PROFILE
CONTACT
barbora.svobodova12@gmail.com
MA in architecture (5th year)
A2 | FUTURE ARCHITECTURE PLATFORM
KYOTO UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS
exchange programme | SS
class for mixed media | 2024/25
ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS LEIPZIG
exchange programme | WS
class for artistic action and research | 2025/26
VI PER gallery
Prague | 2024/25
INTERNSHIP
Common Accounts
architectural and design studio Madrid | 2024
WRITER
Material Times magazine
Prague | 2023
WRITER
UMPRUM online
Prague | 2023/24
INTERNSHIP
assistant for fashion designer Dominika Kozáková
Mercedes-Benz Prague Fashion Week SS23 | 2022
German Museum of Books and Writing
Leipzig | 2025
EXHIBITION
NIKA gallery
Prague | 2024/25
SOFTSPOT.COLLECTIVE
co-founder | international artist collective
Prague/Budapest based | 2024
SOFTSPOT.SALON
series of community shared hair salon and events
Prague, Hamburg, Budapest | 2024
EXHIBITION
Exhibition of Young Art POKOJE Prague | 2024
RESIDENCY
Venice Biennale of Architecture
Venice | 2023
RESIDENCY + EXHIBITION
Světova 1 gallery
Prague | 2023
EXHIBITION
Festival V Novom svetle
Považská Bystrica | 2023
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LANGUAGE
Czech - native speaker
English - C1
French - B1
GERMAN - beginner
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Ostrava | 2024
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Prague | WS 2023/24
Sound Rituals is a site-specific audiovisual installation created for an unused triangular booth in the Prague subway, offering commuters a brief moment to step out of their routine and shift their attention toward calm and reflection.
mentorship: Igor Bragado, Miles Gertler
Madrid | 2024
Love From a Stranger is an architectural installation whose partitions form an aquarium environment for algae. While the algal ecosystem yields local benefits, like air filtration, its framework offers an exhibition structure that illuminates the material it presents using the same light that animates its internal ecology.
co-authors: Réka Szatmári, Mariana Chavíková
Budapest | Hamburk | Prague
2024
Softspot.Salon, originally conceived as a temporary performative studio intervention, uses collective hair-cutting sessions to transform an everyday act into a shared ritual of intimacy, self-expression, and informal connection.
co-author: Anna Šťastná
Prague | 2024
The theme of the exhibition, aptly titled teplo (meaning „warmth“), focuses on the phenomenon of heat and its distribution in public space. The exhibition sheds light on one possible approach to meeting
one of the most basic human needs during winter for
people living in difficult conditions.
Prague | 2024
At the end of a week-long Care Workshop, a collective performance under the name Smashing is the New Grinding took place in a newly developed urban kitchen structure.
Prague | SS 2022/23
Project Spirillum displays the possibility of an experimental education system reacting on current insufficient state of academic intitutions. With this project I am emphasizing the need for critical view on outdated notions of power and hierarchy in academic structures. It inherently opens up a discussion about safe space within these organizations and one's mental health that is directly affected by them.
Leipzig | 2025
Exhibition CTRL Z / CTRL Y was a ten days long artistic intervention utilising research-based, site-specific, speculative and power-critical working methods. They scrutinise processes of remembering and forgetting from different perspectives and make references to thematic focal points of the permanent exhibition, such as: De/industrialisation, hegemonic representation of history, forms of censorship or loss and preservation of knowledge.
Prague | WS 2024/25
Grocery Shopping - an act of self care is a research project mapping systemic networks of produce trade. Through personal reflection and sensory observation, the project invites viewers to reconsider everyday routines — unmasking this favourite space of self care to better understand its complex connections.
Prague | 2024/25
VI PER Gallery explores architecture in its broadest sense, focusing on its intersections with contemporary art, urbanism, design, media, and pressing social, political, and ecological issues. Through exhibitions and programs, the gallery highlights architecture‘s potential to engage with and reflect on wider societal challenges.
Gallery Světova 1
Prague | 2023
Collaboration is the core principle. Together, five artists are harnessing and expanding the chaos and complexity of their collective processes as part of our educational research programme As We Grow. After two weeks, their mutual exploring of ideas of shared spaces, multi-disciplinary and multi-sensory approaches will lead to a group show investigating new futures, worlds, and ideas.
Prague | 2023
Prague | 2023
Me shroom and ambient forest is a motion art piece portraying fictioned dreamy land of a mythical forest. It is finding itself on the edge of tension between wishing, dreaming and physical experiencing. Poorly defined storyteller accompanies us to the ambient land where we are left with nothing more than feeling of overwhelming incomprehension. Following the storyline gradually reveals the core of reasons for entering the space and pushes viewer to become more empathic with the need of temporal escapism.