BIO 

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I’m a Czech-born artist, currently working In Los Angeles. In 2020 I finished my studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in the printmaking department.

My artistic practice revolves around modelling scenarios of an indeterminate future, a delicate balance between utopia and dystopia. In my work, enigmatic landscapes, peculiar creatures, and post-human elements coalesce, representing a world where utopia and dystopia coexist as parallel states, intertwined in perpetual tension.

I explore the struggle between idealised natural worlds and harsh realities, including an expanding urban lifestyle and environmental threats.

This inner conflict gives rise to stories where nature is celebrated and worshiped, yet imbued with unsettling melancholy.

My approach is influenced by Darwin‘s theories of continuous adaptation and transformation, serving as a metaphor for life‘s unceasing change.

This exploration raises fundamental questions about the potential solace, salvation, or redemption that ideology or spirituality might offer amidst

life‘s constant fluctuations.

I depict humans as tribes of few leftovers, fighting their vulnerable structures to fit into the newly arranged world. 

Crawling around, lost in the landscapes, they search for updated versions of belief systems and experience curious encounters with unfamiliar substances. I blend a variety of open panoramas and mix them with cultural elements, including melting pots, traditions, religions, rituals, and myths, resulting in what I call „futuristic folklore.“ This fusion initiates a potential dialogue, fostering understanding between the environment and humanity.

 

Secondary Education

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2014 - 2020:  University of Applied Arts Vienna - graphics and printmaking

                       (Winter semster 2017/2018: Visitor student residency in Peru, Lima - Pontificia universidad católica del Peru, Faculty of fine Arts)

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2011 - 2014: University of West Bohemia, Ladislav Sutnar - Faculty of design and art

                       (Winter semester 2012 - 2013: Erasmus residency in Spain, Cuenca – Universidad de Castilla La Mancha,   Faculty  of Fine Arts)

                       

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Exhibitions

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06/2024: Subterranea, LA Beast Gallery, 831 Cyperss Ave. (Los Angeles, CA 90065)

06/2024: Molting, Hasbrook Gallery, 949 Venice Blvd. (Los Angeles, CA 90015)

01/2024: Intergalactic, Shock Box Gallery, 636 Cyperss Ave. (Loa Angeles, CA 90254)

31.10. 2023 - 15.02.2024: TOUCH NATURE, Austrian Cultural Forum on Art and Ecology curated by Sabine Fellner  (Prague, CZ)​

10/2023: Fair For Art Vienna, Galerie Rudolf Leeb, (Vienna, AT)

08/2023: Group show at Schloss Weispach, Galerie Rudolf Leeb, (Salzburg, AT)

08/2023: Private Mythologies - Our fabulous Friends, Gallery twenty-six (Schwertgasse 4, 1010, Wien, AT)

05/2023: Parallel Editions 2023, Galerie Rudolf Leeb, (Wein, AT)

05/2023: Tschak Boom, group show at MOA Wien (Allerheiligenplatz 15, Wien AT)

01/2023: Off Course - in Wide, Solo show, Gallery twenty-six (Schwertgasse 4, 1010, Wien, AT)

09/2022: Heads or Tales- Duo show with 3sechzig, Favoritenstrasse 137,  (Wien,AT)

09/2022: Vienna Anthropology Days / International Conference, (Wien,AT)

09/2022: Parallel Vienna, Galerie Rudolf Leeb, (Wien, AT)

06/2022: Body & Nature, Galerie Rudolf Leeb, (Wien, AT)

05/2022: Parallel Editions 2022, Galerie Rudolf Leeb, (Wien, AT)

05/2022: R& Art Walk, Das Rund / creative Film Production, (Wien, AT)

08/2021: Internationale Grafik Triennale Frechen, (Frechen, D)

05/2021: Parallel Vienna Editions/21, (Wien, AT) - Galerie Rudolf Leeb

03/2021: Traume und Offenbarungen, (Wien, AT) - Urban Art Gallery / AG18

10/2020: Melting Plot, (Wien, AT) - solo exhibition - Gallery Rudolf Leeb Project Space

05/2019.: If you only..., (Wien, AT) - Bildungsministerium

03/2019: Realities, (Wien, AT) - ORF Funkhaus

03/2019: Laser game, (Prague, CZ) - solo exhibition - Tonkin

02/2019: Love for the streets, (Wien, AT) - Gallery Kaeshmaesh

10/2018: Yajé, (Prague, CZ) - solo exhibition of oil paintings, Café URX

12/2017: Exposicion anual de arte, (Lima, PE) - oil painting - The jungle La Tierra

10/2017: La Tierra, Group show at La Guerrera, (Lima, PE)

06/2017: Essense - cats, heaven and no sun, (Wien, AT)

06/2016: Essense - Einmal zusammen, (Wien, AT)

05/2016: Graphics Biennale, (Belgrade, RS)

04/2016: Stuck in decoration, (Wien, AT) - solo exhibition of oilpaintings

09/2015: ARTWALK (Groß-Siegharts, AT)

06/2015: Something in between (Wien, AT)

06/2014: Seclusion Exhibition (Pilsen,CZ) - illustrated book - Popol Vuh

03/2014: The difference - Galery Ve Stredu (Pilsen,CZ) - Mexican market

01/2014: Seclusion Exhibition (Pilsen,CZ) - Illustrated book - Mexican market

05/2013: Aquarium (Pilsen,CZ) - installation

06/2013: Seclusion Exhibition (Pilsen, CZ) - Illustrated book - E. A. Poe

01/2013: Fuera de mi mente (Cuenca, Spain)

06/2012: Seclusion Exhibition (Pilsen, CZ) - Puppet theatre

01/2012: Seclusion Exhibition (Pilsen, CZ) – Fall and Winter

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