Kristyna and Marek Milde
Kristyna and Marek Milde are a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist duo, originally from Prague, Czech Republic. They have exhibited internationally in institutions such as the Queens Museum, MoMA, Smack Mellon, Wave Hill, MOCA Westport, the DOX Center for Contemporary Art, Futura, and Meet Factory, Prague, Dum Umeni Usti nad Labem, among others. They have been awarded numerous prestigious residencies such as the Art Omi Residency, ISCP, Queens Museum Studio in the Park Residency, LMCC Process Space Residency at Governors Island, NYC, EFA Shift Residency, Andrea Zittel A – Z West Residency, California, and the Russell Wright Design Center Residency, Garrison, NY. The Mildes have won the Westport Art Center competition with their Homescape Tete-a-Tete design. Their work has been featured and reviewed in the New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, Flashart, Hyperallergic, Artribune, ArtClue, Artycok TV, Czech National Television, and Radio among others. Kristyna Milde studied painting at the Assenza Malschule in Basel, Switzerland. Marek Milde studied Sculpture at Atelier Dodekaeder in Germany. They received MFAs from Queens College, New York in 2007. Marek Milde currently works at the Czech Center NY, and both have worked at the Czech Cultural Institute in Manhattan, where they curated and organized a wide range of events, festivals, exhibitions, residencies, and international programs. The Mildes are currently preparing for their first museum solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Praha, Prague which is scheduled to open in Spring 2024.