ཐི༏ཋྀ Kristina Fingerland is a visual artist working across drawing, painting, and textile. She studied Illustration and Graphic Design at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, where she also completed an internship in the Sculpture Studio. She later studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and the Glasgow School of Art.

Fingerland exhibits regularly in the Czech Republic (MeetFactory, Display, Centre for Contemporary Art) and internationally (EFA Project Space, New York; Detroit Kunsthalle, Norway; Hot Dock Project, Slovakia). She has participated in residencies including the Egon Schiele Art Centrum.

Her work is held in public and private collections, including the Gocar Gallery. Her textile installation is permanently displayed in the Atlas at Veletržní Palace of the National Gallery in Prague. In 2022, she received a creative scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.

Fingerland is also an author and illustrator. Her publications include Post Mortem and Oikos, and she co-created the participatory book Seven Sisters with Tuckova (published by UMPRUM).

Her recent practice focuses on processing family trauma, healing intergenerational relationships, and documenting unique family rituals. She approaches the family as both an intimate space and a political instrument, exploring how imagination and critical reflection can transform traditional structures.

She collaborates with ideologically aligned initiatives, including Druha:smena and the Institute of Anxiety, and is engaged in teaching.

kristina fingerland by maxim stano

education

2014 — 2021 MA in Illustration and Graphics at Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague (AAAD)

2019 — 2020 Painting Studio at Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

2019 Studio of Sculpture, AAAD

2017 Painting and Graphics Studio at Glasgow School of Art

selected shows

solo

2025 Florendom: The First Supper, part of FIK festival, Usti nad Labem

2023 Sunrise, Bludny kamen, Opava

2022 New Chapter of Oikos Realm: The Great Nurse Mira’s Assistant of Honour, Kostka at Meetfactory, Prague

2021 Reports from OikosRealm: Alma, Diamon, Melogs and Gulmas, Jelení at CSU, Prague

2020 Softshell, Entrance, Prague

group

2025 Collapsed Suns duo with Tuckova, Entrance Gallery, Prague

2025 Znami/ neznami‍ ‍Dum u Jonase, Gocar Gallery, Pardubice

2023 Mølleøy, Gampa at Automatic Mills, Pardubice

2022 BNF: Home Sweet Home, EFA Project Space, New York

2022 Mølleøy, Kunsthalle feat. Centre for Open Culture, Norway

2022 Not Just a Nuclear Family: Recipes for Happiness, Display, Prague

2020 Beata, PAF, Olomouc

2020 Resist Like a Forest, Institute of Anxiety, Orlicke hory

2019 Follow Me Or Don’t, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague

2019 The Hills Have Eyes, Hot Dock Project Gallery, Bratislava

bibliography

2023 Seven Sisters of Moana Hebe with Marie Tuckova, published by UMPRUM

2022
Krunyr, a workbook for children with Eva Kotatkova, published by Institute of Anxiety

2021 Oikos Realm, diploma at UMPRUM

2017 Post Mortem, silkprinted and selfpublished at UMPRUM

2017 Excellent Mag with Jakub Bachorik, offset, printed at UMPRUM

2014 O Hynkovi, silkprint and author offset, printed and selfpublished at UMPRUM

residencies & accomplishments

2024 Egon Schiele Art Center residency, Cesky Krumlov

2024 acquisition to the permanent collection of The Gocar Gallery, Pardubice

2022—2024 acquisition of textile sculpture installation to ATLAS project represented by National Gallery Prague

2023 Naplaveno residency, Struzinec

2022 creative scholarship by Ministry of Culture Czech Republic

2018 Offcity residency, Pardubice