> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Oľga Paštéková: Paintings where nature speaks back - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/olga-pastekova-paintings-where-nature-speaks-back/ - Published: 2025-09-09T10:00:01.000Z - Updated: 2025-09-09T10:00:04.000Z - Description: Slovak painter Oľga Paštéková turns stains, bleaches, and ghosted lines into wolves, rivers, and lantern-houses, lyrical eco-paintings from Bratislava & Vienna. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Featured ## Oľga Paštéková: A Lyrical Eco-Poetics [**Oľga Paštéková**](http://www.olique.sk/?ref=catapult-platform.art)(b. 1984, Slovakia) builds an artistic language where rivers, wolves, and spectral figures act less as motifs than as co-authors. > “I don’t paint landscapes; I paint conversations nature keeps having without us. Based between Bratislava and Vienna, she studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (VŠVU) and later at the **Akademie der bildenden Künste** in Vienna under **Daniel Richter.** ![olga pastekova with friends, from dusk till dawn 2023 acrylic airbrush on canvas, artist portrait exhibition view](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--artist.webp) ****Olga Paštéková**: With her friends, Paštéková stands beside **From Dusk Till Dawn* (220 × 123 cm, acrylic–airbrush on canvas, 2023). The work embodies her spectral figuration, where atmosphere bleeds into body and pigment behaves like weather, a portrait of both art and community. **Photo: Andreas Schlichtner. Image courtesy of the artist.* Her practice spans paintings, large works on paper, and textile-based installations, often infused with ecological urgency and melancholic tenderness. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--work-on-paper-1.webp) ****Olga Paštéková**: View of the exhibition „The World in Between“, 2022 @[lapi\_darium](https://www.instagram.com/lapi%5Fdarium/?ref=catapult-platform.art). Curator: Radek Wohlmuth @[radek\_wohlmuth](https://www.instagram.com/radek%5Fwohlmuth/?ref=catapult-platform.art). Photo Martin Maslo**. Image courtesy the artist* ![olga pastekova, textile house installation, stained fabric contemporary art, exhibition the world in between](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--textile-installation.webp) ****Olga Paštéková** *: Fragile Balance*, mixed media on wood, 180 × 240 cm, 2020–2021 (detail). Paštéková layers spectral traces into raw materiality, conjuring fragile shelters between myth and ecology. „The World in Between“, 2022 @[lapi\_darium](https://www.instagram.com/lapi%5Fdarium/?ref=catapult-platform.art). Curator: Radek Wohlmuth @[radek\_wohlmuth](https://www.instagram.com/radek%5Fwohlmuth/?ref=catapult-platform.art) *.*Photo Martin Maslo**. Image courtesy the artist* With projects such as [***Whispering Waters* (Art Quarter Budapest residency)**](https://aqb.hu/exhibition/whispering-waters/?ref=catapult-platform.art) and her upcoming intervention at [**Parallel Vienna**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/parallel-vienna/), Paštéková positions herself as a voice in contemporary eco-poetics: attentive, fearless, and quietly radical. ![olga pastekova, rotkäppchen, mixed media on wood, wolf painting](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--abstract-art.webp) ![olga pastekova, rotkäppchen, mixed media on wood, wolf painting](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--installation.webp) ****Olga Paštéková** *: Rotkäppchen*, mixed media on wood, 70 × 50 cm, 2014\. A lone wolf figure leans into being, scratched and stained into presence, both fragile outline and haunting shadow. ****(right)** “Rotkäppchen,” mixed media on wood, 150 × 100 cm, 2020\. ****Paštéková’s** wolves are not monsters, but spectral citizens painted with raw immediacy and mythic charge. **Photo: Richie Studio. Image courtesy the artist* ![olga pastekova, whispering waters, abstract animal painting, contemporary art](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--vienna.webp) ****Olga Paštéková** *: Whispering Waters*. Fluid washes of blue and red conjure spectral animals that hover between apparition and pattern, inviting us into Paštéková’s aqueous poetics. @aqb\_budapest. **Photo: Zsuzsi Simon. Image courtesy of the artist.* ## The Stillness That Screams Paštéková’s pictures operate like micro-climates. Pigment is coaxed into fogs, eddies, and sudden clarities. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--poetic-art-.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova-figurative--.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--munchies-art-club.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--drawings.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--textile.webp) ****Oľga Paštéková paints wolves as guardians, ferrymen, and spectral companions — figures that walk between ruin and dream.** Her canvases fold together abandoned cities, rivers at night, and carnival lights, creating worlds where myth clings to the edges of the everyday. These works vibrate between tenderness and unease, asking us to look closer at the fragile kinship we share with all living presences. **Photos: Richie Studio. Image courtesy of the artist.* A wolf’s body is mostly atmosphere, defined by what leaks away; an egret glows in negative, a drawing made by the pressure of light. Her marks, dragged, flooded, scratched, compose a syntax of weather. [Ask Kurt – Get Seen. Get ConnectedStop chasing open calls nobody reads. Ask Kurt is your entry point into the Munchies Art Club network: curated visibility, direct access, and features that last. Free to submit. Selective to feature. This is where artists, collectors, and the art world connect.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine-229.png)Catapult - The New Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/ask-kurt-munchies-art-club-14.jpg)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/ask-kurt-a-curatorial-global-network-project/) Come join us at the Munchies art club! The *Whispering Waters* cycle holds this language closest to the ear: mauve auroras flare over riverine textures, as if sediment itself were a storyteller. ![olga pastekova, night walker i, mixed media on brown paper, wolf drawing](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--figurative-abstract-art.webp) ****Olga Paštéková** *: Night Walker I.*, mixed media on brown paper, 100 × 140 cm, 2005–2006\. A spectral wolf drifts through pools of light, its body half-shadow, half-atmosphere. **Image courtesy of the artist.* Installation pieces, lantern-houses built from stained textiles, extend the paintings into navigable space. ![olga pastekova, red moon, mixed media on wood, hanging panels installation](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--exhibition.webp) ****Olga Paštéková** *: Red Moon*, mixed media on wood, 70 × 200 cm, 2015\. Hanging panels transform the space into a forest of spectral light and shadow. **Photos: Richie Studio. Image courtesy of the artist.* We enter, and the work asks: *What does shelter mean when the planet is breathing hard?* Paštéková answers with careful ferocity: shelter is listening. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--figurative.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--canva.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--munchies-art-club-1.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--abstract-figurative.webp) ****Olga Paštéková** *:* Dog - God - Good, acryl and ink on canvas, 2011\. **Photos: Richie Studio. Image courtesy of the artist.* --- ### Eco-Poetic Themes - River as archive; water as memory - Animal citizens (wolves, ravens, egrets) - Urban peripheries, post-Soviet habitats - Stain/bleach as ecological method - Myth as diagnostic tool, not escape --- ![olga pastekova, in wonderland, mixed media firepainting on wood, wolf and carousel painting](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--ecological-art.webp) ****Olga Paštéková** *: In Wonderland*, mixed media with firepainting on wood, max. 200 × 150 cm, 2019\. A wolf and carousel horse confront each other in a dreamlike arena where play teeters on the edge of menace and myth. **Photo: Richie Studio. Image courtesy of the artist.* ![olga pastekova, wolfsmond installation view volkstheater vienna 2025, red carpet art award](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--abstract.webp) ****Olga Paštéková** *: Wolfsmond*, installation view in the subway at Volkstheater, Vienna, 2025\. A spectral moonlit pack surges through waves of blue, part of the [Red Carpet Award](https://www.redcarpetartaward.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) exhibition (@red.carpet.art.award). **Photo: Richie Studio. Image courtesy of the artist.* --- ### Notable Series / Visual Motifs - **Whispering Waters** – aqueous violets & blues; liquid ghosting - **Sleep Tight, Sunlight** – dawn/nocturne thresholds - **Fabric Houses** – stained textile shelters, lantern-architecture - **Scratched graphite halos**; negative silhouettes; carousel/night-fair scenes --- ![painting to wolves in blue black and white acryl, airbrush on canvas](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--eco-art.webp) ****Olga Paštéková** *:* From Dusk Till Dawn, acryl, airbrush on canvas, 105x78,5 cm, 2023\. **Photo: Richie Studio. Image courtesy of the artist.* ### Paštéková’s Contemporary Context Paštéková stands at the intersection of eco-aesthetics and post-figurative painting. She rejects catastrophe spectacle for **relational poetics**, where materials misbehave productively and images emerge as truces between matter and myth. ![olga pastekova, from dusk till dawn, acrylic airbrush on canvas, installation view 2023](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/09/olga-pastekova--stained-textile-art.webp) ****Olga Paštéková** *:* View of installation „ANIMA-L“, 2023 [@galeria\_jana\_koniarka](https://www.instagram.com/galeria%5Fjana%5Fkoniarka/?ref=catapult-platform.art) curator Vladimír Beskid @[vladbeskid](https://www.instagram.com/vladbeskid/?ref=catapult-platform.art). **Photo Adam Šákový, image courtesy the artist.* --- ### Follow the River Follow **Olga Paštéková** on [**Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/olga.pastekova/?ref=catapult-platform.art) and and explore more on her [**website**](http://www.olique.sk/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaeh8AFxM3S0ys139r9-jNwohTfAarKMO7wsCgxiTmnbihGjoIToTg-SrBmMZA%5Faem%5FzpKNKar%5FXI96AFYYJOAREg&ref=catapult-platform.art). Discover her latest works from the [**aqb Budapest**](https://aqb.hu/exhibition/whispering-waters/?ref=munchiesart.club) residency, and don’t miss her upcoming intervention at [**Parallel Vienna**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/parallel-vienna/). Share this feature, and listen for the animals. [Olique - Oľga Paštéková![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/favicon-23.ico)Oľga PaštékováOlga Pastekova![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/01-20februar-202025.jpg)](http://www.olique.sk/?ref=catapult-platform.art) Explore the world of ****Olga Paštéková** through her website --- ## Related Article: [Parallel Vienna: The Annual alternative Art Fair in AustriaParallel Vienna: will take place at the Otto Wagner Areal, located at Baumgartnerhöhe. 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