Alžběta Bačíková (CZ)

Alžběta Bačíková is an artist living in Prague. To this date, she has mainly focused on moving image, both in her own work and in her curatorial, production, and organizational activities. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, where she completed her doctoral research in 2018 on documentary approaches in contemporary audiovisual art practice. Since 2017, she has worked as a curator at the etc. gallery in Prague, whose program she redirected, together with Anna Remešová, towards the critical mediation of moving image works. Since 2019, she has been teaching and leading Artyčok.tv at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where she later worked as an editor.

Between 2018 and 2020, she collaborated on her art projects with protagonists with visual or hearing impairments. She received the Czech Centres Audience Award for her audiovisual installation Setkání (Encounter, 2018–2020) for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award finals. She has also exhibited at the Centre for Fine Arts BOZAR (2020), the Matter of Art contemporary art biennial at the Gallery of the City of Prague (2020), and the Kyiv Biennial (2021), and has screened her works at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2021). She completed a creative residency in Vienna (Artist-in-Residence Programme at MuseumsQuartier) and two residencies in New York (Art in General and the Czech Center).

During her AIR residency in Brno, she is exploring her long-standing interest in the intersection of artistic creation and the therapeutic process, and in mediating experiences of consciousness in a neurodivergent body that encounters the limits of communication. In her autofictional approach to creation, she opens up her imagination around themes such as family history, the dissolution of old patterns, healing, or the inevitability of origin and social anchoring, whose emotional charge becomes the trigger for the narrative or the main criteria for recording. Together with the curator of G99 and artist Barbora Trnková, she engages in a dialogue on this year's theme, Trigger Witness.