Veronika Holcová

Veronika Holcová is a Czech painter based in and working from Prague. She graduated from Prague’s Academy of Fine Arts in 1999 and has been active in the art scene ever since. She has received prestigious fellowships including the Egon Schiele Centre in 2000 and Schwellenmätteli in Bern, Switzerland 2002. Her work has been shown across the globe and is represented in both private and public collections in the Czech Republic, Canada, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.  

 

Veronika Holcová’s art often shifts between two mediums: oil on paper or a mixture of acrylic and oil on canvas. Her process incorporates drawing techniques alongside classical and experimental brushwork giving her art a quality of imaginative surrealist fantasies. Each of her pieces are intricately detailed creating trancelike imagery of metamorphosis. Her work is inspired by her experiences, memories, dreams, and personal life but each piece can be open to interpretation. As one views her catalogue, the viewer may recognize a familiar plant or landscape, or even the silhouette of a person. Their dreamlike quality is captured by Holcová’s intention to express the essence of visible reality as opposed to accurately representing it. The artist has been working with Christopher Cutts since her 2016 solo show, “Owl, Soul and Heart”. Her most recent exhibit at the Christopher Cutts Gallery was entitled “Fantasmagoria” in 2018.

Veronika Holcová (b.1973, Prague)

 

Education 

1993 – 1999 Academy of Fine Arts in Prague 

Drawing Studio – Jitka Svobodová

Painting Studio – Bedřich Dlouhý

Painting Studio – Vladimír Skrepl

Graphic Arts Studio – Vladimír Kokolia

 

Select Solo Exhibitions 

2025 Galerie Pitevna, Brno, CZ

2024 Ostara, (+ Anna Zemánková), Gallery Albrecht, Berlin, DE

2024 Cirkle Over the Abyss, White & Weiss Gallery, Bratislava, SK

2024 Analysis of Purgatory, Trafo Gallery, Prague, CZ

2023 Nika and Empire, Galerie Pekelné sáně, Kroměříž, CZ

2023 Až kukačka zakuká, (+ Dita Lamačová), Kaple Holyně, Prague, CZ

2023 Hermit and Love, Galerie Emila Filly, Ústí nad Labem, CZ 

2023 PERLYVPERLE, National Gallery Nová Perla, Kyjov, Krásná Lípa, CZ

2023 Gravity/From the Devil to Zen, Prague House, Belgium, BE

2022 Ostara, (Anna Zemánková), Galerie Pštrosova 28, Prague, CZ

2022 Wortner House AJG, České Budějovice, CZ

2021 Vlčí Mák, Brillovka, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, CZ

2021 Legend of Water, Altán Klamovka, Prague, CZ 

2020 Heart On the Move, OGL, Liberec, CZ

2020 Kanada 2015–2019, GAVU, Cheb, CZ

2020 Zrození Indiga, Galerie Vyšehrad, Prague, CZ

2019 Inside Out, Axéneo7, Gatineau, CA

2018 Fantasmagoria, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2017 Wilderness, Villa Pellé Gallery, Prague, CZ

2016 Owl, Soul and Heart, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2015 Homo Spiritualis – Cente for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk, PL

2015 Pandora’s Vox, (+ Klara Kristalova, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra), Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace, G HMP, Prague, CZ

2015 Veliké noce, (+ Anna Hulačová), Galerie Alternativa, Jihlava, CZ

2015 Face to Face, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin, DE

2015 Pod zemí, Galerie Dole, Fiducia, Ostrava, CZ

2014 ANIMANIMUS, galerie k.art.on Karlin Studios, Prague, CZ

2014 Apparent Motion of the Sun, A.M.180 Gallery, Prague, CZ

2013 Salto Mortale, Galerie Susanne Albrecht, Berlin, CZ

2013 Lilith, (+ Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Selina Baumann), Katz Contemporary, Zurich, CH

2013 Galerie Chaos, Střítež, CZ

2012 Through The Needle’s Eye As A Frame, Galerie 35m2, Prague, CZ

2012 Galerie Montmartre, Knihovna Václava Havla, Prague, CZ

2012 Galerie Caesar, Olomouc, CZ 

2012 Baobab, Tábor, CZ

2011 Melancholia, Bárka Café, Ústí nad Labem, CZ

2011 Within Hand’s Reach, Drawing Cabinet, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint–Etienne, FR

2010 A Heavy Past an Uncertain Future, Gallery Jiri Svestka Berlin, DE

2008 Memory, Galerie Jiří Švestka, Prague, CZ

2007 Paintings, Galerie Albrecht, Munich, DE

2006 Territory, Galerie Albrecht, Munich, DE 

2005 Territory, Galerie Jiří Švestka, Prague, CZ 

2002 Drawings, Galerie Pokorný, Prostějov, CZ

2001 The Sweet Life, Galerie Behemot, Prague, CZ

2001 Handicrafts, Atrium of Pražák Palace, Moravian Gallery, Brno, CZ

2001 Without Glasses, Komunikační centrum Školská, Prague, CZ

2000 Galerie Starter & Sorter, Prague, CZ

1999 Czech Centre, Bratislava, SK

1997 Situace Veroniky Holcové, Galerie Caesar, Olomouc, CZ 

 

Select Group Exhibitions

2025 Creation Myth Art, HYB4 galerie, Prague, CZ

2024 Evocations, Museum Fragonard, Grasse, FR

2023 Sometimes in Winter, Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, Cursor Gallery, Prague, CZ

2023 Dangerous Love, Museum Montanelli, Prague, CZ

2023 Hands and What They Mean, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin, DE

2022 ON PAPER, Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne, DE

2022 BURN BABY BURN (Josef Bolf, Pavla Malinová, Jan Vytiska) Galerie Uhelný Mlýn, Libčice nad Vltavou, CZ

2022 Artrooms Moravany 4 – Nulový bod, Kaštieli v Moravanoch nad Váhom, SK

2022 Water, Galerie Benedikta Rejta, Louny, CZ

2022 Gulliver’s Sketchbook, KAI10, ARTHENA FOUNDATION, Düsseldorf, DE

2022 Man in a Cave, Gallery National Technical Library, Prague, CZ

2021 kdyby trvaly ty nymfy, 4+4 Days in Motion, International Festival of Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ

2021 Man in a Cave, Galerie Blansko, CZ

2020 Radical Women, DSC Gallery, CZ

2019 Sur un terrain étrange (Juul Kraijer, Jose Antinio Suarez Londono, Barthelemy Toguo, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra), Galerie Kewenig, Berlin, DE

2018 Legendy G2, Galerie Novoměstská radnice, Prague, CZ

2018 Intriguing Uncertainties, The Parkview Museum Singapore – Beijing, CN

2016 Signifikante Ungewissheiten, Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna, AT

2016 Intriguing Uncertainties, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint–Etienne Métropole, FR

2015 Czech Dream, Czech Center New York, US

2015 In the Oven and Under the Oven, SmaltArt, Vítkovice, Ostrava, CZ

2015 Art from Heart, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, CN

2015 Mass Ornament, National Gallery Nitra, SK

2015 Needle in a Haystack, Topič Salon, Prague, CZ

2014 The Dragon Awakens, contemporary inspiration from East Asian Art, National Gallery, Kinsky Palace, Prague, CZ

2014 On the Blue Shore of Silence, Tracy Williams Gallery, New York, US

2013 Discrete Transformation, Topič Salon, Prague, CZ

2012 Science & Fiction A Laboratory of Drawing, Katz Contemporary, Zurich, CH

2011 Cabinet de dessin – Drawing in the age of fragility, Centro Arti Visive, Pietrasanta, IT

2011 Ein Tanz, Hangar7, Salzburg, AT

2011 Erotická Revue, GASK, Kutná Hora, CZ

2011 Un altro romantico, Galleria Pack, Milan, IT

2009 Pražské Bienále 4 – Expanded Painting 3 – Short List 09: 12, CZ

2009 Umělců z České republiky, Karlín Hall, Praha, CZ

2008 Meditations Biennale, Poznaň, PL

2008 Central Europa Revisited II, Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, AT

2008 Micro Narratives, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint–Etienne Métropole, FR

2007 Resetting Jiné cesty k věcnosti, Městská knihovna, Galerie hlavního města Prahy, CZ

2007 Micro Narratives, 48th October Salon, Bělehrad, RS

2007 Nová věcnost, Výstavní síň Mánes, Praha, CZ

2006 Příští stanice Arcadia, Galerie moderního umění v Roudnici nad Labem; Městská Galerie Pirna Zyklus 1.0 Tschechien – Ferne Nähen, Stift Lilienfeld, AT

2005 Mezinárodní Bienále současného umění 2005: Druhý pohled, Národní galerie v Praze, Veletržní palác, CZ

2003 Nejmladší, Národní galerie v Praze, Veletržní palác, CZ

2002 Vizionáři a vypravěči, Mladé české umění – část 1: Malba, Kutlurarbteilung Bayer, Leverkusen, Dormagen, DE

2001 Laboratoř, Národní galerie v Praze, Veletržní palác, CZ

2000 Girlshow, Bukurešť, Rumunsko, RO

2000 Girlshow, Galerie Emila Filly, Ústí nad Labem, CZ

1999 Neplánované spojení, Výstavní síň Mánes, Praha, CZ

1999 Girlshow, Galerie MXM, Praha, CZ

1999 Heinous Deed, Salmovský palác, Praha, CZ

1999 Vidiny, RC Roxy, Praha, CZ

1997 Dzyga Gallery, Lvov, UA

1997 Podívaná, Národní galerie, Banská Bystrica, SK

1997 At Home, Synagoga, Šamorín, SK

1997 Fruits from Prague, České centrum, Berlín, DE

1996 Opravdová Láska, Galerie Velryba, Praha, CZ

1994 Nová jména, Galerie Václava Špály, Praha, CZ

 

Art Fairs

2018 Positions Berlin, Berlin, DE

2017 Papier Montreal, Montreal, CA

2016 Papier Montreal, Montreal, CA

2016 Positions Berlin, Berlin, DE

2016 Art Toronto, Toronto, CA

 

Residences

2017 Art Factory, Budapest, HU

2002 Schwellenmatteli, Bern, CH

2000 Egon Schiele Centre, Český Krumlov, CZ

 

Represented in collections

National Gallery in Prague, GAVU Cheb

Private and public collections in the Czech Republic, Canada, Switzerland, France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, China, and the US

 

Literature

Revolver Revue, Petr Vaňous

2011 Veronika Holcová, Na dosah ruky / Within Hand’s Reach, výstavní katalog, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne Métropole

2008 Její paměť, výstavní katalog, Galerie Jiří Švestka, Praha

2008 D. Ž. Bor, Průvodkyně probuzenou pamětí, Tvar 

2006 Radek Wohlmuth, Tryzna středního věku, Umělec international 

2005 Veronika Holcová, výstavní katalog, Galerie Jiří Švestka, Praha, text by Zdeněk Felix

2001 Tomáš Pospiszyl, Malba kresbou, Umělec international 

 

Illustrations/Catalogues

2024 Hlas lesa (Voice of the Forest), Sylvie Šeborová, LABYRINT publishing house

Contra Dia, Ximena Godoy–Arcaya, Global Books, N°8, Bibliotheque Carnegie. Reims. Francie N°9, private collection of Claude Blaizot, Paris, France

2016 Intrigantes Incertitudes, Lóránd Hegyi 

2015 Pandora’s Vox, catalogue for the exhibition at GHMP, ArtMap

2015 Na dosah ruky / Within Hand’s Reach, catalog of drawings, Trigon publishing house

2014 Miliónový čas (Times Worth Millions), 22 Czech writers on the theme of journey for ADRA, Argo publishing house

Tsunami Blues, Markéta Pilátová, Torst publishing house,

2003 Luna je za vlakem poslední nárazník, Jiří Veselský, Trigon publishing house

2002 Mis primeras 80 000 palabras, Media Vaca, Libros para niños

2001 Pohádky pro pana Izru (Fairy Tales for Mr. Izra), Kateřina Klaricová, Baobab

Featured Artwork

Past Exhibitions

Veronika Holcová – FANTASMAGORIA
2018 Nov 24 - Jan 05
Veronika Holcova – Owl, Soul and Heart
2016 Sep 08 - Oct 01

Publications

Veronika Holcova: Within Hand’s Reach

Pandora’s Vox

Veronika Holcova: Her Memory

Veronika Holcova: Within Hand’s Reach

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