Tereza Lochmann

Tereza Lochmann, Paris, Éditions Lord Byron, 2025

First edition
Edition of 320 copies numbered from 1 to 320
Hardcover, 23 × 27.5 cm, 236 pages
Bilingual edition: French, English
Translations by John Barrett
ISBN: 978-2-488446-16-7

Tereza Lochmann is the first monograph devoted to the artist, renowned for her woodcut work, both printed and sculptural.The volume includes a foreword and an essay by Pascal Neveux, texts by Frédéric Saumade and Amélie Bonnet Balazut, as well as a conversation with Numa Hambursin.
The publication has been supported by ADAGP, Casa de Velázquez, FRAC Picardie, the Musée de Picardie and Galerie Kaléidoscope.

“The daily life of an artist such as Tereza Lochmann draws us into expanses of prodigious vertigo. It could be likened to an initiatory companionship with the universe of techniques, media, and artists who have shaped the history of art over the centuries. In her gestures of inscription, in her relationship to woodcut, there lies a passionate way of proposing other forms of narration, of establishing a renewed relationship with History, with past and present narratives, and with the figures she unveils as so many territories to be reinterpreted and reinvested. At times, artistic ventures require a measure of slowness in order to be written, to be read, to install something like their own world — a space-time that belongs to them and is not self-evident. Clearly, Tereza Lochmann’s artistic approach is one of these silent ventures, which today assert themselves within the artistic landscape with discreet assurance.” (Excerpt from the text by Pascal Neveux)

Born in Prague in 1990, Tereza Lochmann is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA) and of the Higher School of Applied Arts in Prague. Her work combines engraving, sculpture, painting, and drawing, transforming classical printmaking into a contemporary and experimental medium. She exhibits in France (notably at Galerie Kaléidoscope, The Bridge, DOC, Musée Picasso Antibes, Musée de Picardie) as well as abroad (Czech Republic, Spain, Germany, the Philippines). Her works are included in public collections such as FRAC Picardie, the Collection of the City of Sarcelles and the Collection of the City of Pantin. She was nominated for the Révélations Emerige Grant (2018) and the Antoine Marin Painting Prize (2022), and won the City of Prague Engraving Prize (2022). A solo exhibition dedicated to her will be presented in 2024 at the Musée de Picardie. She was an artist-in-residence at Casa de Velázquez in Madrid in 2023–24.

Amélie Bonnet Balazut holds a PhD in Fine Arts and Art Sciences and is an associate researcher at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Following her doctoral thesis, Origine de l’art – art des origines, her research continued with the publication of the book Portrait de l’homme en animal (PUP, 2014). She is the author of numerous scholarly articles and conference papers on the representation of the human/animal duality in art.

Numa Hambursin is a writer, art critic, curator, and director of French institutions specialising in contemporary art. He served as Artistic Director of Carré Sainte-Anne in Montpellier from 2010 to 2017, of the GGL-Hélénis Foundation from 2013 onward, and subsequently as Head of Modern and Contemporary Art for the City of Cannes from 2018. In 2021 he became General Director of Mo.Co – Montpellier Contemporain, where he has curated major exhibitions featuring artists such as Neo Rauch, Huma Bhabha, and Berlinde De Bruyckere.

After earning a PhD in Art History, Pascal Neveux worked successively at Art Public Contemporain and at the Jean-Gabriel Mitterrand Gallery before joining Madeleine Van Doren in 1992 at Le Crédac, the contemporary art centre of Ivry-sur-Seine. He went on to direct several public institutions, including FRAC Alsace in Sélestat, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur in Marseille, and since 2020, FRAC Picardie. He is also the author of numerous essays on French and international artists and has curated exhibitions in France and abroad.

Frédéric Saumade is a French anthropologist and ethnologist. He is Professor of Social Anthropology at Aix-Marseille University and a member of the Mediterranean, European and Comparative Ethnology Institute (IDEMEC) in Aix-en-Provence. His research focuses on the bull and bullfighting practices in the Camargue, Spain, Portugal, and several countries around the world, subjects on which he has published extensively.