Ivana Svobodova

Art! A word that in our times can mean almost anything! For some time it means a solemn veneration of the archaic. That's exactly why many of our present colleagues don't paint "paintings," which they may occasionally exhibit and even sometimes sell - but instead they prepare "projects" or put on "action". In today's fast-paced, media-driven world they are afraid to produce mere "art". The very word "art" seems to mean something that cannot be undertaken for a living - cannot be business. But it's neither a fight for something or with something, in the sense that you will redress anything. We devote ourselves to art; we cultivate it in an attempt to fulfill our interior vision. It become part of our life; a compulsion. That's an error. For those who learn how to live with it, it's a long-term process, and if not udertaken faithfull, the result is painful. Those who do, we call "artists".

In the development of art, people who knowsomething about art, or don't know anything about art, have tried to convince us there have been no qualitative changes during the entire course of human civilization. But don't be mistaken! The work of ancient Egyptian, Gothic, and Renesance masters, with their human fervor, and devotion, were more mod...

1978 graduated from the Academy Fine Arts in Prague

Separate exhibitions:
1989 Art Gallery, Vandergeten, Belgie
1991 Galerie Centrum, Praha
1992 Art Emporis, Klagenfurt, Rakousko
Galerie Centrum, Praha
1993 Galerie Centrum, Praha
1994 Karolinum, (s K. Sládkem a L. Klusáčkem)
1995 Galerie Bad Camberg, Německo
1997 Creditanstaltbank, Praha
1999 Černá labuť,Praha
2000 Galerie Pyramida,Praha
Galerie Fryderik (s M. Krajíčkem), Mariánské Lázně
2002 Galerie B, Prastějov
2004 Raiffeisenbank, Praha
2005 Hotel Biskupský dvůr, Praha
2006 Galerie Koruna, Hradec Králové
2007 Klinické centrum ISCARE, Lighthouse Praha
2008 Hotel Pauliny, Praha
Foundation ABF, Praha
2009 Černá labuť, Praha
2010 Galerie Knížecí dům, Moravský Krumlov (with J. Modráčkem)
2012 Foundation ABF, Praha
Galerie Černa Labuť, Praha
2013 Hotel Kempinski, Praha
2014 Galerie NA HRADĚ LFKU, Hradec Králové
2017 Galerie Chodovská tvrz, Prague

Colective exhibitions:
1985 17. international festival of painting, Cannes-sur-Mer
III. international Triennial of young drawings, Norimberk, Linz
1986 Cirkus a varieté ve výtvarném umění, Galerie V. Kramáře, Praha
Výstava pražských...