Become native again
curator : Julie Crenn
Ten works by Anna Zemánková on loan from the gallery will be shown alongside those of Marinette Cueco and Pistil Paeonia at the Lacoux Contemporary Art Center (France).
Curator Julie Crenn has conceived become native again as a conversation between three artists who share an intimate relationship with the plant world, with the knowledge and power of plants. Three artists who carry an acute awareness of their belonging to the living. Their works are extensions of powerful links with the paths, the physical and mental paths. They act in their places by collaborating with the living, its forces, its visible and invisible part.
It was at the beginning of the 1960s that this humble Moravian woman began creating works, strikingly responding to impulses from the depths. At dawn, she would mentally gather flowers “that grow nowhere else,” making them emerge from the paper.
Anna Zemánková is an established figure of outsider art, to the point that she was honored in 2013 at the Venice Biennale before a significant collection of her works joined the collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Mumok.
In 2023, the gallery presented her in a solo show at Art Basel Paris, and the following year Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the Venice Biennale, exhibited a group of her works. In 2026, the Hermès Corporate Foundation in Brussels subsequently presented eight of her drawings.