Tereza Kalousová

Tereza Kalousová (1998) is a visual artist and architect who works between Prague and Amsterdam. She studied architecture under Ivan Kroupa and later Eva Franch i Gilabert at UMPRUM in Prague, where she also attended courses taught by Maja Smrekar and Sam Lewitt in the Visiting Artist Studio. She also completed the Architectural Design program led by Nick Axel at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and in 2024 she began studying in the Dirty Art Department at the Sandberg Instituut in the Netherlands. She is currently pursuing a postgraduate program in the Video Studio at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology.

In her practice, Kalousová works with various media, including video, sculpture, installation, and text, reflecting on how digital technologies and contemporary economic and political systems influence our perception of our own bodies, time, and space. She is interested in limit situations, where established forms and systems cannot proceed smoothly, nor can they completely break down. She focuses on how we try to orient ourselves in such moments and what happens to the human body, to intimacy, and to language, which sometimes ceases to function. Her work is based on personal experience, which she uses as a tool to grasp broader social and systemic connections.

In the Czech context, Kalousová’s work has been presented at venues such as etc. gallery, VI PER Gallery, and City Surfer Office in Prague as well as Galerie TIC (with Erika Velická) and the FFA Gallery (with Šimon Chlouba) in Brno. Her work has also been exhibited abroad, for example, at the Czech Center in New York and in Amsterdam at the PAKT Foundation and De Hallen. Screenings of the artist’s films have been held in London, New York, Vienna, and Amsterdam. Her short film Vanilla Sky won the Audience Award in the competition section Other Visions CZ at the 2025 PAF Olomouc festival.