Art Cologne 2025: with Radka Bodzewicz & Karímou Al-Mukhtarová

Radka Bodzewicz & Karíma Al-Mukhtarová

Booth: Halle 11.2 | Stand N030

For its debut at Art Cologne, Bold Gallery presents new works by Radka Bodzewicz and Karíma Al-Mukhtarová — two artists who explore the shifting boundaries between the physical and the symbolic, the personal and the collective, the real and the virtual.

Radka Bodzewicz

Radka Bodzewicz’s practice lies at the intersection of figuration and abstraction, a visual language she calls figurative abstraction. Her paintings probe the thresholds of perception and consciousness, translating philosophical and psychological ideas into symbolic compositions. Recently, she has expanded her work into digital space, merging painting with augmented and virtual reality, 3D modeling, and holography to blur the line between tangible and virtual experience.

A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2017), Bodzewicz has exhibited widely in the Czech Republic and abroad, including at Museum Kampa and Galerie Václava Špály. She has presented her work at Swab Barcelona (2023), Vienna Contemporary, and Art Cologne (2025) with Bold Gallery. Her works are held in both private and public collections such as EPO1 – Centre for Contemporary Art and the Klatovy–Klenová Gallery.

Karíma Al-Mukhtarová

Karíma Al-Mukhtarová (b. 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, and textiles. Her works explore identity, memory, and the socialization of the individual, often through poetic transformations of everyday materials.

She studied at UMPRUM and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where she graduated in 2018. Al-Mukhtarová received the Essl Art Award (2013) and has participated in residencies at CEAAC Strasbourg, Art Omi New York, and Villa Karo in Benin. Her works are included in the collections of the City Gallery Prague, Moravian Gallery in Brno, and the Francis J. Greenburger Collection, among others. She lives and works in Prague.