Gallery

Karpuchina

Sofia Art Fair 2024 presents Karpuchina Gallery – Sofie Švejdová and Sabina Knetlová.

Karpuchina Gallery is a private commercial gallery based in Prague, Czech Republic. A complex biotope with a high quality of artworks to fish for. It presents a carefully curated and diverse program with a progressive approach to each exhibition. The aim of the gallery is to foster the connection and engagement between contemporary art and the public and to present works by both emerging and established artists always in innovative visual language and in new, up to date contexts.

Sofie Švejdová (b. 1990) is one of the most outstanding talents of the current generation of Czech visual artists. Her direct and spontaneous painting style challenges clichés about female creation. Her expressively conceived brushwork sometimes carries a significant dose of ironic distance, while at other times, it reveals a deep inner passion. For Sofie, motifs that can be identified with reality are merely a means for an intense confrontation with color masses, while her painting unfolds in a dynamic composition where triumphant color harmonies emerge.

Sabina Knetlová (b. 1996) born in Jaroměř, lives and works in Ostrava, where she also graduated from the Sculpture Studio at the Faculty of Arts. Her sculptural art work is formally defined by working with concrete and supplied material. In this approach, she creates a consistent body of work, within which the themes relate to personal views of her surroundings and her grasp of them. Knetlová adheres to a classic artisanal process.