Kateřina Šedá

Kateřina Šedá

Kateřina Šedá (born December 12, 1977 in Brno ) is a Czech artist who makes use of conceptual and social art .

life and work

Kateřina Šedá graduated from 1999 to 2005 at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Vladimír Kokolia . In 2005 she won the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize for Czech artists under 35 years of age. Kateřina Šedá is married to the filmmaker Vít Klusák . She lives and works in Prague and Brno.

In There is Nothing There , Šedá thematized the feeling of backwardness and emptiness in post-socialist villages far from cities like Prague. Since there is nothing is a typical Czech saying about places in the province. In Ponětovice , a village of about three hundred inhabitants south of Brno, Šedá convinced the villagers that their seemingly futile activities would gain new meaning if they were synchronized and performed in the context of a work of art. Šedá designed a daily schedule for all of Ponětovice, which should correspond to the statistical mean of the village: at 07:00 the residents should go shopping and spend exactly ten kroner. At 09:00 they should open the windows, sweep at 10:00 and ride their bikes at 10:30. At exactly 12:00 noon there should be dumplings with tomato sauce, etc. On a Saturday in May 2003 the village carried out the project. In Artforum the work referred to the uncertain middle between coercion and freedom, in which Šedá's works are often found.

For her work Je to jedno = It doesn't matter , Kateřina Šedá regularly interviewed her grandmother Jana Šedá (1930–2007) from 2005 onwards, who after 33 years working in a household goods store as a widowed pensioner became more and more inactive and depressed . The title of the work ( Czech Je to jedno , it doesn't matter) was Jana Šedá's answer to almost every question or request directed at her. Kateřina Šedá got her grandmother to make more than six hundred drawings of products that she had sold in the household goods store. The drawings are made with black felt-tip pen, each sheet is labeled with the name of the object in Czech. The Artforum reviewer of the Je to jedno exhibition in Chicago located the work in the uncertain border area of art therapy , art brut and family chronicle and awarded Šedá the causal authorship for the work for her - albeit manipulative - impetus for the production and preservation of the drawings, even if she hadn't touched a single felt-tip pen.

The work For Every Dog a Different Master , shown for the first time at documenta 12 in 2007 , was created together with the residents of Brno-Líšeň (Brünn / Lösch), a typical Eastern European prefabricated housing estate from the time of state socialism, in which Kateřina Šedá grew up. In 2002 the new building blocks there were repainted, which contained graphic patterns. Otherwise nothing has been modernized or renovated. Šedá put these patterns together and used them to print a fabric and sew a thousand shirts. She then formed pairs of households that lived in the prefabricated housing estate and sent each of the two households one of the shirts, embroidered with the address of the other household. The action should strengthen the sense of community in a symbolic and humorous way and establish identification with the place of residence.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2014: Kateřina Šedá / The Right side is on the left , Chatou (France).
• 2011: Kateřina Šedá / The soup is eaten , Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, September 11, 2011 to June 3, 2012 on the occasion of the Follow Fluxus scholarship.
• 2008: Katerina Seda: It doesn't matter , Renaissance Society , Chicago.
• 2007: Katerina Šedá: For every Dog a different Master , Galerie im Taxispalais , Innsbruck.
• 2006: Arrivals: Czech Republic - Katerina Seda , Modern Art Oxford . The work There is Nothing There was shown .

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 2009: The Generational: Younger Than Jesus , New Museum , New York.
• 2008: When things cast no shadow , 5th Berlin Biennale . Her work Over and Over was shown in the art works .
• 2007: documenta 12 , Kassel. The work For Every Dog A Different Master was shown .
• 2006: Speaking of Others, tranzit , Frankfurter Kunstverein , Frankfurt am Main.
• 2006: Gray Zones , Gallery for Contemporary Art , Leipzig.
• 2005: Prague Biennale 2, Prague.

literature

• Christy Lange: Katerina Šedá . In: frieze , no.107 from May 2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Kateřina Šedá in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature and other media by and about Kateřina Šedá in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
• Kateřina Šedá on kunstaspekte.de
• Materials by and about Kateřina Šedá in the documenta archive
• Katerina Šedá at the Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Turin.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official homepage  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Kateřina Šedá on the website of the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze, AVU)  
2. ↑ Katerina Seda: winner Jindřich Chalupecký Award, 2005 ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the art foundation. 
3. ^ Irena Hejdová: Kateřina Šedá: Ráda všechny vyzvu. Zkuste si to! . In: kultura.aktualne.cz of November 23, 2008.
4. ↑ Diana Kosslerova: Czechs rediscover village charms . In: BBC of May 1, 2006.
5. ↑ Martin Herbert: Katerina Seda ( Memento from July 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) . In: ArtForum, November 2008.
6. ↑ James Yood: Katerina Seda: Renaissance Society ( Memento from July 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) . In: Artforum , April 2008.
7. ^ The right side is on the left. Center national édition art image, accessed May 6, 2014.
8. ↑ Katerina Seda ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Renaissance Society, Chicago, January 6 - February 10, 2008. Reviewed in Artforum, April 2008.
9. ↑ Katerina Šedá: For every Dog a different Master , Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, from November 24, 2007 to January 20, 2008. Catalog published by JRP Ringier, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-905829-66-2 .
10. ↑ Arrivals: Czech Republic - Katerina Seda ( Memento from June 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) , Modern Art Oxford, from March 7, 2006 to April 30, 2006.
11. ↑ The Generational: Younger Than Jesus ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , New Museum, New York, April 8 to June 14, 2009. Curated by Lauren Cornell, Massimiliano Gioni, and Laura Hoptman. Catalog published by Phaidon, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-7148-4983-6 .
12. ↑ Over and Over at the 5th Berlin Biennale from April 5 to June 15, 2008. Catalog published by JRP Ringier, Zurich 2008, ISBN 3-905829-58-4 .
13. ↑ documenta 12 ( Memento of the original of July 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Kassel, from June 16 to September 23, 2007.
14. ↑ Speaking of Others, tranzit ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, from December 13, 2006 to March 4, 2007.
15. ↑ Gray Zones ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, from May 20 to August 13, 2006. Curated by Michal Kolecek. Catalog by Ilina Koralova (ed.): Against within . Publisher Forum Stadtpark Graz, Graz 2006, ISBN 3-901109-17-X