Florentina Pakosta (Vienna (AT), 1933)

Florentina Pakosta was born in Vienna in 1933. After leaving school in 1952, she took lessons in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière on Montparnasse. She received a scholarship and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under Vladimír Silovský and Miroslav Holý and in Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts under Josef Dobrowsky.

Her first solo exhibition took place in 1962 at the Fuchs Gallery in Vienna. This was followed by many other exhibitions. Her art has been exhibited at the Albertina in Vienna, the Bank Austria Kunstforum and the Belvedere, among others. She has also been represented internationally in exhibitions at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, at the Women Artist's International Art Exhibition in New Delhi and at Intergrafik ‘84 in Berlin.

She has been a member of the Vienna Secession since 1971 and was the first woman on the board from 1975 to 1983. In 1978, she organised the exhibition ‘Secessionist Women’, which is an example of her strongly feminist work.

The artist lives and works in Vienna.

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