Barbora Bačová
#2 min Barbora Bačová
1. 1. 2025
I am gonna live my life
I created this work at a time of my long term devastation, caused by the worries of a serious illness in my family. The unusual form of the "book" in the form of loose sheets of paper bound together with a clip, reminds me of a medical file at the doctor's office. Record. The technical condition was to pause the computer, and focus on the manual activity of pasting photographs which represents a form of self-therapy and freedom of creativity. The images are taken with a smartphone and tend to be chronologically related. The caption "I am gonna live my life" is a phrase taken from the cover of the diary, which i saw it in fashion store... This health diary links photography to everyday life through a powerful personal experience.
Barbora Bačová was nominated to Futures Talents by Fotograf Zone in 2024.
Co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union, FUTURES is a platform to increase the capacity, mobility and visibility of it's selected artists and to bridge the gap between emerging and established artists.
IMAGES CAPTIONS
All images: Barbora Bačová, I am gonna live my life, 2019–2020
Barbora Bačová
Fotograf zone
#3 min Markéta Kinterová
Portfolio review: how to make the most of 20 minutes
What is a portfolio review, really? It’s a meeting that often lasts no more than twenty minutes. For some, it’s an unusual format — something between a professional consultation and a kind of informal speed dating. On one side are artists, on the other are professionals from the field: curators, editors, gallerists, offering their attention, experience, and above all, feedback. So how can you make the most of those twenty minutes?
#5 min Markéta Kinterová
Meet the talents nominated by Fotograf Zone for 2026
We are pleased to introduce four artists nominated for the international FUTURES platform: Ondřej Kubeš, Jakub Tulinger, Miriam Pružincová, and Linda Zhengová. The nominated artists will take part in FUTURES activities, where they will have the opportunity to present their work to an international professional audience, establish new professional connections, and further develop their practice in dialogue with curators, institutions, and fellow artists from across Europe.
#3 min Barbora Trnková, Martin Newth
Martin Newth – Event Horizons: A Return Without Place
Martin Newth approaches landscape as an image of a return to a place that does not exist. By photographing scenery from digital game worlds using analogue processes, he foregrounds the mediated nature of experience. This return to materiality is not a step backwards, but a way of using photography to expose the underlying conditions of our relationship to reality.
#2 min Světlana Malina, Chaeyeon Kang
Taboo and Continuous Transformation – Chaeyeon Kang’s Winning Project
On March 26, Fotograf Zone gallery presents 28 Days, a project by Chaeyeon Kang, on view in the gallery window. The project was selected as last year’s open call winner by a jury composed of Nadia Markiewicz and Vít Havránek. Kang explores the cycles of the female body and uses digital images and organic materials to question ideas of bodily perfection. The exhibition is visible from the street at all times from March 27 to April 12, 2026.
#1 min Pavlína Vogelová
Michel Medinger – Lord of Things
#1 min Barbora Švejnochová
Barbora Švejnochová
#3 min Nadia Markiewicz, Barbora Bačová, Karina Golisová, Ines Karčáková, Oskar Helcel
Come To Dust
The exhibition Come To Dust presents the photographic work of five talents nominated in 2024 by Fotograf Zone for the prestigious European project FUTURES.
#1 min Barbora Bačová
Barbora Bačová
Peripheral Beauty