Artist Biography
Štěpánka was born in 1985 in Rýmařov, northern Moravia, and lives and works in Prague. She graduated in 2009 from Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Chemical Technology, and worked for several years in microbiology and pharmaceutical research laboratories.
Her love for photography has been lifelong, but in 2013 she began focusing on classical photography. She documented events at Pragovka and worked in galleries, eventually becoming a member of Art Studios Pragovka. Her studio in Prague's industrial zone has allowed her to explore her practice in both documentary and personal work.
Štěpánka's photography examines relationships between objects, materials, and space. She is fascinated by the way seemingly small details — from scattered nuts and bolts, twigs, and sand shadows, to droplets on glass or figures on boats — create their own systems and patterns. Black-and-white photography allows her to explore the traces of the past on the present, the interplay of light and shadow, and the quiet narratives that emerge in everyday spaces.
Her work is informed by her scientific background: grouping, arrangement, and energy manifest visually, turning observation into poetic reflection.
Věnováno Luciano Benetton's Collection 2016, projekt Imago Mundi ART
www.imagomundiart.com
tisk na plátno, 10x12
This is indeed a unique project. It is a "microcosm" of the world, a
model of creative determination, and a remarkable, private initiative
with a very public face. As an ambitious, omnivorous collection offering
"snapshots" of the artistic pulse in as many countries as logistically
possible, Imago Mundi is motivated and driven by real human
relationships.
Fotodokumentace KolbenOpen, občanské sdružení Pragovka studios, Kolbenova 34, Praha 9
