Gabriela BK

Gabriela BK is a Czech-American activist and visual artist currently based in Prague, Czech Republic. She completed her high school education in Czech Republic, Germany and California, and continued with university at UC Santa Cruz. She is currently studying photography at the FAMU Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, works with various non-profit and grassroots organizations in the movement for climate justice. She currently works as Assistant Director of the international NGO ArtDialog and manages the ArtMill Center for Creative Sustainability in Western Bohemia. Her photographic work has various focuses, from the environmental crisis to psychology and the destigmatisation of mental health, art as activism and the role of privilege in the deconstruction of the photographic medium itself. Her most recent work is the collaborative book „You Are Here,“ a series of guides to non-hierarchical communal living and permaculture gardening as a beginning to self-sufficiency and sustainability.