Katarina Kudelova

About

Katarina Kudelova is a Slovakian artist based in France. Her childhood spent amongst nature in a family of forest engineers - a widespread profession in a country marked by mountains and forests - has had a considerable impact on her artistic practice. Her works often represent woodland animals from deers to rabbits and tree-adorned landscaped teeming with silent life.

“Violence with gentleness, fragility with permanence, danger with the appearance of security, fear with confidence, anger with serenity, humor with gravity” - Etienne Cornevin. A harmless ceramic pig strapped with firecrackers; tranquil deers made of firecrackers, connected to a hunter and his gun by a blazing trail of flaming wick. Through representations of both humans and animals, Kudelova explores questions relating to life and death, random destinies, the improbable conditions of existence, and fragility. There is a constant tension between tender stillness and an impending sense of catastrophe and brutality of the natural order that has the viewer on the edge of their seat with a wary anticipation.

In her artistic process, Kudelova creates with mixed techniques, employing various mediums from barbed wire to firecrackers from which no human or animal incarnation is safe. The unstable and explosive undercurrent of her artworks screams danger and acts out the immutable cycle of change and decay.

Education

2006

Vocational Training in Leather Trades, Model Maker in Leather Goods, Cholet, France

2001

National Superior Diploma of Fine Arts, Mention "Congratulations of the jury", Ecole des Beaux-Arts d'Angers, France

1999

National Diploma of Fine Arts, Mention "Congratulations of the jury", Ecole des Beaux-Arts d'Angers, France

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

2023

Burning Bright in the Forest of the Night, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2022

Tooth and nails, La Maison des Arts, Saint Herblain, France
In a pet, Maison Bleue, Craon, France
Art and Chapels in Anjou, La Lande-Chasles, France
Mix, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Cholet, France

2021

Devour in the hand, The Pilory and the Grappelli Pavilion, Niort, France
Exposer InSitu, Saint Joseph College, Mauges-sur-Loire, France
Exposer InSitu, Georges Pompidou College, Orée-d'Anjou, France
Exposer InSitu, François Truffaut College, Longué-Jumelles, France

2019

Uncovered or not, with Agnès Hardy, Les Bigotes gallery, Vannes, France
Katarina Kudelova and Benjamin Bachelier, Galerie le Rayon Vert, Nantes, France

2018

Taxidermies, Maison Bonchamps, Varades, with Alain Barcat, France
Sauvage, Epi Gallery, Ingrandes Le Fresne sur Loire, France

2017

Take care, Lycée Victor Hugo, Hennebont, France
S’embras(s)er, Geneva Psychiatric Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

2016

15 years of sculpture and performance, Cultural Space Forum, University of Angers, France
Art circuit, Château de la Jaille, Noëllet, France
Discovered, AVV Gallery, Saint Mathurin sur Loire, with Camille Masson, France

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2024

Countdown Tales, Quai des Arts, Cugnaux
Lacking skin, Artist’s Village, Rabelay-sur-Layon, with Benoît Gendrom
Brooding over the embers, La Gaterie, La Roche-sur-Yon

2023

Dolor : Gwenola de Muralt and Katarína Kúdelová, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
Espèce d’animal, Le Séchoir, Mulhouse, France

2022

Landes'art, Notre Dame des Landes, France
BBA Artist Prize, BBA Gallery, Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2021

The Small Art Market, Galerie Rayon Vert, Nantes, France
Landes’art, Notre Dame des Landes, France
Les Préférences, Varades library, with art center MAT, France

2019

Les Préférences, Maison Julien Gracq, Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, France
Landes’art, Notre Dame des Landes, France
Lands and Landes, La Cohue, Vannes, France
Beauty and Beasts, La Galerie, Binic-Etables-sur-Mer, France
The Small Art Market, Galerie Rayon Vert, Nantes, France
Les Préférences, Montreal Art Center, Montreal, Quebec
Reserve, Galerie Rayon Vert, Nantes, France
Friends of Art, La Cale 2, Nantes, France
SNSP Biennial of Sculpture, Palais Bondy, Lyon, France

2018

The Small Art Market, Galerie Rayon Vert, Nantes, France
15 years!, 2angles, Regional Cultural Relay, Flers, France
The Great Animal Parade, Museum of Fine Arts, Angers, France
May 68 / May 2018, La Cale 2, Nantes, France
Hunters, with La Countrie, Maison Bonchamps, Varades, France

2017

The Small Art Market, Galerie Rayon Vert, Nantes, France
Art Inside # 5, ARTinside Gallery, Château-Gontier, France
Biennial 2017, Contemporary art space les Ecuries, Trélazé, France
Harmonie, The MIN, Angers, France
Volt, Anetz, France
Art Inside # 2, ARTinside Gallery, Château-Gontier, France

2016

Art circuit, Atelier Legault, Pouancé, France
Impressive!, Panorama XXL, Rouen, France
Artivism, Versus & Versus, Paris, France

Awards & Nominations (Selected)

2022

BBA Artist Prize, 1st Prize, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Residency (Selected)

2016/2017

Residency Lycée Victor Hugo, Hennebont, France