# Monika Žáková — full site content

Source: https://www.monikazakova.com/ (English). Last updated 2026-10-03.

## About (https://www.monikazakova.com/)

Monika Žáková graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts. Her work is precise and focuses on exploring relationships between materials. She uses various materials such as canvas, paper, aluminum, metal, and plaster. Through her work, she experiments with different planes and layers of colour, combining traditional painting with reliefs. Monika Žáková has showcased her art in numerous exhibitions across Europe and Japan.

### Upcoming exhibitions
- September 12 – October 24, 2026: Double Q Gallery, Hong Kong
- October 2027: Museum Kampa, Prague (solo)

### Quotes
- "I consider Monika Žáková to be among the most talented young artists in the Czech Republic." — Anna Pulkertová, Founder Art Part Club & J&T Banka Art Manager
- "Monika Žáková creates paintings with absolute precision and skill, transforming monochromatic surfaces through the illusionary bending of matter." — Adam Hnojil, Pro Arte, Investment Fund

### Artwork series
- Echoes of Antifragility: minimalistic, meditative series in cotton and acrylic on canvas, blending traditional and modern techniques with intricate layering and material interplay; themes of resilience and adaptation.
- Soft Logic: cotton and acrylic on canvas; signature minimalistic, contemplative approach focused on materiality and tactile quality.
- Echoes of Fragility (2020): cotton and acrylic on canvas exploring the balance between strength and vulnerability and the ephemeral nature of existence.
- Zero Gravity: meticulous execution and attention to formal and conceptual elements; minimalist, meditative works with an ethereal quality, including plaster casts.

Portfolio PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JD4zBRBpLCH9QpgBDi1zlZ5MrLpvFabS/view?usp=sharing

### Book: More Light (Alšova jihočeská galerie)
In the last three years, the work of Monika Žáková has reached a synthesis of her previous concentrated creation, positioning itself as an authentic analytical abstraction. The author sensitively works with the energy of the material, its physical essence, and the subtle dynamics of the image plane's proportions. A fundamental element of her work is light, which acts as a co-creator of the whole: light enters the work and shapes it, functioning as a medium that is part of its physical form and also its content, philosophical matter and measure.
Buy: https://eshop.ajg.cz/produkt/monika-zakova-vice-svetla

## Curriculum vitæ (https://www.monikazakova.com/cv)

Born 1987 in Prague, Czech Republic. Lives and works in Prague and Slapy nad Vltavou.

### Education
- 2006–2012: Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

### Awards
- 2014: 7th Prize of Art Critique for Young Painting, 3rd place, Gallery of Art Critics, Prague

### Residencies
- 2021: Telegraph Studio, Olomouc, CZ
- 2020: Egon Schiele Art Centrum, Český Krumlov, CZ
- 2015: Smalt Art, Ostrava, CZ

### Collections
Artefin investment fund; COLLETT Prague | Munich; Gallery of Modern Art Roudnice nad Labem; Heinemann Collection, DE; Kunsthalle Praha, Pudil Family Foundation; Lettenmayer Collection; Michal Richtr Collection; Museum Kampa, Prague; Oldřich Th. Uttendorfský Collection; Pekelné sáně Art Collection; Proarte, Praha; Robert Runták Collection

### Gallery
Double Q Gallery, Hong Kong — https://doubleqgallery.com/

### Selected solo exhibitions
- 2027: Museum Kampa, Prague (forthcoming)
- 2025: Echoes of Time, Echoes of Memory, Double Q Gallery, Hong Kong
- 2024: Under the Surface / Pod povrchem (with Michal Gabriel), Galerie Artefin, Prague
- 2023: More Light, South Bohemian Gallery, Hluboká nad Vltavou, CZ
- 2022: Euphony (with Jana Babincová), AMB Gallery, Hradec Králové, CZ; Soft Logic, Dole Gallery, Ostrava, CZ
- 2021: Tactile Mind, Bold Gallery, Prague; Eloquent Silence, Jiří Jílek Gallery, Šumperk, CZ
- 2020: Echoes of Fragility, Gallery of Modern Art Roudnice nad Labem, CZ
- 2019: New Gravity II, Pragovka, Prague
- 2018: Kubín-Žáková-Coubine, Proarte Gallery, Prague; New Gravity, Industra Art, Brno, CZ; Reappearance II, Prague House, Brussels, BE; Reappearance, Vyšehrad Gallery, Prague; Appearance, Lucie Drdova Gallery, Prague
- 2017: Shadow Games (with Antony Burnham), 17/18 Gallery, Ottawa, CA
- 2016: White, Grey, White, NoD Gallery, Prague
- 2015: Double Solution, Drdova Gallery, Prague
- 2014: Pastel, Scissors, Paper, Kabinet Gallery, Brno, CZ
- 2013: Blurred Emptiness, Půda Gallery, Jihlava, CZ; Sensitive Eyes, Art Gallery, Brno, CZ; Bland Paper, House of Art, Opava, CZ
- 2012: Monochromatika, Jelení Gallery, Prague
- 2011: Strings on Your Fingers (with Vladimír Houdek), 35M2 Gallery, Prague

### Selected group exhibitions
- 2026: UFO: Universal Futurological Organisation, Double Q Gallery, Hong Kong; Radiant, NIA Gallery, Prague (curated by Anna Pulkertová & Nikol Popovská)
- 2025: Winter View: From Modern to Modern, Cyprián Fine Art, Prague; Flashes of Time, Kvalitář, Prague; Bod 0, KodlContemporary, Prague (curated by Jan Kudrna); Chatrný 100, Gočár Gallery, Pardubice, CZ (curated by Martina Vítková)
- 2024: New Generation, Czech Design Week, Clam-Gallas Palace, Prague; Summer Art Salon 2024, KodlContemporary, Prague; CAN, Opero, Prague (organised by Art Part Club)
- 2023: CON-STRUCTURE, NOOKART Studio, Prague (curated by Radek Wohlmuth); Symbiosis 2.0, Art Basel Hong Kong VIP Program, Hong Kong Arts Centre (curated by Lenka and Richard Bakeš)
- 2022: Rhythm, White Unicorn Gallery, Klatovy, CZ; Soft, Hidden, Exposed, Double Q Gallery, Hong Kong, HK
- 2021: Šárka Koudelová: II The Meek One, Karlin Studios, Prague
- 2020: Salon Tchécoslovaque: Contemporary Czech and Slovak Painting, Gallery NTK, Prague
- 2017: Ripple Effect, Contemporary art Futura, Prague; Ich bin nicht meine Zielgruppe, Kunsthaus Dresden, DE
- 2016: Independent Research of Subjectivity, 4+4 Days in Motion Festival, Prague
- 2015: Exakta, NoD Gallery, Prague; Geo Ego, Czech Centre, Berlin, DE; Geo Ego, NTK Gallery, Prague; Metaplay Prague – Tokyo, Toki Art Space, Tokyo, J; Metaplay Prague – Tokyo, Czech Centre, Tokyo, J
- 2014: Metaplay Prague – Tokyo, Gallery of Art Critics, Prague; Cologne Paper Art, Cologne, DE; Positionen, Next Gallery, Dresden, DE; 7th Critics Award for Young Painters, Gallery of Art Critics, Prague; Workplace, AMU Gallery, Prague
- 2013: Flächenspannung, Next Gallery, Dresden, DE
- 2012: 6th Zlín Youth Salon, Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín, CZ; AVU Diploma Show, Czech National Gallery – Trade Fair Palace, Prague

### Press (Czech-language)
- Harper's Bazaar: "Monika Žáková: umělkyně, kterou milujeme" — https://harpersbazaar.cz/art/monika-zakova-umelkyne-kterou-milujeme/
- CzechCrunch (charity auction at Kunsthalle Praha): Zero Gravity 01, a plaster-cast work, started at CZK 50,000 and sold for CZK 260,000 — https://cc.cz/v-kunsthalle-probehla-charitativni-aukce-kalab-se-vydrazil-za-pul-milionu-novak-za-450-tisic/
- Czech TV (ČT24): Alšova jihočeská galerie exhibition — https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/kultura/alsova-jihoceska-galerie-vystavuje-vzkazy-vysite-na-dlanich-svetlo-v-abstrakci-i-obrazy-kterymi-se-m-10571
- DenikN: group show with Masker and Al-Mukhtarová at Hluboká — https://denikn.cz/1079356/ohorely-otec-predava-dceri-zdevastovanou-planetu-masker-a-dva-dalsi-mladi-soucasni-umelci-predstavuji-na-hluboke-sve-vize-soucasnosti/
- Lidové noviny (2023): review of the Alšova jihočeská galerie exhibition (scan on site)

## Contact (https://www.monikazakova.com/contact)
Email: zakovastudio@gmail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zakovamonika/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monikazakova/