Anna Zemánková
1908-1986 (CZECHOSLOVAKIA)
Anna Zemánková’s post-spiritualist practice remains as private and profound as when it first emerged half a century ago. Over 30 years, the self-taught Czech artist evolved her voluminous abstracted pastels into a delicate threaded vegetation drawing from the regional histories of folkloric making.
Zemánková’s work is included in the collections of Centre Pompidou, Paris, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and American Folk Art Museum, New York. Exhibitions include Ostalgia at New Museum, New York (2011), The Encyclopaedic Palace at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013) and The Botanical Mind at Camden Art Centre, London (2021).
Zemánková’s work is currently on display in Foreigners Everywhere at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
FOREIGNERS EVERYWHERE, LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA (VENICE) 2013
The Botanical Mind, Camden Arts Centre (London) 2021
EXHIBITION #7, THE MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING (TASMANIA) 2017/8
Anna Zemánková, COLLECTION DE L'ART (LAUSANNE) 2017
EXHIBITION #6, THE MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING (ROTTERDAM) 2016
IL PALAZZO ENCICLOPEDICO, LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA (VENICE) 2013
EXHIBITION #1.1, THE MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING, CHALET SOCIETY (PARIS) 2012/13
OSTALGIA, NEW MUSEUM (NEW YORK) 2011
EXHIBITION #1, THE MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING (LONDON) 2009/10
INNER WORLDS OUTSIDE, WHITECHAPEL GALLERY (LONDON) 2006
ART UNSOLVED, IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (DUBLIN) 1998
EXOTIC SPECIES: THE ART OF ANNA ZEMÁNKOVÁ, HIGH MUSEUM OF ART (ATLANTA) 1997
COLECTIE ARNULF RAINER MUSEUM DE STADSHOF (ZWOLLE) 1996
SÃO PAULO BIENNALE 1981
OUTSIDERS, HAYWARD GALLERY (LONDON) 1979
The Botanical Mind, Gina Buenfield and Martin Clark (Camden Art Centre) 2020
Floral Fantasies between Symbolism and Outsider Art (Wilhelm Hack Museum) 2019
Anna Zemánková, Anežka Šimková and Terezie Zemánková (abcd) 2017
EVERYTHING #6, THE MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING 2016
Ill Palazzo Enciclopedico: Biennale Arte 2023 (la Biennale di Venezia) 2013.
GROUNDWATERS: A CENTURY OF ART BY SELF-TAUGHT & OUTSIDER ARTISTS, CHARLES RUSSEL (PRESTEL) 2011
Ostalgia, Massimiliano Gioni and Jarrett Gregory (New Museum) 2011
EVERYTHING #1, THE MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING (ELECTA) 2010
SELF-TAUGHT AND OUTSIDER ART, ANTHONY PETULLO (UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS) 2005
L’ART BRUT, L’ART OUTSIDER ET AU-DELA, JOHN MAIZELS (PHAIDON) 2003
VERNACULAR VISIONARIES, ANNIE CARLANO AND JOHN BEARDSLEY (YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS) 2003
L’ART BRUT TCHEQUE, MARTINE LUSARDY AND ALENA NADVORNIKOVA (HALLE SAINT PIERRE) 2002
ARTISTS OF PURE HEART, ED. BY ANEZKA SIMKOVA (PAVEL KONECNY COLLECTION) 2001
OUTSIDER ART: SPONTANEOUS ALTERNATIVES, COLIN RHODES (THAMES & HUDSON) 2001
ART BRUT ET COMPAGNIE, LAURENT DANCHIN (HALLE SAINT PIERRE) 1995
