Barbora Kachlíková

“I’m an artist who cannot repair a car
but I can fantasize about it.”

“I’m an artist who cannot repair a car
but I can fantasize about it.”
My experience of living in solitude, in a Finnish village Ratula in Kymenlaakso,
significantly shaped my world perception, painting process, and the topics I represent
in my artworks.
Our house used to be a farmer’s house, that’s why you can find tons of technical
suppliers for repairing almost everything in the world. Except these, you find huge piles
of trashy stuff, mainly placed inside a big barn and surrounding outside area.
I like harmony. This mess was making me depressed. One day, during the walk to the
composter, with bio garbage, I noticed it. That trashy stuff has its own beauty!
In the painting series “AutoMoto” I portray car engines, tires, broken lawnmowers, and
canisters of spoiled oils. My painting process extends from an indoor studio to the old
barn and garden.
I work with a traditional medium of oil on canvas. During the last years, my art evolved
from colorful objectionable paintings into abstracts. It happened behind our barn with
old rusty water boilers. Their shapes are simple cylindres. Suddenly I thought about
my work differently. I started to simplify objects. My interest headed towards painting
as a mass and substance. I process it in a new way. My artistic expression has always
been large-scale painting, most of my paintings are created in formats with at least one
side length of 200 cm. I apply colors with a brush to the canvas with a paste layer and
then spread it and blur it into the absence of representational objects.

BIOGRAPHY

Barbora Kachlíková ( b.1988) is a Czech visual artist based in the village Ratula,
Finland.
Her artistic work can be understood as an emotional landscape, capturing the essence
of places and encounters that have shaped her journey, bringing reflection of the
contemporary world.
She received her MA degree in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, in the
Czech Republic, in 2016. She studied at Tartu Kõrgem Kunstikool (2013) in Estonia and
at Lahti University of Fine Arts in Finland ( 2015). She worked at artist residencies at
Gedok in Stuttgart, Germany (2016), at Artist’s Point in Meghalaya in India (2018), at
Banska Stanica Contemporary in Banská Štiavnica in Slovakia (2023, 2022), Tao Hua
Tan in China 2023, at the studio of Megafield 339 in Beijing (2024) and Studio Kura in
Itoshima, Japan (2024). She did a plein air painting journey in Cambodia (2022).
Barbora’s work has been awarded with artist working grants by the The Finnish Cultural
Foundation (2024, 2022), The Scandinavia – Japan Sasakawa Foundation (2024), Arts
Promotion Center Finland (2021), and Luc Art Fund, Czech Republic (2021).
Her works were exhibited at solo and group exhibitions in Finland, the Czech Republic,
Slovakia, Germany, Estonia, China, Japan and India.

GRANTS & AWARDS

2024 / Scandinavia – Japan Sasakawa Foundation
2024 / The Finnish Cultural Foundation / 1-year artist working grant / FI
2022 / The Finnish Cultural Foundation / 1-year artist working grant / FI
2021 / Arts Promotion Center Finland / 5 – month artist working grant / FI
2021 / Luc Art Fund / expenditure grant / CZ

SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS

Upcoming / February 2025 / “Time Is A Mirror”/ Art Gallery Brno / CZ
Upcoming / April 2025 / “Dialogues” / Megafield Gallery / Beijing / CN
Upcoming / September 2025 / Czech Centre Tokyo / JP
2024 / “Resonance”/ Studio Kura / Itoshima / JP
2024 / “Parenica” / Black Thistle Gallery / Helsinki / FI
2023 / “Solitude”/ Gallery Cerma / Helsinki / FI
2023 / “Happiness is not There. It’s in You!”/ Gallery PARTER BSC / Banská Štiavnica / SK
2022 / “AutoMoto” / pop up Gulf gas station / Ruotsinkylä / FI
2022 / “FIN ENTRY”/ Karel Dvořáček Library / Vyškov / CZ
2022 / “Anonymous Man” / Taidetila Ruuma / Vellamo / Kotka / FI
2021 / “Shaman Wears Nike” / Vapaakaupungin Olohuone / Helsinki / FI
2021 / “Life, Love, Loss” / Tahmelan Huvila / Tampere / FI
2018 / “The Three Generations of the Kachlikova Family” / Vyškov / CZ
2018 / “From The Forest” / with Anssi Uusnäkki / Kuusankoski / FI
2017 / “Dead man’s paintings” / Embassy Gallery / Helsinki / FI
2017 / “Existention” / with Anssi Uusnäkki / Monastery of Kapucíni / Mikulov / CZ
2016 / “This Would Be Your Colour” / Gedok / Stuttgart / DE
2016 / “No sect. They are artists.” / with Anssi Uusnäkki / Cemetery church / Vyškov / CZ
2015 / “Flea Market” / with Anssi Uusnäkki / Galleria Theodor / Loviisa / FI
2014 / “An Age of Limited Form” / Fellmannia Library Gallery / Lahti / FI
2013 / “We Miss Each Other In Our Dreams” / Genialistide klubi / Tartu / EST

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 / “Emotions” / MONONOAharewo Gallery / Fukuoka / JP
2024 / 2021 / 2020 / The Finnish Painters’ Union Teosvälitys / Cable Factory/ Helsinki / FI
2023 / “Pain. Rebirth”/ Kurume Friendship Museum / Hefei / CN
2023 / “Artsua 23”/ Helsinki / FI
2023 / “Créme De La Cerma” / Cerma Gallery / Helsinki / FI
2023 / “Häppi shuu” / Yö Gallery / Helsinki / FI
2019 / Residents of Gedok / Stuttgart / DE
2018 / “Peh – Khaw” / Shillong / IND
2014 / “Tress Have The Power” / Local marketplace / Bratislava / SK
2014 / BA degree exhibition / Richard Adam Gallery / Brno / CZ

CURRICULUM VITAE

2013 / “Stockfors Art Fair” / FI

ARTIST RESIDENCY

2024 / Studio Kura / Itoshima / Japan
2024 / Backlight Studio / Beijing / China
2023 / Tao Hua Tan / Anhui / China
2023 / 2022 / Banska Stanica Contemporary / Banská Štiavnica / Slovakia
2022 / Painting journey / Cambodia
2018 / Artist’s Point / Meghalaya / India
2016 / Gedok / Stuttgart / Germany

SUPPORT WORK

2019 – 2017 / curator / Embassy Gallery Helsinki / FI
2018 / assistant of residency manager / working internship / HIAP / FI
2017 / volunteer, production / Supermarket Art Fair / Stockholm / SWE

PROJECTS

2019 / curator / international exhibition “Swimmers” FI / SWE / UA / HR / Bulgarian Embassy
Helsinki / FI
2016 / curator, production / International art symposium ” SKLEPY 2016′′ / CZ / FI / SK / EST /
CHL / / Olbramovice / CZ
2013 / Book illustration / “Znamení doby”/ author Josef Špidla / CZ /
2012 / Theatre installation / Federico García Lorca “Yerma” / Divadlo Haná / CZ