Biography
Born in Zabreh, Czech Republic. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Renata Kudlacek is a mixed media artist, specialising 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. Much of her recent work relates to the centuries’ old discussion, which raises the question of life and its origin – the constant challenge between old standards and the new science that requires constant revision. Aesthetic experience is closely related to ethical experience. The use of symbolic motives of flowers, butterflies, snakes etc. within traditional interpretation in art history and mythologies is integral to her work. Her work has been exhibited widely across Europe whilst working for art and education initiatives. She studied at the Royal College of Art London and is also a co-founder and curator of BBA Gallery in Berlin.
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.
Work in Progress - screen-printing from start to finish!
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
2022
Visual Art Open, Finalist, Exhibtion Unit 1 Gallery, London UK
ArtMuc, Art Fair, BBA Gallery, Munich, Germany
CSR, Contemporary Showroom, art@berlin_tGroup Show, Berlin, Germany
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