Biography
1936 – born on 24 April in Prague (maiden name Vnouīková)
1951 - 1955 – Higher School of Applied Arts Prague (Prof. Václav Šimek)
1956 – 1961 – Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (studio of Prof. Otto Eckerdt, Department of Ceramics and Porcelain)
1961 – 1984 – married to the sculptor Juraj Bartusz
1962 – creation of the first bio-forms and attempts at plaster casting
From 1963 – lived and worked in Košice
1969 – 1970 – participation in exhibition of the Czechoslovak association Concretis´ Club, geometric reliefs
1969 – study trip to Egypt
1970 – study trip to France
1976, 1983 - Sculpture Symposium I-II, Elementary School for the Blind, Levoīa
(cooperation with Gabriel Kladek), haptic plastic works and folded materials
1977 – participation in the international sculptors´ symposium in Vyšné Ružbachy
1980 – study trip to London
1988 – Sculpture works I, 1962-1987, ZSVU exhibition hall in Košice, key individual exhibition
1990 – 40 Czech and Slovak Artists 1960 – 1990, Galerie Défense, Paris
1996 – died on 22 December in Košice
1997 – Hommage `a Maria (dedicated to Maria Bartuszová 1936 – 1996), album of 33 artists, Vojtech Löffler Museum, Košice
2000 – her work represented at the exhibition 20th Century – History of Slovak Visual Arts,Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
Individual
exhibitions:
1967 – exhibition with Juraj Bartusz, Jalta café, Hlavná,Košice
1976 – Sculpture Symposium I, Elementary School for the Blind,Námestie Slobody 3,Levoča
1983 – Sculpture Symposium II, Elementary School for the Blind, Námestie Slobody 3, Levoča
1988 – Sculpture Works I, 1962 – 1987, ZSVU exhibition hall, Hlavná 30, Košice
1988 – Sculpture Works, Kontajner Gallery, Ukrainian National Theatre, Prešov
1997 – Hommage á Maria (dedicated to Maria Bartuszová 1936 – 1996), V.Löffler Museum, Košice
2005 – The Path to Organic Sculpture,retrospective exhibition, SNG, Bratislava
2006 – The Path to Organic Sculpture,ŠG,Banská Bystrica
2006 – The Path to Organic Sculpture, VSG,Košice
2006 – The Path to Organic Sculpture,MG, Rimavská Sobota
2007 – Maria Bartuszova ,CC Centrum, Bratislava
2008 - Negative volumes, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Münich, Germany
2011 - Maria Bartuszová, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle - showroom Martin Creed, Münich, Germany
Collective
exhibitions
(selection):
1966 – Exhibition of the Young, House of Arts of the City of Brno, Brno
1969 – Moderne,und naive Kunst aus der Slowakei, Biberach an der Riss
1969 – Concretists´ Club, Karlovy Vary ; Olomouc; Bratislava
1970 – Exhibition of the Concretist´ Club, House of Arts of the City Brno, Brno
1979 – Contemporary Sculpture Art in Eastern Slovakia Gallery, Košice
1982 – Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries in Eastern Slovakia, Eastern Slovak Gallery, Košice
1982 – Arts Salon ´82, Art Gallery, Prešov
1990 – 40 Artistes Tcheques et Slovaques (1960-1990),Galerie Art Défense, Paris
1991 – Oscillation, Danube Museum,Komárno; Mücsarnok,Budapest, Hungary
1992 – Minisalon, Nová síň Gallery, Prague, ČR
1992 – Grey Brick 35/92, Gallery at the White Unicorn, Klatovy-Klenová, ČR
1992 – Laboratory I – international artistic symposium, Prešov, SR
1993 – Power Station T, Tatran Gallery, Poprad, SR
1995 – The Sixties in Slovak Art, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, SR
1997 – Concretists´ Club after 30 Years, Vysoīina Regional Gallery, Jihlava, ČR
1997 - 60/90, 4th annual exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts,Bratislava, SR
2000 – 20th Century – History of Slovak Visual Arts,Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, SR
2002 – Eastern Slovak Gallery 1952 – 2002 , Eastern Slovak Gallery, Košice, SR
2002 – Slovak Visual Arts 1970 – 1985 , Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, SR
2003 – Exhibition of collection PSIS, VSG, Košice, SR
2005 - Kortars szlovak kepzomuveszet 1960 - 2000 - Ernst Museum Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2006 – Slovak Art 1957-1970, from private collections, GMB, Bratislava, SR
2006 – Retrospective X ,MG, Rimavská Sobota, SR
2006 – Arta Slovaca 1960-2000 - The National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest
2006 - Contemporary Slovak Art 1960-2000 - Varosi Muveszeti Muzeum, Györ
2006 - Contemporary Slovak Art, Ljubljana - Slovenia
2007 – VSG - Poland
2007 – Documenta XII ,Kassel , Germany
2007 – Out of the city. Land art, GMB, Bratislava, SR
2008 - Exhibition of collection PSIS , Dům U Zlatého prstenu,Praha, ČR
2008 - Slovak Picture (Anti-Picture) , from collection of SNG Bratislava, Jízdárna pražského hradu, Praha,ČR
2008 - Cutting Realities Gender Strategies in Art, Curator: Walter Seid, Austrian cultural forum - New York, USA
2008 - Financial crisis ...from our stock - Jirí Svestka Gallery, Prague, ČR
2008 - Kontakt... Works from the Art Collection of Erste Bank Group - Institute of Contemporary Art - Dunaújvàros, Hungary
2009 - Gino De Dominicis - Maria Bartuszová, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
2009 - Out of the city. Land art, Košice, Bratislava, SR
2009 - From plaster to chewing gum - Authors techniques, Nitrianska Galéria, SR
2009 - Gender Check - Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna
2009 - Awkward Objects - Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie / Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
2010 - Maria Bartuszová, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Miriam Cahn - Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, USA
2010 - Les Promesses du Passé, Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Selected realizations in architecture:
1975 – Wall in the meeting room, South Slovak Paper Company, Štúrovo
1982 – Two – piece plastic work, Košice, Crematory
1982 – Wall of an administrative building, VSŽ, Košice
1984 – Courtyard of the Student House, Košice
1986 – Fountain, Dargov departement store, Košice
