Solo exhibition, Nonstrop Gallery, Jihlava, 2025
The collection of Never Realized Sculptures presents sculptural objects that are still only in the stage of visualized ideas and remain in digital form. The project loosely follows on from the exhibition in the virtual gallery VIR, where it was possible to view the sculptures from the comfort of one’s home. However, in the Nonstrop Gallery, the objects are confronted with public space in a 2D version (printed shower curtains) with the option of augmented reality, which allows, using a smartphone, to view the objects in the gallery space. This technology allows working with the space in any way and at the same time there is no need to worry that the sculptures will be demolished or exposed to adverse weather. The virtual space allows the sculptor to create almost anything and does not have to limit himself in his creation, and there is also no risk that a random passerby will be confronted with a sculpture that would normally offend him. Each passerby can choose whether to display the object on their mobile phone and view the sculpture or to stay with the 2D visualization of the object, or just walk down the alley.
The very form of the so-called Circulations is based on the consideration of recurring events in everyday life, created by a suitable form, for example, influenced by a command in the program. In general, it can be said that the work struggles with stereotypes and how to deviate from them. The objects thus follow these processes using closed loop shapes that do not end or begin anywhere, but circulate around and around. These objects are covered with “home-made” textures that we can find in everyday rituals of maternity leave, such as feeding baby food, washing toys in soapy water, glitching the TV, oil stains in puddles while walking with a stroller around the river or painting nails when a child falls asleep. Everything is printed on shower curtains that were chosen to fit into the context of the alley, where the fabric resembles drying laundry and at the same time this material should resonate with the overall idea of sculptures created in a home environment. The last layer of graphics are photographs from a trip to Ireland, which enhance the nostalgic impression of the unrealized sculptures. The installation should tear the viewer out of their stereotype and force them to perhaps even take a break from the daily routine of searching for sculptures in the alley, as we know it, for example, when searching for Pokémon.
To view the sculptures, use this link: https://ar.zuzanabartosova.com/
Or scan the QR codes that are located in the alley. Open the link and wait 5 seconds for the sculptures to load and enjoy!
Created in collaboration with Martin Bartoš, who is the author of the technical side of the augmented reality tour.
New nature, festival Katarze, Praha, 2025
The interactive installation deals with the issue of constant circulation and circulates in constantly repeating cycles. The work is the materialization of a new nature that man creates. Everything in the world keeps repeating itself over and over again, wars, pandemics, architectural styles, life and death. Some of us create our own cycles that we just don’t like to get out of, we find a rhythm of life, a stereotype that we stick to and constantly revolve within it. We get up in the morning, go to work, after work we open a beer, put the children to sleep, watch a series and go to bed. After twenty years, we can perhaps afford a mortgage, pay it off and then die and everything starts again somewhere else all over again and all over again, just a little differently, anew. It’s hard to get out of these cycles, it’s so natural, normal. The world is changing, people are still circulating, instead of water lilies there are LED strips, plastic tubes have replaced vines, it’s our world, man created it. It is a new nature, what man has created is natural to him. Lights flash quickly, plastics peek out of the asphalt like worms from clay. How can we get out of the circulations? Can we break free from them? Each of us can get out, just materialize our courage and step out of the crowd. Those who step out will move the world a little further, towards the journey to Mars, nuclear catastrophe, new nature. The installation includes interactive light objects that react to humans (noise, heartbeat, weight, alcohol, temperature). The installation is mainly made of discarded or recycled materials that were found or donated by companies as defective pieces. I would like to mention the sponsorship gift of RUBIDEA CZ s.r.o.
Neigbourhood report, group exhibition, Sankt Pölten, 2025
Everything in the world keeps repeating itself over and over again, wars, pandemics, architectural styles, life and death. Some of us create our own cycles that we just don’t like to get out of, we find a rhythm of life, a stereotype that we stick to and we constantly revolve within it. We get up in the morning, go to work, after work we open a beer, put the children to sleep, turn on a series and go to bed. After twenty years, we can perhaps afford a mortgage, we pay it off and then we die and everything starts again somewhere else all over again and over again, just a little differently, anew. It’s hard to get out of these cycles, it’s so natural, normal. The world is changing, people are still circulating, instead of water lilies there are LED strips, plastic tubes have replaced vines, it’s our world, man has created it. It’s a new nature, what man has created is natural to him, natural. The lights flash rapidly, plastics peek out of the asphalt like worms from the dirt. How do we get out of the circulations? Can we break free from them? Each of us can get out, just materialize our courage and step out of the crowd. Those who step out will move the world a little further, towards the journey to Mars, nuclear catastrophe, a new nature.
New nature, Festival Prototyp, Brno 2024
Everything in the world keeps repeating itself over and over, wars, pandemics, architectural styles, life and death. Some of us create our own cycles, from which we just don’t like to get out, we find a rhythm of life, a stereotype that we stick to and constantly spin in it. We get up in the morning, go to work, open a beer after work, put the kids to sleep, watch a series and go to bed. After twenty years, for example, we can afford a mortgage, we pay it off and then we die and everything starts all over again somewhere else, all over again, just a little differently, anew. It’s hard for us to get out of these cycles, it’s so natural, normal. The world is changing, people are still circulating, instead of water lilies LED strips, plastic tubes have replaced vines, it is our world, man has created it. It is a new nature, what man has created, it is natural to him, natural. The lights flash rapidly, the plastics peek out from the asphalt like earthworms. How to deviate from circulations? Can we get out of them? We can each of them out, just materialize our courage and stand out from the crowd. Those who step out will move the world a little further, towards a trip to Mars, a nuclear disaster, a new nature.
Connection, Symposium, Fiesta de arte, Tennenlohe, Germany, 2024
The sculpture called Connection connects the present with history, new technologies with natural material and tries to introduce an interactive element into the sculpture without using any external source. It aims to connect not only technology, but also a person with the work itself. The megaphones placed in the stone are meant to serve as hearing aids, with which you can listen to the stone and when you put your ear to it, you can hear an echo. In imagination, we can also see through the stone and thus be a part of its entire history, layer by layer. The stone is drilled through in three places, a 3D printed plastic megaphones are always placed at one end.
€100, group exhibition SCOOTER VI. – young art event, Ján Koniark Gallery, collaboration with Andrea Uváčiková, Trnava, 2024
The installation, in which we decided to 3D print from a water-soluble (environmentally friendly material) our promised fee for the exhibition, €100, reflects the crisis of remuneration for artistic work, which is often performed at best for the cost of the material, at worst for free or for a small fee. In the long term, such a situation is unbearable for artists, both from a financial point of view and also from the point of view of personal motivation and the threat of burnout. In the broader discourse, we continue the debate on the status of the artist as one of the possible solutions to this crisis. The work is procedural, gradually dissolving due to exposure to conditions (rain, wind, etc.).
Decimation, group exhibition OUT OF MIND OUT OF SIGHT, KUMST, collaboration with Andrea Uváčiková, Brno, 2024
Decimation is a set of two light interactive objects that have a basis in the elemental natural shapes of stone and mountain. The work illustrates man’s relationship with nature and the transformation that is omnipresent. In my reasoning, I start from the belief that what man creates is natural to us and therefore natural, so transformation does not always have to be fundamentally bad. The entry of man is essential here, therefore his approach to the objects turns the noise of nature into digital noise and thus opens up space to reflect on the similarities of these two worlds. Decimation is thus a statement of the current or even future digital world in which we hide and escape from the real one. The term decimation is derived from one of the functions that was used in the creation of objects and at the same time resembles the term decimated, which can well describe this transformation or the state of a person. We can thus say that the objects adopt the means of expression of the digital environment and thus depict the transformation of the world around us.
The iceberg method, group exhibition No Weather Today, Pilsen City Gallery, in cooperation with Andea Uváčiková, 2023
“It’s just the tip of the iceberg.” The tip of the iceberg as something superficial that we can see with the naked eye, but there is usually something more underneath. The tip of the iceberg as a small part of what is. As a foreboding of things to come.
At first glance, the installation lends itself to the primary idea of melting glaciers as a result of global warming. Unfortunately, even nowadays, the global environmental crisis seems so distant to many people that they consider it something that is happening “outside them”, something that does not concern them, or they deny it completely. Who and how is it affected by the fact that somewhere on the opposite end of the globe a glacier melts or that the temperature of the sea rises by a few degrees? It’s just the tip of the iceberg. Below it is a package of known consequences that are waiting for our planet, but also the unknown space of our future world, which we are approaching with our daily way of life. Can our worries, fears, stress and other subjective experiences also be a consequence of how is our society working? Can they also be a symptom of a life that is anxiously separated from the problems “out there”, at the other end of the planet, separated from the environment in which we live? And vice versa: are our subjective problems really subjective, or in the context of the entire planetary development, do they offer other explanations than that they are some kind of “defect of each individual”?
Text: Andrea Uváčiková
The installation consists of two objects, the first containing the text HOT, which is immersed in the aquarium. The text is printed from soluble PVA plastic, on which there is a layer of printing ink. The work is procedural. After the letters dissolve, only the color sinks.
The second object contains a sculpture resembling an iceberg, where only the tip is soluble. The object is placed in the aquarium together with a pump that pumps water to the tip of the object. The water starts only when a visitor arrives, a motion sensor is located near the object.
The installation contains drawings/texts that follow the objects. The drawings expand into the space around the objects on the floor.
Virtual exhibition, curator Andrea Uváčiková, VIR Virtual Gallery, 2023
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The exhibition Never Realized Sculptures by Zuzana Bartošová is a collection of never realized sculptures that are on view for the first time at the VIR gallery. The artist uses the virtual space of the gallery and its specifics, such as the absence of gravity, the possibility of viewing the sculptures from unusual angles or details of the sculptures. The exhibition also includes 2D images representing other unrealised sculptures or individual phases documenting their creation.
Joint exhibition with Václav Kočí, Chrudim Exhibition Hall, 2023
The summer exhibition in the Pippich Theater is characterized by colors, light and transformations. The project of two Brno artists, sculptor Zuzana Bartošová and conceptual painter Václav Kočí, is a dialogue about color and light. For both, although differently for each, color is an important medium of communication.
Text: Martina Vítková
