My works are capturing the inner fights of oneself, while trying to untangle the mass of information and cope with the increasing speed of urban lifestyle.

The urge to belong reveals a dim memory of raw human nature and its fading instincts. Through painting, printmaking, collage and installation, I’m displaying the restlessness of subconsciousness and it’s chaotic connections.

Hints of stories, hidden identities, absurd situations, overwhelming expectations, infiltration of high technology to our everyday life, environmental threats, constant need and lack of something indefinable. I’m combining the ideas of potential futuristic trends with the ongoing search for updated versions of believing systems.

We as individuals or we as a mass are picking up the particles of different cultures, mixing it with endless amount of data and try to predict the future development of global melting pot. I compare contexts and explore the diversity of possible outcomes.

Contradictions play an important role, such as city x nature, utopia x dystopia, spirituality x materialism, tragedy x comedy.

Beáta Hechtová (*1991 in Prague, CZ) lives and works in Vienna.

2011 - 2014:
University of West Bohemia, Ladislav Sutnar - Faculty of design and art

2012 - 2013:
residency in Spain, Cuenca - Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Faculty of Fine Arts

2014 - 2020:
University of Applied Arts Vienna - graphics and printmaking

2017 - 2018:
residency in Peru, Lima - Pontificia universidad católica del Peru, Faculty of fine Arts

Exhibitions
01/2023. OFF COURSE IN WIDE / gallery twenty-six, 1010 Vienna, Schwertgasse 4 (Vienna, A)
09/2022: HEADS OR TALES / Favoritenstrasse 137, (Vienna, A)
09/2022: Vienna Anthropology Days / International Conference, (Vienna, A)
06/2022: Body & Nature, Galerie Rudolf Leeb, (Vienna, A)
05/2022: Parallel Editions 2022, Galerie Rudolf Leeb, (Vienna, A)
05/2022: R& Art Walk, Das Rund / creative Film Production, (Vienna, A)
08/2021: Internationale Grafik Triennale Frechen, (Frechen, D)
05/2021: Parallel Vienna Editions/21, (Vienna, A) - Galerie Rudolf Leeb

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