My studies went through the University of Economics in Prague, followed by working experience in several corporations with a short attempt at freelance business, to Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. I studied at the printmaking studio of professor Vladimír Kokolia, in the studio of hosting professors Muda Matthis and Paulina Olowská. My earlier and no less defining mentors were Wim Drion (Dutch painter and art teacher residing in Paros, Greece) and Patricia Cordoba (Mexican printmaker based in Florence). I am currently starting my doctoral (PhD.) studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague with the working title Dream of a Family - Encrypting Relationships.
For a long time, I've been learning to inhabit places where I don't belong (first as a career woman in the automotive industry, later as a mother of three in the academy, recently as a parent invisible in the art world). "The cultivation of the relationship between visibility and invisibility is perhaps one of the characteristics of how humanity is formed, how human self-relation and relationship to others are constituted." (Alice Koubová, Thinking from the Second Place). I perceive not belonging somewhere, inappropriateness, resistance and immunity as my long-term topics and collective issues, which I reflect in my practice.
I create situations where recycling, performance, and imprinting serve as methods for making elusive experiences and emotions—or their fragments—visible. These situations often trace themes of motherhood, needs, resilience, and the invisible imprints of relational patterns—embedded in materials, echoing back into our bodies. The outcomes may take shape as records that blur the boundaries between drawing, guided meditation, and conversation. I deconstruct the concept of contact, exploring its shifting forms to reveal the messages we pass between us.
Much of my work is based on collaboration. Creating opportunities to meet in one-to-one projects and in groups, which I perceive as living organisms rather than formal collectives and purpose cooperations. They help to better reveal the limits of communication, the pressure of the unknown, relational possibilities and the potential of visual language. Within, we develop survival strategies and explore how to get in touch with others by practicing signal transfer and other (visual-based) exercises.
I develop emancipatory formats. The personal mini-gallery OKNO (WINDOW) on the facade of our house in Přímá Street in Prague is a window into personal space. Since 2019 I have been part of the Transfer Collective exploring a distant experience transfer. I co-create a group whose symptom is impossibility and/or inappropriateness, which we face by developing and sharing specific sensitivities. Over the long term, we demonstrate the ability to invent a functional system of reciprocity and readiness to act and develop subtle survival strategies. In doing so, we thematize the circumstances and pressures we face (alone/together).
With my individual and collective work I look for opportunities to enter both gallery and non-gallery spaces. It can be Studio Alta, Display gallery, Prague Biennale, Pragovka, Desfour palace, Scout Institute, X10 Theater, corners in offline and online environments.