I am a Bohemian artistic researcher, cultural professional, photographer and curator by heart based in beloved Europe. Inspired by my inner and outer journeys within this area, born in and grown up in the communist and early post communist country I focus on taking visual notes as a constant exploration of our perceptions. These journeys lead me to work with memory, illusion of identity, our common European roots, to discover forgotten local stories, human past, present and future connections. I keep exploring the relationship between human and both physical and mental space, searching for a functioning match of contemporary photography, manipulated archive and site-specific explorations.
I also like to experiment with objects and sounds found in pleinair. To understand life it is essential to me getting known sea environment, as that is the space where life has its origin. We dived nine months before being born. I'm fascinated by the elements of nature as well as the elements of the body and mind.
Through visual notes I reflect my perception of ordinary moments and situations on the way, people or landscapes I pass by. My work is never finished, never closed. It's in the constant state of development. It is all autobiographical, as whatever I see is also me.
Master degree in Arts (MgA.) | Graduated at the Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian University in Opava. Programme: Film, Television and Photographic Art and New Media.
Theoretical Diploma | Photography with Unseen Faces II
Practical Diploma | Life Comes from the Sea (Identity is overestimated)
Erasmus + | Wanås Konst Center for Art and Learning, Sweden | Post Graduation Work Residency (forthcoming in June - August 2025) based on the connection with Ms. Marika Wachtmeister, the Founder of Open Art Museum at Wanås Slott, Sweden.
The Award of a grant for Culture Moves Europe* | Exhibition Project, Curating, Artistic Research (November / December 2024, in cooperation with the British artist living in Mallorca Tom Price).
*Creative Europe Program for supporting artists and cultural professionals
Erasmus+ | CCA Andratx Contemporary Art Centre in Mallorca, Balearic Islands | Work Residency focused on Curating and Art Management (September 2023 - February 2024). Proved by final Certificate and informal Evidence Document for Czech colleagues and the photography Snapshot Diary presentation for University Open Door Day 2024.
I work as a cultural professional, international projects curator (cultural, art and geo-political topics) and a photographer.
It has been an honor to have cooperated with Dr DESMOND MORRIS, B.Sc, D.Phil, Hon.D.Sc., FZS, FLS, from whom I treasure the Recommendation.
PHOTOILLUSTRATA is my personal artistic research platform to gather activities and gained knowledge for further development.
Selected exhibitions:
ELVIRA SUREDA - IN MEMORIAM | Artdemossa Feria del Arte, 25 September 2022, curating the group exhibition of local photographers, and the sculptress Catalina Sureda
HOLD ON TO YOUR DREAMS #1 | my name is simon and lil peep is my inner friend
2021 EXHIBITION 30+, 30 Years of the Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian University in Opava. House of Art and the Church of St. Wenceslas, 3 September - 24 October, 2021
2021 OPAVA GIRLS / OPAVA WOMEN, OFF Festival Bratislava, Open Gallery, Slovakia, 5 - 30 November, 2021
Madam Zelinářka / Madame Greengrocer
2019 FOTOATELIÉR MIKULOV 2019 | Česká 4 / Czech 4, Kino Mikulov, 11 - 31 October, 2019 (+ videoslide | photo: zuzana malina cernohousova, music: Rickey Washington)
Publications:
Photography with Unseen Faces II | Diploma Work MgA. 2024
HOLD ON TO YOUR DREAMS #2 | Muž ______Skála ~ Moře_______Žena
Catalogue 30+. 30 Years of the Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian University in Opava. 396 pages in Czech and English.
SON MOSSENYA | past and FUTURE *Some families don't have a future (dummy, 2022)
My BHARAT Mata | subjective documentary diary 2003 (dummy, 2022)
Previous Art and Work Residencies:
April, 2019 Miró Mallorca | Graphic Workshops - Art Residency with Sylvain Konyali i Cédric le Corf,
participating as a documenting photographer.
"La fotografa txeca realitza durant el mes d’abril un reportatge fotografic als exteriors de la Fundacio i més extensament als tallers d’obra grafica relacionat amb el procés de treball dels artistes de la Casa Velázquez Sylvain Konyali i Cédric le Corf."
March, 2021 Mallorca | Island Creative 2021 #01 | Covid IMPACT on the ISLAND.
May, 2021 Mallorca | Island Creative 2021 #02 | LIVING at SEASIDE and relations to SUSTAINABILITY (1, 2)