<p>Artist Magdalena Jetelová will celebrate her seventieth birthday</p>

Prague - Sculptor, photographer, and architect Magdalena Jetelová, who was born on June 4, 1946, is among the most successful Czech artists of the present day. Among other things, she is the author of many conceptual spatial installations for prestigious galleries in Europe and the United States. Since 1985, she has been living in Germany, where she received the Lovis Corinth Prize in 2006. In Prague, she became famous for her sculpture Chair on the Vltava in front of the Kampa Museum in Sovovy mlýny, installed in March 2006.

Jetelová comes from Semily, and at the beginning of normalization, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1971. However, participation in several exhibitions outside official galleries placed her outside the then official culture. In the 1980s, she realized land art conceptual projects (temporary outdoor projects) only for friends, with her Realization in Šárka being well-known. Her projects, even later, always derived from active engagement with a specific place defined by architecture, urban environment, and landscape.

Before emigrating, Jetelová left in Prague a project for underground gardening for Jižní Město. Her most famous project is Domestication of Pyramids, executed in several locations across Europe. From 1990 to 2004, she taught at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf, and since 2004, she has been active at the academy in Munich. After the establishment of the independent Czech Republic, Jetelová served as a consultant to the Council of Prague Castle for three years. And as early as 1993, her installation at Letohrádek Belveder was officially exhibited in the Czech Republic for the first time.