Art for the soul

I work with painting as a space for dialogue between inner and outer landscapes, belief and doubt, symbol and emotion. Rooted in introspection and shaped by spirituality, philosophy, and cultural memory, my work explores what cannot always be named, yet is deeply felt.

Each painting becomes a quiet meeting point, an invitation to pause, to look inward, and to listen.

Enter the work

Lumen III.
60x70cm, 2026
~ Ave Love series

This painting is part of a three piece mini story. Lumen represents the light within. Finding our way through challenges and sadness, with inner strength and faith in ourselves.

Currently on display at Café Charmé, Prague-Kunratice until April 3rd.

#Painting #Art #Prague

Lumen II.
60x70cm, 2026
~ Ave Love series

This painting is part of a three piece mini story. Lumen represents the light within. Finding our way through challenges and sadness, with inner strength and faith in ourselves.

Currently on display at Café Charmé, Prague-Kunratice until April 3rd.

#Painting #Art #Prague

Lumen I.
60x70cm, 2026
~ Ave Love series

This painting is part of a three piece mini story. Lumen represents the light within. Finding our way through challenges and sadness, with inner strength and faith in ourselves.

Currently on display at Café Charmé, Prague-Kunratice until April 3rd.

#Painting #Art #Prague

Bold Advisor currently on display in Café Charmé, Prague Kunratice 🌷🌻✨

#exhibition #art #prague

Iter (Journey)
60x70cm, 2026
~ Ave Love series

Iter represents the twists and turns we experience throughout life, carrying a feeling of acceptance, movement, and gratitude for the path itself.

Currently on display at the Municipal Library of Prague - Pohořelec until February 27th.

#AbstractPainting #Art #Prague

Unum (Unity)
60x70cm, 2026
~ Ave Love series

Currently on display at Café Charmé, Prague-Kunratice until April 3rd.

#AbstractPainting #Art #Prague

Grace
65x85cm, 2026
~ Ave Love series

Currently on display at Café Charmé, Prague-Kunratice until April 3rd.

Grace is from the Ave Love series and is the final piece in a four-part mini story. With this painting I want to create space for gratitude and grace. Where love is embraced without fear, God meets us with grace.

#Embrace #AveLove #AbstractArt

Breath
65x85cm, 2026
~ Ave Love series

Currently on display at Café Charmé, Prague-Kunratice until April 3rd.

Breath is also from Ave Love series. It’s a moment of coming to yourself and choosing peace, trusting the process.

#Embrace #AveLove #AbstractArt

Embrace
65x85cm, 2026
~ Ave Love series

Currently on display at Café Charmé, Prague-Kunratice until April 3rd.

Embrace is another painting from my Ave Love series. Through it, I want to show warmth, gratitude and trust. Finding love has been a feeling I would describe as close to rediscovering myself after almost having lost faith in life. Love comes from within first, the world will reflect it.

#Embrace #AveLove #AbstractArt

Arrival
65x85cm, 2026
~ Ave Love series

Currently on display at Café Charmé, Prague-Kunratice until April 3rd.

Arrival is a painting from my Ave Love series, my new wave of expression, which is very meaningful to me. After many life’s transformations and personal growth, I feel like I have found a kind of confidence and trust in the process and my own visual expression. My palette has become more expressive, bright and vivid, but my subject has become more gentle and soft. Arrival shows that as a moment of peace and clarity, one of becoming.

#Arrival #AveLove #AbstractArt

Smělý Rádce bude k vidění v Café Charmé až do 3. dubna, těšíme se na vás! 🌷🌻✨

Bold Advisor will be on display at Café Charmé till April 3rd, see you there! Opening on Sunday February 1st. 🌷🌻✨

#art #exhibition #SmělýRádce #BoldAdvisor

Studio at Dům Radost, Prague 🌻🌷✨

#AbstractArt #FemaleArtist #Prague

Dva týdny do výstavy v Café Charmé 💫🌷🌻

#SmělýRádce #exhibition #abstract

🌻🌷 1.2. ve 13:00 vás zveme na vernisáž výstavy v @cafe_charme_kunratice! Společná výstava @elliembauer a @vdivemstaccatu je dalším z jejich opakovaných uměleckých setkání. Poprvé se jejich tvorby protnuly již v roce 2011 na výstavě fotografií a od té doby se jejich dialog přirozeně rozvíjí napříč médii, formáty i rolemi. Nejde o jednorázové spojení, ale o dlouhodobý vztah dvou tvůrkyň, které se navzájem inspirují, podporují a jemně, i odvážně, ovlivňují.

Název výstavy Smělý Rádce odkazuje jak k etymologii názvu místa konání (Kunratice – Konrád – smělý rádce), tak k samotné podstatě jejich vztahu. Eva a Elisabeth jsou si vzájemně smělými rádci: sdílejí pohledy, pochybnosti i impulzy, aniž by si zasahovaly do vlastní autenticity. Jejich tvorba se potkává v citlivosti k tématu, v duchovní a symbolické rovině i ve vizuálním jazyce, přesto si každá zachovává svůj osobitý rukopis.

Výstava staví do dialogu menší formáty Evy s velkoformátovými obrazy Elisabeth. Tento kontrast měřítek vytváří napětí i harmonii - intimitu vedle expanze. Společným jmenovatelem je krajina vnitřní i vnější, spiritualita, symbol a potřeba vyjádření toho, co nelze snadno pojmenovat.

Jejich spolupráce se neomezuje pouze na výtvarné umění. Prolíná se i s literární tvorbou Evy, k níž Elisabeth vytváří vizuální doprovod, a s performativním rozměrem vernisáží, kde se slovo, obraz a hlas setkávají v živém prostoru. Smělý Rádce je tak výstavou dialogu - mezigeneračního, uměleckého i lidského.

#SmělýRádce #Výstava #Kunratice #CafeCharme

V únoru chystám další výstavu v městské knihovně, tentokrát na Pohořelci. 🌊 Nazvala jsem ji Tichý Řeky Proud, po verši z básně mé maminky @vdivemstaccatu.

Výstava otevírá prostor, kde barvy a formy plynou jako řeč beze slov. Obrazy zvou diváka k tiché meditaci, v níž se malba proměňuje v rozhovor odehrávající se uvnitř.

Vernisáž proběhne 4.2.2026 od 17:30. 🩵

#TichyRekyProud #QuietRiverFlow

Vybrané texty k výstavě Mezi slovem a tichem // Selected texts for the exhibition Between word and silence 📖

Mezi slovem a tichem 💫 // Between word and silence ✨

Z mého malého ateliéru v @dumradost do tak krásného prostoru @knihovna_praha je velká radost. ❤️

Výstava zkoumá vztah mezi vizuální expresí a lingvistikou, kde se barvy a tvary stávají novým jazykem – jazykem, který nepotřebuje překlad a nezná hranice. Kreativita zde překračuje struktury a vytváří vlastní systémy komunikace. Obrazy mluví tam, kde slova nestačí, a zvou diváka k tiché meditaci, v níž se malba proměňuje v rozhovor odehrávající se uvnitř.

K vidění v říjnu v Městské knihovně v Praze, pobočka Jezerka.

23. října od 18 hodin v knihovně také proběhne čtení básní V Divém Staccatu Evy M. Bauer.

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From my small studio to this beautiful space, I’m very happy! 🤩

The exhibition explores the relationship between visual expression and linguistics, where colors and shapes become a new language - a language that needs no translation and knows no boundaries. Here, creativity transcends structures and creates its own systems of communication. Paintings speak where words fall short, inviting the viewer into a silent meditation in which painting transforms into an inner dialogue.

On view in October at the Prague Municipal Library, Jezerka branch.

On October 23rd at 6 p.m., the library will also host a poetry reading from the collection In Wild Staccato by Eva M. Bauer.

#vystava #umeni #praha #prague #art #exhibition #installationart #abstractart #language #tamil #greek #czech #urdu

Mezi Slovem a Tichem ✨
#BetweenWordAndSilence #MeziSlovemATichem

Installation in progress 👷‍♀️🚧✨

Come see my next project in October at the public library in Prague Jezerka. 📚

#art #installationartist #abstract

Mezi slovem a tichem // Between word and silence

Výstava zkoumá vztah mezi vizuální expresí a lingvistikou, kde se barvy a tvary stávají novým jazykem – jazykem, který nepotřebuje překlad a nezná hranice. Kreativita zde překračuje struktury a vytváří vlastní systémy komunikace. Obrazy mluví tam, kde slova nestačí, a zvou diváka k tiché meditaci, v níž se malba proměňuje v rozhovor odehrávající se uvnitř.

K vidění v říjnu v Městské knihovně v Praze, pobočka Jezerka.

23. října od 18 hodin v knihovně také proběhne čtení básní V Divém Staccatu Evy M. Bauer.

// The exhibition explores the relationship between visual expression and linguistics, where colors and shapes become a new language - a language that needs no translation and knows no boundaries. Here, creativity transcends structures and creates its own systems of communication. Paintings speak where words fall short, inviting the viewer into a silent meditation in which painting transforms into an inner dialogue.

On view in October at the Prague Municipal Library, Jezerka branch.

On October 23rd at 6 p.m., the library will also host a poetry reading from the collection In Wild Staccato by Eva M. Bauer.

#vystava #umeni #praha #exhibition #prague #art

Obrazy co dlouho visely na @strecha_radosti už jsou zpátky u mně v aťase, Děkuji! 🪷🫶
Ke shlédnutí po osobní domluvě v @dumradost.
#dumradost #strecharadost

Did you know that Hindi and Czech share the same ancestor language?! 🤓 They descend from Proto-Indo-European, which is believed to be the ancestor of the Indo European language family. It’s the ancestor of most languages in Europe and South and Central Asia!

Today I want to share some similarities between Hindi, Sanskrit and Czech that I have learned and think are fascinating. Many words sound similar, and there are common traits even in grammar, like the presence of grammatical gender, and the Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order (though, Czech is more flexible in that one depending on context and intonation).

For example, many words share a common root, like these:

“Door” = dveře [cz] = darvāza [hi] = dvār [sa]
“Dry” = suchý/á [cz] = sukhā/ī [hi] = ṣuṣkā [sa]
“Brother” = bratr [cz] = bhāi [hi] = bhrátr [sa]
“Mother” = matka [cz] = mātā [hi] = mātr [sa]
“New” = nový/á [cz] = nayā/ī [hi] = nava [sa]
“Smoke” = dým [cz] = dhūā [hi] = dhūma [sa]
“Knowledge” = vědění [cz] = jñān [hi] = vidyā [sa]
“Fire” = oheň [cz] = āg [hi] = āgni [sa]

Some numbers sound very similar too, like:
2 = dva [cz] = dō [hi] = dvau [sa]
3 = tři [cz] = tīn [hi] = tri [sa]
4 = čtyři [cz] = char [hi] = catvāraḥ [sa]
6 = šest [cz] = cheh [hi] = ṣaṣṭ [sa]
10 = deset[cz] = das [hi] = daśa [sa]

As I dig deeper into the different languages I’m learning and their roots, I find it fascinating how much of the world is connected and coinfluenced.

Languages are not just a means of communication. They are living memories of our history and culture. And I think it’s interesting to look at and recognize the shared links of our heritage and civilization. I wish people would appreciate each other’s individual heritage and history more than look at the differences as something to be afraid of fought.

#languagelearning #hindi #czech #indoeuropean #love

(Image sources - Indo-European migrations map: Indo-European expansions, based on Anthony (2007), Nordqvist & Heyd (2020), Narasimhan (2019). And Partial tree of Indo-European languages with highlight on Hindustani and Czech.)

Photo #3 is me containing myself when I ran out of the color I needed. 🫣
#carpet #diary

My latest mini carpets ❣️
#weaving #art #diy #carpet

Next I’m gonna try language flags color inspired tiny carpets. 🤓
If you can read my full notes in the last picture from #PolyglotGathering I’ll make yours first! 🧶🔮🪮

Carpet weaving unlocked! 🧶😍 What started with a workshop my brother took us to at @atelierlesjeunesartisans in Rabat is developing into a newfound passion.

Back home I improvised a frame using a strawberry 🍓 box, when I couldn’t wait for my proper frame to arrive. 👀 And I still use it! So much fun and calming in this. ✨

Hey everyone, it’s been a while! 👋 Not a ghost—though, Happy Halloween! 👻

I’ve taken a much-needed break from posting publicly, pulling back to find my balance after a whirlwind year. Life, endless communication, and the pressure to stay constantly “online” had me overwhelmed, so I slowed down to recollect myself.

This might not reach everyone, but I’m leaning into a bit more honesty here—using this space like a journal for my journey. So, here’s a little update.

I’m hopeful to share new work with you all next year, if things finally align for an exhibition. This year has mostly been about navigating the hurdles of life, but I’m grateful for the few bright spots along the way. ✨

Until then, I’m always open to studio visits! Just drop me a DM if you’d like to stop by. 🌞 (...bear with me while I get back to all those I missed)

Thank you for being here, and for your patience. 💫

📔 Quick diary post:

Some of my favorite moments from these past few weeks. ✨

I turned 30, and it feels great! I feel so blessed and lucky to have the life that I’ve been given. My younger brother is my best friend, my second brother got married and makes a wonderful couple (!!💓💓), and I have such a loving family and amazing friends in my life that I can’t even express how grateful I feel. 🌸 I only wish I made more time for painting and reading this year, but there is still time. 😜

In a way turning 30 felt like a new level of freedom and self discovery, it didn’t turn my hair white (a bit of a disappointment tbh), and all my bones are still in place. 😂👌

✨ AVE LOVE ✨🖍️

A new project that I'm slowly working on that's bringing me a lot of joy as well as thoughts to process and elaborate on.

What does LOVE mean to you?

#Love #AveLove #Art

Full moon, new energy 🌝✨

Currently working on transforming my little meditations onto canvas.

I’m free for studio visits on weekends, DM to schedule. ✨

#AbstractArt #AbstractPainting #DumRadost #ElisabethBauer #ZenyVUmeni #art #artist #womenartists #femaleartist

Life is beautiful and colorful. 🌈🌞✨🎨💖 I love how this new series is coming to be, and I love how my life is evolving as I dive deeper into my own consciousness to bring my meditations to light. Approaching 30 (I'll be in September) can be stressful in some ways, but I feel so grateful for these past years, and hopeful and excited for the next years ahead 😏✨ Life keeps getting more and more beautiful and magical.

#Art #DumRadost #Studio #ArtStudio #atelier #Artist #ElisabethBauer #colorful #Inspiration #AbstractArt #meditation

First meditation on canvas, WIP ✨✨✨

#abstraction #meditation #color

First layers of the new series ✨✨ 🌷

#AbstractPainting #DumRadost #Studio #ElisabethBauer

Meditations ✨

#AbstractArt #Painting #FemaleArtist

As some of you may have seen in my studio this weekend, my visual expression is changing slightly and gaining a richer palette of colors. ✨🌈 To say the last months have been difficult would be an understatement, and I don't mean to complain, life happens, things come up that need dealing with and put anything other than that aside. But life is beautiful in this richness. Every day brings something new, even just waking up is a small miracle from God. I'm grateful for the life I've been given and the many ups and downs it brings. It all comes to create one big experience of life. That's what these small studies represent, so far. The intertwining of experience in life, the way we connect and move through it with and around others. It's mysterious at times, and predictable at others. And I believe it should be regarded and appreciated as a wonderful thing.

#Art #ZenyVUmeni #AbstractArt #Painting #FemaleArtist #colorful

New wave of expression..,

🌊🌺🌳🌟🌈

As the last few months have been very difficult and intense in many ways, it has reflected in my creative expression. I can see every thought and feeling encoded in these latest paintings on paper. I have time and again noticed how you are drawn to my ink portrait drawings, which are mostly showing my darker side, or generally my sadness. It had me thinking why these seem to be so attractive..? I've come to realize it might be because they are the most honest expression of how I have felt at the moment I painted them, and to many these might either feel relatable in a way, or they spark compassion and understanding. Maybe... In any case, I felt very humbled just realizing this, and it brought me to another strain of thought. How much have I been hiding in my expression, and how much good gets lost in my dealing with the sad parts? It can be tough to deal with life sometimes and seeing the beauty in it, and it's easy to fall into the comfort of ignoring the complexity of it. Five months of this year have gone by me in like what feels to be one week, with a variety of good and sad moments. I want to celebrate that though, the life we are given and the opportunity to make it our own. I want to strive to be more honest in my expression and life as well. ❣️

I hope to see you next weekend in my studio for @otevrene_ateliery_praha open studio or on future exhibitions and events. 🌟

One of the new paintings I've been working for my ✨ Dream ~ Reality ✨ series is Fatih, which is inspired by the historical figure of Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire, the conqueror of Constantinople.

I was particularly interested in his life because of his confidence and trust in his destiny and his dreams. The Ottomans believed that dreams had a deep meaning and acted on them in their decision making. Mehmed II had a very ambitious dream from childhood to conquer Constantinople, and in European history books he's mostly portrayed as just that, a conqueror who expanded the Ottoman Empire, leading the siege of Constantinople in 1453 and extending the empire’s reach all the way into the Balkans. There is so much more to his character and life, of course.

While the great Ottoman emperor is mostly remembered for his military genius, he was also a true intellectual. He is believed to have spoken Persian, Arabic, ancient Greek and Italian, and his library included books on topics such as geometry, religion, engineering, astronomy, arithmetic, archaeology, geography and philosophy. He even wrote poetry, and also had a great interest in the arts, having commissioned the Renaissance painter Bellini to do his portrait.

I wanted to capture his softer side in the painting. A sort of love letter to yet another historical crush of mine. 🤪😌😏

In the last three slides you'll find: an illustration of Mehmed II with a rose by Nakkasa Sinan Bey and a later one by John Young, and a portrait by Gentile Bellini.

#DreamReality #Art #MehmedII #Fatih #Ottoman #ContemporaryPainting #ZenyVUmeni #WomenArtists

Friday nights at the studio are my favorite 👩‍🎨✨

#ArtStudio #Painting #Atelier #DumRadost #Art

Slowly getting back into my rhythm 💃🏻🎶💪✨

#ArtStudio #AbstractArt #ZenyVUmeni #CzechArtist #GermanArtist #StudioLife

I'm happy to invite you all to my studio at @dumradost in June as part of another year of @otevrene_ateliery_praha! 🧡 I enjoyed the conversations last year and look forward to meeting more of you all this year. I'll be open all weekend June 14-16! ✨

A little bit about what I do:

Elisabeth’s work navigates the realms of life, expression, and emotions, drawing inspiration from various cultures, histories, languages, and beliefs. Her work is based on introspection and societal exploration, celebrating the complex layers that form our shared existence.

She studied Toy Design at the Prague Secondary School of Applied Arts, briefly delved into Religion, Ethics, and Philosophy at the Charles University, spent many years pursuing a musical career before returning to painting and sculpture, which she continues to pursue to this day. Currently, she works in her studio at Dům RADOST in Žižkov.

Fascination with spirituality, philosophy, and faith permeates her work, leading her to introspective themes and journeys of inner growth. She draws inspiration from religious spaces and reflects on the driving forces of human faith. Each creation becomes a canvas for contemplation, a space where threads of different beliefs intertwine, and new possibilities emerge in the interplay of culture, history, and the ever-evolving landscape of human experience.

The media she chooses, including acrylic paint, oil pastels, and ink, find their canvas on a spectrum of materials - from raw, unprimed linen to soft, translucent batiste. This deliberate selection adds further dimensions to her artistic expression.

See you in June! 😍

#OtevreneAteliery #Praha #StudioVisit #ArtStudio #OpenStudio #ElisabethBauer #Artist

What is a dream? What's reality? ✨✨✨ 🌀

#DreamReality #ElisabethBauer #ContemporaryPainting #ContemporaryArt #DumRadost #CzechArt #CzechArtist #GermanArtist #FemaleArtist #WomenArtists

Breathtaking @katharina_grosse at @albertinamuseum in Vienna. I could watch this all day! 👀

I love it when artists go above and beyond the ordinary, breaking constraints of techniques and the expected. ✨✨✨

#KatharinaGrosse #Albertina #AlbertinaMuseum #Wien #Vienna #ContemporaryArt #Exhibition #Inspiration

✨ حلم ~ واقع ✨
Dream ~ Reality

#art #contemporaryart

Cozy studio vibes with the lovely @callmehonganh 💖🦖✨

DM me for studio visits.😊

📷 @callmehonganh

2023 was a pretty fast and busy year! What's coming in 24? 👀

Tiny pieces available at our Advent Art Pop-up at Dům Radost! Check the link in my bio for event details.

I'm having fun with these 😛 although it's such a big difference between these and the large canvases I'm used to 😏 See you this weekend at @dumradost!

PS my new musical obsession is @victorray go check him out! 😮‍💨🤩💃🏼

#AdventArtPopup #DumRadost #ElisabethBauer #AbstractArt

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Paintings

Arrival

Exhibitions

Smělý Rádce

1.2.-3.4. 2025, Praha

Café Charmé - Praha Kunratice

Joint exhibition with Eva M. Bauer. Vernissage 1.2.2026 from 13:00.

Tichý Řeky Proud

4.-27.2. 2025, Praha

Municipal Library Prague - Pohořelec

Vernissage 4.2.2026 from 17:30.

Past Exhibitions

Mezi Slovem a Tichem / Between Word and Silence

October 2025 - November 2025, Municipal Library Prague - Jezerka

Střecha Radost

May 2024 - July 2025, Prague, CZ

Radost Advent Art Pop-up

Dec 15-16, 2023, Prague, CZ

LICHTUNG / SVĚTLINA

Sep 5 - Nov, 2023, Prague, CZ

The Holy Art - New York

Oct, 2023, New York, USA

Great Portland Street - Tube station

Sep 11 - 24, 2023, London, UK

Kostel Očišťování Panny Marie

May 20, 2023, Dub nad Moravou, CZ

The Holy Art Gallery

Feb 10 - Mar 9, 2023, Athens, Greece

Harmonie Barev

Oct - Nov, 2022, Prague, CZ

Art Number 23

July 1-7, 2022, Athens, Greece

CO NÁM NEDÁ DEN MÁ NOC II.

June 15-19, 2022, Gabriel Loci, Prague, CZ

UTXO 22

June 4 - 5, 2022, Gabriel Loci, Prague, CZ

CO NÁM NEDÁ DEN MÁ NOC

November 12-14, 2021, Gabriel Loci, Prague, CZ

Street Art

Two-tailed Mermaid Mural

Oct 2023, Heraklion, Greece

This mural draws on the layered history of Cretan folk art, inspired by textile traditions, ancient symbolism, and Minoan color palettes. It reflects the island’s strong cultural identity through Byzantine, Venetian, and Ottoman influences, weaving together themes of spirituality, resilience, and continuity. Created during a residency at the Lakkos Art Residency in Heraklion, the work was conceived as a gift to the local community and a reflection of shared artistic exchange.

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