Klára Hosnedlová was born in 1990 in Ulske-Hradišt, Czech Republic, and currently lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brno, Czech Republic. Klára Hosnedlová’s work explores historical sentiments as they crystallize in modern and contemporary design and architecture. Her sculptures and environments are indebted to Eastern European histories and the past collective mythologies.   

Klára Hosnedlová's immersive installations deal with utopian visions, imagining our future post-natural selves. Interweaving architectural elements with performance, sculpture and also embroidery, her site-specific works are choreographed to develop fictional narratives that pose‘what-if’open-ended scenarios. Conscious that architecture will become the relics for future generations, Klára Hosnedlová’s projects evoke a‘futuristic archaeological mood’through their sensual and tactile materiality and detail-orientated attention to form.

The performative element of Hosnedlová’s work plays a central part in creating a narrative. Inspired by the modern and brutalist architecture of Central-Eastern Europe, the artist stages performances often taking place in site-specific, private spaces. Like a film, Hosnedlová directs and designs the settings and characters, who act out various scenes. Through a complex and continuous process, the artist seeks out as well as constructs unique environments and creates interwoven narratives within them. When staged within a gallery space, the visiting audience ultimately becomes part of the performance. Their presence re-activates the story of nostalgia, as they discover the past in order to make sense of how we define futurity.