Design and Art Talks: Kateřina Šedá
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Design and Art Talks: Kateřina Šedá
- Lecture and Discussion
- Dialogue
18.00
Kateřina Šedá will introduce her work, methods and recurring themes: community, public space, relationships and the invisible rules of everyday life. The presentation will be followed by a moderated discussion and questions from the audience.
Meet a distinctive figure in contemporary Czech art. How can art affect life beyond the gallery, and what can serve as the “material” for a project?
Kateřina Šedá (1977)
Kateřina Šedá is a Czech artist whose work has close links to social architecture. From 1999 to 2005, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under Professor Vladimír Kokolia.
Her work focuses on socially conceived projects, often involving dozens or hundreds of people with no connection to art. These usually take place directly in villages or city streets. Her experiments with interpersonal relationships aim to help participants break out of ingrained habits or social isolation. By prompting them to take action themselves and finding new uses for everyday resources, she seeks to bring about lasting changes in their behaviour.
She has created numerous socially conceived projects in Czechia and abroad. Invitations to develop individual projects have come not only from major art institutions, including Artpark Buffalo Niagara in the USA (2022–2024), Milton Keynes Art Centre in the UK (2022–2023), Sofia City Art Gallery in Bulgaria (2020–2021), LIAF in Norway (2019), IHME in Helsinki, Finland (2016), SFMOMA in San Francisco (2013–2014) and Tate Modern in London (2011), but also from towns, villages, care homes for older people and many other organisations. She has exhibited at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice (2018), MMOMA in Moscow (2016), the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in Japan (2015), the Venice Biennale (2013), Kunstmuseum Luzern (2012), Mori Museum in Tokyo (2010), New Museum in New York (2009), Manifesta 7 in Bolzano (2008), the 5th Berlin Biennale (2008), the Renaissance Society in Chicago (2008) and Documenta 12 in Kassel (2007).
Her work has received numerous awards, including the City of Brno Award 2025, Architect of the Year 2017 (Czechia), Magnesia Litera for non-fiction (Czechia), TAKU Production Prize (Finland), Most Beautiful Czech Books (Czechia), Contemporary Art Society Award (UK), Jindřich Chalupecký Award (Czechia), Fluxus Award (Germany), Essl Award (Austria) and others. She has published more than thirty books and publications documenting individual projects in detail. She speaks about her work not only in schools, cultural centres and galleries, but also in villages and smaller towns, seeking to reach as broad an audience as possible.
Admission: CZK 180 / students and ages 65+: CZK 100 / supporter ticket: CZK 350
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