A recent graduate of the Sculpture II studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, under the guidance of Tomáš Hlavina and Jimena Mendoza. In 2024, she completed a residency at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and earned her bachelor’s degree at FaVU VUT in Brno in the Sculpture I studio under Michal Gabriel. Her diploma project achieved remarkable success both with the general public and collectors, and her work was recognized as a discovery by Forbes, featured as a Rising Star in LUXURY GUIDE, and published in the Czech edition of ELLE. Kateřina Šťastná’s work has recently been exhibited at NIA Gallery, in a group exhibition at Portheimka Gallery in Prague, and in public spaces such as the design hotel Andaz Prague. Her work was also presented at the international MCK ART COLLECT Art Fair in Katowice, Poland, from 27 February to 1 March 2026.

The artist’s current work unfolds across several interrelated layers of corporeality, inner experience, moments, and spatial records of situations and relationships. The output includes primarily hand-stitched three-dimensional embroideries made with Czech glass beads from PRECIOSA, ceramic and porcelain objects, as well as large-scale installations and reliefs in concrete and composites that continue the site-specific character of her practice.

It focuses on the shifting, intangible spaces of inner experience that arise at the intersection of reality, memory, and movement. “What's the feeling of standing opposite the other” at König Vlk Gallery presents the latest series of works by Kateřina Šťastná, marking a shift from the theme of sleep to the realm of perceiving relationships, structures, and the passing of human bodies. The hand-stitched bead embroideries, as the artist notes, reflect the long-term care and attention that individual relationships require, complemented by delicate chiffon that guides us toward corporeality and the fragility of our being. Androgynous ceramic objects, installed on subtle concrete slabs, represent the merging of two beings with subtle hints of movement, capturing a static moment within the structures of relationships. Transition of Untouchables thus materializes the fleeting world of experiences and situations, into which we can cocoon ourselves, as exemplified by the artist’s work Cocoon.