Born in 1977, Petra Feriancova completed, after seven years in Italy, her post-graduate study of visual arts in London, made several trips to the Middle East, and returned to Bratislava where she – we might say by a strange coincidence – opened the Bastart Gallery. Located beneath her apartment, its owner – a wealthy citizen – is willing to cover not only the running costs that arise from having a gallery on his premises, but also part of the costs of producing the works themselves. Petra Feriancova has staged several exhibitions in such cities as Bratislava, Prague, Rome and London.