Lenka Holíková

Cheb, Czech Republic

2024

special guest with Graz Museum and City Archive as well as Cultural Department of City of Graz

 

visual artist, illustrator, university professor

* 1984

master’s degree in plastic arts at Hradec Králové University, graduated 2011

 

In 2008 she did a residency in Cinematography, Denis Diderot University, Paris. In 2023 she was selected to two artistic residences: Cultural residence: Ukraine’s artistic response to the Russian Invasion, Lviv, Ukraine and Ateljé Stundars Residency, Finland. The same year, Lenka was selected within the Program for the Promotion of Cultural Projects and Co-investments: with working group “Limit of what belongs”; National Fund for Culture and Arts; Mexico. In 2021 for 8B Kunstkollektivet Residency, Denmark; in 2020 for Chasen Thajni Residency, Mexico. The same year Lenka was awarded by the Ministry of Culture, Puebla to carry out the project sin sYembra.

In 2023, Lenka gave art workshop in in Norra Korsholms skola with a grant of Korsholms kommun. She has taken seminars and workshops: The machine of aesthetic war in 17, Institute of Critical Studies, Cdmx; Course of tonal drawing (Puebla, Mexico); Engraving workshops in Espacio 14, Erasto Cortés (Puebla) and Tebac (Tlaxcala, Mexico).

Lenka participated in group exhibitions: Graphic popular and contemporary in Espacio 14; Ex-libris in Proyectroom; Versus in UPAEP Museum (Puebla); Forest city, 7 explorations in Centro Cultural, Casa Baltazar (Córdoba); Ixtli Mayahuel in Museo Regional Cholula, 1989 in MPAC MinEastry of Postcollapse Art (Oregon, USA). She held solo exhibitions: In the realm of memory at Galería Garco, After desire at Espacio Anarquista (Puebla); Proyecto Masaryk at Instituto Cultural México-Israel (Cdmx).

In 2023, Lenka is preparing exhibitions: Frontiers, methods of escape in Arte Mare Gallery, Finland (12.9.-3.10.) and Limit of what belongs, curated by Michel Blancsubé, Mexico (November).

She made illustrations of Jiří Orten´s poems, for book Piaca Salgari Milano. Lenka has collaborated with Mexican artist Ulises Matamoros and participates in the project Chasen Thajni community space in the Mixteca Poblana.

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