Alžběta Bačíková

Alžběta Bačíková (b. 1988) is an artist based in Prague. She focuses on the medium of the moving image and works primarily with video installation. In the past years, Bačíková has dealt with reflection of documentary tendencies in contemporary art both in her theoretical research and her artistic practice. She has made a series of video-portraits of real or fictional figures. In 2018 she finished her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno.

She was a resident at Art in General in New York (2019), Artist-in-Residence Programme at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna (2018), Czech Center in New York (2024) or Schaumbad in Graz (2026). Bačíková received the Czech Centres Audience Award of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award (2018).

Between the years 2017–2020 she worked as a curator of the Etc. Gallery in Prague.  Since 2019, Bačíková had been teaching and leading Artyčok.TV project at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where she later worked as an editor. Currently, she is collaborating with the platform as an independent contributor.

Residency dates:  1. 8 – 31. 10. 2026

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Trigger Witness, G99 Gallery, House of Arts, Brno
2021 Shine Your Light on Me, Nevan Contempo, Prague
2019 Our Space, Liberec Regional Gallery, Liberec
2018 Silent Report, House of Arts, Ústí nad Labem
2017 Bent Tiles, Young Artists’ Gallery, Brno
2017 Running Report, Entrance Gallery, Prague
2017 Heroes, Jelení Gallery, Prague
2016 House (with Barbora Švehláková), TIC Gallery, Brno
2016 Open Call (with Lucie Rosenfeldová and Martina Smutná), UM Gallery, Prague
2016 Doctors, Etc. Gallery, Prague
2015 Moral Compromise, Luxfer Gallery, Česká Skalice
2015 Carpe Diem (with Martina Smutná), Fait Gallery Preview, Brno

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 Die Neue Tradition, Schaumbad, Graz
2023 Unexpected Care, ICA Sofia, Sofia
2023 Fotograf Festival 2023: Common Grounding, Galerie Hraničář, Ústí nad Labem
2022 We Shall Overcome, Moravian Gallery, Brno
2022 Let Me Hear Your Footprints, MeetFactory, Prague
2022 Young and Restful, MeetFactory, Prague
2021 Allied Kyiv Biennial 2021, Visual Culture Research Center & East Europe Biennial Alliance, House of Cinema, Kyiv
2020 Matter of Art Biennale, Prague City Gallery, Municipal Library, Prague
2020 Hotel Beethoven: A World Theatre, BOZAR, Brussels
2020 Fotograf Festival 2020: Uneven Ground, Karlín Studios & Garage Gallery, Prague
2020 Brave New Normal, Cursor Gallery, Prague
 2018 Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2018, Trade Fair Palace, National Gallery Prague, Prague
 2018 V4 Art Connects: Structures / Illusions / Interactions, Budavári Mikve, Budapest
 2017 Ripple Effect, FUTURA, Prague
 2017 Fibres, Skeins, Fabrics, Vysočina Regional Gallery, Jihlava
 2016 Against Nature: Young Czech Art Scene, National Gallery Prague, Prague
 2016 Language, Galerie Hraničář, Ústí nad Labem
 2016 The Offense of Things, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem
 2015 7th Zlín Youth Salon, Regional Gallery of Fine Arts, Zlín
 2015 The Production of Too Many Useful Things Results in Too Many Useless People, Stúdió Galéria, Budapest
 2014 Startpoint: Prize for Emerging Artists 2014, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague

SCREENINGS

2022 Bent Tiles, Fab-rageous Grrlz Come Out of the Vapors, D’EST, Berlin
2021 Lavish Issue, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, International Competition, Oberhausen
2021 Bent Tiles, My Significant Other, D’EST & Etc. Gallery, Ponrepo Cinema, Prague
2021 Lavish Issue, Waste/d Film, Temporary Academy of Arts, State of Concept, Athens
2021 DJ, Videoex, International Competition, Zurich
2021 Lavish Issue, PAF – Other Visions CZ 2021, Olomouc
2020 Correspondence, NEMAF – Seoul International ALT Cinema & New Media Festival, Seoul
2017 Fading Relationship, Meetings Video & Performance Festival, Denmark

RESIDENCIES

2026 Schaumbad Freies Atelierhaus, Graz
2025 Brno AIR, House of Arts, Brno
2019 Art in General Residency, New York
2018 MQ AIR, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
2018 INI Project Prague (with Lucie Rosenfeldová)
2017 Research Internship, Video Archive, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (supported by FFA BUT)
2017 Egon Schiele Art Centrum Residency, Český Krumlov

AWARDS

2018 Jindřich Chalupecký Award, Audience Award & Czech Centers Award
2014 Startpoint: Prize for Emerging Artists, Finalist
2014 Rector's Prize, Brno University of Technology

all information is accurate as of July 2026

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