"I call my work figurative abstraction, in which the nature and absurdity of human life resonate.
Radka Bodzewicz is a visual artist whose painting practice lies at the intersection of figuration and abstraction — a visual language she refers to as figurative abstraction.Her works explore thresholds between the body and the symbolic, consciousness and the unconscious, creating introspective visual worlds that question perception, memory, and experience.
She draws on philosophical, psychological, and scientific texts, intuitively translating them into symbolic compositions.In recent years, Bodzewicz has expanded her practice into digital environments, combining traditional painting with augmented and virtual reality, video, 3D modeling, and holography. This hybrid approach blurs the boundary between the tangible and thevirtual, guiding viewers into altered states of perception.
She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU) in 2017, wheres he studied under Vladimír Kokolia and Jindřich Zeithamml. She received the AVUStudio Prize and completed an exchange at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, Scotland.Her recent solo exhibitions include The Light of Shadow (Stage Garden Gallery,2025), Uroboros (Gočárova Galerie, 2025), Too Close to the Sun (GaP Gallery, 2025), Paradise Lost (Bold Gallery, 2023), and In Illo Tempore (Václav Špála Gallery, 2022). Bodzewicz has presented her work at major international art fairs including ArtCologne, Vienna Contemporary (both 2025), and Swab Art Fair Barcelona (2023), all with Bold Gallery. She has participated in the Egon Schiele Art Centrum Residency and Magnus ArtResidency (both 2024). She received the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant(2017) and was a finalist for the Leinemann Foundation Award (2018). Her work is represented in private collections in the Czech Republic and abroad(including Valeart) as well as public collections such as the Klatovy–Klenová Gallery, theŠumperk Museum, and EPO1 – Centre for Contemporary Art. She lives and works inKoleč, Central Bohemia.