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: Katarina Janečková Walshe
The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
2023
Harkawik, New York, NY
2022
Binds and Bonds
Althuis Hofland, Amsterdam, NL
Maternity Vacation
Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
GIVER
Odyssey project, Cologne, DE
QUISIERA ALIMENTARLOS A TODOS
Herclique venue/Zona Maco, CDMX, MX
2021
Growing Season
Asia Art Center, Taipei, TW
Rule of Touch and Move
Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA
Woods Unknown
K-Space, Corpus Christi, TX
The Importance of Maintaining Flexibility
White & Weiss Gallery, Bratislava, SK
Eyes (Half-Way) Open
Atelier XIII, Bratislava, SK
A Secret of Happy Household
Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, DE
2020
Berliner Luft
Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, DE
Bad Habits, Good Intentions
Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, NL
Lovers After Life
Richter Fine Art, Rome, IT
2019
Symbiosis
K-Space, Corpus, Christi, TX
2018
Chi Cerca Trova
Richter Fine Art, Rome, IT
2017
Texas Survival Guide
Nová Galerie, Prague, CZ
2016
HOW TO MAKE A BEAR FALL IN LOVE
Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, IT
2015
JANECKOVA ON STEROIDS!
Atelier XIII, Bratislava, SK
SALMON LOVERS
Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, DK
Bears, Catastrophes and other everyday events
NOVA Galerie, Prague, CZ
What I Really Do?
CIN-CIN Gallery, Bratislava, SK
2014
So Many Fish So Little Time
SOGA, Bratislava, SK
2013
Lost and Found, Between Heaven and Ground
Grossling Spa, Bratislava, SK
No Pain No Gain
Flatgallery, Bratislava, SK
SLOVAK GOODIES
Overtoom 301, Amsterdam, NL
2012
Lone Wolf, Cub and World Champion
SOGA, Bratislava, SK
2011
Exhibition of Bachelor Diploma works
PHOTOPORT-Center of Visual Arts