Petra Švecová is a visual artist working in Prague and North Bohemia. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, she works mainly with painting, but also with photography and installations. Her semi-abstract painting are often dealing with personal memory and mythology, another fundamental stimulus is landscape and nature.
Studies
2012 – 2018 Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
2016 Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden (Erasmus stay)
1998 – 2001 Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, FAMU, Photography
1993 – 1998 Charles university, Media Studies
Solo (& duo) exhibitions
2022 Petra Švecová, Prostor 228, Liberec
2021/2022 Atlases and Islands, Oblastní galerie Vysočiny, Jihlava, curator Jiří Kovanda
2021 Memory Maps, with Ester Knapová Galerie AMB, Hradec Králové, curator Martina Vítková
2021 Ordinary Matter, Art Space Nov, Pardubice, curator Martina Vítková
2020 Primary, EinsZwei Gallery, Prague, curator Adam Hnojil
2020 Petra Švecová, Radka Bodzevicz, Galerie Budoart, Prague
2019/2020, Sensory Space, Multimediálny priestor pre súčasnú kultúru Nástupište 1-12, Topolčany
2019, Children in the apple tree, Galerie výtvarného umění v Mostě, www.gvum.cz
2019 Petra Švecová, Radka Bodzevič Doubravová, Alšova jihočeská galerie, České Budějovice (www.ajg.cz)
2019 If you sleep, this is also a dream, Prám Studio, Prague, pramstudio.cz
2017 Territory, Pragovka Gallery, Prague (with Radka Bodzevič Doubravová)
2017 Temporal Loss of Memory, Galerie Nativ, Prague,
2016 Space Between, Galerie AVU Praha (with Radka Bodzevič Doubravová)
Partner: Villa Paula Klatovy / Klenová, CZ