Michaela is an artist and puppet designer from Czech Republic working freelance for the last 20 years. Her works were exhibited around the world in Belgium, Germany, Australia, Sweden and Syria, Japan among others. Her puppets, acrylic, watercolor and ink pieces are often poetic, humorous, abstract and nonsensical in equal measure.
Michaela Bartonová is as well director of Puppet theater Tineola. Since 1999 she has launched 8 puppet plays and 3 digital shows for Tineola and has been cooperating with numerous European puppet theaters. Michaela teaches puppet design focusing on the aesthetic properties of puppets.  She has initiated, arranged and lectured lessons and courses on Communication through Puppets and Puppet and Imagination. Read Less

With their project “Drawing in Motion”, Tineola are re-imagining the great tradition of puppetry for the digital age. Michaela is very prolific, accomplished and renowned artist and recently branched into the digital medium with iPad.Through her unique mixture of talent, passion and captivating imagination Michaela is talking to variety of audiences – though her primary focus are young people and adults with whom she forms strong connection and lasting impact. Michaela awakens creativity and sense of purpose and  responsibility for community, environment and one's own destiny. She strives to keep balance in life through variety of artistic installations and projects directly involving and engaging her audience. Read Less

2017 — Exhibition Joyfull Playfulness, Kostelec nad Orlicí, Czech Republic
2017 — To Somewhere Else, Multimedial show inspired by Czech refuges to Berlin, Prague, Czech Republic
2014 — Story Tree, Carved Ash Tree in New Chateau in Kostelec nad Orlicí, Czech Republic
2014 — My Little Eye Pet, i Pad show - live drawing for kids, Tineola theater, Czech Republic
2013 — Drawing in Motion, experimental performance, Czech Republic
2012 — Sleeping Beauty, Dornerei Puppen theater, Mussbach, Germany
2010— 2011 — 28 life size puppets for Noah's Ark, Netherlands
2008 — Round the World in a Tea Kettle, Tineola Theater, Czech Republic
2008 — Flying Dutchman, Theater Taptoe, Belgium
2007 — Sleeping Beauty, Kobalt Figurentheater, Lübeck, Germany
2006 — Étaín, Tineola Theatre, Czech Republic

2005 — Doggie and Kitty, Theater Rafael Zwischenraum, Germany

2004 — The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Garlic Theatre, UK
2004 — Morgenstern and Vesper, Tineola Theater, Czech Republic

2003 — Fiddlesticks, Garlic Theatre, UK

2002 — Der Lust, Theater der Spiegel, Belgium
2002 — Christmas Amiabilities, Tineola Theater, Czech Republic

2001 — Kaikyo Drama Museum, Japan

2002 — Goose, Der Speigel, Belgium
2000 — The Haywain, Tineola Theater, Czech Republic
2000 — Michael Kohlhaas, Kobalt, Germany
1999 — Faust Metamorphosen, Tineola Theater & Kobalt, Czech Republic & Germany
1998 — The Little Mermaid, Skorping Puppet Theatre, Denmark

1997 — The Princess and a Pea, Kobalt, Germany

1997 — The King is Dead, Long Live the King!, Tineola Theater, Prague

1996 — Rigoletto, Kobalt Figurentheater, Germany
1995 — Farmer Gilles from Hamm for Salz und Pfeffer, Germany

1994 — Bethlehem for Museum in Lund, Sweden Read Less