ARTIST STATEMENT

In her projects Daniela Baráčková deals with specific problems from her surroundings ranging from personal themes, to family matters, to universal and timeless questions. Her energetic gestures disarm with their sincerity. Conciseness of expression is an effective manifestation of personal engagedness, a bold proclamation of resoluteness and responsibility of the individual to herself, her loved ones and the world. Despite all concreteness of expression, her thematic cycles of paintings, her video performances and long-term projects possess a high degrese of abstraction.

Text from the catalog The Beginning of the Century – Czech Art in the First Decade of the 21. Century, Pavlína Morganová (ed.), 2012

Work of Daniela Baráčková is carefully thought through and yet spontaneous. Her pictures feature naive, even surreal morphologies. Her videos are moving tableaux, reconstructions of internal memory, while her models and installations enter into a dialogue with the viewer. Her work is a compact, sometimes almost hermetically sealed whole that, nevertheless, evokes a series of personal associations through its honesty.

She regards all of her exhibitions as a compact work, from the surface of the walls to the internal structure of the installations. One work offers a key to reading its other parts, and vice versa. In Baráčková’s hands, situations involving the retelling of a personally experienced story and the ensuing new reality are constructional elements of a work that is layered visually and in terms of content.

Markéta Magidová, shortened, 2009

Daniela Baráčková ve svých projektech řeší konkrétní problémy ze svého okolí v rozpětí od osobních témat, rodinných záležitostí až po obecné a nadčasové otázky. Její energická gesta odzbrojují svojí upřímností. Lapidárnost vyjádření je účinným prostředkem manifestace osobní angažovanosti, nebojácným provoláním pevnosti a zodpovědnosti jedince sama k sobě, svým blízkým i světu. Přes veškerou konkrétnost vyjádření obsahují její malířské cykly, video performance a dlouhodobé projekty vysokou míru abstrakce.

Text z katalogu Začátek století – České umění prvního desetiletí 21. století, Pavlína Morganová (ed.), 2012

Tvorba Daniely Baráčkové je promyšlená, ale přesto spontánní. Ve svých obrazech pracuje s naivním a v některých případech až surrealistickým tvaroslovím. Její videa jsou pohyblivými výjevy, rekonstrukcí vnitřní paměti, modely a instalace se stávají dialogem s divákem. Její dílo je kompaktním, někdy až hermetickým celkem, který ale svoji upřímností a otevřeností dokáže vyvolat řetězec vlastních osobních asociací. 

Všechny své výstavy pojímá jako celistvé dílo, od povrchu stěn až po vnitřní strukturu instalace, jedna práce podává klíč ke čtení k další části, a naopak. Situace jako převyprávění osobně viděného příběhu a nová realita s jejím rukopisem jsou výstavbovými složkami obsahově i vizuálně vrstevnatého díla.

Markéta Magidová, zkráceno, 2009

BIOGRAPHY

• Born 1981 in Boskovice, Czech Republic.
• Lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic.

STUDIES

• 2005 - 2009
  Academy of Arts Architecture and Design in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, MgA. in Studio of Intermedial confronting (Jiří David)
• 2007
  Willem de Kooning Academy, Hogeschool Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Study Internship in Fine Art
• 2007
  Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, Study Internship in The school of Painting II (Vladimír Skrepl)
• 2000 - 2005
  Masarykova´s univerzity in Brno, College of Education, Brno, Czech Republic, Mgr. in Artistic Education-Visual Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015

• The evil spirit began to smoke through the wall, Entrance Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2014

• The Fear of Chain Saw, Luxfer Gallery, Česká Skalice, Czech Republic.
• Pičus, 207 Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2013

• Death, Czech smallness and Contemporary museums, Jindrich Chalupecky Award Final, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2012

• Sóstrast (collaboraion with M. Kubačáková, Š. Telecká), GAVU, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Black Hill (collaboraion with P. Herotová), Blansko Gallery, Blansko, Czech Republic.
• Last space for a man - curator´s project (collaboraion with P. Gajdošíková, P. Herotová), Karlin Studios, Prague, Czech Republic.

2010

• Pome Žilina (collaboration with P. Herotová) , Stanica Gallery, Žilina, Slovakia.
• Leave the finger to the devil, but not the ring! (collaboration with V. Vlková), Pavilon Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
• The Church! (collaboration with V. Vlková), Pavilon Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Na ulici 74, Jelení Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2009

• I´m afraid of castle guard , Sýpka Gallery, Valašské Meziříčí, Czech Republic.
• Černá Hora, Young Artist´s Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.

2008

• To create a swing from a tire with a rock devil, Karlin Studios, Prague, Czech Republic.
• 400 g flour,... (collaboration with P. Herotová), Šternberk Gallery, Šternberk, Czech Republic.

2007

• I wanted to paint 40 Jews praying before the flight departure, NoD Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2006

• Urgent (collaboration with P. Herotová), Altán Klamovka, Prague, Czech Republic.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015

• Videocamp, Altán Klamovka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
• OFF Biennale, OFF Biennale, Budapest, Hungary.
• Village is World, Oblastní galerie Vysočiny v Jihlavě, Jihava, Czech Republic.
• The exhibition where it would be a shame not to attend, Kvalitář Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2014

• Nemusí to být žert, Rampa Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic.
• Walking, Running, Dancing, Grasping, Fetching or Carrying..., NoD Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Recursion 1.618, The Regional Art Gallery in Liberec, Liberec, Czech Republic.
• Art for Amnesty, Era World, Prague, Czech Republic.
• The Circular Ruins, French Institut, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Recursion 1.618, Brewery Bohemia Regent Gallery, Třeboň, Czech Republic.
• The Beginning of the Century, The Ostrava House of Arts, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
• Who Is The Director?, 4 Days in Motion, Prague, Czech Republic.

2013

• Socks from Grandma, 4 Days in Motion, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Feeling are Facts, Czech Centre, Bratislava, Slovakia.
• Videocamp, Břevnov park, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Pictorial supplement, NoD Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2012

• Artists in the Pictures, PAF, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
• Maloval hlavolam, NoD Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Motion on Place, Kokpit Café, Prague, Czech Republic.
• The Beginning of the Century in Public Space, The Square of the Republic, Plzeň, Czech Republic.
• The Beginning of the Century, The Gallery of West Bohemia, Plzeň, Czech Republic.

2011

• ...To perceive in the darkness of to present... , Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic.
• You´ll know better when you are older, Black line Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.
• Intimacy and Spectacle, Praque Quadriennale, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Miluji tě, ale už mi neříkej, že mám velkou hlavu, AVU Gallery,, Prague, Czech Republic.
• How to Begin from the Beginning (Fail Again, Fail Better),, Futura Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
• B movie, 4 Days in Motion, Prague, Czech Republic.

2010

• Počátkem může být nula, 4 Days in Motion, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Z(I)LIN(A) Space, Považská Gallery of Art in Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia.
• Videocamp, GASK, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic.
• Z(I)LIN(A) Space, Gallery of Art in Zlín, Zlín, Czech Republic.
• White paper, Entrance Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
• I Like America and America Likes Me, Napa Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Thin Red Line, Ars Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.
• Action Z, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic.
• Gaspar of the Night, Futura Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2009

• Traces and Records, 8 th Funke´s Kolín photography festival, Kolín, Czech Republic.
• Double Blind, Aula Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.
• Place and Formula, Gask Artfest, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic.
• Prize of Art Critics 2009 for Expanded Painting, Gallery of Critics, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Volf and Lamb, Konzum Gallery, Brandýs nad Orlicí, Czech Republic.
• Volf and Lamb, Gallery of Critics, Prague, Czech Republic.
• V. Young Artist´s salon, House of Arts, Zlín, Czech Republic.
• Multiplace festival, Multiplace festival, Brno, Czech Republic.

2008

• Standbye, Aula Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.
• Prize of Art Critics 2008 for Expanded Painting , Gallery of Critics, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Rec Mode 01, Open Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia.
• Rec Mode 01, Gallery Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy.
• Ctihodná periferie, lavie Gallery, Náchod, Czech Republic.
• Other Vision, Animated Film Festival, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
• IN/visible festival, U Mloka Gallery, Olomouc, Czech Republic.

2007

• Invisible things, Trafo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
• Place for Project, VŠUP Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Videocamp, Třebešice Castle, Třebešice, Czech Republic.
• Simple Living, The Contemporary Art Gallery of the Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania.
• Videomix. Caleidoscop, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain.
• Friendly Film 2, Audiovisual, Světozor Cinema, Prague, Czech Republic.
• HDP 2, M’ars Gallery, Moscow, Russian Federation.
• Friendly Film, 42. International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
• Glocal outsiders, Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Punctum, Futura Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.

2006

• Indication, 4 Days in Motion, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Purpose, AVU Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Videocamp, Altán Klamovka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Sommerspiele, Nábřeží Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
• M´ars field Moscow, M´ars Gallery, Moscow, Russian Federation.
• 1st Petersburg Biennale, Aart Club Platforma, Petersburg, Russian Federation.
• Věcné stavy, Karlin Studios, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Girls, Café Prague – Umělec London, London, United Kingdom.

2005

• Sell me buy me, AVU Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
• There are no animals beoynd this point, Malostranská beseda, Prague, Czech Republic.