Katerina Sedá

Katerina Sedá (CZ, born 1977) lives and works in Brno and Prague. She focuses on social experiments and often depicts social behaviour and the establishment of standards. In so doing, she mostly makes use of family members, friends and people from her native city of Lísen. On the international scene, she is noted for 'It Doesn't Matter', a collection of six hundred drawings which were the result of an assignment she gave to her grandmother. Sedá asked her grandmother to sketch from memory all the objects from her former hardware shop. This therapeutic 'Brain-Train' resulted in an impressive collection from the collective memory. Sedá recently held solo exhibitions at venues including the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2008), Kulturgest, Lisbon (2008), Galerie im Taxipalais, Innsbruck (2007) and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (2006). She has also participated in group exhibitions such as Manifesta 7, Bolzano (2008), the 5th Berlin Biennial (2008), documenta 12, Kassel (2007), Frankfurter Kunstverein (2007) and the Prague Biennial (2005).

Kateřina Šedá (born 12 December 1977 in Brno) is a Czech artist focused on conceptual art and social art. Šedá graduated in 2005 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. In 2005, she won the Jindřich Chalupecký Award for Czech artists under 35 years of age. She was married to the filmmaker Vít Klusák. She lives and works in Prague and Brno. Šedá has described the themes of her work as the quotidian, location, and individual storytelling, stating that "In all my public actions, I try to create an exchange between people in their everyday spaces". Her projects often involve members of her family or people from small villages and encourage communication between people, combining urban planning, everyday life, politics, and private relationships through social investigations. read more on Wikipedia...