Běla Kolářová née Helclová (24 March 1923, in Terezín – 12 April 2010, in Prague) was a Czech artist and photographer.

As with many of her contemporaries, she arrived at the conclusion that it is not possible to photograph the world, i.e. to use classic methods of representing reality.

Reflecting on this in 1968, she asked herself, "Was there really nothing left but to add the things we see to those already seen a hundred times over, to keep reshaping that which has long been discovered?"

From this sense of distrust, she developed a form of experimental photography that was close to the principles of the 1920s movement, New Vision.

The artist stated, "Gradually I begun to perceive a world which, in fact, was left out unnoticed by photographers.

She arranged bits of paper, thread, or shards on transparent film, or pressed them like stamps, into a coat of paraffin.

She was inspired by the constructivist-geometrical program of the group Křižovatka that she was part of along with her husband and fellow artists Zdeněk Sýkora and Karel Malich.

While working this way, she still remained faithful to the grid model while mixing it with a colorful symbolism of femininity.

The Century of the Avant-garde in Central and Eastern Europe) at the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn.