After completing his studies at the Ceramics Vocational School in Prague, Karel Nepraš was enrolled at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied in the studio of Jan Lauda. He was already very active on the arts scene by the middle of the 1950s. He formed a group known as Šmidrové together with Bedřich Dlouhý, Jan Koblasa and Rudolf Komorous. He returned to the Academy in 1990 as a professor and head of the sculptural studio until 2002. Nepraš was a unique example of an artist who elevated the process of experimentation to something distinctive and determinative. From the mid-sixties he worked with non-traditional materials, using water piping, for instance, as well as valves, wires and batteries. His oeuvre was not random but on the contrary extremely calculated. He soon started to combine metal with assemblages, textiles and epoxy resin, which increased the plasticity of his sculptures. He also used colours that promoted the sense of authenticity.