Artiste
Vit et travaille à Prague (République Tchèque)

Contact :
klodova(at)centrum.cz


Ses préoccupations :
Being originally sculptor I started to do performing art at the moment when the idea of an artwork asked for my body. I see that there is a group of ideas those are better expressed without the weight of  material. From that moment I felt in love with performing art for its freedom of expression.
In my art I work with the topic of woman´s and family lifes, all kinds of human relatioship, the ways how are these relationships influenced by politic, fashion, tradition… So my way to performing art was very natural.
In my performances I use my body in very raw way. I do not do any special things, no dancing or theatrical specialities. I also like interactions or kind of pseudosociology researches.
Description of some performances:

Travestishow, 2001
Disguised to a man I am breast-feeding my baby. Originally stage perfomance with music, then remade to serie of photos.
Life with handicap, 2001
Long-term performance and serie of photos, realized during art residency at Cimelice castle in 2001. Wearing mermaid´s tail I have spent two week of normal life being a mermaid at terra firma, with all complications and restrictions to recognize how hard and painfull is to be an mystical and fairy-tale idol.
Are you afraid of motherhood?, 2003
Outdoor exhibition „Artists in the Forest“.Passers-by were haunted by woman hiden in the bush. She jumped out from the bush, opened her long overcoat and strechted out her big seventh-month belly.
Action was recorded to video.
Iconoclasm, 2006
Performance in MIFPA, Boston
I did three paintings /Still Life, Icon and Mickey mouse/. On stage I cut away parts of painting and displayed my breasts in the wholes /as apples in Still Life, as head of Christ Baby in Icon and as Mickey´s eyes/
Sorted Waste, 2007
Performance festival Malamut Ostrava
Ecological striptease – i was sorting all my staff to bins /textile, glass, paper, and bio … i pissed there/
Orientation, 2008
Art workshop, Wroclav
Creation of emotional city map.
We with participants went to the city of Wroclav and asked people to mark places in map where they have made love.
Hugs, 2008-…
Between performance and sculpture and marital therapy
I have offered to couples that I could _ást their hug to plaster so it would last for ever. I have realized already three castings.

Quelques dates
née en 1969 à Opava, République Tchèque

Etudes:
1984 - 1987 gymnasium Ostrava
1987 - 1990 pedagogical faculty Ostrava, czech language and art department
1990 - 1997 The Academy of Art, Architecture and Design , Prague,
                                           1990-91 department of design
                                           1991-97 department of sculpture
1992 – scholarship at  Staffordshire Polytechnic, England
1994 – scholarship at  Escola de las Belas Artes, Lisabon, Portugal
2000 – assistant at department of sculpture, AAAD Prague
2002 – 2005  doctor studies at AAAD Prague
2005 -    PhD. acquired
from 2001 – member of social – art group Mothers&Fathers
2007 – art theory teacher at FAVU Brno

Collective exhibitions /selected/:
1994 – Junge Kunstler aus Prag, Kunstmuseum Ehrenhof, Dusseldorf, Germany
1994 – Kvanta 272/14, czech-german artproject, Prague
1995 – Andere Orte, german-czech artproject, Wuppertal, Germany
1997 – Revived Town of Neratovice, Neratovice
1998 – The Studio of Universal Sculpture, Richter´s villa, Prague
1998 – Downstairs in The Bunkr, former rock club, Prague
2000 – Southern Businesses, , Ceské Budejovice, CZ
2001 – My Motherland, AAAD, Prague
2001 - Femme fatale,  Kutna Hora, CZ
2001 – Mothers and Fathers in Action, Universal NoD Prague
2001 - Open house, residency in Cimelice, CZ
2002 – Damn!, AAAD, Prague
2002 – Bell 2002, Bienale of young Art, Prague
2002 – Mothers and Fathers offer, AAAD, Prague
2002 -  Sculptors at Mayrau, symposium finished with lasting instalation in mining museum in Kladno
2002 -  nomination for Jindrich Chalupecky Prize, exhibition of finalists Finale, House of Art, Brno, CZ
2003 -  symposium Wunderland – czech-swedish project in Kiruna /SWE/
2003 -  Valen_né sféry, Palfy Pallais, Bratislava, Slovakia
2003 -  INOUT, festival of digital image, Prague
2003 -  Wunderland II., Ostrava, Coal mine Museum Landek
2003 -  ArtCubicle, gallery Home, Praha
2003 -  Art Actuell, Galerie&Projekte Matias Kampl, Berlin, N_mecko
2003 -  Waiting for event…, Galerie&Projekte Matias Kampl. Berlin
2004 – This month I am menstruating, Gallery Art Factory, Praha, exhibition organised by Gender center
2004 -  KunstLandSchaf/f/t, with art group Matky & Otcove, Factory, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
2004 – Czech-In, Stadtwerkstatt, Linz, Austria
2004 – Eintritt Verboten – symposium, Ostrava CZ
2004 – Pure Beauty, Galerie kritik_, Prague
2005 – Insiders, Galerie Futura, Prague
2005 – IBCA, National Gallery, Prague
2005 – Beauty Free Shop, Prague
2006 – Shadows of Humor, BWA Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
2007 – Wolnosc, Rownosc…Sztuka, Galeria Szara, Czesin, Poland
2007 – Wolnosc, Rownosc…Sztuka, Galeria Szyb Wilson, Katowice, Poland
2007 – Um_ní porodit 2, Veletr_ní palác, Praha
2007 – Demolice, performance festival, Praha
2007 – Malamut, performance festival, Ostrava
2008 – Zlinsk_ salon, Zlin
2008 – Sculpture Quadrennial, Riga, Latvia
2008 – Sexismus. Galerie Václava _pály, Praha