anna zemánková
fruits with a taste of potato dumplings
The Gočár Gallery, an art museum in Pardubice, Czech Republic, presents Fruits with a Taste of Potato Dumplings, an exhibition tracing the evolution of Anna Zemánková’s artistic practice from natural and organic motifs to abstract, ornamental and geometric compositions.
The exhibition offers an overview of Anna Zemánková’s entire oeuvre, from her early large-format drawings on paper, through collages of painted cut-outs made of paper or satin, to later works combining painting, embroidery, beads and textile applications. It traces the evolution of her work from natural and organic motifs towards abstract, ornamental and geometric compositions. Zemánková’s inspirations came primarily from nature, Moravian folk costume, Baroque architecture and the visual culture of the 1960s and 1970s.
curators : Natálie Drtinová, Pavel Liška
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 art brut, 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.