About karolina.

The work of Czech artist Karolina Ferkl unfolds in a dialogue between psychology and abstract painting – between knowledge and experience, structure and dissolution. With a background in psychology, the artist explores the relationship between reason and emotion, the tension between control and surrender. Her practice inhabits the space where thought dissolves into feeling and instinct becomes a form of knowing.

Ferkl integrates textile elements and fragments of clothing into her paintings, creating delicate arrangements on canvas – her distinctive visual language. Clothing becomes a vessel of self-expression and a record of the body’s memory, a bridge between the inner world and its outward image. These material layers extend the painterly surface into realms of physical presence, touch, and vulnerability.

The flowing and diffusing ink in her work evokes organic emotional landscapes – processes of transformation rather than static results. Each painting becomes a testimony to the moment where fragility meets strength, and chaos finds its rhythm.

Karolina Ferkl draws inspiration from fleeting details and quiet impulses of everyday life. Her work does not aim to offer answers but rather opens a space for truthful seeing – for stillness, for returning to oneself, for perceiving what lies beneath the surface. In tension and contrast, she searches for what feels most alive.