The art of Czech born Swedish artist Klara Kristalova (b.1967, Prague) has quietly revolutionised the art world of the past 30 years by bringing a practice based on what used to be considered a lesser and too crafty material like ceramic and a too personal and private discourse to their current acceptation in nowadays contemporary art. Her art focuses on myths and fables, but even more in a representation of the natural world, animals, plants and objects which channels and expands an idiosyncratic and private experience, connected to her childhood as the daughter of Czech refugees and fascination in eerie and dark atmospheres. “[D]epicting people generally, not women, but they are always women […],” her work is also powerfully attempting a response to the still current question of the objectification of women in art history. With a degree at the Royal Institute of Art (Stockholm, 1993), Kristalova was already one of the most prominent contemporary Swedish artist at the time of her international recognition in the early 2000s. She is now represented by intercontinentally established galleries such as Galerie Perrotin, Lehmann Maupin and Galleri Magnus Karlsson, and was exhibited in museums such as SFMOMA in the US, Hayward Gallery in London, and Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm as much as she is represented in public collections such as Broad Art Museum, US, FNAC, Paris and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.