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Magdelena Jetelova was born in 1946 in Semily, CSSR.
She studied in Prague 1965-71 and took the opportunity to work for a year in Milan with Marino Marini in 1967/68.
In 1983 she showed a “staircase” work at Tate Gallery, London and subsequently had a one-person exhibitions at Riverside Studios, London (and a work in Kensington Gardens which was too large to show at Riverside Studios) , Arnolfini, Bristol and the Silvia Menzel Gallery, Berlin. She participated in the Hamburg Peace Biennal in 1985, the Sidney Biennal and Documents, Kassel. She was awarded first prize at the Philip Morris exhibition in Berlin and one of her most important works was acquired by Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Resident until recently in Czechoslovakia, She now lives in Germany.
Magdalena Jetelova’s giant primitive structures were shown at the Riverside Studios, London and the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol in 1985. She has also shown in the Sydney Biennale and at Documenta, Kassel.
The giant chair structure “Place” is her only sculpture in this country.