Barbora Kachlíková

Barbora Kachlíková

Barbora Kachlíková (*b.1988, Czech Republic) is a visual artist based in Ratula, Finland. For Kachlíková, old relics from the Finnish countryside, farming neighborhoods and forest industry embody narratives which she translates through abstract paintings. Kachlíková received her MA degree in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, Czech Republic, in 2016. She studied at Tartu Kõrgem Kunstikool (Estonia, 2013) and at Lahti University of Fine Arts (Finland, 2015).

Her works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Finland (Cable Factory), the Czech Republic (Art Gallery Brno), Slovakia (Gallery PARTER BSC), Germany (GEDOK Gallery), China (Kurume Friendship Museum),Japan (MONONOAharewo Gallery), Estonia and India.

She participated in artist residencies at Gedok (Germany, 2016), Artist’s Point (India, 2018), Banska Stanica Contemporary (Slovakia, 2023 and 2022), Tao Hua Tan (China, 2023), Megafield 339 (China, 2024) and Studio Kura (Japan, 2024). Kachlíková’s work has been awarded stipendiums and artist working grants by the Finnish Cultural Foundation (2024, 2022), The Scandinavia - Japan Sasakawa Foundation (2024), Arts Promotion Center Finland (2021), and Luc Art Fund, Czech Republic (2021)