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Barbora Bálková
Fantômes
5 November – 18 December

Born the 4th March 1978 in České Budějovice (Czech Republic). After finishing her secondary school she studied the education of visual arts at Teachers College at the University of South Bohemia. Simultaneously with her ongoing teacher training, she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague where she studied under tuition of Jiří David in the studio of Visual Communication in 2001 and from then until her graduation in 2006 she studied under Veronika Bromová at her studio of the new media.

In her work she combines classical elements of paintings, photographs, sculptures and installations with new media. The most typical content and theme of her art is an individual human identity, its experience and variability going through a life. She also focuses on general and political issues dealing with the recent history in the continuity of an individual and collective memory.

In 2009 Barbara completed the two years course in art therapy and artphiletic approach by VVAA Institute under the leadership of Miroslav Huptych.