Adéla Svobodová appears to face in two directions simultaneously (she studied graphic design at FaVU in Brno, 2001-2005, and also at AVU in Prague, 2002-2008) as is manifested, among other things, by making a theme of the relationship between the conceptual ways of thinking in fine art and graphic design. In her current installation the artist attempts to create, through her artistic work and through citations of graphic design, a space - a temporary platform for open social interaction. Its perception can be continually redefined inside the exhibition's situation. The resulting whole composed of fragments of iconic book pages, covers and text excerpts (their heterogeneous selection being given exclusively by the artist's private preferences), forming abstract "surfaces", may represent a border territory between image, document, discourse, "digression" of meanings and vague nostalgia.
Adéla Svobodová (1978)
Graphic designer and fine artist. Studied graphic design at FAVU in Brno (2001-2005) and between 2002-2008 at AVU in Prague (studios of Michael Bielický and Vladimír Skrepl). Presently working mainly in graphic design and book design. She received The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2010 award and the gold medal in the Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt competition for the book Atlas transformace. A member of the Ládví group. Together with the French designer Pauline Kerleroux she started the Pauline & Adela studio. She lives and works in Prague.
Study visits:
2007
San Francisco Art Institute, USA
2004-2005
Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, DE
Solo exhibitions
2008
Kopni se do hlavy 58krát za minutu, Galerie Entrance, Praha
2007
4=5, galerie 35m2, Praha
2006
O umění, Galerie Jelení, Praha
Group exhibitions
2015
Skrytá řeč rostlin, Národní galerie v Praze, expozice Umění
Asie
2014
Pierre Huyghe, Galerie Drdova, Praha
2011
Sochy v ulicích III, kurátor: Karel Císař, DUMB, Brno
2010
A nezapomeňte na květiny, kurátorka: Yvona Ferencová, MG v
Brně
Ego / Portrét × fotografie, kurátoři: Robert V. Novák a Pavel
Turek, Galerie Langhans, Praha
2009
Bad video, Galerie BKC, Brno
Started, Galerie Klatovy
Flash Art, Prague Biennale, Praha
Psychologie budoucnosti, A.M. 180, Praha
2008
6 soch, Galerie Kressling, Bratislava
Startpoint, Galerie U Bílého jednorožce, Klatovy
Když jsem byl malý, hrál jsem si s holkama, Galerie U Bílého
jednorožce, Klatovy
Současný český kubismus, Galerie hlavního města Prahy,
Staroměstská radnice, Praha
2006
Věcné stavy, Karlin Studios, Praha
2004
1+1 (spolu s Jiřím Thýnem), Galerie Jelení, Praha
Other activities
2011
kurátorka výstavy 12 bodů, Galerie 35m2, Praha