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Lenka Záhorková

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Lenka often balances between design, applied art and fine arts. Her works tend to be based on quest for parallels between the constructional/technological and the ideological perspective. Her works' topics include the cycle of life and the eternal cycle - the creation, extinction and renewal of objects. In addition, she also pursues her artistic and social project TAK TO BYLO.

Lenka graduated from the ceramics studio and completed part of her studies in the product design studio at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. She also completed an internship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk in the sculpture studio. She has received several awards for her work, including the Empathy Award awarded by Komerční banka and the National Gallery, with which the exhibition of the same name was associated at the NG in 2021–2022. She has been awarded twice in the National Student Design Award competition, was selected for the Talents section at the Tendence fair in Frankfurt am Main, and was nominated for the Designblok '19 award and the Creative Hero Award for the TAK TO BYLO project.

She has exhibited at the Made by Fire exhibition during Milan Design Week, the Terra Alba exhibition and the Slovak National Gallery, among others. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Applied Arts, Moravian Gallery in Brno and the Museum of the Capital City of Prague.

portfolio

www.zahorkovalenka.com

www.taktobylo.com

lenka.zahorkova@gmail.com

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The work is focused on experiment; experimenting with the material, its aesthetic possibilities, and technological limits. The series of objects is created using a technique atypical for porcelain, namely only from porcelain dust at high heat without any supporting structure. I was inspired by a simple fact of technology – most materials burn in high heat and become dust, but it is the other way around in this case as the porcelain dust turns into a solid structure.
It is thus possible to find symbols and ideological parallels to the theme of creation and destruction of objects in this work, offering also an existential or, if you'd like, a religious overlap.

Biorythme & Záhorková / 2018

Crust / 2022

Flowerpot Basic / 2023

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Mnemosyne is the author's guide in exploring the phenomenon of memory and the recording of human memories. In an abstract form, it presents processes such as information recording, selection, preservation, and recall or memory reproduction. The supporting element is the fossilized imprints of places or moments, and the production steps of these artifacts imitate the very processes of memory.

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Structure collection / 2015

A spinning top - designer toy. Thanks to the use materials such as wood and porcelain, it may serve also as souvenir or an interior decorations.

portfolio

2024-2025
Made by Fire exhibition, The Moravian Gallery in Brno
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2023
Made by Fire exhibition, Designblok 23, Prague Castle
Designblok 23, exposition Bohemian Perfection, The muzeum of Decorative art in Prague
Made by Fire exhibition, Milan design week, Trienale Milano / IT

2022
SeniorLinka, Stredoslovenská galeria, Banská Bystrica / SK
Design vánoc?!, studio Nalejto, Czech center Sofie (BG) 
Terra Alba, Moravian Gallery in Brno
Designblok 22 – Exhibition Terra Alba, The muzeum of Decorative art in Prague
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2021
Art design fashion, Moravian Gallery in Brno
NGP – Cena Empatie: Romana Drdová a Lenka Záhorková, National Gallery Prague
Designblok 21, project Mnemosyne, Gabriel Loci, Prague
Designblok 21, exposition NALEJTO, Gabriel Loci, Prague
Today Together, studio Nalejto, Brussels, Adolphe Max 26 (NL)
Design vánoc?!, studio Nalejto, Muzeum Libereckého kraje (CZ)
 
2020
SNG – Group therapy, The Schaubmar Mill in Pezinok / SK
Designblok 20, Gabriel Loci, Prague
Zažít město jinak, Život 90
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2019
Designblok 19, project TAK TO BYLO, EXPO Holešovice, Prague
Designblok 19, exposition NALEJTO, EXPO Holešovice, Prague
Kruhy na vodě, The Museum of Applied Folk Arts, Budapest / HU
Quarzsprung, Keramik und Glas aus Tschechien, Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein e.V. / Mnichov / DE
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2018
Kruhy na vodě, Gallery ÚĽUV, Bratislava / SK
Design Plzeň, exposition FDULS, DEPO2015, Pilsen
Designblok 18, exposition NALEJTO, EXPO Holešovice, Prague
Designblok 18, exposition #CHINAWALL FDULS, EXPO Holešovice, Prague
Všechno dopadne dobře, exhibition class of ceramic, Soběslav

2017
Designblok 17, exposition NALEJTO, EXPO Holešovice, Prague
Tendence 2017 Talents, Frankfurt / DE
Czech design week, expozition NALEJTO, DUP36, Prague
Deziin, Petrohradská kolektiv, Prague

2016
Designsupermarket, NALEJTO, Kafka´s house, Prague
New G(o)ods 2015!, Wien / AUT
Design Plzeň, exposition NALEJTO and FDULS, DEPO2015, Pilsen
Designblok 16, exposition FDULS, EXPO Holešovice, Prague
Designblok 16, exposition NALEJTO, EXPO Holešovice, Prague
Prague design week, exposition NALEJTO, Kafka´s house Prague
New G(o)ods 2015!, Kielce / PL
Zlin design week, exposition NALEJTO, Koma modular, Zlin
New G(o)ods 2015!, Bratislava / SK

2015
New G(o)ods 2015!, Prague
Porcelain POP UP, Gulzan Concept Store, Prague
How porcelain gorws / Nalejto at Laufen, expozice NALEJTO, Prague gallery, Prague
Přesahy, Galerie Vestředu, Pilsen
Inspirace Sutnar, Galerie města Pilsen
Prague design week, exposition NALEJTO, Kafka´s house, Prague

2010
Exhibition of Art-Craft schools of North Bohmian region, Museum of Glass Sculpture, Novy Bor

permanent collections


Museum of Applied Arts, Moravian Gallery in Brno, contemporary design collection, "Tak to bylo" collection

Museum of the Capital City of Prague, collections of artistic crafts (glass, ceramics, porcelain), collection "Tak to bylo"

studies

2018   Academy of Fine arts in Gdańsk, Studio of sculpture / internship


2014 – 2019    University of West Bohemia, Sculpture department, Ceramic Design class


2011 – 2013    University of West Bohemia, Design dept., Product Design class


2007 – 2011    Arts and Crafts High school in Turnov, Precious Stone Cutting and Carving class

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