AIR GALERIA ARSENAŁ: Kateřina Olivová

In July 2022, Czech artist and member of the Mothers Artlovers collective Kateřina Olivová was a guest of the gallery as part of Arsenal Gallery’s residency program in Bialystok. We encourage you to read the artist’s statement and see photos from her stay in Bialystok.

“Kateřina Olivová is a rainbow pony in disguise. She floats and lounges about lazily, naked among the children in the park, living off of breast milk, not thinking very much. She contemplates life, people, and society through her soft matter. She molests the rules with her ass and changes structures with her tits. She takes herself completely seriously. She continuously fulfills her dreams. Her tits and big white ass sparkle in the space between kitsch, pop, porn, and mop. She forgot to suck her stomach in. Spontaneous and hedonistic, she ponders through her actions, glitter, and sweat. She fulfills her dreams through stubborn determination.

Art is about beauty (primarily her own), about real dreams, about the experience of it. In this respect she is selfish and bold. A bit of sex, mother’s milk, music and glitter, a lot of laughter and joy. She sighs and cries out when she’s sad. Or she dyes her hair and pretends to be a cartoon rainbow pony. She doesn’t build borders between art and life, she doesn’t keep track of the beginning or end of performance. She provides her surroundings with a wild performative reality springing from the depth of her bosom. She is never contrived, it’s always real. Her favorite medium is her amazing large, soft body.”

Kateřina Olivová