ARTIST PROFILE

Brigita Zrustova

  • Czech Republic (b. 1985 in Litomysl)
  • Currently in Paris, France.
  • I express myself through intermedia artwork. I work with video, an installation, a performance, but I also work with musicians, dancers and other artists.

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ARTIST INFO

ARTIST STATEMENT

Sum up the main character of your work, your long-term interests and themes.

I express myself through intermedia artwork. I work with video, an installation, a performance, but I also work with musicians, dancers and other artists. The decisive factor for the final form of my work is the space and the audience. The space is perceived in a scenographic sense together with costumes. The spectator is the main vibration medium which receives and transfers emotions. In my work there is a stage of meditation, getting out of the beaten track. It is a constant search to connect various fields of art such as music, video, an installation, literature, a costume, movement etc. The aim is to provoke emotions in a spectator, which they do not necessarily have to understand. From minimalist performances, where I usually play a role of strangers, doing common tasks such as tidying up, cleaning, selling things or eating and reading to artistic collaboration with many musicians and other artists, which develops my work. My work is based on personal experiences and deals with a question of being, identity, social inequalities, physicality, motherhood, social roles, family, traditions, values, manipulation, spiritualism where the human body plays the main and pivotal role.

Describe the context of your work – what are your inspirational sources and theoretical starting points, which artists and tendencies do you consider as referential to your work.

I am an intermedia artist coming from the Czech land and this will always be valid in my work. I do not perceive this as a limitation but as potency. The motivation for my work are then questions of identity, being and multicultural world. There are references to the Czech literature in my work, especially to that of Karel Čapek and Ladislav Klíma, and also to folk art and customs of various countries. I am interested in the works of some Viennese actionalists, Carolee Shneemann, Joseph Beuys, Angelin Preljocaj, Mony Hatoum, Carsten Nicolai, Bill Viola, Miguel Chevalier, and the painter Mark Tobey et Josef Váchal... In music for example experimental concerts of the composer Kryštof Mařatka. I am also inspired by contemporary theatre and dancing, works such as Daria Deflorian et Antonio Tagliarini, cccdanse. But I can not omit my interest in biology, functioning of the human body and the universe.

Try to characterize what makes your work specific, wherein lies its force, what makes it different from the work of artists with similar approaches and themes.

What makes my work specific is firstly my motivation to create and secondly the research and also the aspiration to evoke specific emotions in a spectator. It is a personal experience which is the strong foundation element of my work. Finding ways to connect different media and explore ways we can work with musicians, dancers, models is what moves my work in a given and perhaps an unmistakable direction. It is about shifting the boundaries of stereotypical roles where the musician is often perceived only as a static, nearly invisible figure which accompanies the storyline, the dancer dances and is silent and the model just exists. In my work I try to find more possibilities for cooperation with the above mentioned artists where the spectator´s experience is not left aside.

What is your work process like? Do you deal with preparation and research? How do you search for your themes? How do you choose the media you work in?

It all depends on a specific project, either I work with a topic that is already given or I deal with issues which are crucial in my life such as human existence, question of identity or social problems. For my work then I search for information in the field of biology, physics or chemistry, for example. I always work with a specific space, where I think about it, I must feel it, that is why I constantly vary my projects. I also consider the audience, I ask myself a question who they are and what I want to evoke in them. Very often I want the observer to stop, being pulled out of everyday life, I want to evoke curiosity and emotions in them and not only the positive ones. Furthermore, they are visions and sketches that determine the final form of my work. As an intermedial artist I can naturally express myself through video, an installation, a performance and I can deal with costumes, stage design, music and movement at the same time.

What is your vision for the future? How do you want to develop your work and continue your previous projects/realizations? What is your long-term goal/dream?

My goal is to continue the performance and video-installation, searching how far a performance can get without going beyond the theatrical performance line. Further, it is the development of research with musicians, dancers and other artists. For my work I would really appreciate a disposition of various spaces of big sizes where I could realize my projects. I would like to evoke even bigger interest in the Czech culture not only at a European but also at an international level.





















BIOGRAPHY

EXHBITIONS

2019

  • L’EXPO young artists, Nuit Blanche 2019, gallery l'Expo, Paris 14, France

  • performance, fashion show "PRAGUE–PARIS–NEW YORK MEN Summer 2020" – Impasse de la Défense, Czech Centre, Paris 6

  • performance "Identity", Czech Centre, Paris 6

2018

  • performance "To the absurd" presented of the artistic manifestation of NUIT BLANCHE, Paris 2

  • performance "The View" presented on the occasion of the artistic event "Les portes ouvertes des ateliers d'artistes de Montreuil", France

  • performance "20th March Morena", Bar 96, Paris 20

2017

  • performance "Four Czech Elements", Paris 20

  • installation "Complicated dialogue", Montreuil, France

  • personal exhibition "The Body", Maison Lounès Matoub, Montreuil, France

2016

  • Video-installation and performance "The Nest", Bar 96, Paris 20

2015

  • collective exhibition "C'est l’intention", gallery Simple, Paris 18

  • performance, video "The DoggyCat", Bar 96, Paris 20

2014

  • collective exhibition, gallery Simple, Paris 18

  • collective exhibition, video "Welcome to Your World", Cabaret Populaire, Paris 20

2013

  • collective exhibition, "Multimediální večer Mosaica", Nový Jičín, Czech Republic

2012

  • collective exhibition Best of Czech Graphics 2011 "Graphic creation of the year 2011", the graphics "The Pragmatic Mother", Clam-Gallas Palace, Prague

  • personal exhibition "Kruhové pasti těl", Ostrava, Czech Republic

  • performance "How will you forgive me", Hlubina Mine, Ostrava, Czech Republic

  • collective exhibition "Free Exhibition Graphics", Dream Factory Ostrava, Theatre festival, Hlubina Mine

  • collective exhibition "Diplomky", Multifunctional Auditorium Gong, Vitkovice, Czech Republic

  • collective exhibition for Jan Balabán, "Kanáři v dole", Ostrava, Czech Republic

2011

  • collective exhibition, "Multimedia evening 6B", Saint-Denis, France

  • performance "Clothes Make The Human – The Human of Rags", DrinkART, Casta Club Liberec, Czech Republic

  • collective exhibition, Kunstausstellung ROBUR II, Zittau, Allemagne

  • exhibition Study.art projet "Free move without border", Liberec, Czech Republic

  • performance "Female scale", Gallery Blue cat, Brno, Czech Republic

2010

  • fashion show of fashion collection of "Dance of Life"

  • performance "Options dialog: I am I and you in me.", PKO Lidové sady, Liberec

  • collective exhibition in City library Liberec by company Gründerakademie, Study.art project "Free move without border"

2009

  • Designblok´09 Fashion show, Prague, presentation of existing activities at Textile studio of fashion design – Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic

  • workshop and exhibition, international competition of graphic creation, Zittau, Germany

  • collective exhibition in International academical institute Zittau by company Gründerakademie, Study.art project "Free move without border"

  • collective exhibition multimédia, ASP Lodz, Poland; presentation of own show peaces from studio: Fashion creation, Painting, Multimedia, Photography, Drawing, Textile printing

2008

  • NO 08 Fashion show, fashion collection "The Ash", ranking in category recycling – garment design by company Ekodomov, Holešovice, Prague, Czech Republic

  • collective exhibition of show peaces at "Innovation of embroidery; Stickstich 2008", Plauen, Germany by company Schaustickerei

  • collective exhibition of Textile and fashion design studio "Arthad", HAD Club Liberec, Czech Republic

  • fashion show "Beauty Art – Be Able To Be With Beauty", castle Sychrov, Czech Republic

2006-2009

  • collective exhibition by design institute of Techn.Uni of Liberec, Exhibition area Harcov M, Liberec and Gallery, Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic

ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES AND PUBLICATIONS

2019

  • prizewinner "L’EXPO to young artists", artistic residency Gallery L’EXPO

  • production for stylist Karim Bonnet – Impasse de la Défense, Czech Centre Paris 6

2018

  • AWARDS & GRANTS NUIT BLANCHE OFF
    the 2nd Paris district town hall, eva-albarran.com, Paris, France

  • workshop of theatre – body and communication, Compagnie cosmopolite du Pierrot lunaire of Sound, Sylvaine Hinglais, Paris, France

2017

  • "Social and linguistic theatre, Le regard du loup" of Ghislaine Beaudout, participation and creation of costumes, Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil, France

2016

  • join création of the linguistic theatre workshop, "Le regard du loup" of Ghislaine Beaudout Maison Lounès Matoub, Montreuil, France

  • Social and linguistic theatre, participation and création of costumes, Théâtre Municipal Berthelot, Montreuil, France

  • video for the dancer Sophie Blet, Paris

2013-2016

  • video for Mouvement contemporain, Paris 19

2015

  • "Social and linguistic theatre, Le regard du loup" of Ghislaine Beaudout, participation and création of costumes, Maison Lounès Matoub, Montreuil, France

2011-2012

  • installation for sculptor Vladimír Skoda
    – Incandescences, La Cohue – Musée des beaux-arts, Vannes, France
    – Parallèles dans l’espace-temps, gallery Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
    – Négatif – positif, AP atelier, Ing.Arch. Josef Pleskot, Prague, Czech Republic

2011

  • Style and Kabo 2011 - promotional video for Libor Komosný, Brno, Czech Republic

  • illustrations for the poetry of Matěj Antoš, "Protimluv - Culture revue 1 / 2011"

2010

  • finalist of Best of Czech Graphics 2010 "Graphic creation of the year 2010", the graphics "Landscape", Clam-Gallasův palác, Prague

2009

  • international artistic residency, study.art 2009, Mountains Jizerka, Czech Republic

EDUCATION

2010 – 2012

  • Master of Fine Arts, Faculty of Arts Ostrava, Czech Republic

2009

  • The Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland

    Faculty of Garments and Fabrics
    Atelier: Photography - adj IIst Marek Guz
    Fabrics Printing - prof.Krystyna Czajkowska
    Garment Design - prof. Barbara Hanuszkiewicz, ad. M. Czudak

    Faculty of Graphics and Painting
    Atelier: Painting - Piotr Stachlewski, prof. nadzw
    Drawing - Zdzisław Olejniczak, prof. nadzw
    Poster Building - prof. Mariusz Łukawski
    Multimedia - Konrad Kuzyszyn, prof. nadzw.

2007 – 2010

  • Technical University of Liberec, Educational–psychological competency, State Examination, Bachelor

2006 – 2010

  • Technical University of Liberec, Faculty of Textile, Textile and fashion design, State Examination, Bachelor

2013 – 2017

  • workshop assistant of the photographer/video maker Yann Bohac, Paris, France

2013 -2015

  • workshop assistant of the designer Karim Bonnet, Paris, France

2012

  • workshop assistant of the artist Didier Courbot, Paris, France

2011 – 2012

  • work intership, sculpture studio of Vladimír Škoda, Paris, France

2010

  • class of stenography DAMU, Prague, Czech Republic

  • workshop - Sound, body, image, University of Ostrava, Faculty of Arts

2009

  • workshop of New Media, Lodz, Poland


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