Studio Oléne

Many artists at present view the medium of the installation as the creation of an environment for the exhibiting of individual artistic objects. An installation can be understood as a showroom. Individual objects are placed within semantic and aesthetic connections with the background and form a unified whole with it. The motif of the showroom is clear in Hosnedlová’s Studio Oléne (2018). The artist created a changing room in PLATO, Ostrava, the components of which can be regarded as art objects as well as fully functioning pieces of furniture. Though this installation has a relatively unique status within Hosnedlová’s oeuvre, it represents the way that art appropriates the form and techniques of applied design and refashions them into visual and conceptual stimuli, the opposite of the normal process by which corporations appropriate the practices and procedures of the artistic avant-garde. In the spirit of minimalist and post-minimalists sculpture, Hosnedlová thus blurs the boundaries between free and applied art.