OBJECTS→ 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