Her painterly process unfolds as a layered temporal space, where uncertainty, failure, and loss are embraced as necessary components of creation. The works employ deliberately kitsch or emotionally “awkward” imagery, adolescent love, loneliness, heartbreak, star-filled nights, romantic icons - to uncover their latent emotional and aesthetic potential. Adolescence becomes a central reference point: a phase marked by transition, vulnerability, and quiet shame, echoing the experience of migration and arrival in a new country. The recurring figure of the young girl embodies a threshold: no longer a child, not yet an adult—burdened with desire, expectation, and external projections.
Rather than illustrating specific formative events, the paintings evoke the emotional atmosphere of that time: confusion, tenderness, longing, and clumsy attempts at love. The titles, drawn from love song lyrics, further anchor the works in an affective and temporal register. A recurring element of Tobiášová’s paintings is the color green, often appearing as a luminous accent. Ambiguous in nature, it evokes both urban alienation—recalling the nocturnal glow of neon lights—and the surrealist tradition, particularly the Czech avant-garde. The artist references figures such as Toyen and Jindřich Štyrský, whose trajectories of emigration and artistic struggle resonate with her own experience and subtly permeate the work.
Sofie Tobiášová (*1996, Prague) is a Czech painter whose work intertwines everyday experiences with literary and theoretical inspirations. She studied painting at UMPRUM in Prague (2016–2022) and at Die Angewandte in Vienna (2022–2023). Her works have been exhibited, among others, at Casa Testori, Milano (IT), UNA Galleria (IT), Hunt Kastner (CZ), Berlínský model (CZ), Cabanon Paris (FR), City Surfer Office (CZ), Centre for Contemporary Art Cursor (CZ), Galleri CC (SE), Boccanera Gallery Trento (IT), and the Regional Art Gallery of Zlín (CZ). In 2026, she will be artisti in residency at Cité des Arts (Paris). In 2021 she published Everyone is Calling Me Selfie with PageFive.
Since 2023 she has been represented by UNA Galleria and lives in Collesino, Italy, where she co-manages and co-curates the art space Easter.