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1964-1971 studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Prague (AVU) and at the Academia di Brera in Milan (1967-68); 1985 emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany due to massive repression by the Communist regime during the era of so-called ‘normalisation’; subsequently applied for a scholarship from the City of Munich; years as a freelance sculptor, including a period in London; 1987 visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich; 1990-2004 professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf; 2004-2011 professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich; numerous prizes and awards, including: 1985 Philip Morris; 1988 Cologne and Lübeck; 1989 Darmstadt; 1991 Stuttgart; 1997 Robert Jacobsen Prize; 1999 Jill Watson Award; 2006 Lovis Corinth Prize; countless group exhibitions and over 30 solo exhibitions worldwide. One of the world's greatest contemporary artists; transcends the boundaries of space and time with a feeling for the archaic and the sublime; core themes of her mostly monumental sculptures, installations, and land art projects: the exploration and transformation of spaces, borders and the dissolution of boundaries, visualisation of the invisible and the elemental.