Draft:Dagmar Filípková

Dagmar Filípková (1960 Prague) is a Czech art brut artist, actress and writer.

Biography
Filípková was born with severe cerebral palsy. In the 1990s, she began to develop with the support of the Spirit Society. A meeting with the artist Otto Kouwen, who works with disabled artists, was a decisive moment: He invited Dagmar Filípková to the Inventura association, then in 2013-2020 he involved her in the activities of the Joyful Creation Studio - where Dagmar Filípková continues to attend - and from 2021 he gives her space in the shared studio of the Barvolam Association.

Work
Despite her mental handicap, Filípková became an actress, an artist, and wrote autobiographical prose. She also participates in the work of the Ujeto Theatre, where she played a central role in the performance Dáša wake up (2013) and performs in other repertoire:

She plays the bar singer Doña Kasacíra in Cabaret at the End of the World, Boubelka in The Eater of Corpses, and a proper hatchet woman, the hatchet man's wife, in the new family fairy tale How the Hitchhiker Tricked the Devil.

She also goes to the sheltered workshop Gaiwan, where she works with wool and other materials. In the Joyful Creation Studio, she creates paintings primarily based on oil pastels.

Several documentaries have been made about her, including Dáša or Artbrutem ke štěstí (Dáša or Artbrutem to Happiness) produced by Czech Television (2023, directed by Jolana Matějková) and a film portrait for an exhibition in Litoměřice (2024, directed by Karel Čtveráček).

In the Studio of Joyful Creation she creates paintings mainly based on oil pastels.

Exhibitions
Filípková has had a number of solo and joint exhibitions, the most important of which was held under the title Pilgrimage to the Krkonoše Mountains and Other Landscapes at the SGVÚ in Litoměřice (February - May 2024). She is represented by the Art Brut Gallery Prague.


 * 2018 Dagmar Filípková, Café na půl cesty, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2024 Pouť krkonošská a jiné krajiny, SVGU, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2024 Galerie Art Brut Praha, Prague, Czech Republic

Exhibitions

 * 2012 Barvolam, Divus/Prager Kabarett, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2012 Barvolam, České centrum, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2014 Svobodné Barvy, Centrum současného umění DOX, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2014 Neratovice ART, Společenský dům Neratovice, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2014 Art Prague, ArtInBox Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2014 A.R.T. Brut, Zámek Ctěnice, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2014 Umění je jen jedno I, Novoměstská radnice, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2014 Samorosti, Galerie NoD, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2015 Theatrum Mundi, Dejvické divadlo, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2015 Svobodné Barvy, Centrum současného umění DOX, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2015 Samorosti, Galerie NoD, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2015 Pět let Výtvarné dílny Inventura, Galerie Oko uragánu, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2016 Umění je jen jedno II, DUP 36, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2016 Samorosti, Galerie NoD, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2017 Samorosti, Galerie Open, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2017 Ateliér radostné tvorby 2017, Galerie Ambit, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2017 Jamming, Centrum současného umění DOX, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2018 Jamming, Městská galerie Vlastimila Rada, Železný Brod, Czech Republic.
 * 2018 Art brut 2018, Galerie Jednota, Vidnava, Czech Republic.
 * 2018 Umění je jen jedno III, Kampus Hybernská, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2019 Jamming, Pragovka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 2019 Ateliér radostné tvorby, Divadlo 29, Pardubice, Czech Republic.
 * 2019 Na jedné lodi, Krajská vědecká knihovna, Liberec, Czech Republic.