ABOUT

Zuzana Čížková also known as Zuzana Klára Čížková

is a Czech sculptor and painter.

STUDIES:

Academy of Art Architecture and Design in Prague, studio Kurt Gebauer
High school of stone craft, Hořice v Podkrkonoší.

INTERSHIP :

Studio for stone Josef Stehlik and Ludwig Stocker, Switzerland (Basil).
Studio for stone, Italy (Carrara).
Painter studio Miloš Síkora, Paris, France.
Sculptor studio Vladinír Škoda, France (Montel, Lyon and Paris).
Sculptor studio Olbram Zoubek in Prague.

AWARDS:

In 2005 she represented Czech Republic in the 116th SALON DES ARTISTES INDÉPENDANTS Paris. Only one representant of each EU country was allowed. Based on this presentation, Zuzana Čížková got invited to these fine art salons directly by the French organizers, but also by private galleries.

In 2009 she received price for a contemporary art Wintontrain, Inspiration by goodness, Prague – London for a relief sculpture with the motif of a hand depicting the text I LOVE (MILUJI) with the finger alphabet

SCULPTURE REALISATIONS (SELECTION)

2011 relief about sign language, wide 700 cm, Holečkova street, Smíchov,Prague
2010 Madonino tajemství, (Madonna's Secret) three stone sculptures, height of each approx. 90 cm, Prosek, Prague
2008 sculpture Milenka Rudolfa II (Mistress of the Emperor Rudolf II), in the garden of Brandýs nad Labem castle - concrete, height 170 cm
2011 sculpture sv. Anežka, stone, height 220 cm, Poděbrady
2008 sculpture Vodníci se hlásí o svá práva (Water spirits have own rights), Šluknov - concrete, height circa 100 cm
2014 Ludvík Kuba, concrete, 200 x 150 x 50 cm
2006 sculpture Mamutí kel (Ivory of mammoth), Ostrava, Landek –
stone, height 300 cm
2004 sculpture Motýl (Butterfly), Nový Dvůr – stone, height circa 175 cm
2004 sculpture Praryba (Primitive fish), Spálené Poříčí - stone, height circa 180 cm
2003 sculpture sv. Florián (St. Florian), Železný Újezd - stone, height 300 cm
2002 sculpture Angel, Hořice v Podkrkonoší - stone, height circa 150 cm
2003 sculpture RANO-RARA-KU, Hořice v Podkrkonoší - stone, height 165 cm

SCULPTURE REALISATION (outside Czech Republic)

Zrození králů (Birth of Kings) Austria, Vienna metal,190 x 200 x 200 cm , 2010 – 2013

SELECTION OF EXHIBITIONS:

Praha 6, Dejvice, ČVUT, Jugoslávkých partyzánů, Cesta za Duhou (Journey to the Rainbow), 3-24. 11. 2022
Rabasova galerie Rakovník, Členská výstava sdružení středočeských výtvarníků (Member exhibition of the Association of Central Bohemian Artists), 11. 9.-23.10. 2022
Beroun, Městská galerie v Berouně, Členská výstava středočeských výtvarníků (Member exhibition of the Association of Central Bohemian Artists), 30.11.-30.12. 2022
Slovensko, Žilina, Auction House Groma s.r.o. , Významné diela súčasného slovenského a českého umenia (Important works of contemporary Slovak and Czech art), 1.2.-30.4. 2021
Od roku 2012 pravidelně vystavuje v Rabasově galerii na každoročních výstavách Středočeských výtvarníků.
Prague Castle, Prague 1, CZ. KAREL IV. TODAY. The exhibition is held under president of the Czech Republic (7.9.-2.10. 2016)
Prague Castle, Prague 1, CZ. I don‘t recant‚ The exhibition is held under president of the Czech Republic. (2015)
France, Paris, Rue de Thorigny, gallery Contemporary art - Les Toiles de L´eté 2013
Trienále, Rabas gallery, 1.8.-1.9. 2012
France, Paris, Rue de Thorigny – Le Salon de Novembre 2009
France, L'Espace Champerret - Salon Independants 2007
Italy, Rome, Basilica Santa Croce in Gerusalemme - La Bibbia ceca nel corso dei secoli
Belgium, Brussels, Presidents‘Gallery-European
France, Paris, Grand Palais, Champs Elysées Clémenceau - Art en Capital 2007
Commission - Czech Bible through the Centuries
France, Paris, L'Espace Champerret - Salon Independants 2006
National Museum in Prague- Winton train
Prague 1, Karolinum gallery - Czech Bible t. t. C.
Czech Embassy in Austria, Vienna– Mädel Knödel
Prague 1 – Kampa, Lichtenstein garden
Verszém, Cellar Gallery, Art house, H-8200 - W
Prague 1, Václavské nám. 13, Gallery art factory - Chaos
Oronsko-Ostrava - MIEDZINARODOWE WARSZTATY RZEZBIARSKIE - MY - WY - RAZEM
Prague 1 Jungmannova ul. 21- 4+4+4, 2006
Prague NKP Vyšehrad, Gorlice - Lughnasadh 2005
Prague 1¸ Gallery Mánes - Josef Mánes - VŠUP Today
Prague 2 Kateřinská zahrada -Nic na odiv ...?
Castle Křivoklát -Návrat ztracených soch
Castle Kačina - Lughnasadh 07
Concrete, 2007 Contemporary project, Museum in Čelákovice, CZ
Castle Křivoklát – Rrromantika
Prague, in Gallery Portheimka with gallery VIVO - Czech sea, 2014
Since 2012, she regularly exhibits in the Rabas gallery at the annual exhibitions of Central Bohemian artists.
and a lot of other exhibitions...

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

Zuzana Čížková, paintings, sculptures on the occasion of the launch of her book, Bím bar loung, Dobřichovice ( November 2022)
Kousek cesty (A little way) (2017), Galery 9, Vysočany Town Hall, Sokolovská street, Prague 9
Trip in Brandýs (2016), club Kočár, Brandýs castle carriage house
Painting Zuzana Čížková (2017), Hellichova ulice, kostel sv. Vavřince, Praha 1 (v areálu Pražského jara)
Painting Zuzana Čížková (2016), Hellichova ulice, kostel sv. Vavřince, Praha 1 (v areálu Pražského jara)
Finfest, vysočanská, Praha 9 (2022)
Romantic landscape (2015), Creative Gate, Jindřišská pasáž, Praha 1
C‘est moi - moje cesty 2014 Galerie Klatovy Klenová, castle st. Vavřinec

Siskin at nightingale, 2010 Rašínovo nábřeží, Prague, CZ
Altars of sacrificed time, 2004 Galleri in Chapel Jan Nepomucký, Jungmannovo náměstí, Prague 1 - sculptures by Zuzana Čížková, photography by Radim Beznoska, CZ
Concrete, 2007 Contemporary project, Museum in Čelákovice, CZ
Unconventionally classic, 2002 Museum in Čelákovice, CZ
Fancies police lieutenant colonel2014 Police museum, Ke Karlovu 1, Prague 2 (with Rudolf Čížek) CZ
Up to the ears in the concrete, 2010 Hradec Králové ( in international concrete seminar ), CZ
Mémoire du Futur - Memory of future, 2007 NKP Vyšehrad, Prague, CZ
Plastic illusion, 2004 Regional Museum for Prague - East in Brandýs nad Labem, CZ Sculpture in trip , 2004, Mariánské Lázně

ABOUT ARTISTS:

Although she was born in Prague, I was raised in Brandýs nad Labem in Central Bohemia. During my childhood, I was inspired by my grandfather who was an art restorer. She studied at High school of sculptures and stone-cutting in Hořice at the foothills of the Krkonoše mountains. After finishing high school, she studied Spatial Creation/Bronze Sculpture in Zlín and after a year left her studies to work in the studio (Olbram Zoubek studio) and at the same time traveled to Italy and Switzerland to the Stone studio Josef Stehlík and Ludwig Stocker.

Since 2003 she collaborating with Research Institute of cement - mortar in Radotín (part of Prague). Thanks to them I was discovering of new and non-traditional concrete (cement-mortar mixture) in my artworks. Together we are working up material known already in Antic Greece.

She was also acquiring experiences at work internships in Switzerland, Italy and France.

In 2005 she was selected as a representative in Paris of young Czech artistes less than 30 years old. I took part as representative of the Czech Republic of 116th edition of the Salon des Artistes Independants. Only one representing artist of each EU country was allowed. In French capital, she twice took part in the Salon des Artistes Independants (2006 and 2007)

She took part three times in the Salon des Artistes Independants. Later I was invited there by the French organisers or by private art galleries.

Later she continued her studies at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, in the Studio led by Professor Kurt Gebauer; I graduated in 2010.

In the year 2009 she received the Winton Train Award – "Inspiration by Goodness Prague – London".

She have created dozens of sculptures put in landscapes (for example in Spálené Poříčí, at Brandýs nad Labem Castle in Poděbrady or in Prague - Prosek and Prague - Smíchov.) I exhibit her paintings in Czechia and abroad, they are presented at temporary exhibition or permanent collections. She exhibited her works in many prestigious galleries in the Czech Republic and abroad.

One of the main themes of her work, for which she received art awards and was the first in Europe to create a sculptural realization of this theme for the public, is sign language and the finger alphabet. He has been implementing this motif since 2001 to the present.

Since 2012, she has been painting modern landscapes and figurative paintings criticizing the lifestyle of so-called advanced civilizations. (Robots, Birth, Romantic landscape of the 21st century) .

Since 2016, life circumstances have led her to create motifs in parallel, floating over the landscape, fast flying at high altitudes and fantastic, even surrealistic motifs (cycles of images Trips N, Horizon of Events).

Čížková's work is very diverse in terms of themes and concepts, which may initially confuse many visitors, and in some cases they may be frightened by the color gradients of some paintings. The number of exhibitions and other presentations of her work to the public is also a rich garden, when we realize at what age she managed to do everything.

Zuzana Čížková also known as Zuzana Klára Čížková(born 10 December 1982) is a Czech sculptor and painter.

Zuzana Čížková in 2017

Although born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Zuzana Čížková was raised in Brandýs nad Labem in Central Bohemia. During her childhood, she was inspired by her grandfather who was an art restorer. She studied at High school of sculptures and stone-cutting in Hořice at the foothills of the Krkonoše mountains.

Madonna's Secret - three stone sculptures in Prague- Prosek.

Later she continued her studies at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, in the Sculpture Atelier led by Professor Kurt Gebauer; she graduated in 2011. During and shortly after her high school studies Zuzana Čížková specialized in traditional technologies and materials (stone and gypsum). Later on, she started to experiment with materials she had already employed earlier in her education. She was discovering of new and non-traditional concrete (cement-mortar mixture) which she achieved in cooperation with the Research Institute of cement - mortar in Radotín (part of Prague).

Mistress of the Emperor Rudolf II - concrete, Brandýs nad Labem

She caught the attention of the audience, not only in Czech Republic, but also in France. In Paris, she twice took part in the Salon des Artistes Independants (2006 and 2007) as a representative of young Czech artistes. Later she made exhibition with a French painter Valexia. Zuzana Čížková also participated at two interships in Basel in Switzerland and Carrar Quarry in Italy. In the year 2009 she received the Winton Train Award – “Inspiration by Goodness Prague – London”.

She has created dozens of monumental sculptures for public areas (for example in Čížkov, Ostrava—Landek, Brandýs nad Labem, Poděbrady, Prague - Prosek and Prague - Smíchov.)

VYPISY VYSTAV:

Praha 6, Dejvice, ČVUT, Jugoslávkých partyzánů, Cesta za Duhou, 3-24. 11. 2022
Rabasova galerie Rakovník, Členská výstava, středočeské sdružení výtvarníků, 11. 9.-23.10. 2022
Beroun, Městská galerie v Berouně, 30.11.-30.12. 2022
Slovensko, Žilina, Auction House Groma s.r.o. , Významné diela súčasného slovenského a českého umenia, 1.2.-30.4. 2021
Od roku 2012 pravidelně vystavuje v Rabasově galerii na každoročních výstavách Středočeských výtvarníků.