Kateřina Vincourová

The monograph Kateřina Vincourová has been published by Galerie Rudolfinum as part of its editorial series on the occasion of a major solo exhibition of the Czech artist under the title Kateřina Vincourová Skin Care from 2 October 2025 to 11 January 2026. The publication includes a text and an extensive interview with the artist by the exhibition curator Denisa Kujelová and essays by Martina Pachmanová (UMPRUM), Vit Havranek (AVU) and the British art historian Klara Kemp-Welch. The monograph was designed by photographer and graphic designer Markéta Othová, with installation photographs by Martin Polák. The publication captures not only the exhibition itself, but also deals extensively with the work of Kateřina Vincourová from the 1990s to the present day, including a wealth of visual material.

Kateřina Vincourová (born. 1968) belongs to a strong generation of emerging Czech artists in the 1990s. In his work, he focuses mainly on installation and objects, often incorporating atypical materials and everyday objects. Along with the mutability of aspects of identity and relationships, it also explores the possibilities of space and its ambiguities. Her work is represented in many state, municipal and private collections. She studied at the V. I. Surikova (1986-1988) and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1988-1994). She has held fellowships at the DAAD in Berlin and the Headlands Centre for Art in California. In 1993 she was awarded the Alexander Dorner Prize in Hannover and in 1996 she was the first female artist to receive the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize. She has had solo exhibitions at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, DC (2018), Fait Gallery in Brno (2016), the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw (2001), Météo Gallery in Paris (1997) and Galerie Behémót in Prague (1992). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, such as Bittersweet Transformation at Kunsthaus Graz (2016), Sometimes in a Skirt at the GHMP and Moravian Gallery in Brno (2014), After the Wall at Moderna Museet in Stockholm (1999) and Home Sweet Home at Diechtorhallen in Hamburg (1997).