Klara kristalova biography

Klara Kristalova (b.
Klara Kristalova (born 1967) is a sculptor, who works predominantly in ceramics and stoneware.
Klara Kristalova was born in former Czechoslovakia in 1967 and moved to Sweden with her parents when she was only a year old.

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Klara Kristalova

Swedish sculptor of Czech origin

Klara Kristalova (born 1967) is a sculptor, who works predominantly in ceramics and stoneware. She employs a deliberately imperfect Meissen porcelain technique, working in a similar fashion but with larger forms and figures.^[1] She lives and works in Sweden. Kristalova has exhibited internationally in solo and group shows in London, Paris, Miami, New York, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Santa Fe as part of Museum Site Santa Fe, Stockholm at the National Museum, West Palm Beach at the Norton Museum of Art and Santa Barbara in the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum.

Personal background

Klara Kristalova was born in Czechoslovakia and raised in Sweden; she currently lives and works in Norrtälje, Sweden. Her father is Czech artist Eugen Krajcik and her mother was Helena Kristalova. She attended the Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm 1988-93.

Professional background

Kristalova is known for her ceramic sculptures that have a fantastical quality while exploring darker narratives.^[2] Tra

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Klara Kristalova

"Klara Kristalova is a storyteller who uses the plasticity of sculpture to build micro worlds, where something peculiar has just happened or is about to happen. Here she relates to a sculpture tradition that has its roots several hundred years in the past. In this tradition the three-dimensional artwork is seen as a means of three-dimensionally "educating" the viewer in a realm inhabited by both the viewer and the artwork simultaneously through their common physical relationship to the room." - Art critic Anders Olofsson

Klara Kristalova is a sculptor who works predominantly in glazed ceramics and stoneware. Born in 1967 in former Czechoslovakia, her parents moved to Sweden when she was only a year old, which is where the artist still lives and works. Kristalova employs a deliberately imperfect Meissen porcelain technique, working in a similar fashion, but with larger forms and figures that evoke the vulnerability within the human condition. Her constructed characters impart a feeling of loneliness, if not quiet contempl

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Klara Kristalova

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Norrtälje, Sweden

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