MgA. Diana Winklerová

born 1983 in Prague, Czech Republic

Tutor of Clay Modelling at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (since 2011).

Education 

2004 - 2010 Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Sculpture studio headed by Professor Kurt Gebauer
2000 - 2004 Václav Hollar School of Arts, Prague

Art residency, internship

2015 Skaftfell Art Centre, Seydisfjördur, Iceland, (Frontiers of Solitude project)
2014 (Sept.) Edinburgh College of Art, lecturer of Clay portraiture modelling class
2012 (Jan.) Egon Schiele Art Centre, Český Krumlov CZ
2007 - 2008 China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, Department of Comprehensive Design 

Solo shows

2020 Po-city (MUD, Benešov, curated by Alena Ochepovsky)
2020 Landscape event (Galerie Kaplička, Jablonec n. Nisou, curated by Jan Picko)
2019 Ode zdi ke zdi (Galerie U koní, curated by Tomáš Jirsák)
2019 Průnik barevného bytí (Galerie Prokopka, curated by Matouš Karel Zavadil)
2018 Kde domov můj? (Walk Thru Gallery Králové, curated by Eva Horská)
2018 Czech Lioness (Galerie Umakart, Brno, curated by Kateřina Olivová)
2017 Landscape Draft (Deska in Ústí nad Labem)
2017 Landscape Event (galerie Chaos 68, Střítež, curated by Veronika Bromová)
2016 Blesk (veřejný prostor, Pohořelec 25, Praha)
2016 Chestnuts Under the Trees (Anglo American University artspace, Praha)

2015 Extended Household (Samaří club, Prague)
2014 Local Weather Forecast (The Solution Gallery, Prague) with Zora Vipera (CH)
2013 Lightning (ProLuka-Open Air Gallery, Prague)
2013 Diana Winklerová /drawings/, Shan Xiaohui /photography/ (Rybanaruby club, Prague)
2012 70./Global Warning (Ukradená Gallery, Prague)
2012 Between Heaven and the Floor (with Tomáš Kubačka, Gallery in the Niches, Kladno)
2012 88./Lesní (Ukradená Gallery, Český Krumlov)
2011 Total Cauliflower (New Stage of the National Theatre exhibition space, Prague)
2011 50°3'10.2"N, 14°24'29.9"E (Cube Gallery /Meetfactory/, Prague)
2008 Qing jin / Please, enter (Makráč Gallery Prague)
2007 Zastavení (Kamenice u Jihlavy)
2006 Bits of the World (Culture Centre Dobeška, Prague)

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2023
Výstava soutěžních portrétů (Spolek Sochařů, Stavební fakulta ČVUT)
Veškeré setkání (Absolventi Ateliéru veškerého sochařství, Galerie Sklad 13, Řevnice, kurátorka I. Junková)
Umění ve městě (veřejný prostor České Budějovice)
Sochy v ulicích (veřejný prostor Klatovy, Galerie Klatovy Klenová, kurátor Petr Krátký)
Chebské Dvorky (Galerie G4, Cheb)

2022 
Erstes Mal am Main (Kunsthaus Hassfurt, kurátorka Xiaohui Shan) 
Hlava na hlavě, soutěžní výstava portrétů, Spolek sochařů (Galerie Makráč) 

2021
Kurtovi / The Kurts (Galerie UM, AAAD Prague)
Okupace Kurtem (Slezanka, Opava)
Art Safari 36 Spolu (Studio Bubec, Prague)
1920-2020 Praha-Tokio (Galerie Jaroslava Fragnera, Prague)

2020
Portrait competition exhibition (National Technical Museum, Prague)
Sculpture competition exhibition - St. Ludmila (Masarykův kulturnídům, Mělník)

2019
Old Addresses (House of Arts, Brno, curated by Vendula Fremlová)
Benátské Bienale (Benátky nad Jizerou, curated by Miloš Vojtěchovský)
Art in Town (České Budějovice)
Dreamland 2 (Long Island Libeň, curated by Tereza Špinková)

2018
Umění ve městě (České Budějovice)
Tvář krajiny (Galerie Hraničář, Ústí nad Labem)
Místo umění (ČVUT and Makráč Gallery, Prague, curated by Petra Vlachynská)

2017
Art Safari 32 (Studio Bubec, Prague)
To je mámovo! (White Room Gallery, Pragovka, curated by Kateřina Olivová)
Babybox (Galerie Umakart, Brno, curated by Kateřina Olivová)

2016
Sonda 4.5 (Letohrádek Valečského zámku, Valeč)
Frontiers of Solitude (Skaftfell Art Centre, Seydisfjordur, Island)
Zeměmi ornamentu - Ornament, kaligrafie a světlo (Villa Pellé, Prague)
Frontiers of Solitude (Školská 28, Prague)

2015
Art in the City (České Budějovice)
Chebské dvorky (projekt galerie G4, Cheb)
Divine Art (Dvorak Sec Contemporary Gallery project)
Art Safari 29 (Studio Bubec, Prague)

2014

The Waking Dragon (The Asian collection of the National Gallery in Prague)
Art Safari 27 (Studio Bubec, Prague)
Metamorphosis (Open Air Festival, Hradec Králové)
Roxy Visuals vol. 2 (Roxy Experimental Space, Prague)

2013
Problem Is Here (Festival 4+4 Days in Motion, Prague)
Synthetic Polymers in Art (Exhibition space of Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Prague)
3xR, Designblok (Prague)
Whyrwehere (New Gallery Chateau Třeboň)
Where Is My Home? (DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague)
PechaKucha Night Prague (presentation)
Video-camp (Prague)
Art Safari 25 (Studio Bubec, Prague)
Tetradekagon (Fait gallery, Brno)

2012
Would You Like To Play Another Game (Festival 4+4 Days in Motion, Prague)
Sculpture Now! (Nostic Palace, Prague)
6+1, Designblok, (Malostranská beseda, Prague)
Art Safari 24 (Studio Bubec, Prague)
Design project 3xR (reduce-renovate-recycle, Meetfactory, Prague)
Ukradená festival (Český Krumlov)
Everyday Nature (Echofluxx Festival, Gallery Trafačka, Prague)

2011
Sculpture sympozium (Gallery Art Factory, Prague)
Exhibition of Universal Sculpture (Havelka gallery, Prague)
Young Package (Czechdesign Gallery, Prague)
Museum of Young Art / Artbanka (Prague)
Art Safari 21 (Studio Bubec, Prague)
Face Me I Face You (Gallery AVU, Prague)

2010
Exhibition of diploma works (Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague)
Volné/Fine (Gallery XXL, Louny)
Médl Knédl (Embassy of the Czech Republic in Vienna, Austria)
One Day You Will Lose It All (Festival 4+4 Days in Motion, Prague)

2009
Animo anima (Gallery Albertovec, Opava region)
Art containers (Brno)
New Wilderness (Open Air Mining Museum, Vinařice at Kladno)

2008
Fajne věci (Hradec nad Moravicí)
3rd Exhibition of international students of China Academy of Art (Hangzhou, China)

2007
Chaos of the City (Gallery Art Factory, Prague)
200 metres from metro Prior (Jihlava)

2006
Ječitošilajaktopuči (House of Fine Arts, Opava)
Video-camp (Prague)

2005
Winter (The Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague)
Pragštěné Bruxellení (Prague House in Bruxelles, Belgium)
Exceptional Circumstances: Women among Miners (Open Air Mining Museum, Vinařice at Kladno)

Awards
2023 1st place Portrait of Otakar Novotný, Sculptors' Association Competition 
2021 2nd place Portrait of Hana Wichterlová, Sculptors' Association Competition 
2020 1st place Portrait of Luigi Negrelli, Sculptors' Association Competition 
2019 1st place Edmund Husserl Memorial, Prostějov
2019 3rd place Portrait of František Drtikol, Sculptors' Association Competition
2011 1st place Young Package, International design competition
2010 Josef Hlávka Award
2006 Award of Department of Fine Arts, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague

The works of art I create originate in my experience of perceiving things, space, my thoughts and awareness. I do not limit myself to working in a particular medium or subject, I search for a clear and playful balance between an artwork's message and its visual expression. This often leads me to dealing with a wide range of media and materials. My ideas usually become sculpture, photography, computer graphics or video. As an artist, I work with the language of visual forms and therefore industrial and graphic design are also fields of my interest.

Besides focusing on visual art, a major part of my life is devoted to music. I play the oboe and the English horn in the Smichov Chamber Philharmonic (since 2010). In addition to the reed instruments I play the flute and perform with blues singer Jana Štromská (since 2011).
Former membership in other groups: Jamchestra (nu-jazz), Ryba (alternative folk and blues), Jull Dajen (Celtic), Gaddede (folk), Vinohrady Symphony Orchestra and hosted in many other groups, notably Čechomor and Petra Janů with the Smichov Chamber Philharmonic.
My internship in China introduced me to playing the transverse bamboo flute dizi and the vertical end-blown flute xiao. In 2010 we founded the Prague Silk-and-Bamboo Music Club, where traditional Jiangnan Sizhu music is played.