Visit
Venue:
Exchange Place Project Space
Exchange Street
Sheffield S2 5TR
Open Days:
tbc
12.00-16.00
Closing Event:
Fri 22 May, 17.00-19.00
Lucie Kordacova
Testing Ground #007
Testing Ground is our residency programme at Exchange Place, intended to provide an intensive period of creative experimentation for an artist based in Sheffield.
Our artist-in-residence for Apr/May 2026 is Lucie Kordacova, a Czech artist working across sculpture, moving image, performance, and textiles.
Lucie's recent work responds to the living world and how natural landscapes are transformed by human intervention. She is interested in Slavic folk rituals and myth-making in relation to the land and its protection. Her work often fuses traditional techniques, materials and ideas with more experimental ones.
For Testing Ground, Lucie plans to make a new body of work across sculpture, sound and performance, thinking specifically about how they can co-exist and inform one another. She will also be thinking about space and place, responding to the studio’s architecture and surrounding area, and experimenting with materials that are symbolic of Sheffield and the surrounding landscape (such as steel, bog cotton, and wheat).
Through a series of public open days, you are welcome to visit Lucie in the studio for a glimpse of her developing work and the chance to ask her questions.