Biography

Born in Zabreh, Czech Republic. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Renata is a mixed media artist, specializing in fine art photography and print media. Renata critically uses re-enactment, the aftermath of historic scenes in order to look back and make the construction of memory and storytelling visible. Her work has been exhibited widely across Europe whilst actively working for various art and education initiatives including project management and curation. She studied at the Royal College of Art London and is the founder and director of the BBA Gallery since 2017.

Born in the Czech Republic, Renata comes from a Catholic family with roots in the old Eastern Europe.  The different cultural histories of East and West, as well as the confrontation between faith and reason, informs all her work. It relates to the century’s old discussion, which raises the question of life and its origin- the challenge between old standards and the new science that requires constant revision. Her fine art prints and hand-made screen-prints combine the artist’s own photographs and drawings, made to simulate old engravings or paintings of flora and fauna, with original historical scientific drawings. Her most recent works explores the story and mythology of our expulsion from the Garden of Eden in the light of the scientific knowledge through which we now understand life, death and dreams of immortality.

For her aesthetic experience is closely related to ethnical experience and crucial part of her practice. The use of symbolic motives of flowers, butterflies, snakes etc. within traditional interpretation and mythologies is integral to her work.

Renata’s art works are held in international art collections like Ernst and Young in London, Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Armenian and Russian Culture Institute. Her works was part of the Berlin science week and shown at the World Congress of Bioethics in Edinburgh in 2017.

In 2018 and 2019 Renata was shortlisted for the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize and the Young Masters Art Prize London and her work was part of Art Dubai in 2019.

Education

2005

Master of Art, Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2003

Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK

2001

Bachelor of Art, Fine Art, East London University, London, UK

Exhibitions (selection)

2024

Cloud One Project, Solo Exhibition / Commission, Prague, Czech Republic

2023

Formats, Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, Berlin, Germany 
Art Market Budapest , Art Fair, Hungary 
Art Karlsruhe, Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, Karlsruhe Germany 
ArtMuc, Artfair, BBA Gallery, Munich, Germany 
Contemporary Art collectors, Group Show, London, Germany
Intonation, Iskander : The show, Kühlhaus Berlin, Germany

2022

Visual Art Open, Finalist, Exhibition Unit 1 Gallery, London UK
ArtMuc, Art Fair, BBA Gallery, Munich, Germany  
CSR, Contemporary Showroom, art@berlin_tGroup Show, Berlin, GermanyPetit

2021

Quest to Bloom, Solo Show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Ecf Art festival, Pavilion Gallery, London, UK

2020

Ecf Art Festival - Pavilion Gallery, London UK

2019

Young Masters Art Prize, La Galleria, Royal Opera Arcade, Pall Mall, London UK
Poetics of Change, Group Show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Poetics of Change, Art Dubai, BBA & Fann A Porter Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Poetic of Change, Group Show, Fann A Porter Gallery, Dubai, UAE

2018

London Sluice Exchange Berlin, group show, Sluice & BBA Gallery, Kühlhaus Berlin, Germany
Gedok Newcomers, group show , Gedok Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Ashurst Emerging Artists Prize, Shortlisted Art Prize Exhibition, London, UK

2017

Berlin Blue 17, Group Show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Appealing to the Populous, Art and Science Group Show, Berlin Science Week, Humboldt University Germany Contemporary Art Ruhr (C.A.R.), Die Innovative Kunstmesse, Essen, Germany
Field works, Art & Ethics Research group University Edinburgh, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2016

Contemporary Art Ruhr (C.A.R.), Die Innovative Kunstmesse, Essen, Germany
100x Madonna, Group show, St Pankras Gallery, London, UK
Far Off’ art fair, Cologne, Germany
IAB - World Congress of Bioethics, Art & Ethics Group Show, Edinburgh, UK

2015

Missbehaviour, Group Show, Art Pavilion, East London, UK
If Yesterday Were Today, Travelling Group Show, Bel Canto Gallery Barga, Italy / BBA, Berlin, Germany / Apiray Studio, London, UK

2014

GamingGaming, Group Show, New Shelter Plan Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
ELP Show, Embassy Tea Gallery, London, UK
East meets West, Group Show, Gallery 286, London, UK

2013

I remember you, Group Show, INTHEGALLERY, Copenhagen, Denmark
Going Underground, Group Show, Shoreditch Gallery, London, UK

2012

Printathon, Group Show, Foreman’s Smokehouse Gallery, London, UK
Tlon – Olympia, Exhibition, South London Gallery, London, UK

2011

Cass Art Prize, Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, London, UK
Bite, Group Show, Mall Galleries, London, UK

2010

Lost in Translation, Group Show, Czech Centre, Riverside Studio, London, UK
Mein Vater ist kein tschechischer Fotograf, Solo Show, Kulturzentrum Frankfurt, Germany

Publications

Harper’s Bazaar Art - Arabia. Issue 34, Spring 2019. ISSN 2225-0166
Printmaking Today Vol 21. No2 Summer 2012. Front cover featured artist
Through the Looking Glass. ISBN-13: 978-0954146849

Awards & Nominations

Young Masters Art Prize, London, UK
Ashurst Emerging Artists Prize, London, UK