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Dancers

2024

Dancers, one of 5 sculptures for a residential project in Prague. Dance, express energy, the dynamics of movement where every muscle expresses some emotion. That’s why both figures are made up of small figures in different…

Snake Woman

2024

Snake Woman, a sculpture inspired by the real Snake Woman Elodie The first design was created in 2019 and was initially realized as a glass relief. Later, I developed it into a monumental illuminated stainless steel…

Artist-a

2024

Up side down, or up legs or just up… Fifth light sculpture from stainless steel for residential building in Prague.

Mobile gallery Aquarium

2023

A twelve-meter shipping container transformed into an original traveling gallery. Thanks to the new glass walls, the shipping container has been transformed into a novel exhibition space. The roof of the container also has its own function,…

Papillon

2022–2023

Marketa Pilatova: From book Stone to Protozoa: When Friedensreich Hundertwasser built his ship Regentag, he didn’t need any houses anymore. He got his captain’s license and kept sailing until he died…

Paper!

2023

Corner stone for new paper machine factory for bag production.

Cuddlie

2024

Ballet dancer

2022

Joy of movement

Skateboard man

2022

Joy of riding making one in red lines…

Angels

2021

Commissioned project for private residency in Prachatice Czech republic.

Gemma

2020

Gemma residence, Skanska real estate, Prague

Big race

2022

Cherubin of Sumava mountains

2022

Sculpture was made within a sympozium at Pasečná.

Virus – quarantine

2021

Virus

2021

Virus, planet, or pollen grain, an object that was created in the viral era as a memento. Made by recycling pipes cut into rings and sintered glass shards joined together into a whole,…

Drop

2020

Sculpture of drop captured while hitting the water. Drop fascinating by dynamic form and life-giving meaning. Kapka as reason for happiness and also anger same as tear drop is symbol or happiness or…

Resources

2018

A valve that spews out a liquid – a substance that is merely the remelted energy of our resources. Connections and the search for balance…

Big Dialogue

2018

This object on the border between a statue and a useful sculpture invites you to stop and make a dialogue with the statue, the place or a person.

The Dialogue

2013

This object on the border between a statue and a useful sculpture invites you to stop and make a dialogue with the statue, the place or a person. So many men, so many minds. Sometimes it’s nice to slow…

The Parallel World of Angels

2018

Statues that were created in cooperation with Petmat! The parallel world of angels, the world we only suspect and imagine, we often idealize and believe in its salvation, oversight over us or the protection…

Ascensio Domini

2018

This sculpture is created from polycarbonate plates and aluminium and it creates the impression of levitation “ascension to heaven”. Installed in the residential district of Prachatice.

Mr. Red

2018

An object on the border between a statue and a utility sculpture – the silhouette of a figure that shines, radiates and spreads energy into the night.

Looking for Freedom

2017

To get rid of your anchors and fly, just to float over everyone’s heads.

Feeling of Freedom

2016

To fly, just to float over the heads of everyone and to mirror the world in yourself. With the lightness that is redeemed by abandoning everything or accepting the fact that everything is just an illusion.

Ludo

2017

Monumental figurines from a well-known board game for children with a big game plan designated for those, who like to control large areas. Or just a privately running game inside one of the larger-than-life figurines. All…

Head Manager

2015

Totems have always been symbols of the whole and the identity of a tribal group. The scenes on totems had faces of Gods and authorities. The statue Head Manager is a paraphrase of contemporary society when managers and head managers become…

The Thinker

2017

The Thinker is inspired by the Auguste Rodin statue. The Thinker as the image of society which is reflected in him. Exhibited in 2017 in Arles, France.

Looking for Happiness

2013

Happiness, everyone is looking for it, it can be hidden, for example, under the caps of mushrooms, where one can find each other…

The Thinker

2015

The statue is a paraphrase of the famous Thinker by sculptor Auguste Rodin. Seated on a chair, covered with silhouettes of stylized figures in various positions, the Thinker symbolically represents the consciousness of all mankind.

Thinkers

2010

Shoshones

2015

Monolithic coloured heads carry references to different ethnics, they demonstrate the beauty and diversity of cultures as well as the ability to live together and mutually enrich one another despite the advancing globalization and associated blurring…

Cuddlies

2014–2021

Inspired by the world of bacteria, which are normally invisible. However, when enlarged to a human scale, they force the observer to reflect on their own size.

The Bizarre God

2015

During my travels, I got to know many different forms of faith. From ancient times people have a need to believe and to entitle things through religion, to create stories, to live. Nevertheless, not everyone is looking for spiritual…

Atheistic Prayer

2012

Installed in the landscape by the Klenová Castle in South Bohemia. The installation is situated in the place where the circular mural path is connected to the main road from Javor.

What Is Happiness?

2011

This monumental gold fly represents the polemic over what everyone longs for. The inspiration for this sculpture came from a poem by Adolf Heyduk and the fascination of the insect itself. A fly, so small, useless and…

Phase of Fascination

2011

Sculptural group of lamps in love which evokes intertwined figures in an embrace or the structure of DNA and which light up at night.

Dialogues of Spaces

2009

An object that was built within a project called Sculptural Cages in Ceské Budejovice works with a concept of connecting architecture, sculpture and greenery. I opened my cage for dialogue between the spectators and space.…

Mental Insight

2012

What would it be like to find yourself in someone else’s head? Or in your own head? The sculpture Mental Insight can enable it just figuratively, but it will definitely provide the passer-by a place…

The Curious Guys

2013

Installed in old niche in Split house in Ceske Budejovice.

On the Waves of Information (reader)

2011

An invasive species

2008

Free Captive

2009

Memento

2003

It was really hard work but it is worth the result. The sculpture is permanently installed in Hluboka nad Vltavou.

Meeting between Pixels

2008

Exhibited at the Lannova Street in České Budějovice within the exhibition “Sculpture Quartet in the City” with a group of 4sculptors.

Cuddlies

2014-2021

Humanoids

2006–2007

Humanoids-people, machines or tools serving the system. Crowds, deliberately permitting control by media and general trends. The man stopped to be the individuality and in the chase for a “better” life more likely forms existence of the system……

Vandals

2008

Quite early after an attack on the group of sculptures „Meeting between Pixels“ Iva Sedláková (the head of the Department of Culture of the town Ceske Budejovice) and I agreed on a new installation. With a certain satiric exaggeration, I decided to place…

Readers

2005

The sculptures of the readers are located on the Baroque fountain on the Grape Courtyard of the Klementinum, the National Library in Prague.