Kateřina Šedá
Kateřina Šedá (born 12 December 1977 in Brno) is a Czech artist focused on conceptual art and social art. Šedá graduated in 2005 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. In 2005, she won the Jindřich Chalupecký Award for Czech artists under 35 years of age. She was married to the filmmaker Vít Klusák. She lives and works in Prague and Brno. Šedá has described the themes of her work as the quotidian, location, and individual storytelling, stating that "In all my public actions, I try to create an exchange between people in their everyday spaces". Her projects often involve members of her family or people from small villages and encourage communication between people, combining urban planning, everyday life, politics, and private relationships through social investigations. Projects There's Nothing There (2003) - Šedá asked the people in a small town in the Czech Republic to repeat their everyday rituals all at the same time together. The people of the town went to the grocery store, ate meals, and watched evening TV with their families all at the same time for a day. This project highlighted the similarities between people and how we might not realize how much of our