Jana Zimová was born in the Czech Republic in 1987 and now lives and works in Germany. In the tradition of Magical Realism, her works present unreal and impossible events taking place in the real world. The impossible or supernatural happens in her paintings. The artist uses imagination in the frame of natural environment and social realities, thus searching for a truth that goes beyond what is visible in everyday life. In those so-called “magical happenings” in her paintings, reality and dream melt into a superordinate totality that needs to be interpreted.
Jana Zimová is a Czech artist. The theme of all of her paintings are bizarre stories, that are full of dramatic moments, erotic, miracles and weird beasts. The inspiration for these artworks are drawn from stories that appear in the daily press and from the traditional myths from South America and Asia.
Zimovás works are full of allegorys and a dark symbolism, this makes her works look scary and inviting at the same time. In her paintings the exaggerated reality collides with nightmares and dreams, always spiced with a portion of humor.
Biography
Exhibitions 2026 – So many of us, Paris, 2026 – Verwandlungen, Galerie beim Schump, 2025 – 2026 HAAM, BAAM, 2024- BAAM, Berlin 2024 – art-koz-rama, group show, K-Oz Gallery, Hamburg 2024 – HAAM, Hamburg 2024 – Passion for freedom, 7 House Gallery, Brooklyn, New York City ( winner of special award for painting Freedom loving ) • 2020-2024 – pause – Mother „holiday“ 2019 – AEG artists group show, Nuremberg 2018 – Passion for freedom – guest artist, The Royal Opera Arcade Gallery & La Galleria Pall Mall, London 2018 – If you walk in (solo exhibition), Muster-Meier Gallery, Bern, Switzerland 2017 – Between two worlds (solo exhibition), Eisdiele Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany 2017 – Summer Launch exhibition ( for City Primeval: New York, Berlin, Prague ), The Chemistry Gallery, Prague 2016 – Micky drei and Jana Zimova, Gallery The Solution, Prague