{"id":121653,"date":"2024-07-10T23:04:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T21:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:devel.artlist.cz\/artist\/dopitova-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T11:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:52:21","slug":"milena-dopitova","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/artlist.cz\/en\/umelci\/milena-dopitova\/","title":{"rendered":"Dopitov\u00e1"},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-121653","artist","type-artist","status-publish","hentry","keyword-body-art-en","keyword-gender-art-en","keyword-installation-art","keyword-political-art","keyword-sculpture"],"acf":{"nicknames":"","date_born":1963,"date_death":0,"place_born":"\u0160ternberk","lives":"Prague","web":"https:\/\/www.milenadopitova.cz\/","idatum":"https:\/\/databaze.vvp.avu.cz\/en\/archivy\/archive-of-artists\/21","address":"","email":"m.dopitova@email.cz","phone":"","biography":"<strong>Studies:\r\n<\/strong>\r\n1989\u20131994\r\nAcademy of Fine Arts Prague, Prof. Milan Kni\u017e\u00e1k, Intermedia Studio\r\n1987\u20131989\r\nAcademy of Fine Arts Prague, doc. Ji\u0159\u00ed Karmaz\u00edn, Landscape Painting Studio\r\n1982\u20131985\r\nUhersk\u00e9 Hradi\u0161t\u011b Secondary School of Applied Art, department of graphic design\r\n1978\u20131982\r\n\u0160ternberk Grammar School\r\n\r\n<strong>\r\nGrants and stipends:\r\n<\/strong>\r\n2002\r\nInternational and Curatorial Programme, New York\r\n1997\r\nMAK Schindler Residency, Los Angeles\r\nThe Sculpture Place, Utica New York\r\n1996\r\nThe Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia\r\n1995\r\nThe Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh\r\n1994\r\nCanberra School of Art, Canberra\r\nThe Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston\r\n1993\r\nProgetto 93, Civitella d\u2019Agliano\r\n1992\r\nNottingham Polytechnic, Nottingham\r\n1991\r\nGalerie 68elf, Cologne\r\n1990\r\nInternationale Sommerakademie, Salzburg\r\n\r\n<strong>\r\nAwards:<\/strong>\r\n\r\n2010\r\nMichal Rann\u00fd Award, Brno\r\n2003\r\nTranzit Contemporary Art Initiative Development Award, Prague\r\n1997\r\nPollock-Krasner Foundation, New York\r\nThe Central European Culture Initiative, Vienna, Austria","groups":[121163],"membership":"","exhibitions_solo":"2025\r\nSoft Targets, GAFU Ostrava\r\n\r\n2024\r\nEven Odd, Veletr\u017en\u00ed pal\u00e1c, National Gallery Prague\r\nUmleitung \/ Detour, LOCUS SOLUS der INITIATIVE KUNST, Arkaden opposite Kaufhof, Munich\r\nWhere Have I Been All My Life?, Galerie Ji\u0159\u00edho J\u00edlka, \u0160umperk\r\nHALLO THERE!, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Umrian Contemporary, Bratislava\r\n\r\n2023\r\nAnd the Second Wish?, Galerie U B\u00edl\u00e9ho jednoro\u017ece, Klatovy\r\nEven\u2013Odd, Veletr\u017en\u00ed pal\u00e1c, Prague\r\nWhere Is the Skipping Rope?, Galerie Luxfer, \u010cesk\u00e1 Skalice\r\n\r\n2022\r\nNext stop is at the sign, Brno House of Arts, Brno\r\nEven Odd, BOZAR \u2013 Palais des Beaux \u2013 Art \/ Paleis voor Schone Kunsten Centre for Fine Arts, Brusel\r\nOFF-SIDE, NoD Praha\r\n\r\n2021\r\nForbidden Release, 4+4 days in motion Motol, realization in public space, Prague\r\n\r\n2020\r\nDear, Milena Dopitov\u00e1, Natalie Perkof \u201cDear\u201d, Etcetera Gallery, Brno (Brno-city)\r\nDead End, Kabinet Gallery, Chaos, Poli\u010dka\r\n\r\n2019\r\nNext time at your place, MeerFactory - International Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague\r\n\r\n2018\r\nSoft skills, Kultur\u00e1k Archa, Lubn\u00e1 (Svitavy)\r\nWaiting for Karel, ProLuka - gallery under Vr\u0161ovice sky, Prague\r\n\r\n2017\r\nSoft Skills, Polansky Gallery, Praha\r\n\r\n2016\r\nMy Body is a Temple, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan\r\nWhat it is to grow young again? Czech Embassy, Beijing\r\nTravelling Light, Gallery Na shledanou, Volyn\u011b\r\nOnce More Quietly, Once More Loudly, Pitevna Gallery, Brno\r\n\r\n2014\r\nI Love and Accept, Prague City Gallery, Municipal Library, Prague\r\nCross My Heart, Polansk\u00fd Gallery, Prague\r\n\r\n2012\r\nMine, Come on, I've got it, Mine, I'm on it!, POLANSKY GALLERY, Prague\r\nSpleen, Jadro Gallery, Brno\r\n\r\n2011\r\nWhere My First End?, City Gallery Blansko\r\nI'll Stay a Little Longer, Moravian Gallery, Brno (awarded of Michal Ranny Award)\r\n\r\n2007\r\nCome, I\u2019ll Show You the Way Through Paradise, American Center, Prague\r\n\r\n2006\r\nDoes wind also have rays?, City Gallery, Karlovy Vary\r\n\r\n2005\r\nSixtysomething, JIRI SVESTKA GALLERY, Prague\r\n\r\n2004\r\nEverything What I Want You May Wish Too, Exhibition Hall Sokolska, Ostrava\r\nWashing Day, Display Gallery, Prague\r\n\r\n2003\r\nSixtysomething, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York\r\nGreen Plateaus, House of Lords of Kunstat, Brno\r\n\r\n2002\r\nI\u00b4m Gonna Make You Wonder if You Are My Friend, Czech Centre, New York\r\n\r\n2001\r\nCome,I\u00b4ll Show You the Way Through Paradise, Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg; together with Jasansky\/Polak (catalogue)\r\n\r\n2000\r\nCome,I\u00b4ll Show You the Way Through Paradise, JIRI SVESTKA GALLERY, Prague\r\nfoyer of the Czech Parliament\u00b4s House of Commons, refused works for EXPO 2000 Hannover\r\n\r\n1999\r\nInstallations 1992 \u2013 1999, The Brno House of Arts; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Kunsthalle Krems (catalogue)\r\nJIRI SVESTKA GALLERY, Prague\r\nI\u2019m Gonna Make You Wonder if You Are My Friend, 761 Gallery, Ostrava\r\n\r\n1996\r\nGallery MXM, Prague\r\n\r\n1995\r\nPrague City Gallery (catalogue)\r\nDon\u2019t Be Afraid to Take That Big Step, Gallery 86, Trier\r\n\r\n1994\r\nYou Must Remember This, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York (with David Cerny)\r\nLeo Model Exhibition Hall, Jerusalem (with Pavel Humhal) (catalogue)\r\nMilena Dopitova in Context, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston\r\nMilena Dopitova in Context, Carpenter Center, Boston\r\n\r\n1993\r\nGallery MXM, Prague\r\n\r\n1992\r\nGallery MXM, Prague (with Jiri Kovanda)\r\n\r\n1991\r\nObjects and Installations, City Gallery, Sternberk","exhibitions_group":"2025\r\nThere Is Time for That, Etcetera Gallery, Prague\r\nFreedom in Puberty \/ Art of the 1990s, Gallery of Fine Arts, Hodon\u00edn\r\nFlowers, Smetana Q Gallery, Prague\r\nLife Is Given to Us Almost as an Opportunity to Experience, Lucie Drdova Gallery, Prague\r\nM\/Other Earth, Viaduct Karl\u00edn, Prague\r\nOn Our Wall, Galerie Prostora, Prague\r\n\r\n2024\r\nART GRAND SLAM \u2013 Inside the Movement, Smetana Q Gallery, Prague\r\nSlowness \/ Polaganost, Museum of Fine Arts, Split\r\nAngle of View, DOX Prague\r\nReunion, Gallery Etcetera Arts, Prague\r\nART GRAND SLAM, Czech Center Paris\r\nFind Two Fakes, Galerie Prostora, Prague\r\nDescription of One Match, Point Gallery\r\nI\u2019m All Ears, Cultural House \u0160ternberk\r\nWomen\u2019s Homes, AVU Gallery, Prague\r\n\r\n2023\r\nTo Autumn, Gallery Kurzor, Prague\r\nArt Is Already Boring, Gallery HYB4 Campus, Prague\r\nJ&amp;T Bank Art Index Pop-up, Invalidovna, Prague\r\n2022Heroin Crystal: Generation of the Nineties at GHMP, House U Kamenn\u00e9ho zvonu, Prague\r\nPost-objective, House of Arts, Ostrava\r\nHand at the end of the shoulder, East Bohemian Gallery, Ko\u0161ice\r\nOasis of Imagination, Staatliche Tschechische Saison, Kunstammlungen Dresden,\r\nARTakeaway, Zona C, \/The Next stop - work in public space\/, subway M\u016fstek, Prague\r\n\r\n2021\r\nSisters are doin\u2019 for themselves, Fundacja Profile, Warsaw\r\nHand at the end of the shoulder, 8mi\u010dka, Humpolec\r\nCivilized Woman: Ideal and Paradox of the Visual Culture of the First Republic, Moravian Gallery Brno\r\nPlan B, Signal Festival, realization in public space, Prague\r\nFestival M3, realization in public space, GHMP, Prague\r\nWasn\u2019t there a better worse idea? Smetana\u2019s art Litomy\u0161l, realization in public space\r\nHow many profiles do you have, how many times are you human, House of Art, \u00dast\u00ed nad Labem\r\nTime Manager, Festival for the Jewish Quarter of Boskovice, realization in public space, Boskovice\r\nCrossing Crossing, collection in dialogue collection in dialogue, Gal\u00e9ria Umelcov Spi\u0161a, Spi\u0161sk\u00e1 Nov\u00e1 Ves\r\nConcepts of mirroring: The principle of mirroring in conceptual tendencies in Czech art by 1960s to the present, Gallery of Modern Art Roudnice nad Labem\r\n\r\n2020\r\nNEMAF festival, Seoul,\r\n\u201c5 Players on 113\u201d, Contemporary Art Festival 4+4 Days in Motion, Prague\r\nDIVOCe\/\u201dPlease leave a message\u201d\/, Nod Prague\r\nARTakeway, project for public space, Prague\r\nSuck the Sack, Gallery at the Bethlehem Chapel, Prague\r\n2019The last 30 years of emancipation of the AVU Gallery \/GAVU\/, Prague\r\nReturns, Slovak Museum, Uhersk\u00e9 Hradi\u0161t\u011b\r\nArt Index Pop-Up, House of the Golden Grape, Prague\r\n15 Years Hard, Gallery of the Faculty of Arts of Ostrava University, Ostrava\r\n\r\n2018\r\nHomage to cloth, 8smi\u010dka, Humpolec, Art dialog 2018\r\nInterspaces, Gallery Klatovy \/ Klenov\u00e1, Granary at Klenov\u00e1\r\nUne Vue de V4, Art Thema Gallery, Brussels\r\nLandscape, Landscape-city-public space, Jaroslav Fr\u00e1gner Gallery, Prague\r\nPexeso, theatre performance, Rudolfinum, Prague\r\n\r\n2017\r\nSOULFUL INTERIORS. Artistic dwelling in Adolf Loos\u2019s architectural spaces in Pilsen, Gallery of West Bohemia in Pilsen\r\n\r\n2016\r\nMore, Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil\r\nYou Die and That\u2019s the End! A Moment Please\u2026 Mikulov Winery\r\n\r\n2015\r\nLove at the Edge, Galleria Arsenal Bialystok, Poland\r\nLandskrona Foto View: Czech Republic 2015, Landskrona Museum, Sweden\r\n\r\n2014\r\nln a Skirt - Sometimes: Art of the 1990s, Moravian Gallery in Brno; Prague City Gallery, House At the Golden Ring, Prague\r\nNemesis (with Lucy McKenzie), The Artist\u2019s Institute, New York\r\nFotofo, Czech Centre, Bratislava\r\nFestival Street Art, Prague\r\nFood is a Central Concept, Tranzitdisplay, Prague\r\nMagnus Art 2014, \u017divnostensk\u00e1 banka, Prague\r\nStates of Mind \/ Beyond the Image, Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutn\u00e1 Hora\r\n\r\n2013\r\nThe Beginning of the Century, House of Art, Ostrava\r\nFotofo, Czech Centre, Bratislava\r\nThe Intimate Circle in Contemporary Czech Photography, Prague City Gallery; House of Art, Bratislava\r\nBiennale der K\u00fcnstler, Haus der Kunst, Munich\r\nSculpture in the Streets - Brno Art Open, Brno\r\nExpiration Date, Emil Filla Gallery, \u00dast\u00ed nad Labem\r\nMagnus Art 2013, Karl\u00edn Halls, Prague\r\n\r\n2012\r\nIslands of Resistance, National Gallery, Prague\r\nBeginning of the Century, Masne kramy, Pilsen\r\nSecond Season AMoyA , Prague\r\nBeginning of the Century in Piblic Space, festival Pilsen\r\nPuzzle, Meet Factory, Prague\r\n\r\n2011\r\nMutating Medium, Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague\r\nThe Art of Urban Intervention, Emil Filla Gallery, Usti nad Labem\r\nThe Salon of Zlin, House of Art, Zlin\r\nPrague Biennale 5, Prague\r\n\r\n2010\r\nInter-view, Nitranska Galeria, Nitra, SK\r\nParis Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris\r\n...And Don't Forget the Flowers, Moravian Gallery, Brno\r\nEsprit Vakuum, Mikulov Castle\r\nA Part of No-Part, Chelsea Art Museum NY\r\nFormate der transformation, MUSA - Museum auf Abruf Vienna\r\nGender Check\" Zacheta, National Gallery of Art in Warsaw\r\n\r\n2009\r\nPhotography and Concept, Prague House Brussels\r\nGender Check, Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas\r\nMuseum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien\r\nFamily peace, Nostic Palace, Prague\r\nCzech Photography of the 20th Century, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal\r\nRepublic of Germany, Bonn\r\nBehind the Velvet Curtain: Contemporary Art from the Czech Republic,\r\nKatzen Ars Center, Washington, D.C.\r\nCrossing frontier, City Prague Gallery n Municipal Library, Prague 2008\r\nIN\/visible festival of visual art, Flora, Olomouc\r\nClose Encounters:Central European Video Art, Fine Arts Center Galleries,\r\nUniversity of Rhode Island, USA\r\nSelf-portrait in Czech art of the 20th Century, AJG \u2013 Ales South Bohemian Gallery,\r\nHluboka nad VltavouRealizace v architektu\u0159e a ve\u0159ejn\u00fdm prostor\u00e1ch\r\nCrossing frontiers, Municipal Library - City Gallery Prague, Municipal Library\r\nPhotography and Concept, Prague House Brussels\r\nGender Check, Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas\r\nMuseum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien\r\nFamily peace, Nostic Palace, Prague\r\nCzech Photography of the 20th Century, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn\r\nBehind the Velvet Curtain: Contemporary Art from the Czech Republic, Katzen Ars Center, Washington, D.C.\r\nCrossing frontier, City Prague Gallery \u2013 Municipal Library, Prague\r\n\r\n2008\r\nIN\/visible festival of visual art, Flora, Olomouc\r\nClose Encounters:Central European Video Art, Fine Arts Center Galleries,University of Rhode Island, USA\r\nSelf-portrait in Czech art of the 20th Century, AJG \u2013 Ales South Bohemian Gallery, Hluboka nad Vltavou\r\n\r\n2007\r\nLocws 3, Swansea Museum, Swansea, Great Britain\r\nGlobal Feminism, Brooklyn Museum, New York\r\nCrossing Frontiers. Looking for an Artistic Identity in Eastern Europe, Ludwig Museum, Budapest\r\nPunctum, Futura \u2013 Centre for contemporary art, Prague\r\nGross Domestic Product, Municipal Library, City Gallery Prague\r\n\r\n2006\r\nGrenzg\u00e4nger \u2013 K\u00fcnstlerische Identit\u00e4tssuche im \u00d6stlichen Europa, KOG Regensburg\r\nAMOR VINCIT OMNIA, Palais am Festungsgraben, Berlin\r\nI invited some friends to come and watch, Galerija Nova, Zagreb\r\nAutopoesis, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava\r\nGiardino \u2013 Places for Small Stories, PAN, Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples\r\nPraagse Tuin \u2013 beelden uit Praag, Gouverneurstein van Assen, Holland\r\nFrisbee - Contemporary Czech videoart and new media, The Brno House of Arts\r\nZyklus 1.0 Tschechien \u2013 Ferne N\u00e4hen, Stift Lilienfeld, Austria\r\n\r\n2005\r\nArtstars, making of, Galerie du Moulin d\u2019Asselborn\r\nCzech Photography of the 20th Century, City Gallery Prague\r\nPrague Biennale 2: Expanded Painting, International Contemporary Art, Karlin Hall, Prague\r\nHeart Nightwatch, Summerhouse Hvezda, Prague\r\nCultural Domestication - Instinctual Desire, Center for the Visual Arts, University of Toledo, Ohio\r\n\r\n2004\r\nE.U. positive - Kunst aus dem neuen Europa, Akademie der K\u00fcnste, Berlin\r\nFlipside, Artists Space, New York\r\nTroubled Times, Gruppo 78 I.C.A., Gallery LipanjePuntin, Trieste\r\n\r\n2003\r\nGlamour - British Council, Prague\r\nPhantom of Desire - Visions of Masochism in Art, Neue Galerie Graz\r\nGenerations \u2013 Galerie K&amp;S, Berlin\r\nAus Liebe - Die Generation der 90er in Prag, Galerie der Stadt Remscheidt\r\n\r\n2002\r\nImagination - Romanticism, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland\r\nMonday - Plain Air, City Gallery Ostrava\r\nCorps et traces, Mus\u00e9e de Beaux-Art de Nancy (catalogue)\r\nExtradiction, Aqua museum, Lisbon\r\nPolitik-um\/New Engagement, Prague Castle\r\nImagination \u2013 Romanticism, The Brno House of Arts\r\n\r\n2001\r\nExtended Transformation, Art Gallery Zagreb\r\nA Sense of Wellbeing, Palace of the Imperial Thermal Baths, Karlovy Vary\r\nImagination \u2013 Romanticism, Botho-Graef-Kunstpreis der Stadt Jena,\r\nGermany (catalogue)\r\nObject - Metamorphoses in Time, Czech Museum of Modern Art, Prague\r\nMilano Europa 2000, Triennale di Milano (catalogue)\r\nDead, The Roundhouse, London (catalogue)\r\nExtended Transformation, City Gallery Ljubljana\r\nUp in Smoke, Castle Museum and Art Gallery Nottingham\r\n\r\n2000\r\nBohemian Birds \u2013 Positions of Czech Contemporary Art, Kunst Haus, Dresden (catalogue)\r\nArtWORKS, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London\r\nGirls Show 2000, Art Expo Gallery, Bucharest\r\nEmila Filly Gallery, Usti nad Labem\r\nHuman Touch, West Bohemian Gallery, Cheb\r\nConfrontation, Czech Centre, London\r\n\r\n1999\r\nGirls Show, MXM Gallery, Prague\r\nTransformation II, Venice Biennial, Italy\r\nAspect - Positions \u2013 50 Years of Art in Central Europe 1949-99,\r\nLudwig Museum Budapest, Museum of 20th Century, Wien\r\nL\u00b4Autre moti\u00e9 de l\u00b4Europe, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris\r\n\r\n1998\r\nInteractus 5, Accademia D\u00b4ungheria, Rome\r\nSensibilities (Contemporary Art from Central Europe), European Academy of Art, London\r\n\r\n1997\r\nBorn \u201868, Czech Centre, Berlin\r\nArt in the Public Space, National Gallery, Prague\r\n\r\n1996\r\nUrban Legend, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (catalogue)\r\nPreobrazaj, Bosnia and Hercegovina Art Gallery, Sarajevo\r\nInterior versus Exterior, Factory Cosmos, Bratislava\r\n\r\n1995\r\nA New Europe - Supranational Art, Venice Biennial\r\nArtists of Central and Eastern Europe, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh\r\nAfter the Velvet Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki\r\nBeyond the Borders, Kwangju Biennial\r\nThe Image of Europe, Nicosia\r\n\r\n1994\r\nAfter the Spring, Museums of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne\r\nContemporary Art from the Czech Republic, South London Gallery\r\n22nd Biennial, Sao Paulo (catalogue)\r\nAuszeit, Galerie der K\u00fcnstler, Munich\r\nBiennial of Young Artists, Stone Bell House, City Gallery Prague\r\n\r\n1993\r\nAperto, Venice Biennial\r\nArt by Women, Old Town Hall, City Gallery Prague (with Mio Shirai, Pipilotti Rist, Jennifer Bolande)\r\nDouble Exit, Ludwig Forum, Aachen\r\nSituation Prague, Dialogue of Two Generations, Kampnagel Internationale Kulturfabrik, Hamburg\r\nThat, what is left, Stenc\u2019s House, Prague\r\n\r\n1992\r\nSirup, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich\r\nD\u2019une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration \u00e1 l\u2019autre, Mus\u00e9e d\u00b4Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris\r\nSlovaks and Czechs, Maeght Gallery, Paris\r\nBetween Aesop and Mowgli, Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague\r\nFrontiera 1\/92, Bolzano\r\nNinth Biennale - The Boundary Rider, Sydney\r\n\r\n1991\r\nContribution to Luck, Artist\u2019s Gallery, Munich\r\nNew Intimate, ULUV Exhibition Hall, Prague\r\n\r\n1990\r\nGrand Concours International De Peinture 1990, Mus\u00e9e 2000, Luxembourg","realizations_other":"Video:\r\nMilena Dopitova, Director Branka Bogdanov, Editor Reb Butler, 25 minutes, produced by ICA, Boston, 1994\r\nA Live Man is Playing, work of M. Dopitova, produced by Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, 1996","collections":"The Art Collection of Erste Bank Group, Vienna\r\nCity Gallery Prague \r\nCzech Museum of Modern Art, Prague\r\nModern and Contemporary Art Collection, National Gallery, Prague\r\nCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh\r\nKunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg\r\n\r\nMilena Dopitova is represented by the Jiri Svestka Gallery\r\nwww.jirisvestka.com","monographies":"","articles":"Jirousov\u00e1 V\u011bra: Na pl\u00e1n\u00edch zelen\u00fdch Mileny Dopitov\u00e9, A2 kulturn\u00ed t\u00fdden\u00edk 2\/ 2005\r\nFerencov\u00e1 Yvona: Jak zav\u0159\u00edt tlamy lv\u016fm, A2 kulturn\u00ed t\u00fdden\u00edk 10\/ 2006, s. 8","reviews":"","texts_unlisted":"","annotations":[{"text":"Since the start of the 1990s, Milena Dopitov\u00e1 has been creating installations, objects, videos, and photography. Very often, especially during the 90s, an installation comprises several different media. Dopitov\u00e1 is a conceptual artist with a social focus. Amongst other things she actively reflects on the position of women in contemporary society and culture. In 1989 she became the first female artist to join the Pond\u011bl\u00ed group.\r\n\r\nDopitov\u00e1 examines themes relating to social identity. She is concerned with the general phenomena which each of us encounters but which are often subject to taboo. She has a personal take on themes such as growing up, aging, death, insecurity, cruelty or violence, while all the time allowing us to observe how they are incorporated into wider social relations. Although her message relates to us all, her art has very personal, even intimate roots. It often involves very authentic experiences which Dopitov\u00e1 had in her own family.\r\n\r\nIn one of her first works entitled <em>Twins: Me and My Sister<\/em> (1991) she examines questions of human identity. Photographs of the heads of the artist and her sister in bathing caps are set within an installation of tables and two wicker-covered chairs. There follows a cycle of projects in which Dopitov\u00e1, as she herself puts it, is concerned with hygiene. The work features various appliances which we use to improve our body but which are not essential to life. Examples are her red <em>Solarium<\/em> (a construction covered in wool from 1992), <em>Four Helmets<\/em> (hairdressing caps again covered in fabric from 1994), and the tiled object <em>Follow Me<\/em> (1994), which is inspired by training in a fitness centre.\r\n\r\nDopitov\u00e1 is fascinated by the fact that several of these appliances are instruments of torture to which we make our bodies available. The theme of death is presented in the work entitled <em>I Do Not Expect To Change<\/em> (1993). The impulse behind this work was the powerful experience of the artist\u2019s mother\u2019s clinical death. An object covered in red wool represents a tunnel which is passed through by those who have experienced clinical death and have seen a light at the end. The tunnel is combined with elements of a gynaecology chair, which hints at the birth of a new life, a new light.\r\n\r\nThe photographic cycle <em>Wishing Wall<\/em> (1995) is related to death. Dopitov\u00e1 took photographs of the legs of dead bodies with nametags. After 1999, video becomes more and more important in the artist\u2019s work. She returns to the theme of death in her video <em>Shave Make Up<\/em> (1999), in which the artist examines the last \u201cmodifications\u201d made to dead bodies prior to burial. She was fascinated by the different wishes people have regarding this last procedure. The theme of the inexorable onset of old age is examined in Dopitov\u00e1\u2019s multimedia installation <em>Sixtysomething<\/em> (2003). A video shows us the artist and her sister being transformed by a makeup artist into two women in their sixties who experience an ordinary day. The work is a reaction to the contemporary cult of youth in our society. Whoever is old and cannot acquire a youthful appearance is marginalised. It is interesting that in the USA this work encountered hostility on the part of older women. Perhaps it provoked a traumatic reaction by threatening to reveal the real face carefully concealed beneath the mask of makeup and cosmetic operations.\r\n\r\nOver the last two years Dopitov\u00e1\u2019s work has been free of the deeper themes of birth, aging and death. The artist says that she has arrived at a period in life in which, as she says, \u201cI want to create a positive energy which is missing in today\u2019s society. People need a completely different type of injection. I am not interested in frustration: you see this on TV from morning to night. For me it is important to have a positive relationship with life\u201d.\r\n\r\nThe video project <em>M.M.D.<\/em> (2009) reveals a more playful side to Dopitov\u00e1\u2019s work. The central protagonists are gym shoes, one of the symbols of the world prior to the Velvet Revolution. At present, the last of Dopitov\u00e1\u2019s exhibitions, entitled I\u2019ll Stay a Little Longer, was held in Brno and brings together the artist\u2019s work of the last two years. These latest works seem to reflect the artist\u2019s new found balance and security in life. As she herself says, these works also represent a personal testimony and interpretation of her own life, feelings and emotions. However, the emotiveness with which Dopitov\u00e1 reflects the world is only minimally visible. Instead, the language of these works is restrained, unpretentious, and at first sight very simple. The artist presents timeless and generally valid topics, such as interpersonal relationships, memory, transience, beauty, and responsibility towards basic human values.","date":2010,"authors":[1853]}],"artworks":[107225,110393,110394,110395,110396,110397,110398,110399,110400,110401,110402,110403,110404,110405,110406,110407,110408,110409],"videos":[2980,150672,150676,154587]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dopitov\u00e1 - Artlist<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/artlist.cz\/en\/umelci\/milena-dopitova\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dopitov\u00e1 - Artlist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" 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