Artist: Klára Hosnedlová
Exhibition title: Growth
Venue: Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Date: February 9 – May 29, 2024
Photography: images courtesy the artist and Kunsthalle Basel
Note: Press release is available here
Exploring the legacies of socialist modernism through a melding of meticulous handcraft and a sci-fi aesthetic, Klára Hosnedlová (* 1990) presents an entirely new body of cast glass sculptures and sewn works in her first solo show in Switzerland and most extensive exhibition to date. The Czech artist develops her imagery through private stagings of performances that are photographed and then rendered as intricate embroideries, which form the core of the surreal sculptural installations that enframe them.
Klára Hosnedlová, GROWTH, exhibition view (with performers), Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Zdeněk Porcal – Studio Flusser / Kunsthalle Basel
Klára Hosnedlová, GROWTH, exhibition view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Zdeněk Porcal – Studio Flusser / Kunsthalle Basel
Klára Hosnedlová, GROWTH, exhibition view (with performers), Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Zdeněk Porcal – Studio Flusser / Kunsthalle Basel
Klára Hosnedlová, GROWTH, exhibition view (with performers), Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Zdeněk Porcal – Studio Flusser / Kunsthalle Basel
Klára Hosnedlová, Untitled (from the series Growth), 2024, detail, in: Klára Hosnedlová, GROWTH, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Zdeněk Porcal – Studio Flusser / Kunsthalle Basel
Klára Hosnedlová, Untitled (from the series To Infinity), 2023, installation view, in: Klára Hosnedlová, GROWTH, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Zdeněk Porcal – Studio Flusser / Kunsthalle Basel
Klára Hosnedlová, Untitled (from the series To Infinity), 2023, installation view, in: Klára Hosnedlová, GROWTH, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Zdeněk Porcal – Studio Flusser / Kunsthalle Basel
Klára Hosnedlová, GROWTH, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, exhibition view, photo: Zdeněk Porcal – Studio Flusser / Kunsthalle Basel
Klára Hosnedlová, Untitled (from the series Growth), 2024, detail (with performers) , in: Klára Hosnedlová, GROWTH, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Zdeněk Porcal – Studio Flusser / Kunsthalle Basel
Klára Hosnedlová, Untitled (from the series Growth), 2024, installation view (with performers) , in: Klára Hosnedlová, GROWTH, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Zdeněk Porcal – Studio Flusser / Kunsthalle Basel
Klára Hosnedlová, GROWTH, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, exhibition view, photo: Zdeněk Porcal – Studio Flusser / Kunsthalle Basel
Klára Hosnedlová, Untitled (from the series To Infinity), 2023, installation view, in: Klára Hosnedlová, GROWTH, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Zdeněk Porcal – Studio Flusser / Kunsthalle Basel
Klára Hosnedlová, Untitled (from the series GROWTH), 2024, detail, in: Klára Hosnedlová, GROWTH, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, photo: Zdeněk Porcal – Studio Flusser / Kunsthalle Basel
Klára Hosnedlová, GROWTH, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, exhibition view, photo: Zdeněk Porcal – Studio Flusser / Kunsthalle Basel
Klára Hosnedlová, GROWTH, Kunsthalle Basel, 2024, exhibition view (with performers), photo: Zdeněk Porcal – Studio Flusser / Kunsthalle Basel