Šárka Zahálková

born in 1982

lives and works in Pardubice, CZ

e-mail: sarka@160cm.me

web: www.160cm.me

CO-INITIATOR AND MEMBER OF:

OFFCITY PROJECT, the independent platform acting within fields of arts, architecture, community work and art production.

MLÝNY MĚSTU!, the independent initiative with aim to hold an open discussion about possible future of the Automatic Mills, iconic building of Pardubice which had been designed by the famous Czech architect of cubistic era – Josef Gočár.

STUDIES

from 2013 TOMAS BATA UNIVERSITY IN ZLIN, Faculty of Multimedia Communications Fine Arts, Multimedia and Design – Animation – Master’s Degree Program

2012―2013 SCHOLASTIKA ― SCHOOL OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Praha, Drawing Studio (Supervisors: Jiří Franta and David Böhm, Michal Pěchouček)

2009―2011 TOMAS BATA UNIVERSITY IN ZLIN, Faculty of Multimedia Communications Fine Arts, Multimedia and Design – Animation – Bachelor’s Degree Program

2005―2006 INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Sligo, Ireland, Bachelor of Business Studies – Museum and Gallery Management

2000―2004 HIGHER PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL OF INFORMATION SERVICES, Praha, Museum and Gallery Services

1994―2000 GYMNASIUM NAD KAVALÍRKOU, Praha, general six-year study

SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCES

from 2010 DIVADLO 29, Pardubice, multi-genre cultural centre for contemporary art – dramaturgy, production

2005―2010 EAST BOHEMIAN GALLERY IN PARDUBICE, production, PR, dramaturgy, educational programs

SELECTED ART PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS

21/03―01/04/2014 CONNECTION, MEMORY IN YOUR POCKET, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Villa Groce Genoa, IT

hand made notebook, wrapped object (created within CreArt workshop with Luca Vitone in Genoa, Italy)

„Two cities of two different countries. Myself somewhere in between. My tiny memories and peripheral trivial moments that do not change the history. Two apparent objects in connection.“

09―10/2013 GOČÁR’S AUTOMATIC MILLS’ TIMELINE, Automatic Mills, Pardubice, CZ

illustrative wall painting introducing history and possible future of the Automatic Mills, iconic building of Pardubice which was designed by the famous Czech architect of cubistic era – Josef Gočár

(in collaboration with Josef Čevora, Tereza Dvořáková and František R. Václavík)

06―08/2013 MUŠLENKOVÁ MUPA, Sixty Stone Space, Brno – Kamená čtvrť

mini exhibition devoted to the original comic super heroine Mu and introduction of the second author’s mini book (folding picture-book) with another strip about Mu

06/2013 THE DIALOG OF ARCHITECTURES – FLOUR POWER, term work, Scholastika School of Contemporary Art, Praha, Studio of Drawing (supervisor: Michal Pěchouček)

subjective memory of Automatic Mills built by architect J. Gočár

02/2013 UB EP from 1935 to 1945, term work, Scholastika School of Contemporary Art, Praha, Studio of Drawing (supervisor: Michal Pěchouček)

scenic document based on true archival sources and official correspondence which attempted to map the first ten years of existence of a great functionalist buildings in Prague 7

08-11/2012 ARCHICUSTICA, ASKING ARCHITECTURE, 13th Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Italy

sound installation for Czech and Slovak installation at the Biennale of Architecture in Venice

(in collaboration with Josef Čevora, Tereza Dvořáková, Ondřej Teplý, František R. Václavík

and Tomáš Votoček)