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Klára Hosnedová (born 1990, Uherské Hradiště) graduated with an MgA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Her work encompasses a variety of media including photography, sculpture, furniture, embroidery, and site-specific installation. She is interested in the relationship between the human body and architecture. Her process starts with an in-depth study of a specific site and time – the history, the architecture and materials, and the people who inhabited the space. From this starting point, she develops a new narrative that is manifested in staged photo shoots with models, selected images of which are then embedded into materially rich installations made up of hand-worked embroidery, stone, metal, glass, concrete and epoxy. All the hand embroidery is executed by the artist herself, who designs and oversees the production of the other parts of the installation – most recently working closely with glass masters from the world-renowned glass workshops in Nový Bor, Czech Republic.
Recent exhibitions include solos at Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover, curated by Adam Budak, Alexander Wilmschen; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler gallery, Berlin in 2020; Prague National Theatre, New Stage in 2018 and VOGL (with guests Lucie Sceranková, Anymade Studio and Igor Hosnedl), curated by Edith Jeřábková, hunt kastner, Prague in 2016. Group exhibitions include The Kick Inside in 2022, curated by Cyril Kuizhen Rao, X Museum; Lyon Biennale 2022; Beijing: Boros Collection #4, current collection presentation, Boros Collection, Berlin; in 2021 58th October Salon, Belgrade Biennale; Baltic Triennial 14: The Endless Frontier; Eclipse, the 7th Athens Biennale; in 2019 Metamorphosis. Art in Europe Now, Fondation Cartier, Paris; in 2015 The Best Tailor in Town, curated by Edith Jeřábková & Jiří Kovanda at hunt kastner, Prague. She is currently working on a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel which will open in February 2024.