Anna Zemánková,
Curator: Lukas Hofmann
First monographic exhibition devoted to Anna Zemánková in Prague. Open until January 16, 2022 at FUTURA .
The project introduces the strange world of her plant compositions, seeks to analyse the formal development of her work, and to place it in the contemporary art context . The exhibition also includes a series of works - butterflies, smaller satin works, and early drawings - which have not yet been exhibited.
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.