Katarina Janečková Walshe
''Uncluttered Headspace'', acrylic on canvas
Katarina Janečková Walshe works across media, employing paper, canvas, bedsheets and a wide array of markmaking tools to skewer received notions of authentic culture, gender norms, sexual expression, national pride, social progress, and age-appropriate behaviors. Her process is free-ranging, improvisational and fearless, and she uses her own sexuality, motherhood, and identity as a painter as characters in the scenes she envisions. Her critical attention and transgressive methodologies have most recently been trained on the fallacies of contemporary American life, a happy outgrowth of time spent in Texas, even as her relentless commitment to social justice and the transformative and cathartic potential for figurative painting remains free of geographical site or national character. Most recently, her pictures have been populated by women whose gendered, bountiful “mothering” has been pushed to absurd ends, whose bodies have become amalgamations of hypersexualized “cut-outs,” and whose foils are most frequently an army of randy, proud, endearing and occasionally foolhardy bears.
Exhibitions
2024 ''HOST'' solo exhibition at the Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
2023 ''Motherland'' solo exhibition at Harkawik, New York, NY
2022 ''Binds and Bonds'' solo exhibiton at Althuis Hofland, Amsterdam, NL
2022 ''Maternity Vacation'' solo exhibition at Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
2022 ''GIVER'' solo exhibitoin at Odyssey project, Cologne, DE
2022 ''QUISIERA ALIMENTARLOS A TODOS'' with Her Clique at Zona Maco, CDMX, MX
2021 ''Growing Season'' solo exhibition at the Asia Art Center, Taipei, TW
2021 ''Rule of Touch and Move'' solo exhibition at Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA
2021 ''The Importance of Maintaining Flexibility'' solo exhibition at White & Weiss Gallery, Bratislava, SK
2021 ''Eyes (Half-Way) Open'' group exhibition at Atelier XIII, Bratislava, SK
2021 ''A Secret of Happy Household'' solo exhibition at Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, DE
2020 ''Berliner Luft'' group exhibition at Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, DE
2020 ''Bad Habits, Good Intentions'' solo exhibition at Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, NL
2020 ''Lovers After Life'' solo exhibition at Richter Fine Art, Rome, IT