MAGDALENA JETELOVÁ

Horizon of Autumn, 2025170 x 90 x 4 cmPyrotechnical drawing on canvas
Silent Horizon, 2025140 x 160 x 4 cmPyrotechnical drawing on canvas
Desert Horizon, 2025150 x 180 x 2 cmPyrotechnical drawing on canvas
2581 Pacific Ring of Fire: Liquifying Time Zones, 2017 150 x 200 x 5 cmLightbox

Magdalena Jetelová (1946, Semily) One of the most significant contemporary Czech artists, renowned for her monumental installations, her work with light, landscape, and new media. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (graduated in 1971), she rose to prominence on the European scene when her installations were presented at the Tate Gallery, London (1983), followed by the Serpentine Gallery (1985) and MoMA, New York (1987). Since the 1990s, she has been experimenting with lasers and light interventions in the landscape (e.g. the Atlantic Wall series), which, alongside her pyrotechnic and smoke paintings, are a part of her most iconic works. Her works are represented in many major European and American collections, including the Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Pompidou, Paris, Prague City Gallery, and the National Gallery Prague.