Denisa Lehocká at Lombardi—Kargl / Vienna

Artist(s): Denisa Lehocká
Art space: Lombardi—Kargl
Address: Schleifmühlgasse 5/5a
Duration: 14/05/2025 - 26/07/2025
Credits: kunst-dokumentation.com

Denisa Lehocká works across various media, including works on paper, textiles, and sculptural objects. Her practice integrates fragments of everyday life and combines (found) organic and inorganic materials, often fabrics, imbued with traces of memory. Through an intuitive, process-driven approach, she arranges forms into larger modular or serial compositions, exploring notions of infinite combinability in two and three dimensions.

She creates spatial sculptural installations – what she terms “spatial collages” – with careful attention to how they inhabit and respond to the given conditions of space, subtly guiding the viewer’s physical movement through it. Her works appear as levitating bodies, materializations of the the so-called immaterial, and serving as representations of deep subjectivity and the ephemeral.

Her work resonates with a female artistic tradition that highlights the social dimensions of corporeality, carrying a therapeutic, almost healing, bandage-like undertone. At the same time, it exudes a meditative, ritualistic spirituality, rooted in the rhythmic, non-rationalized gesture.

By calling her works Untitled, Lehocká refrains from singling out individual pieces from her continuous flow of production. She positions the viewer as a partner in interpretation, offering neither titles nor instructions but rather an open space for imagination and personal engagement.