JANKA SZABAD
b. 1975, Košice, Slovakia — Swiss
Janka Szabad is a Swiss visual artist working across installation, (found) object, photography and painting including encaustics — with wax as her favorite language.
Born in Slovakia, raised in North Africa, shaped by about 15 years in Southeast Asia and now based in Switzerland — her practice is built from change.
She works in layers: wax, pigment, paper, photography — materials that hold memory, resist permanence and eventually give way. Her work is not about preservation. It is about what survives collapse. Across more than a decade of practice, Szabad interrogates surface as threshold — the moment before a structure unmakes itself into something irreversibly new. Wax, her most persistent medium, embodies this: organic, mutable, ancient and stubbornly present.
Material is my language. Change is my signature.
b. 1975, Košice, Slovakia — Swiss
Janka Szabad is a Swiss visual artist working across installation, (found) object, photography and painting including encaustics — with wax as her favorite language.
Born in Slovakia, raised in North Africa, shaped by about 15 years in Southeast Asia and now based in Switzerland — her practice is built from change.
She works in layers: wax, pigment, paper, photography — materials that hold memory, resist permanence and eventually give way. Her work is not about preservation. It is about what survives collapse. Across more than a decade of practice, Szabad interrogates surface as threshold — the moment before a structure unmakes itself into something irreversibly new. Wax, her most persistent medium, embodies this: organic, mutable, ancient and stubbornly present.
Material is my language. Change is my signature.