Gabriela Těthalová

Visual artist Gabriela Těthalová (1988) works at the intersection of painting, embodied experience, and conceptual frameworks drawn from mathematics and physics. She develops a distinctive visual language grounded in archetypes, rhythm, and mutable structures, which she understands as dynamic systems with their own temporality. In her large-scale paintings, she interweaves gesture, space, and layered forms with the processual principles she has been exploring over the long term – from algebraic relationships to organic motifs. Painting is conceived as a record of the interaction between matter, movement, and thought, in which form is continuously reorganized and oscillates between the conscious and the unconscious.

Her practice also encompasses spatial installations that translate her characteristic pictorial structures into three-dimensional environments of object and sound, creating interconnected networks of relationships between material, language, and perception.

After completing a master’s degree in mathematics at Charles University in Prague, she began to focus systematically on painting. She studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM) and at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, and spent an extended period working in Berlin. In 2023, she was among the recipients of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award. She has exhibited across Europe and the United States, and her works are represented in leading Czech private collections, including the Havrlant Art Collection.