Milena Dopitova was born in Sternberk, Czech Republic and lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic
Milena Dopitova is one of the Czech Republics leading contemporary artists. Her work is multi-faceted using video, sculpture, installations and photography as means of expression. Dopitova works firstly with banal themes but forms them to an autonomous aesthetic sphere. Her language also often incorporates amusing morality. In her work the meanings of objects are almost didactically numbered, they do not attack us but they attract us with their unambiguous message.
Dopitova often works with the principle of comparing two opposing poles which have differing structures (natural-artificial, cultured-banal) none of which appear handicapped when subjected to a comparison. It often happens that a didactic selection of opposing forces leads to an internal confrontation of meanings and forms. Dopitova aims to link personal and concrete visions, which are related to real situations.
Dopitova studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and has exhibited internationally
Recent exhibitions include: 2006: ‘Does Wind Also Have Rays?’, City Gallery, Karlovy Vary (solo); ‘Grenzgänger’, Kunstlerische Identitätssuche im Östlichen Europa, KOG Regensburg; ‘Amor Vincit Omnia’, Palais am Festungsgraben, Berlin; ‘I Invited Some Friends to Come and Watch’, Galerija Nova, Zagreb; ‘Autopoesis’, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava; ‘Giardino – Places for Small Stories’, PAN , Palazzo dell Arti di Napoli, Naples; ‘Praagse Tuin – beelden uit Praag’, Gouverneurstein van Assen, Holland. 2005: Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague (solo); 2004: ‘Everything What I Want You May Wish Too’, Exhibition Hall Sokolska, Ostrava (solo)