Katarína Hládeková

Katarína Hládeková (1984) studied at the Faculty of Arts of the Technical University in Košice, Slovakia (Rudolf Sikora) between 2003 and 2008, and earned her Master’s degree in painting at Petr Kvíčala’s studio at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Brno University of Technology. Her characteristic means of expression is the “architectural model” which she explores from the viewpoints of personal memory and, more generally, at the conceptual level of possible meanings of “model expressions”. As part of the Biennale of Young Art ZVON 2010, she organized an “exhibition within an exhibition” when she set up miniature galleries for each artist designed specifically to fit their creations. At a joint exhibition with Filip Smetana, entitled CMYK, at Brno’s Young Gallery (also in 2010), the artists created a “model” of painting principles on the gallery floor consisting of four layers of paint (corresponding to the principle of the subtractive colour mixing known as CMYK used in reproductive technology for pigment mixing). They poured the individual layers onto the floor covered with tar paper and cut out the shapes of stains to create their intersection in a four-colour pattern. In 2011, she was invited to participate in Skúter III Young Art Biennale at the Ján Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, Slovakia where she presented partial results of her long-term project focused on subjective anthropological survey of her relation to a significant site of her life, the Slovak village of Partyzánska Lubča, in the form of an archive re-integrated into the objects freely developing the typology of the “architectural model”. In 2011, she joined the artistic group Grau kklktv.

www.katarinahladekova.com
katarina.hladekova@gmail.com

Mikulov Art Symposium 2011

July 16th - Agust 13th, 2011

• Theoretician of the Year
• Photostory
• Catalogue (pdf)