Klára Hosnedlová

Klára Hosnedlová is a Czech artist whose practice dissolves the boundaries between embroidery, sculpture, architecture, and performance. Born in 1990 in Uherské Hradiště, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and is currently pursuing doctoral research on the work of Adolf Loos at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno. She lives and works in Berlin. Hosnedlová belongs to the first generation of Czech artists to emerge entirely after the fall of communism. Her signature medium — photo-realist embroidery painstakingly stitched in cotton thread over months — transforms photographs into tactile, time-saturated objects that hover between documentation and craft. Her large-scale woven tapestries, some reaching nine meters high, reimagine the architectural forms of Central and Eastern European modernism and Brutalism as sites of collective memory and utopian aspiration. Her institutional momentum has accelerated dramatically: a CHANEL commission at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin (2025), solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel and Copenhagen Contemporary, and a forthcoming New Museum commission in New York. White Cube signed her in December 2022, and her debut solo with the gallery — Echo, at White Cube Bermondsey (February 11 – March 29, 2026) — incorporates living reishi mushrooms, sound compositions by Billy Bultheel, and architectural interventions that transform the gallery into an immersive ecosystem. Wallpaper* named her Best Dreamscaper at the 2026 Design Awards.