Lucie Jindrák Skřivánková

She studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. In her work, she combines traditional craft techniques with new media and an emphasis on the haptic quality of materials. Color, texture, and light become tools for spatial thinking and emotional resonance in her works.

Her work has been presented in gallery contexts in Germany, South Korea, Sweden, and Brazil, and has gained recognition not only on the domestic scene, but also in international exhibitions and collaborations with Czech Centers in London, Rome, Milan, and São Paulo. She won the Elle Decoration International Design Awards (2021) for her original tapestry.

In addition to her independent work, she also collaborates on interdisciplinary projects, such as the M.P.K.J.V.L.J.S. collective, which combines original design, ceramics, and light objects. These works have been included in the offerings of prestigious galleries such as Rossana Orlandi in Milan and Philia Gallery in New York.

In her current work, she develops an artistic language that combines the roughness of building materials with the delicacy of glass and the softness of textiles. The paintings are created using the dripping technique, flowing over the edges of the frames like a liquid body that gives up its form. She transforms materials such as paste plaster or cast glass into three-dimensional objects that give the impression that they are about to collapse at any moment. These “balancing objects” draw inspiration from the principles of Zen gardens—places of calm and inner concentration—but in Lucia’s interpretation, this balance is dramatically shifted. Her objects are on the edge: both physically and semantically. Visually, they evoke a fall, a collapse, but also a lingering in a delicate moment of balance, made possible only by the fragile cooperation of contrasting materials.

Relief, structure, and layering play a significant role in her work – a collage of plaster and glass, whose contrasting nature emphasizes the tension between heavy and light, rough and fragile. The resulting compositions often have the character of murals or spatial paintings that extend painting beyond its traditional boundaries. Through her installations, Skřivánková creates spatial situations in which the viewer witnesses a moment that seems to be on the verge of a turning point – between movement and stillness, between collapse and resistance.

In her current exhibition, Skřivánková combines dripping paintings with objects made from a mixture of plaster and glass, whose form is based on traditional meditation stones – however, their arrangement gives the impression that they are about to lose their balance. The works evoke a state of tension, fragile existence, and inner instability—a moment when the body and mind oscillate on the brink of collapse, but at the same time find their strength and authenticity in this very instability. Through her material, Skřivánková thus opens up themes of the inner landscape, sensitivity, and bodily experience—a world that is not firmly anchored, but is deeply human precisely because of this.