Alžběta Bačíková (*1988) is an artist based in Prague.
She focuses on the medium of the moving image and works primarily with video installation. In the past years, Bačíková has dealt with reflection of documentary tendencies in contemporary art both in her theoretical research and her artistic practice. She has made a series of video-portraits of real or fictional figures. In 2018 she finished her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno.
She was a resident at Art in General in New York (2019), Artist-in-Residence Programme at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna (2018) and the finalist of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award (2018).
Between the years 2017–2020 she worked as a curator of the Etc. Gallery in Prague. Currently she works as the head of an online platform Artycok.TV.
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She focuses on the medium of the moving image and works primarily with video installation. In the past years, Bačíková has dealt with reflection of documentary tendencies in contemporary art both in her theoretical research and her artistic practice. She has made a series of video-portraits of real or fictional figures. In 2018 she finished her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno.
She was a resident at Art in General in New York (2019), Artist-in-Residence Programme at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna (2018) and the finalist of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award (2018).
Between the years 2017–2020 she worked as a curator of the Etc. Gallery in Prague. Currently she works as the head of an online platform Artycok.TV.
More about Alžběta Bačíková's work:
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Selected solo exhibitions
2021/11 Shine Your Light on Me - Nevan Contempo - Prague
2019/09 Our Space - Liberec Regional Gallery - Liberec
2018/04 Silent Report - Ústí nad Labem House of Arts - Ústí nad Labem
2017/09 Bent Tiles - Young Artists’ Gallery - Brno
2017/07 Running Report - Entrance Gallery - Prague
2017/03 Heroes - Jelení Gallery - Prague
2016/05 House - with Barbora Švehláková - TIC Gallery - Brno
2016/03 Open Call - together with Lucie Rosenfeldová and Martina Smutná - UM Gallery - Prague
2016/02 Doctors - Etc. Gallery - Prague
2015/03 Moral Compromise - Luxfer Gallery - Česká Skalice
2015/01 Carpe Diem - collaboration with Martina Smutná - Fait Gallery Preview - Brno
Selected group exhibitions
2021/10 Allied Kyiv Biennial 2021 - Visual Culture Research Center a East Europe Biennial Alliance, The House of Cinema - Kyiv
2020/07 Biennale Matter of Art - Prague City Gallery, Municipial Library of Prague - Prague
2020/10 Hotel Beethoven: A World Theatre - BOZAR - Brussels
2020/10 Fotograf Festival 2020: Uneven Ground - Karlín Studios and Garage Gallery - Prague
2020/09 Brave New Normal - Cursor Gallery - Prague
2018/11 Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2018 - Trade Fair Palace - National Gallery Prague - Prague
2018/05 V4 Art Connects: Structures / Illusions / Interactions - Budavári Mikve - Budapest
2017/09 Ripple Effect - Futura - Prague
2017/06 Fibres, skeins, fabrics - Vysočina Regional Gallery - Jihlava
2016/10 Against Nature: Young Czech Art Scene - National Gallery in Prague - Prague
2016/10 Language - Hraničář Gallery - Ústí nad Labem
2016/09 The Offense of Things - Emil Filla Gallery - Ústí and Labem
2015/05 7th Zlín Youth Salon - Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín - Zlín
2015/04 The Production of Too Many Useful Things Results in Too Many Useless People - Stúdió Galéria - Budapest
2014/09 Startpoint: Prize for Emerging Artists 2014 - DOX - Prague
Screenings
2022 Bent Tiles - Fab-rageous Grrlz Come Out of the Vapors - D’EST - Berlin
2021 Lavish Issue - International Short Film Festival Oberhausen - International Competition - Oberhausen
2021 Bent Tiles - My Significant Other - D’EST and Etc. Gallery, Ponrepo Cinema - Prague
2021 Lavish Issue - Waste/d Film - Temporary Academy of Arts, State of Concept - Athens
2021 DJ - Videoex - International Competition - Zurich
2021 Lavish Issue - PAF, Other Visions CZ 2021 - Olomouc
2020 Correspondence - NEMAF, Seoul International ALT Cinema & New Media Festival - Seoul
2017 Fading Relationship - Meetings Video & Performance Festival - Denmark
Residencies
2019 Artist residency at the Art in General in New York
2018 Artist-in-Residence - MQ Air 2018 - MuseumsQuartier in Vienna
2018 INI Project Prague (together with Lucie Rosenfeldová)
2017 research internship at the Video Archive of the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, supported by FFA BUT
2017 Artist residency at the Egon Shiele Art Centrum in Český Krumlov
Awards
2018 Jindřich Chalupecký Award - Audience Award / Czech Centers Award
2014 Startpoint: Prize for Emerging Artist 2014 - finalist
2014 Rector’s Prize of Brno University of Technologies