Anežka Abrtová (b. 1998) is a Czech artist who mainly focuses on drawing, installation and sculpture in her practice. Abrtová's practice is characterized by physicality, which is always present, especially in her drawings. Juxtaposing between public and private forms of "symbolisms", highlights the autobiographical language of her work in general. In 2024, she graduated from Studio of Painting 2 at the Academy of Fine Arts. Currently, she is living in Vienna.

"I  work mainly with drawing, which I supplement with sculpture, objects and performances. My working methodology is similar to uncovering inner cartography through artistic intuition. My formal work takes place or approaches it through collage, i.e. combining different visuals into drawings with the intimacy of one's own human body as a leitmotif and ultimately supplemented with symbols from the animal and material spheres. Stories and conversations that surround me are incorporated into my practice, as is symbolism from folktales and myths. This exploration delves into the relationship and breakdown between personal narrative and fiction, and how stories shape who we are. Paper, body, arms and fingers became my main working tools to support my artistic works with my body. Associative readings arise in my drawings as a result of this physical contact with them. Their elements, standing in a free relationship with each other, acquire a sequential sense, unlike film or literary processes. The main goal of my work is to explore and accentuate the human body and its transformational potential by working with body memory. Collage mediates the meeting of the finite with the inevitable, and the contingent with the unwanted, giving way to new results and shedding old identities."