The work of Adriena Simotová exploring the subject of corporeality in
paintings and objects forms one of the major achievements of Czech art of the second half of the 20th century.
She studied at the Prague Academy of applied art at Prof. J. Kaplick in the years 1945-1957. Since 1960 member of the group of visual
artists UB 12.
Her work started with paintings focused on the body and its surrounding. In the 1970s she was moving on the very edge of the painting medium using pigments, canvases and papers as object for bodily shapes, touches and traces. She discovered a new expression of inner world in of prints and touches of her body with materials and objects.


Selected solo exhibitions: 2001: National Gallery, Prague; 2000: Galerie de France, Paris; House of Art, Brno; 1999: Medium, Bratislava; Prachenske museum, Pisek; Umetnostna Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia; House of Art, Brno.
Selected group exhibitions: 1996: Faith, Hope, Love, Death, Kunsthalle, Vienna; 1995: Drawing or Painting?, National Gallery, Prague; 1994: Europa, Europa, Bundes Kunsthalle, Bonn; 1993: Detente, Ljubljana Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna; 1992: D'une generation a l'autre, Musee d'art moderne de la Ville, Paris/ Kiszelli Museum, Budapest; Detente, House of Art, Brno; 1990: 40 Czech and Slovakian Artists 1960 - 1990, Palais Luxembourg, Paris; Les Pragois, Lamaignere, Paris.