Eliška Konečná is a visual artist working with textile, painting and sculpture. Her work stems from an effort to display the untouchable abstract reality, which she interprets into material dimension. This effort relates to her long-term interest in communication and its boundaries. Konečná is particularly interested in the human sense of touch and the dynamic relationship between the physical and the spiritual. The floaty shapes of her wooden and soft bas-reliefs underline the transgression of the body and its visual narratives related to the corporeality perceived through the prism of desires and drives. Her hand-crafted works often balance on the fleeting border of wakefulness and sleep, tactile and immaterial.
What is fascinating about Konečná’s work is that it detaches itself from any chronological linearity to gradually approach a certain timelessness, a form of universalism mirroring the history of art. One can notice Konečná’s relation to symbolism and the almost classical construction of her narration around allegorical figures and objects. The artist likes to develop her personal mythology filled with characters depicted for their individual qualities, struggling with morality issues. She often uses a very intuitive language, leaving a great place for pure aesthetic considerations. In this sense Konečná’s practice definitely illustrates a certain return to sensuality. In her works, emotion is treated as a background of sensuality, or as its direct consequence.
Konečná graduated from the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Her recent solo exhibitions include: A Dry Place to Fall (2023) at eastcontemporary in Milan and Thirst (2023) at Polansky Gallery in Prague. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at Public Gallery in London, Below Grand Gallery in New York, National Gallery of Prague, Karlín Studios and Berlínskej Model in Prague. She is currently part of the group exhibition "Over Land and Sea" at Kunsthaus Hamburg, alongside Allora & Calzadilla, Louis d’Heudières & Nina Kuttler, and Teresa Solar Abboud. This summer, Konečná will also participate in a group exhibition at Nicodim Gallery.
What is fascinating about Konečná’s work is that it detaches itself from any chronological linearity to gradually approach a certain timelessness, a form of universalism mirroring the history of art. One can notice Konečná’s relation to symbolism and the almost classical construction of her narration around allegorical figures and objects. The artist likes to develop her personal mythology filled with characters depicted for their individual qualities, struggling with morality issues. She often uses a very intuitive language, leaving a great place for pure aesthetic considerations. In this sense Konečná’s practice definitely illustrates a certain return to sensuality. In her works, emotion is treated as a background of sensuality, or as its direct consequence.
Konečná graduated from the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Her recent solo exhibitions include: A Dry Place to Fall (2023) at eastcontemporary in Milan and Thirst (2023) at Polansky Gallery in Prague. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at Public Gallery in London, Below Grand Gallery in New York, National Gallery of Prague, Karlín Studios and Berlínskej Model in Prague. She is currently part of the group exhibition "Over Land and Sea" at Kunsthaus Hamburg, alongside Allora & Calzadilla, Louis d’Heudières & Nina Kuttler, and Teresa Solar Abboud. This summer, Konečná will also participate in a group exhibition at Nicodim Gallery.