Věra Janoušková, founding member of the well-known creative group UB 12,
belonged to the generation that emerged in the second half of the 1950s
She became a very distinctive sculptor from the very beginning. Her sculptures
from found objects exhibited at the group's first exhibition aroused great
interest from experts and a negative reaction from the official media.
Especially her figures created by welding enamel elements (old
utensils, scoops, pots, stove tops, ...) were very interesting.
Věra Janoušková thus joined the ranks of the representatives of the new figuration
and material art and her poetics was close to pop art.
In the sixties she was successful, but during the normalization period she almost
she was unable to exhibit. A new interest in her work became apparent only after the end of
of the communist regime and her sculptures and collages became a part of collections of
National Gallery and many regional galleries. During her lifetime, the
Věra and Vladimír Janouškovy foundation was established and last year the former studio of both of the couple in Prague's Košíře was openned to the public.
