During the festival weekend, Františkánske Square will come alive with visual art in real time. Artists will create original works live, right before the eyes of visitors. You’ll have the chance to see how new paintings, drawings, and illustrations come to life, experience the creative process up close, and talk with the artists.
The following creators will take part in the Live Painting:
Peter Csányi
I graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Bratislava, majoring in graphic design, and later continued at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, where I earned an Mgr. art. degree. During my studies, I began focusing on digital painting, especially illustration, and later also comics. My work explores themes ranging from sci-fi and fantasy to humor and everyday subjects. What matters most is always having something to create 🙂 I currently work as a digital illustrator, comic artist, and animator.
Petra Lukovicsová
Petra is a Slovak freelance illustrator. With her other foot, she stands in a classroom at an art school (ZUŠ), where she teaches the youngest children. She is best known as an illustrator, primarily of children’s books and magazines. She works both analog and digitally, and enjoys combining and alternating between these techniques. Her first illustrated book, Cesta na svet, was published 10 years ago, and since then she has illustrated nearly 20 books for various age groups. In addition, she also creates personal work, where in recent years she has grown fond of spray techniques. Until April 2027, you can see her work, for example, at the Nitra Gallery in an exhibition titled Story.
IG: petralukovics
Kateřina Morgenstein
I focus on illustration and graphic design – the fusion of these two disciplines is characteristic of my work. I enjoy exploring different forms of illustration, from personal and editorial to commercial and socially engaged projects. In recent years, I have exhibited at the LUSTR9 festival, Bratislava Design Week, TOTO is Gallery, and Deniska Gallery.
IG: kat.carp, website
Rudá Sova
Mirka Rudášová is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Printmaking, Studio of Illustration and Book Design. During her studies, she spent a semester on an internship in Spain. After graduating, she participated in an artist residency in Japan, bringing back many sources of inspiration. She currently works as a teacher at the School of Applied Arts and is involved in various projects, creating publication, editorial, and product illustrations. In her private collections, she keeps hundreds of valuable papers and scraps waiting to be used in collage. Collage is her favorite artistic medium, as it combines printmaking, painting, drawing, and image design. Under the name Rudá Sova, she often draws inspiration from nature, animals, and the inner world of humans. Alongside analog work, she also engages in digital graphics, sometimes combining the two.
Michal Ivan
Michal Ivan is a freelance conceptual artist and art director working in the entertainment industry. His clients include Climax Studios, Paizo Publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, and Radical Comics. He creates stunning character art in fantasy and sci-fi, as well as illustrations for video games, publications, and animation.
Artstation, IG: michal.ivan
Dávid Soboň
He graduated from the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Bratislava and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Visual Communication. He is a creative amphibian, both an illustrator and a graphic designer. In his work, he effortlessly covers all areas of illustration, whether commercial, book, editorial, or game illustration. Illustration is simply his life, and he approaches it with a distinctive passion. In his free time, David enjoys reading reportage literature, browsing through his collection of picture books, sipping tea, or coming up with ideas for a new book he could create.
IG: david_sobon_illustration , david.sobon.drawings
