Daniela & Linda Dostálková work as a duo, live in Prague. Linda graduated from Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem (2015) and Scenography at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno (2005). She was a researcher at Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (2016). Daniela and Linda studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Department of New media, prof. Grzegorz Kowalski (2005). Both sisters work as curators at PLATO Ostrava. Represented by Piktogram Gallery in Warsaw.

The work of Daniela & Linda Dostálková deals with a concept of the autonomous hybrid social ‘art practice’—blurring the lines between disciplines, challenges accepted distinctions, in the questioning of identity. They trace unexpected articulations of alternative/commodified forms of organizations that are based in the art world and its institutional structures; understanding social phenomena, objects, things, and concepts and the fluidity of boundaries between them. Both sisters approach art as a form of articulation that deals with the ways by which a commodity and its economic environment activate us. They examine the complex problems faced today by animal welfare activists, the strategies of persuasion of their campaigns and the visual language they draw on. They investigate what role do charismatic and non-charismatic species and the desirable or undesirable “wildness of nature” play in those campaigns.

Exhibitions
CONSTELLATION, Piktogram is presenting works by Daniela&Linda Dostálková and is hosting Hot Wheels (Athens/London) with works by Yorgos Prinos and KIN (Brussels) with works by Yalda Afsah and Thibaut Henz, Warsaw, 2024
Gastro Guilt, curated by Caroline Krzyston, huntkastner, Prague, 2023
Verbal Slip, Piktogram, Warsaw, 2023
Move 2022 Culture club—Corps collectifs, curated by Caroline Ferreira and Michal Novotný, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2022
The Galleries Show with Piktogram, Winkelcentrum Oudaan, Antwerps, 2022
Verbal Slip, curated by Edith Jeřábková, PLATO, 2022
Ester Krumbachová, curated by Edith Jeřábková and Kateřina Svatoňová, House of Arts, Brno, 2022
Disturbed Balance Revisited, 2021, curated by Michal Koleček, House of Arts, Ústí nad Labem
How To Be Together, curated by Kasia Redzisz, Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara, 2021
Claws Not Made to Shake Hands with, Piktogram, Warsaw, 2021
LISTE Art Basel with Piktogram, 2020
Resist like Woods, curated by Edith Jeřábková, Woods — Community for Cultivation, Theory and Art, 2020
Claws Not Made to Shake Hands with, New Synagogue, Zilina, 2020
Old Sinne / Reneweth Shame, Piktogram, Warsaw, 2019
Exiled Queens, Trinec City Gallery, 2019
Uncertainty Seminars: Other Than Art's Sake, curated by Ilga Minjon & Radna Rumping, Stroom Den Haag, 2019
Art Berlin Fair, Joinery Gallery Video Programme by LISTE, 2019
Letzte Lockerung, with works by Daniela und Linda Dostálková, Loretta Fahrenholz, Anne Jud, Klara Lidén, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Philipp Timischl, Amalia Ulman, curated by Valérie Knoll, Kunsthalle Bern, 2019
LISTE Art Basel, Joinery Gallery Video Programme, 2019
... and whan he cam there he fond a doore of yron thikk & strong ... , curated by Café Utopia, Brno Art Open, 2019
Campaign, curated by Edith Jeřábková, Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, 2019
Hello World, curated by Adi Gura, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, 2019
A from Animism, Atlas, Adrift, curated by Dragos Olea, The Loft, 37th Art Brussels, 2019
Conditions of Impossibility VII — Psychopathology of the Planet Earth, curated by Václav Magid, Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, 2018
Self-fulfilling Prophecy, curated by Michał Woliński, Piktogram, Warsaw, 2018
Character Roots, curated by Ondřej Báchor, Kaj Lehmann and Xavier Erni, Kunsthalle Luzern, 2018
Making Oddkin – for joy, for trouble, for volcano love, curated by Nadja Argylopoulou, Nisyros, 2018
We Are Still the Same and You Are Always More, curated by Jiří Ptáček, Fotograf Gallery, Prague, 2018
I sit down and they tell me lemme tell you they say and i don’t wanna be told and i’m told and told and told and told, invited by Nora Turato, Future Gallery, Berlin, 2018
Ester Krumbachová, Yeti—Wear the Amulet—Tangle Up the Archive, curated by Zuzana Blochová and Edith Jeřábková, Tranzitdisplay, Prague, 2017
Conditions of Impossibility I — Loss of Time, curated by Václav Magid, Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, 2017
Extensions, curated by Marika Kupková, TIC Gallery, Brno, 2017
Other Visions, curated by Michal Novotný, PAF Olomouc, 2017
Open Studios, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, 2016
Which Mirror Do You Want to Lick?, curated by Åbäke, Sofie Dederen, Radim Peško, Brno Biennial, 2016
Transcultural Emancipation, curated by Ursula Maria Probst, FLUC Vienna, 2016
The Exhibition, PLATO Ostrava, 2015

Exhibitions, curation
Dan Walwin, Relief, PLATO, Ostrava, 2023
Optimalised Fables About a Good Life, with Marek Pokorný, PLATO, Ostrava, 2022
VOGUE CS, March issue, 2021
TRYPA, with Nadja Argyropoulou, PLATO, Ostrava, 2021
Skɪz(ə)m, PLATO Ostrava, 2020
Martin Groch, Mothers and Daughters, PLATO, Ostrava, 2019
Lucie Rosenfeldová, Oh, my own?, PLATO, Ostrava, 2019
Critical Styling (symposium), PLATO, Ostrava, 2019
Shepherds, Temporary Structures 5, PLATO, Ostrava, 2019
Garden of the Future, Temporary Structures 2, with Marek Pokorný, PLATO, Ostrava, 2018
Dynasty, Temporary Structures 1, PLATO, Ostrava, 2018
Heroic vs Holistic, erotic eco-drama, PLATO, Ostrava, 2017
Marek Meduna, Od/Do Win/Win, TIC Gallery, Brno, 2017
Preparatory Portrait of a Young-girl, with Michal Novotný, PLATO, Ostrava, 2017
Cold-Pressed, Low-Heat: virginorganicvegankosher, Brno House of Arts, 2016
Perceiving at a Low Speed, Film theatre De Uitkijk, Amsterdam, 2015

We would like to thank Jakub Straka for incorporating our flexible practice into this stretching on-line frame.