She focuses on sculpture in her works. She views this as an area for exploring primary questions of the interior and exterior, permanence and impermanence. The artist uses possibilities afforded by time and motion. The results of her work represent more or less temporary installations, whose existence often depends on the given place and viewer participation. A number of Vincourová’s works represent interiors within an interior (galleries), or an image within an image. These interiors are sometimes inhabitableor at least show metaphorical signs of inhabitability („Call …“, Bags/Tašky). Most often they involve models of consumer culture objects (mobile or cell phones, etc.). The artist comments on the fact that people live inside things, more exactly inside goods. So we are not speaking here of phenomenally-acquired/held things. On the contrary, the object of consumption owns its user to a certain degree. The object creates a battleground, an observation space and a jail cell. Consumers shut themselves into daily rituals, whose repetition and supply melds into a compact, grey space („Neděle/Sunday“). These consumable stashes bring to mind space modules with limited room for life. They are metaphors of expansion and closure. Vincourová’s objects are filled with air (inflated) – with the help of ventilators, which represents their construction material. The external skin (layer) is a space for promoting (drawing attention to) a specific design: logos. This type of fluid architecture has, as a consequence, an elementary softness of its objects. This allows for their simple shifting and transformation. This softness does not however mean loss of form. Rather with its help she emphasises the visual quality of the surface, its symbolic role. Classical statuary art focused on the inside structure and the fixed volume, underscoring its desire for eternalness and timelessness. Even consumer objects demand a certain immortality, of course, in the rhythm of an eternal return and unending variability. The consumption time is a cyclical time, a time of ritualised events. Vincourová’s objects react to this artificial idyll, which has radically transformed the shape of privacy. Privacy has become a commodity, whose concrete form one can select from a catalogue. The public space (above all commercial space) becomes a „soft“ environment, calling to mind the interior of a child’s room. Vincourová is fully aware of this aspect of consumption culture and works to create its ambiguous model.
Kateřina Vincourová
Studium:
1988–1994
AVU Praha, Ladislav Čepelák, Miloš Šejn, Milan Knížák
Stáže, tvůrčí pobyty:
1998–1999
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito
1986–1988
Moskevský státní akademický umělecký institut V. I. Surikova, Moskva
Stipendia:
1999–2000
Berlin DAAD
1998
Headlands Centre For Art, California
Ocenění:
1996
Cena Jindřicha Chalupeckého, Praha
1993
Alexander Dorner Prize, Hannover
1997
Kateřina Vincourová, Nakladatelství Divus, 1997
2014
Johana Lomová, Nechat věci plynout, rozhovor s Kateřinou Vincourovou, Art Antiques, 2014, 26-31
2005
Tomáš Pospiszyl, Hrdinové moderní doby, Ateliér, 2005, 1
1997
Karel Císař, Kateřina Vincourová, Labyrint revue, 1997, 33, 119-125
1996
Marek Pokorný, Kateřina Vincourová, Nová síň, Detail, 1996, 24
1994
Marta Smolíková, Jako když jdeš a najednou šlápneš do vody, rozhovor s Kateřinou Vincourovou, 1994, 90-93
1993
Věra Jirousová, Šedá v šedém, Ateliér, 1993, 1, 1
2018
Arteria, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington D. C
2016
„Kdykoliv si řekneš.“, Fait Gallery, Brno
2015
Nahlížet nasloucháním / Listening Eyes (s Miroslavem Srnkou), Galerie města Ostravy PLATO, Ostrava
CUBE X CUBE Gallery, Novina, Kryštofovo údolí, Liberec
2014
Zpaměti, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague
2012
Poslouchat očima / Listening Eyes (s Miroslavem Srnkou), Galerie Kaple, Valašské Meziříčí
Forgotten in the memory, Fait Gallery, Brno
2011
Jiri Svestka Gallery, Praha
2006
Inside Out, Galerie Die Aktualität des schönen…, Liberec
2004
Noví hrdinové, Galerie Caesar, Olomouc
2000
Hobbyraum, Galerie DAAD, Berlin
1999
Call, Staroměstská radnice, Galerie hlavního města Prahy
1997
Galerie Météo, Paříž
Cena Jindřicha Chalupeckého za rok 1996 Kateřina Vincourová, Galerie Václava Špály, Praha
1996
Cena Jindřicha Chalupeckého 1996, Veletržní palác, Praha
1995
Galerie Nová síň, Praha
1994
Objekty, Galerie Caesar, Olomouc
1992
Neděle, Galerie Behémót, Praha
2016
Independent Research of Subjectivity, Exhibition for Municipal buildings, Festival 4+4 days in motion, Prague
Spaces of Desire: Is Architecture Sexy?, Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, Prague
Bittersweet Transformation: Alina Szapocznikow, Kateřina Vincourová and Camille Henrot, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
2015
The Fragments of Sets/ Selection From the Fait Gallery Collection, Fait Gallery, Brno
2014
In a Skirt – Sometimes, Moravian Gallery in Brno – Prague City Gallery
2010
Absurdity? Groteque? Irony?, NoD Roxy, Prague
New Heroes, Vladimir Preclik Museum, Bechyne
2009
Behind the Velvet Curtain: Contemporary Art from the Czech Republic, Katzen Ars Center, Washington
Formats of Transformation 89-09 – Seven views on the New Czech and Slovak Identity, The Brno House of Arts
Formats of Transformation 89-09 – Seven views on the New Czech and Slovak Identity, MUSA, Vienna
Helga de Alveer and Harald Falckenberg in Dialog, Sammlug Falckenberg Phoenix Kulturstiftung, Hamburg
2008
Central Europa Revisited II, Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt
Micro Narratives, Museé d`Art Saint Etienne, Francie
2007
Going Staying, Kunstmuseum Bonn
Micro Narratives, 48th October Salon, Belgrade
2006
Shadows of Humor, Galerie Bielska BWA, Bielsko Biala, Poland
Praagse Tuin beelden uit Praag, Gouverneurstein van Assen, Holland
Giardino Places for Small Stories, PAN, Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples
2005
Trouble with Fantasy, Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nurnberg
Prague Biennale 2: Expanded Painting, International Contemporary Art, Karlin Hall, Prague
Domicile, Musée d´Art Moderne de Saint Etienne
2004
ARTSEASONS 2004, Mallorca
Breakthrough, The Hague
GIANTS – European Conversation Pieces, The Hague Sculpture,
The Hague
The New Ten – Kunst aus den neuen EU-Ländern, Museum Küppersmühle Duisburg, Künstlerhaus Wien, Kunsthalle Mannheim
2003
Art Unlimited, Kunstmesse Basel, Basel
2001
New Connection, Národní galerie, Praha
2000
Konec světa?, Národní galerie, Praha
1998
Close Echoes, Galerie hlavního města Prahy
1997
Home Sweet Home, Diecgtorhallen, Hamburg
1996
Respekt, Richterova vila, Praha
1994
Ženské domovy, Štencův dům, Praha
Veřejné sbírky:
Prague City Gallery
Collection of Contemporary Arts, The National Gallery in Prague
European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
Privátní sbírky:
Fait Gallery, Brno
Helga de Alvear Collection, Madrid
Distrito Cuatro Collection, Madrid
