ARTIST STATEMENT

The motive of a living museum and an artist as an intermediary are my main points of interest and an active spectator or an active image are the aim of my work.

I deal more generally with cultural appropriation, and gradually leaving the historicism and trying to focus on the interpretation of motifs and symbols associated with nature and anthropology. Each work requires another method of output. Everything comes from my research and then takes a place in a specific visual installation or action. I'm interested in a combination of social traits of an image or text with its historical stigmas and the current possibilities of reading these images. Experimentation with multiple forms of media is a part of my work process. The relationship between the “living image“ and its viewer is important for me.  

BIOGRAPHY

*1986, CZ
works in Prague, Czech Republic

education:

2015 - International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, cinema course, Salzburg, studio of Arne Hector and Minze Tummescheit
2009 - 2015 - Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (AVU), studio of Anna Daučíková
2013 - UdK Berlin, studio of Josephine Pryde
2012 - Studio of Guest Professor AVU, Florian Pumhösl
2011 - Studio of Guest Professor AVU, Marcus Geiger
2006 - 2009 - Institute of Art and Design, Pilsen, Michal Pěchouček, Dušan Zahoranský

selected exhibitions:

solo exhibitions:
2016 - White rhino, Gallery 209, Brno
2016 - Carausius morosus, City Gallery Prague, Prague
2014 - Message in the bottle, EIB Art Institute, Luxembourg
2014 - Journey to the Beginning of Time, Gallery Jelení, Prague
2013 - Pavilion, Pavilon Gallery, Prague (curator: Jan Pfeiffer)
2013 - Alekhine vs Capablanca, Gallery 207, AAAD, Prague
2012 - Mechanical Document, gallery TIC, Brno (curator: Martin Mazanec)
2012 - Backsides, gallery 35m2, Prague (curator: Michal Pěchouček)
2011 - You don't want me You just like the attention, Šaloun atelier, Prague
2011 - A skeleton comes to the academy (with R. Štětina, T. Hrůza), GAVU, Prague (curator: Rado Ištok)
2009 - Somebody thinks of you (with R. Štětina), Studio Petrohrad, Pilsen

group exhibitions:

2016 - Independent research of subjectivity, Prague (curator: Pavlína Morganová)
2016 - Dreams that Money Can Buy, Prague (curator: Martin Mazanec)
2015 - Preliminary Sadness, Karlin Studios, Prague (curator: Michal Novotný)
2015 - Subversive Tactics, Czech center, New York (curator: Zbyněk Baladrán)
2015 - The Hidden Language of Plants, Kinský Palace, National gallery, Prague (curators: Lenka Gyaltso, Petra Polláková)
2015 - 7th Zlín Youth Salon, Zlín (curator: Lucie Šmardová)
2014 - Leinemann Foundation Award, Czech Center, Berlin
2014 - Art and Shadow, Czech Centre, Prague (curators: Edith Jeřábková, Dominik Lang)
2013 - Immer noch allein, Karriereseife?, After the Butcher, Berlin
2013 - The Mind is a Muscle, gallery Meet Factory, Prague (curator: Viktor Čech)
2012 - Test Drilling, galerie G99, Brno (curator: Anna Vartecká)
2012 - Intruder, The ticket office in former Eletricity Company, Prague (curator: Florian Pumhösl)
2009 - My cup of tea, GAVU, Prague
2008 - Keep the cult, A.M.180 gallery, Prague
2007 - Just between us, Karlin studios, Prague (curator: Dušan Záhoranský)

other presentations:
2016 - Close-Up cinema, London, UK
2011 - PAF: Video objects, Union Docs, Brooklyn, NYC, USA
2011 - PAF: Animation of Re-edits, Cantina Royal, Brooklyn, NYC, USA

awards, residencies:
2014 - Leinemann Foundation Award finalist
2014 - EIB Artists’ Development Programme residency in Luxembourg

works in collections:
EIB Art Collection
PPF Group’s Photography Collection
Prague City Gallery collection