Lucie Rosická

Lucie Rosická (*1994) is a Czech visual artist whose work moves between figurative painting, textile, and object. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where like Lucie Pouchová she attended Painting Studio IV. Her practice is rooted in personal experience and focuses on the female body as a mutable, vulnerable, and meaning-laden space. An important formative influence was also her internship in scenography at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU), which shaped her spatial thinking and material approach.

In recent years, her work has strongly engaged with the theme of motherhood, approached without idealisation as a state oscillating between euphoria, physical and psychological exhaustion, repetition, and quiet sadness. Self-portraiture remains a key motif, now in a more direct and open form: the figure no longer hides behind a general symbol of the body, but identity is articulated through a specific face and embodied experience.

Formally, Rosická works with textile, stitching, and layering, which she combines with painting and drawing. Line dissolves and loses continuity; thread ceases to function as a tool of control and becomes a record of an inner state. In her recent work, images loosen from the surface and take on an object-like character, evoking skin, a shell, or a protective casing. Textile functions as a key medium of bodily memory and intimate engagement with the viewer.

Lucie Rosická completed an artistic residency in Turin and a residency in New York, where she further developed textile as a fully autonomous artistic language. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in the Czech Republic and internationally and is regularly included in curatorial projects focused on contemporary figuration and the expanded field of painting.