anna zemánková
paris+ par art basel
On the occasion of Paris+ by Art Basel, the gallery is presenting, for the first time, a museal selection consisting of artworks from the most significant period of Anna Zemánková - the iconic large pastels from the 1960s and 1970s - and more sophisticated drawings which include textile collage, embossing, or paper cutouts.
The Venice Biennale (curated by Massimiliano Gioni) in 2013 transformed Anna Zemánková from an iconic figure of art brut to an artist adored by the contemporary art world. Her works have joined countless collections, including those of the Centre Pompidou and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and in recent years have been shown in major exhibitions including those at the New Museum (NYC), the Hyogo Museum (Kobe), Lafayette Anticipations (Paris) and the Rudolfinum (Prague).
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.
