In her native Prague, Eva Koťátková (1982) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2008, and in 2007 she was awarded the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize. She completed internships in Salzburg, San Francisco and Vienna. Subsequently, she chose to pursue a PhD at the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Prague, from which she graduated in 2015 with a dissertation on bringing the work of outsiders into the art world. Kot’átková has engaged with alternative educational models, embodied participation and the ways we relate to the natural world through critical institutional practice in contemporary art. Since the beginning of her career, she has built a powerful and complex oeuvre, both as artist, educator and activist drawing on a play, personal and embodied memory, future orientated radical imagination, social utopias and practices of care to ask what might constitute better worlds. She is a co-founder of the Institute of Anxiety, the magazine Krunýř (The Shell) and is engaged in several educational projects such as School of Imagination and Futuropolis. Her solo exhibitions have taken place at Nottingham Contemporary (2023); Arter (Istanbul, 2023); National Gallery Prague and CAPC Bordeaux (both 2022), Kunstverein Hamburg (2018); Pirelli Hangar Bicocca (Milan, 2018); Belvedere 21 (Vienna, 2017); Centre d’art contemporain (Pougues-les-Eaux, 2016) among others. Recently she has presented work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2018), the 16th Istanbul biennale (2019) and documenta fifteen (2022).