Klára Horáčková is a visual artist and designer based in Prague, Czech Republic. She had earned her MgA. degree at Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague at 2006 after studying at Glass Studio under the lead of prof. Vladimír Kopecký, and Sculpture Studio with prof. Jiří Beránek. Within her own art practice she often expresses the ideas through the material of glass and its diverse forms and techniques but doesn´t limit herself solely to this medium. Her works vary from smaller sculptural objects and design to dimensional conceptual mobile installations or projects with new media.
Besides her own art studio practice she has worked as the Head of the Glass Workshop at Glass studio at AAAD in Prague between years 2008 – 2013, teaching kiln glass techniques, such as glass casting, fusing, slumping, pate de verre, experimental techniques, etc. and has been working as Assistant Professor at Glass Studio at AAAD in Prague since 2011. Klára Horáčková became the Head of Transformation in Glass Studio at Prague Institute, NCSU in spring 2015.
Solo Exhibitions
2016 – Evolution, Galerie Kuzebauch, Prague
2016 – Spirit Levels, Gallery Makrac, Prague, Czech Republic
2011 – Inner Space, Golden Lilly Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Collective Exhibitions (selection):
2016 – Femme Fatale, Museum of Glass and Jewellry, Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic
2015 – Glassplus á la Borges, DSC Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2015 – Structures, Révélations, Paris, France
2015 – Kopecký and his school, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, Czech Republic
2015 – Process, Glazenhuis, Lommel, Belgium
2015 – Story of Bohemian Glass, National Museum, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2013 – The Tops – Glass as the Concept, GASK – Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic
2013 – Glass is Tomorrow
- A Glass House, Paris, France
- MOST, Museo della Scienza, Miláno, Itálie
- Ampersand House & Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium
- Quantum Showroom, Maison & Object, Paris, France
- InternationalDesign Biennal, Saint-Ettiene, France
2011 – In Search of Glass, Museum of decorative arts, Prague, Czech Republic
2011 – Transparency Nation, DOX gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2009 – Crossing Borders, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark
2009 – Connections 2009, Art Gallery Manes, Prague, Czech Republic
Symposiums, Awards:
2013 – “SEM5 – Symposium Hommage á Erna Mesárovičová”, Bratislava, Slovakia, (catalog)
2010 – „Alexandria International Sculpture Symposium in Natural Materials – Three dimensional Glass. Bibliotheka Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt
2009 – „The 10th International Glass Symposium in Nový Bor”, Czech Republic
2006 – The 1st prize in the Competition „Art and Craft in Glass Nový Bor
2006“, in the Category Glass Sculpture, combined Techniques and Materials, (catalog)
Representation in collections:
Glasmuseum Alter Hof Herding, Ernsting Stiftung, Coesfeld – Lette,Germany
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
Glass Museum in Nový Bor, Czech Republic
Glass Museum Ajeto, Nový Bor, Czech Republic
Private collections in Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany