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Barbora Lexová profile

"In my emerging practice, I allow myself to be led by the limits of the material I am working with. I tend to push beyond the boundaries
of the scale of the human body and delve into larger sculptural forms.
I have long been interested in reconsidering the value and aesthetics
of everyday objects. Influenced by my hypersensitivity and the ASMR phenomenon, my central theme has become tactility and an intuitive world of fantasy and associations.


I don't distinguish between the value of low-profile materials and precious ones. Instead, I choose them based on their ability to deliver
a message or their technical characteristics. I am drawn towards softness and weirdness, but at the same time, I gravitate towards spiky, semi-fictional creatures. Since childhood, I have been drawn to collecting strange objects. When I work, I feel like an archaeologist
and scientist, discovering creatures and exploring ways in which they can coexist with the human body. I aim to excavate from my soul all the peculiar creatures that can happily live in symbiosis on the human body.

 

Although my use of materials is wide, the pieces I have created lately have a common basis: living features, with a creepy crawlies-like vibe."

Barbora Kukula (b. Lexová) is an emerging artist who studied in the K.O.V. studio under the guidance of Eva Eisler at UMPRUM in Prague and later earned her master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Her work merges a refined sensitivity to form and material with a distinct, almost otherworldly intuition. Through this sensibility, she brings to life creations that appear to emerge from parallel dimensions. Her objects resemble living organisms—strange entities, sometimes soft, sometimes spiky—existing in a liminal space between fantasy and reality. Kukula refers to them as “creatures” that respond to the evolving world and the human body. Her work has been presented at international exhibitions and design fairs, including in Tallinn, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, and Munich.

EDUCATION

Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp– Jewellery design & gold-silversmithing, MA

Oslo National Academy of Arts– internship

UMPRUM– Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague, K.O.V.
(Concept–Object–Meaning) studio led by associate professor Eva Eisler, BA


Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University in Prague–Industrial design, one year
 

EXHIBITIONS

Piece of Peace in Amsterdam 2.05.-17.05.2025 The Wearhouse

Part of PETRA PTÁČKOVÁ  show at MBPFW 2025

Piece of Peace in Munich 13.03.-15.03.2025 – MJW25

K.O.V. 2007 – 2023 Community – Personalities – Relationships in studio led by Eva Eisler,
14.02.-29.03.2025, UM Gallery

GOOSEBUMPS 28.09.2024 - 26.10.2024– Plattform Schmuckkunst Graz, Austria

Particle[s] 25.4.-5.5. Brussels Jewellery Week 2024

Žouželení 15.03.2024-19.05.2024, A-Galerii WINDOW Talin

Galerie Vida ADORNED, online exhibtion March 2024

Tincal lab Challenge 2023 Jewellery and Travel

 

Designblok 2023

CONTEMPORANIA BARCELONA 2023– financial support from Ministry of Culture, Czech Republic

SIERAAD Art Fair 2023– financial support from Ministry of Culture, Czech Republic

TO BE ANTWERP– Donum

Designregio Kortrijk – WE ARE THE NEXT GENERATION

Malá Noc Módy

Postpost Gallery – Vykopávky

Master degree group exhibition GET IN TOUCH, Antwerp, Belgium

"What a Wonderful World" – Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp

ArtSafari 37: SLEEP, BUBEC

Vyšeart 2021

 

Marzee Gallery, Nijmegen – “On the Road Eva Eisler&Alumni“

 

Designblok – “On the Road Eva Eisler&Alumni“

 

Muzeum Portheimka – Meda 100

 

Galerie UM– Design Treat Café

AWARDS

Czech International Award for Student Design 2019- nominee, category– clothing, footwear, jewellery

 

Jewellery for Museum Portheimka (Museum of glass), MEDA 100–4th place, Pearl necklace

Olověný Dušan 2017 (Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University in Prague) – Design category, dustpan and broom FORM 165

 

Teendesign 2015– 3rd place in category Drawing, painting, graphic–an international competition for students

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