Untitled, 2021 - 2023
acrylic paint, cotton and cotton threads, beads, coins, stocking, laminated paper, and other material on bedsheet
235 x 140 cm
Denisa Lehocká
Denisa Lehocká developed a "poetics of conciseness" in her work, which seems as light as it is ephemeral and deals with the manifold and opaque relationships between objects and subjects, between the real and the imaginary.
Despite the haptic appearance and playfulness of her objects, drawings, paintings, and sculptures, her works are bound to an analytical principle and hold a balance between abstraction and narrative. Lehocká's object constellations are the sediment of a tedious artistic production process, which begins initially with a concrete method of relating to the object and then proceeds to work away from it by exploring the infinite combinability of graphic elements. With these anthropomorphic bodies, she develops spatial sculptural installations (“spatial collages,” as she calls them), with special attention to the way they inhabit the given space. Her works are levitating materializations of the so-called immaterial and representations of deep subjectivity and the ephemeral.
Denisa Lehocká (1971*, lives and works in Bratislava)
Her works are in collections such as Erste Bank Group Collection, Vienna, Austria; EVN Collection, Vienna, Austria; Sammlung Friedrichshof, Vienna, Austria; European Investment Bank, Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Fiorucci Art Trust, Monaco, Monaco and London, UK; Societé Generale, Paris, France; The Daniel and Florence Guerlain Collection, Les Mesnuls, France; Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Biography
Born 1971 in Trenčin, lives and works in Bratislava, SK
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Lehocká for National Gallery, Tatra banka Donation for SNG Collections, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
POINT, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2021
untitled, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava
2021
2021, Collective, Bratislava, Bratislava
2018
Futura, Prague
2016
Luno 550, Fait galerie, Brno
Gandy Gallery, Bratislava
2015
Dite, Dům Umění, České Budějovice
2014
Denisa Lehocká and Eva Kotakova, Hunt Kastner, Prague
2013
Denisa Lehocká, Sammlung Friedrichshof, Vienna
2012
Denisa Lehocká 2012, Slovenská národná galéria, Bratislava
2011
Try to describe the colour of pure (still) water, my dear. Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2010
Denisa Lehocká 1991-2010, GJK, Trnava
2009
no places no frontiers, Dominik art project, Krakow
tranzit, Bratislava
2008
Austrian Cultural Institute, Prague
2005
Moravská galerie, Brno, CZ
Landscape, with Boris Ondreička, Basis voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht
2001
Galerie MXM, Prague
2000
Múzeum V. Löfflera, Košice
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Reversed Objects, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest
Body at Play, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2023
Hard/Soft Textil und Keramik in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, MAK, Vienna
2022
I Had a Dog and a Cat, curated by Hana Ostan Ozbolt, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Twilight Zone / Material Narratives, Kunstverein Eisenstadt, Eisenstadt
2021
The Trafo-Clique. Material Narratives, Kunstverein Eisenstadt, Eisenstadt
2019
Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Transmediale, Import Projects and HKW, Berlin
2018
Women on paper, Espace de l’art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux
2017
Empire of The Senseless, Meetfactory, Prague
TŘETÍ MYSL. Jiří Kovanda a (Ne)možnost spolupráce, Národní galerie, Prague
2015
The school of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial, Kyiv
Thirtyone, KUG, Priština
Skrytá řeč rostlin, Národní galerie, Prague
The Soft Codes, MWW, Wroclaw
2014
Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module, New Museum, NYC
On Generation and Corruption, BWA, Katowice
2013
Lapidárium, Galerie Jaroslava Frganera, Prague
2009
Gender Check, MUMOK, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
2008
Cutting Realities - Gender Strategies in Art, Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC
Mediation Biennale 8, CKZ, Poznaň
Family Affairs, Kunstverein Ulm
Prague Triennale, Národní galerie, Prague
Micronarratives, Museum of Modern Art, St. Etienne
2007
Form Follows Risk, Futura, Prague / SNG Bratislava, Bratislava
October, Salon, Belehrad
2006
Auditorium, Stage, Backstage, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
Narratives, Kunsthaus Graz Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Kontakt, MUMOK, Stiftung Ludwig Vienna AT & tranzit workshops, Bratislava
2005
The Giving Person, Palazzo delle arti Napoli, Naples
2004
Stadt In Sicht, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna
Anxiety of Influence, Stadtgalerie Bern, Bern
Cordially Invited, BAK, Utrecht
2003
Now What? On Hope and Other Misunderstanding, BAK, Utrecht
2002
Fragile, DMA, Daejeon, South Korea
Nomad, CCB, Brugge
Women Of The World, White Columns, NYC
Pass me the Butterfly, DUMBO Art Cener, NYC
2001
Event. Image. Clone, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
2000
Body-Space / Nets and other creations, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
borderline sydrome / energies of denfence, Manifesta 3, Lublijana
1999
Slovak Art for Free, 48. Biennale di Venezia: Pavilion of Slovak Republic, Venice
Biblio (Selection)
Denisa Lehocká, Collective, SK, 2022
Denisa Lehocká, Schlebrügge, AT, 2014
Denisa Lehocká, Slovenská národná galéria, SK, 2012
Denisa Lehocká, tranzit.sk, SK, 2009
Collections (Selection)
Kontakt, Erste Bank Group Collection, Vienna
EVN Collection, Vienna
Sammlung Friedrichshof, Vienna, ATEuropean Investment Bank, Luxembourg
Fiorucci Art Trust, Monaco & London
Societé Generale, Paris
The Daniel and Florence Guerlain Collection, Les Mesnuls
Fait, Brno
Artfond, Bratislava
Collective Collection, Bratislava
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
NG, Nitra
PGU, Žilina
GJK, Trnava
And private: Slovakia, Czechia, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Germany, France, Monaco, Belgium, Japan, UK, USA
Residencies, Awards, Grants
2021
Startstipendium für Fotografie, Bmkoes
Wojda Residency, Steinbrunn
2019
Moriumius Resideny, Ishinomaki
Landxcapes Visual Art, Bjcem
Gallery Exhibitions
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