Klara Hobza

Klara Hobza’s practice incorporates performance, video, drawing and sculpture and is conceptually held together by narrations of self-imposed endeavours. In her multilayered art- works, Klara Hobza captures natural matters in analytic and often also humorous ways, while maintaining an underlying thread connecting a sense of discovery, playfulness and wonder. Having studied under Mark Dion at Columbia University in New York, Hobza’s works and projects engage deeply with nature, featuring a strong interest in animal life as well as an investigative play on science’s limitations. While drawings play a growing important role in her practice, the artist also engages in long term conceptual works such as her scuba-diving project. Her projects have been widely discussed in contexts ranging from art, science and technology to general culture (selected publications include Artforum, Monopol Magazine, AD Architectural Digest, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics, New York Times, Wired).

Klara Hobza received a diploma from the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and and holds a MFA from Columbia University.

Hobza has been exhibited internationally since 2005. Her most recent solo exhibitions include: Self-portrait, Soy Capitán, Berlin, DE (2024); The Breathing Trilogy, Soy Capitán, Berlin, DE (2023); Die Ohren zu St. Georgen, Global Forest, St. Georgen im Schwarzwald, DE (2021); Naturama, Aargau, CH (2020 – 2021); Animaloculomat, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, CH (2019); Diving Through Europe, Syndhavn Station, Copenhagen, DK (2014); 12×12, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, DE (2012) and Prequel, Soy Capitán, Berlin, DE (2011).

Selected group shows include: Interactions, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Bonn, DE (2023); Dem Wasser Folgen, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, DE (2022); PAPIER, Kunstverein Bamberg, DE (2021); Swimmingpool — Troubled Waters, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE (2021); Bon Voyage! Reisen in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, DE (2020); In aller Munde. Von Pieter Bruegel bis Cindy Sherman, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE (2020); Water Yump – Ein schwimmendes Ensemble im Rhein von Thomas Geiger, curated by Benedikt Wyss, Museum Tinguely, Basel, CH (2018); Who makes Europe, Gdańsk City Gallery, curated by Catherine Hug, Kunsthaus Zurich, CH (2015) and In The Public Realm, Public Art Fund, New York, US (2008).

In 2021, a selection of works of Hobza’s Diving Through Europe cycle was added to the national collection of Germany (Sammlung der BRD).

Klara Hobza, born 1975 in Pilsen, CZ, lives and works in Berlin, DE, and Paris, FR.