Interdisciplinary artist graduated in Printmaking studio at Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Co-founder of Herons Vector collective with Anna Luňáková which debuted with experimental film Foundations of the Work of the Sun (2023) exhibited at 14th Shanghai Biennale. Founder of student-made and awarded magasine about printmaking and it's expanded and contemporary situation. Together with Luňáková creates sound and poetry performances and concerts, authorial alternative theatre projects and moving image works. As a sound designer and musician collaborates on various theatre projects and works closely with Continuo Theatre as a sound designer, performer and co-director.
2018-2024 – Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, MA programme
2021-2022 – Studio of Visiting Artist - guest artist Anton Vidokle, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
Education
- 2020–2025, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Institute of Romance Studies, Doctoral Programme. Dissertation topic: Exile poetry of the lost Czech poet Jiří Volf (Ph.D.)
- 2016–2019, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU), Acting with a focus on authorial creation and pedagogy (MgA.)
- 2012–2016, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Philosophy (Bc.)
- 2012 – 2013 LLL programme, Introduction to Czech Law - Legal Basics, Charles University
2018-2024 – Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, MA programme
2021-2022 – Studio of Visiting Artist - guest artist Anton Vidokle, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
- International Visegrad Fund, 01 September 2023 – 30 November 2023, Budapest, Hungary
- ERASMUS+, 13 March 2023 – 23 March 2023, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
- ERASMUS+, 23 January 2023 – 10 February 2023, Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, France
- Barrande Fellowship Programme, study residency within the short-term Cotutelle programme, Paris, 11 October 2021 – 11 November 2021, Centre for Central European Studies, Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Letters, Sorbonne Université (Centre Malesherbes), France
- ERASMUS+, professional traineeship under the auspices of the art collective Honey and Dust, Athens, Greece
- ERASMUS+, study residency at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Lisbon, Portugal
- ERASMUS+, philosophical study residency at Université Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France
- Three-month language residency, Nagoya, Japan, Autumn 2012, completed with a language proficiency examination
Conferences
- Image Rémanente, 27 August 2023, Krahule, Slovakia. XXXIe Summer University of the Jan Hus Association
- Comment raconter la vie ? La métabiographie comme possibilité pour l'écriture académique, 25 November 2022, Olomouc, Czech Republic. Challenges of Romance Studies in the Third Decade of the 21st Century
- Melancholy in Thought and Artistic Practice, 8 July 2021
- Problèmes numériques et concepts de présence, virtualité et actualité dans la philosophie française contemporaine, Francophone Doctoral Colloquium Les sciences humaines et sociales à l’heure du numérique : qui est le peuple, 18–19 March 2021
Book Publications
- Atlas of Grandmothers, Viriditas, 2022 (As audiobook in 2025.)
- Pandetry, Association for Publishing Revue Prostor, 2021 (editor).
- I Will Only Lose My Name, Malvern, 2020.
- Three!, Dauphin, 2020.
Collaboration on sound design and music for theater projects
- Cracks (2025) – Continuo Theatre (CZ).
- Closing Time (2024) - Continuo Theatre (CZ).
- For now, until then, forever (2024)
- Carriers Ltd. (2023) - Kateřina Šobáňová (CZ), Stefan Bütschi (CH), Continuo Theatre (CZ).
- Layers (2023)
Authorial Theatre & performing
- Sensus Communis (2024) – Continuo Theatre (CZ)
- “Andrej Talks to the Universe” at the NextWave 2022 Festival
- Ich wünsche Dir GLÜCK, tu einen neuen Gang AUF (2021)
- Christmas Plum Yard 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq0wmm45Rfo
- Video essay Eavesdropping, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgs1sGAShb0
- In the Belly of the Whale (2019)
- Distaff, original monodrama. Premiere: 3 June 2019; first reprise: 29 August 2019 at the International Festival de Teatro de Setúbal, Portugal
- Élévation, original play. Premiere: 4 July 2018, Casablanca, Morocco, Festival of University Theatres FITUC (direction, production, performance)
- The White Disease by Karel Čapek, dramaturg. Premiere: 5 July 2018, former hospital in Terezín (director: Ladislav Karda)
- Bohemia, original play. Premiere: 3 February 2018 at the Czech Centre in Paris (direction, production). Subsequent performances at the LE FIL Festival in Besançon, DAMU (Prague), and the Audimafor Festival in Hradec Králové
- GAVU – Baby Don’t Hurt Me, exhibition and performance project: Eros and Psyche (ritual of magical socialism) and The Body (performance as part of the exhibition opening), Spring 2017.
- Co-founder of the artistic platform Nothing Is a Problem Here; organization and curation of travelling cabaret performances (themes included Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov, the Beat Generation, Dada, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Božena Němcová, among others)
- 2024 – Serbest International Film Festival (SIFF) - semi-finalist
- 2024 – Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival - award winner
- 2023 – Marienbad Film Festival - main selection
- 2025 – The Most Beautiful Czech Books of 2024 - 3rd place, student projects
- 2024 – Academy of Fine Arts Prague - rector price
- 2024 – The Most Beautiful Czech Books of 2023 - nomination
- 2023 – Print of the year - nomination, part of group exhibition