SEMBLANZA / LENKA HOLÍKOVÁ
Born in Czechia in 1984, Lenka Holíková is a visual artist, illustrator, and university professor. She holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Hradec Králové (2011). Her research-based artistic practice explores themes of memory, migration, and political history, with an emphasis on drawing, community-based work, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
In 2025, she was selected for the Sponsorship Program of the Jumex Contemporary Art Foundation for the realization of the project Lime Burning: Recovery and Record. In 2023, she was also a recipient of a grant from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA, Mexico) as part of the working group Limit of What Belongs.
In 2025, she was selected for the In the Fields artistic residency, organized by Libken, to carry out the project Culinary Crossroads. Other selections include MeetFactory (Czech Republic, 2025 and 2023), Dialog City (Austria, 2024), Hablarenarte (Spain, 2023), Ukraine’s Artistic Response to the Russian Invasion (Ukraine, 2023), and Ateljé Stundars (Finland, 2023).
Her work is part of the collection of the Graz Museum (Graz, Austria, 2024).
In 2025, the printed edition of the book Culinary Crossroads was published, with the support of Libken / In the Fields Residency, Multikulturelles Zentrum Templin, and Familienentlastender Dienst der Stephanus-Stiftung. In 2024, the catalogue of her solo exhibition, resulting from the Dialog City artistic residency, was published in Graz, Austria.
Her group exhibitions include Edges of Navigation (2025, Schaumbad, Graz, Austria), Über die Grenzen in Segovia (2024, Spain), Limit of What Belongs (2023, Mexico), 1989, MPAC (2021, Oregon, USA), and Ixtli Mayahuel (2019, Museo Regional de Cholula, Mexico).
Her solo exhibitions include Longings (Graz Museum, Austria, 2024), The Borders Burn (Zwitschermaschine, Berlin, Germany, 2023), and Frontiers, Methods of Escape (Arte Mare Gallery, Finland, 2023).
CURRÍCULUM VITAE/ LENKA HOLÍKOVÁ
Cheb, Czech Republic, 1984
Since 2011 is living between Czech Republic and Mexico
Contact: (+52) 244 119 9931/ holikova.art@gmail.com/ www.lenkaholikova.com
STUDIES
2005-09. Degree in Plastic Arts, Drawing Specialty, Hradec Králové University, Czech Republic.
2009-11. Master in Plastic Arts, Drawing Specialty, Hradec Králové University, Czech Republic.
2016-18. Master in Educational intervention, Universidad UPAEP, with scholarship from BUAP, Puebla, Mexico.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024. Longings, Museum Graz, Austria.
2024. The borders burn, Zwitschermaschine Berlin, Germany.
2023. Frontiers, methods of ecape. Arte Mare Gallery, Finland.
2021. Uden Frygt/ Kunstkollektivet 8B, Unnerud, Denmark.
2019. Masaryk Project, Casa Cultural México, Cdmx, Mexico.
2016. After the desire, Embassy of the Czech Republic, Cdmx, Mexico.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2025. Edges of Navigation, Schaumbad Graz, Austria.
2024. Limit of what belongs, exhibition curated by Michel Blancsubé, S. I. Ahuatempan, Mexico.
2024. Über die Grenzen, Palacio Quintanar, Segovia, Spain.
2021. 1989, MPAC, MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture, Oregon, USA.
2019. Ichtli Mayahuel, Museo Regional de Cholula, Cholula, Mexico.
2016. City Forest, Casa Baltasar Cultural Center, Córdoba, Veracruz, Mexico.
2016. Versus, curated by Pajarera México, Museo de la UPAEP, Puebla, Mexico.
2015. Ex-libris, Projectroom, Puebla, Mexico.
RESIDENCIES (SELECTED THROUGH OPEN CALL), SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2026. El Santuario, Residencia de arte, Santa Catalina, Bolívar, Colombia.
2025. Beneficiary of the Sponsorship Program of the Jumex Contemporary Art Foundation / Lime Burning, Recovery of the Record.
2025. and 2023. Residency Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic.
2025. Residencia In the fields, Liebken, Germany.
2024. Kulturvermittlung Steiermark. Graz.
2024. Dialog city art residency. Graz.
2024. Schiesslhaus AiR program selection/ Municipality of Kollnburg and Plzeň.
2023. The Other Edges of the World selection/ Hablarenarte (Madrid). Spain.
2023. Programme for the Promotion of Cultural Projects and Co-investments: project with working group “Limit of one’s own”. National Fund for Culture and Arts. Mexico.
2023.“Ucraine´s Artistic Response to the Russian Invasion”. Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine. Internews, Ucraine.
2023. O. A. MAL FOUNDATION/ Stipend for the development of the exhibition at Arte Mare, Replot, Finland.
2023. NYGRÉNS STIFTELSE/ Stipend for the development of the exhibition at Arte Mare, Replot, Finland.
2023. Art Residency selection/ Ateljé Stundars, Solf, Finland.
2020. Honorable mention in the William Bullock Prize for Critical Museology 2020 awarded by the USC Fisher Museum of Art + Patronato MUAC + Palabra de Clío, for his participation in the project Chasen Thajni: the house of all, represented by Ulises Matamoros Ascención. 2020. Artistic residence in Chasen Thajni: La Casa de Todos/ Chasen Thajni: Everybody´s house, Santa Inés Ahuatempan, Mexico.
COLLECTIONS:
2024. Graz Museum, Graz, Austria.
PUBLICATIONS/ CATALOGUES:
2024. Longings. Catalogue of the solo exhibition, resulting from the artistic residency developed within the DialogCity programme, Graz Museum, Graz, Austria.
2025. Culinary Crossroads. Artist book and cookbook. Supported by: Libken / In the Fields Residency, Multikulturelles Zentrum Templin, Familienentlastender Dienst der Stephanus-Stiftung.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITY:
2023. Art workshop (30 hours) in Norra Korsholms skola with a grant of Korsholms kommun.
2018-19. Professor at the UDLAP university, Puebla, Mexico.
2017. Professor at the BUAP university Puebla, Mexico.
2010-11. Working with vulnerable groups, street children, victims of violence, IPODERAC, Atlixco, Mexico.
2009-10. EVS (European Voluntary Service) volunteer, Cap d’Ail, France.
ARTISTIC COLLABORATIONS:
2021. Museum of the city of Querétaro.
2020. Present. Chasen Thajni: Everybody´s house. Organization of the pedagogical and artistic program for the Chasen Thajni program.
2016. Present. With Mexican Artist Ulises Matamoros Ascención.
2016. With Italian-Mexican collective Salgari Method with drawings for the book Piaca Salgari Milano.
COURSES AND STUDIOS:
2018. Course Perspective, drawing and shadow by ATC-Ramón Almela, Puebla, Mexico.
2017. Seminar The machine of aesthetic warfare, nomadism and art in the thought of Gilles Deleuze, Instituto 17, Mexico City, Mexico.
2014-15. Member of art studio Espacio 14 belonging to Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla,Mexico.
2014-15. Member of art studio “Museo taller Erasto Cortés”, Puebla, Mexico and “TEBAC”, Tlaxcala, Mexico.
LANGUAGES: Mother tongue: Czech/ Spanish: C1 (DELE Certificate)/ French : C1 (DELF certificate)/ English: B2