána Majerníka, Bratislava, Slovakia
2008 Olejomaľba, Mestská galéria Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia
2006 Prievan, Galerie Hlavního města Praha, Czech Republic
2006 View, Slovak contemporary painters, Galéria Zoja, Bratislava, Slovakia
2006 Prievan, Žilinská galéria, Žilina, Slovakia
2006 Prievan, Galéria P. M. Bohúňa, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia
2006 Autopoesis, Slovenská národná galéria, Bratislava, Slovakia
2005 Prievan, Súčasná slovenská maľba, Štátna galéria Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
2005 Všetko najlepšie, Nitrianska galéria, Slovakia
2003 Nové miesta, Kaštieľ Mojmírovce, Slovakia
2001 Fenomén ilúzie (z cyklu výstav trans KUNSTHALLE), Východoslovenská galéria Košice, Slovakia
2000 Stratený raj, Slovenský inštitút, Praha, Czech Republic
2000 Indivisual, Záhorská galéria Senica, Slovakia
1999 Stratený raj, Slovenská národná galéria, Bratislava, Slovakia
1998 Residence of the United Nations, New York, USA
1998 Embassy of the Slovak Republic, Washington, USA
1998 Galerie Ĺ Art, Montreal, Canada
1998 Contemporary Slovak art, International Fund Society, Washington, USA
1997 Materia Prima, UBS, Bratislava, Slovakia
1995 L Art Slovaque a montparnasse, Galerie a Montparnasse, Paris, France
1993 Trophées Coleur, Paris, France
1992 Stadthalle Merzig, Germany
publications
Akoby niekto nahlas mlčal, (Petrus, 2012)
Zanzibar, (Petrus, 2011)
Sansilia, (Petrus, 2006)
Vlčí ruženec, (Petrus, 2002)
Gompa – kláštorný denník, (Petrus, 2000)
Mesačný brat, (Petrus, 1999)
Mandragora, (Slovenský spisovateľ, 1997)
Prenášanie grálu, (NŠG, 1996)
Ukrižuj sa, (Vydavateľstvo SSS, 1995)
Rehoľa márnomyseľných bratov, (Smena, 1992)
Splny na inom nebi, (Slovenský spisovateľ, 1991)