1969 born in Opava, Czech Republic
studied Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design /AAAD/ in Prague. Being originally sculptor she works in different media,she prefers conceptual line of creation – photography, instalation, performance, art research. Her researches are focused on visual presentation of human relationships and on relation between art, human /specially women´s/ sexual experience and pornography. She received Ph.D. for art research on pornographic magazine for women. Since 2010 she became a head of Studio of Body design at Faculty of Fine Art at Brno University of technology. Her favorite academical and artistic topic is now human nudity as very natural state of body on one side and very political gesture on the other side. Recently her book Naked Situations – a guide through the main naked moments in contemporary society and catalogue of her works with nudity – was published. She is running The Festival of naked forms in Prague– experimental platform for testing understanding of nudity in performance art and in Humanities.
Studies:
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
2007 – external teacher at Faculty of Fine Arts Brno University of Technology
2010 – head of Studio of Body Desing at FFA BUT
2014 – doc. acquired
Links:
GATE art zone’12: performance Lenka Klodová | collage Andrea Isa | 2019
photos: Angelika Fojtuch