Jana Babincová graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Brno in 2006 and has since shown her work in a large number of galleries, museums and art centers in the Czech Republic and internationally. Her work is also part of art collections, among others of the National Gallery in Prague. Jana lives in Prague where she also works in her studio in the contemporary art center Pragovka. Jana is trained as a painter, however her recent work also involves large-scale installations, performances, videos and intermedia work. Next to her artistic work is Jana also a professional teacher and lecturer, she has been working in many important art institutions like Museum Kampa in Prague, DOX Gallery, Anglo-American University in Praguje, Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno and more.

The artist has been creating cubist paintings since 2017. This follows her previous work with geometric compositions based on mathematical principles and the crystallization of substances, which, coincidentally, are also the principles used by artists and architects during the period of Czech Cubism. An important element of Jana’s compositions is also rhythm, color harmony, and thoughtful references to traditional elements of Czech Cubism, which she always interprets in her distinctive and original way.

“As an artist I have established myself a translator who builds connection between sounds, language, natural movements and abstract shapes. Each experiment is coded into visual forms and the dance and sounds start to be visible and readable through mainly abstract artworks in different media.”

Jana Babincová, who devotes her work to the principles of coding text, sound or motion into large format, site-specific paintings or installations created a new piece for the Wall Gallery. The rhythm of the painting is derived from the direction and intensity of the sounds and noises surrounding MeetFactory: trams, trains, cars passing through the highway, insects, steps, voices....