Dreaming Skin
17 September – 31 December
- Artist
- Lucie Rosická
- Curator
- Eliška Hradec Chomisteková
- Location
- Lavish Studio, Námestie SNP 17, Bratislava
Dreaming Skin is a collaboration between Prague-based NOOKART studio with vintage showroom Lavish Studio, and artist Lucie Rosická. The project also marks a milestone for both studios: NOOKART studio celebrates its fourth anniversary while making its debut on the Slovak market, and Lavish Studio celebrates seven years of its existence.Bringing together contemporary art and interior design, the collaboration extends NOOKART’s distinctive concept of presenting art within a furnished, domestic setting to a new audience. Installed within the interiors of Lavish Studio, the exhibition offers a fresh perspective on how art can inhabit a space, creating an intimate dialogue between artworks, objects and their surroundings while inviting visitors to discover new ways of experiencing art within an interior. The exhibition Dreaming Skin brings together a selection of works from different periods, offering a broader autobiographical perspective on Lucie Rosická’s artistic practice. Some of the works emerged from the process of coming to terms with her own body, including embroidered pieces incorporating fragments of advertising slogans promoting breast enlargement. Another group of works originates from the postpartum period and is represented by the series Born from the Sea Foam.Together, these works form an intimate and candid account of a woman, mother and artist searching for a way back to herself. The series is united not only by its materials — wadding, freshwater pearls and beads — but above all by its exploration of motherhood and the relationship with the body after childbirth.The exhibition also addresses another deeply personal subject: female sexuality and intimacy after becoming a mother. In works featuring embroidered webs of freshwater pearls and crystals positioned over the pubic area, Rosická gives form to the ambivalent emotions involved in rediscovering one’s own physicality and erotic identity. Dreaming Skin also presents newly created works that bring these individual thematic strands together into a cohesive whole. Rosická’s practice has been recognised through significant awards, international exhibitions and artist residencies. In 2024, she was nominated for the Critics’ Award for Young Painting, and in 2025, Forbes magazine included her in its 30 Under 30 list of influential young Czech personalities. Her residencies have taken her to New York and to the Sparkasse Palace in Karlovy Vary, while her work has been exhibited in the Czech Republic and internationally, including in Turin, Poland and the United States. In October 2025, she presented her latest work at Contemporary Istanbul, an international contemporary art fair.
In Dreaming Skin, Lucie Rosická explores the intimate relationship between the female body, motherhood and identity. Through embroidery, wadding, freshwater pearls and crystals, she transforms personal experiences of bodily change, postpartum vulnerability and rediscovered sensuality into tactile, deeply personal works. Balancing fragility and strength, her practice offers an unfiltered reflection on what it means to reconnect with oneself as a woman, mother and artist.
Lucie Rosická
Lucie Rosická is one of the most distinctive voices on the contemporary Czech art scene. Her practice explores the intersection of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary techniques, combining the handwork taught to her by her grandmother with classical painting and a fascination with textiles and materials. The result is a distinctive approach to figurative art that evokes personal memories and emotions.Rosická’s work is deeply autobiographical, often taking the form of a visual diary in which she records personal transformations, societal pressures and her evolving relationship with her own body. Her practice is characterised by a distinctive fusion of materials and media. She layers velvet with padding, stitches the materials together and then enriches their surfaces with pastels, airbrush and gel nail polish. Through this process, she challenges the boundaries between painting and textile art. Her aesthetic is firmly rooted in the Czech textile tradition while simultaneously engaging with influences from contemporary fashion and beauty culture.