Artists

Daniel Vlček

*1978

Daniel Vlček’s Hauntological Practice by Emily McDermott “Not seeing anything intelligible is the new normal,” Hito Steyerl writes in “A Sea […]

Education

  • 2001—2004 Academy of Fine Arts Prague, CZ
  • 2000 Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano, IT
  • 1998—2001 Faculty of Fine Arts BUT, Brno, CZ

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2021
    Works On Paper. Drdova Gallery, Prague, CZ
    The Next Song (with Josef Bolf), Galerie Františka Drtikola, Příbram, CZ
  • 2019
    Cause And Effect. Drdova Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2018
    Dark Wave Deco. Berlinskej Model, Prague, CZ
    Visually Addictive. Gallery 17/18, Ottawa, CAN (with Ron Martin)
  • 2017
    Terminate Sleep Mode. Třinec Municipal Gallery, CZ
    Through The Eye Of Mechanical Reproduction. Galerie NoD, Prague, CZ
    CHa0s_Ch0r3o. Industra Art, Brno, CZ (with Šimon Kadlčák)
  • 2016
    A Floating Gap. SET Gallery, Regional Art Gallery Liberec, CZ
    Speed Index. Školská 28: Communication Space, Prague, CZ (Daniel Vlček and guests)
    Hidden Settings. Gallery of Contemporary Art and Architecture — House of Arts České Budějovice, CZ
  • 2015
    Further And Higher. Galerie Kabinet T, Zlín, CZ
    Minimal Manual. W7 Gallery, Olomouc, CZ
    After the End of Art. Drdova Gallery, Prague (with Levi van Veluw)
  • 2014
    If you record a new loop backwards, it will still be stored in forward in memory, but it will behave as if it was stored backwards. Drdova Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2013
    Correct Formula. Entrance Gallery, Prague, CZ
    A Display of Time in a Track’s Final Moment. Galerie Na shledanou, Volyně, CZ
    Heard, but Not Listened to… Prokopka Gallery, Prague, CZ
    Frozen Arpeggio. Zutý Mánes, České Budějovice, CZ
  • 2012
    Groove is in the Heart. A. M. 180, Prague, CZ
  • 2012 Singing Ear… Galerie sam83, Česká Bříza, CZ
    The Silent Pool. Alfred ve dvoře Theatre, Prague, CZ
    Slow Down. Final Club, Prague, CZ
  • 2011 Untitled (Overlay). Gallery 207, Prague, CZ
  • 2011
    Kindly Familiar. Trafo Gallery, Prague, CZ (with Matyáš Chochola)

Group Exhibitions

  • 2020
    Last Aid, Pragovka Gallery, Prague, CZ
    Still, Stillness Is A Form Of Action. What Is There To Learn? Hope ForMutation. Drdova Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2018
    Homage to Broadcloth. Textiles in the Context of Art. 8Smička, Humpolec, CZ
  • 2017
    AMIWHATIAMTHINKINGABOUT?, 4+4 Days in Motion, Prague, CZ
  • 2015
    Exakta. Galerie NoD, Prague, CZ
    Geo Ego. NTK Gallery, Prague, CZ / Czech Centre Berlin, DE
  • 2014
    7th New Zlin Salon. Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín, CZ
  • 2013
    Oheň pro národ. Galerie D9, České Budějovice, CZ
    Re—construction of a Mosaic. Hilger Next, Vienna, AT
  • 2011
    Pseudoscience. NTK Gallery, Prague, CZ

Curating

  • 2014
    In the Beggining Was Silence
    Martin Andersson /SE/, Jana Babincová /CZ/, Milan Guštar /CZ/, Morgan O’Hara /US/, Martin Janíček /CZ/, Jan Krtička /CZ/, Michal Kindernay /CZ/, Petr Pufler /CZ/, Martina Růžičková /CZ/, David Šmitmajer /CZ/, Lenka Vítková /CZ/, Miloš Vojtěchovský /CZ/, The Gallery of City of Pilsen, CZ
  • 2013
    16—20000 Hz (with Miloš Vojtěchovský)
    Martin Andersson /CH/, Jana Babincová /CZ/, Milan Guštar /CZ/, Morgan O’Hara /US/, Tom Kotik /CZ-US/, Jan Krtička /CZ/, Hanne Lippard /UK/, Radio Lemurie /CZ/, Matěj Smrkovský /CZ/, Jiří Valoch /CZ/, Tomáš Vaněk /CZ/, Lenka Vítková /CZ/, Zimoun /CH/, Gallery MeetFactory, Prague, CZ

Member

Groupe Guma Guar (2003 — now)
Reverend Dick (2011 — now)
Střešovická kramle (music band, 2012 — now)
ba:zel (music band, 2014 — now)

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Aleksandra Vajd

*1971

Aleksandra Vajd is experimenting with the constituent elements of photographic language, its laws and structural variations. She raises the question […]

Awards and Stipends

  • 2020
    INI gallery: Too many Questions of Belonging (together with Vjera Borozan), Prague, CZ
  • 2019
    Parc Saint Leger/Contemporary Art Center, Pougues-les-Eaux, FR
  • 2018
    Banska Stavnica Residency, SK
  • 2014
    Studio of Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia, New York, USA
  • 2011
    Residency, El centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, MX
  • 2010
    Nomination Deutsche Börse Photographic Award, London, UK
    Studio of Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia, London, UK
  • 2009
    Finalists, Henkel Art Award, MUMOK, Wien, AT
  • 2007
    Honorable mention /Aperture Prize, New York City, USA
  • 2006
    Nomination Deutsche Börse Photographic Award, London, UK
    Finalists, OHO Group Award, SLO
  • 2005
    1st prize, Frame005 Award, Brno, CZ
    Finalists, EgoArt Prize, SK
  • 2004
    Fubright Schollarship, USA
  • 2001
    First Prize at the Portfolio Review Award, Month of Photography

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

  • 2018
    djav azodnem, (with Jimena Mendoza), curated by Edith Jeřábková, Lucie Drdova Gallery, Prague, CZ
    espejo, espejo (with Jimena Mendoza), curated by Jana J. Haeckel, Lucie Drdova Gallery, Brussels, BE
  • 2017
    Complexity, Contradiction and a Decorated Shed – Damy, with Jimena Mendoza, Significant Other, Vienna, AT
    What Is Life? with Markéta Othová, curated by Karel Cisař, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, UK
    Friends Are Friends of Friends, curated by Alexios Papazacharias, CASK Gallery, Larisa, GR
  • 2016
    Friends of Friends Are Friends, curated by Laura Amann, Drdova Gallery, Prague 2016 casualidad/causalidad with Jimena Mendoza, curated by Christina Gigliotti, Ferdinand Baumann Gallery, Prague, CZ
    Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall, artistic intervention into the retrospective exhibition of Ivan Dvoršak at UGM, Maribor, SLO
    Second Half (1st Season), Galerija Fiducia, Ostrava, CZ
  • 2015
    My Left Hand, Vila Pirkmajer na Vrtači (architect Josip Costaperaria), Ljubljana, SLO
  • 2013
    Menu, Drdova Gallery, Prague, CZ (AV)
    Blind Spot, House of Art, České Budějovice, CZ
  • 2012
    When I Will See You Again, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, SLO
    Not Ready! curated by Jiří Ptáček, TIC Gallery, Brno, CZ
    The Place from Where You Think, curated by Edith Jeřábková, Fotograf Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2011
    You Can’t Change The Weather, curated by Markéta Vinglerová, etc. gallery, Prague, CZ
    How the Other Half Lives, curated by Pavel Vančát, Jelení Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2010
    Bright Eyes Burning Like Fire, m.odla, Prague, CZ
    Díra v dlani / Hole in the Palm, curated by Michal Pěchouček, 35m2 gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2009
    Dál nic není / Nothing Follows, Entrance Gallery, Prague, CZ
    Media Specific, curated by Jiří Ptáček, 207 gallery, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague, CZ
  • 2007
    manwomanunifinished, DVD projection, Krakow Photo Festival, PL (catalogue)
    manwomanunfinished, DVD projection, Likovni salon Celje, SLO
    manwomanunfinished, F/Stop Photo Festival, Leipzig, DE (catalogue)
  • 2006
    untitled 2003, Atelier Josefa Sudka, Prague, CZ (AV)
    Book: manwomanunfinished, Kibla, Maribor, SLO
    Book: manwomanunfinished, Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana, SLO
    Exposed Appearance, Public presentation at CEC ArtsLink, New York City, USA
    The Documentation Project, At 932 2nd Avenue, New York City, USA

Group Exhibitions (selected)

  • 2021
    Compassion Fatigue is Over, curated by Jen Kratochvil, Rudolfinum gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2020
    Fešandy ze šuplíků. Sudek a sochy, curated by Hana Buddeus, GHMP, Prague House of Photography, Prague, CZ
    Art in public space , GHMP, Art in metro station / Karlovo namesti, Prague, CZ
    100+Highlights from the UGM Collection, Maribor, SLO
    DOM IN SVET, SVET IN DOM, curated by Hana Ostan Ožbolt in Roman Uranjek, Pasaža Nebotičnika, Ljubljana, SLO
  • 2019
    9th Triennial of Contemporary Art U3, Dead and Alive, curated by Vit Havranek, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, SLO
    Precarious Environments (with Hynek Alt), 17 cases of contemporary photography in Slovenia, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, SLO
  • 2018
    Two Heads, Four Hands (with Hynek Alt), 8Osmička Foundation, Humpolec, CZ
    An Exercise on Values, curated by Alexios Papazacharias, Haus N Athens, GR
    Conditions of Impossibility V/VII: Inhuman Resources (with Jimena Mendoza), curated by Václav Magid, Cursor gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2017
    Loss of time, curated by Václav Magid, FCCA Cursor Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2016
    The Independent Research of Subjectivity, curated by Pavlína Morganová, 4+4 Days in Motion, 21st International Festival of Contemporary Art Prague, CZ(AV)
    Gremo naprej / Slovenian Photography 1990 – 2015, curated by Brane Kovič, City Gallery Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SLO
  • 2015
    Manwomanunfinished, Central Europe – Japan Contemporary Art Exchange Kyoto, Zuiun-an- Art Project Space, Kyoto, JPN
    Objectonomy, curated by Sally Haftel, Meetfactory, Prague, CZ
    Still Life Recurring, with Joe Morgan, Lisa Helder, Nathan Cahill, Néstor Guttiérez, Amu gallery, Prague, CZ
    Setkávání / Begegnung(en), Austrian, Cultural Forum, Prague, CZ
    You Can´t Change the Weather, Europe Europe, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Ulrich Obrist, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, NOR
  • 2014
    Vienna Fair, The New Contemporary ( solo presentation), Vienna, AT
    7th New Zlin Salon, Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlin, CZ
    Hin Mah Too Yah Lat Kekt, Gamu gallery, Prague, CZ
    Ready or not, here I come, Fait gallery, Brno, CZ
    Things, curated by Michal Novotný, Design Cloud’s Gallery, Chicago, USA
    Explain Me Not, curated by Edith Jeřábková & Mariana Serranová, SVIT / Autocenter Berlin, DE (AV)
    Graphic design, curated by Michal Novotný, Futura gallery, Prague, CZ
    Pierre Huyghe, curated by Jan Kratochvil, Drdova Gallery, Prague, CZ
    About the Chair, 9th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Liege, BE
  • 2013
    Intimate interactions, curated by Ladislav Kesner, City gallery Ostrava, CZ
    The Beginning of the Century, curated by Pavlína Morganová, House of Arts in Ostrava, Ostrava, CZ
    Prague Biennale Photo 3, curated by Pavel Vančát, the functionalist railway station Žižkov, Prague, CZ
    The Intimate Circle in Contemporary Czech Photography, curated by Vladimír Birgus, City Gallery Prague, CZ
    Measures of Saving the World_Part 1, curated by Margarethe Makovec & Anton Lederer, < rotor > center for contemporary art, Graz, AT
  • 2012
    The Islands of Resistance. Between the First and Second Modernity 1985-2012, curated by Jiří Ševčík, Edith Jeřábková and Jana Ševčíková, National Gallery in Prague at the Veletržní Palace, Prague, CZ
    The Beginning of the Century, curated by Pavlína Morganová, Pilsen Regional Museum, Pilsen, CZ
    Nova F, curated by Vasja Nagy, Galerie Stolp, EPK, Maribor, SLO
  • 2011
    Uchronie, curated by Le Bureau, Klatovy/Klenová Gallery, CZ
    Inter-view 2, Nitra gallery, Nitra, SK
    The Object of the Spectacle, hosté výstavy Jasminy Cibic, Škuc, Ljubljana, SLO
    Oblikovanje republike, Muzej za arhitekturo in oblikovanje, Ljubljana, SLO
    Fotoobjekti, kurátor: Jan Babnik, Galerija Simulaker, Novo mesto, SLO
    Prague Biennale 5, curated by Vjera Borozan, Mariana Serannová, Microna, Prague, CZ
    Mutating Medium – Photography in Czech Art 1990-2010, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, CZ
    In optima forma, Galerija Emily Filly, Usti nad Labem, CZ
    Fundamentals & sediments, curated by Petr Vaňous, City Gallery Prague, CZ
    Cinetactics – Residents IV, MeetFactory Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2010
    Ego / Portrait x Photography, Langhans Gallery, Prague, CZ
    Cinetactics – Residents IV, MeetFactory Gallery, Prague, CZ
    Artyčok.tv – Art Fair, MeetFactory Gallery, Prague, CZ
    Spotlight on Central Europe, Paris Photo 2010, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, FR
    One Day You Will Loose It All, 4+4 Days in Motion, 15th Performing Arts Festival, Prague, CZ
  • 2009
    After Velvet, City Gallery Prague, CZ
    Finalists of the Henkel Art Award, MUMOK, Wien, AT
    Not a Photograph, Obalne galerije Piran, SLO
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Pavla Sceranková

*1980

Pavla Sceranková has introduced a new artistic language and expression in the field of sculptural and object art; a new concept to […]

Education

  • 2011 PhD at Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
  • 2000 – 2006 Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

Awards and Stipends

  • 2019
    Umělec má cenu! finalist
  • 2018
    The Constellation of the Passenger,  sculpture in public space, space in front of Enterprise Office Center, 1737/, Pikrtova 1a, Praha 4, Pankrác
  • 2015
    Jindřich Chalupecký Award, finalist
  • 2010
    Visegrad Artist Residency Program, Studio of Young Artists Association, Budapest, HU
  • 2009
    Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes, Cooperative Méduse, Quebec, CA
    Václav Chad Award, V. Salon of Young Artists, Zlín, CZ
  • 2007
    Jindřich Chalupecký Award, finalist, Prague
    Cyprian Award, Bienale of Young Slovak Art, Trnava, SK
  • 2006
    DAAD stipend, UDK Berlin, DE
    Prize of the AFA Dean in Prague
  • 2004
    Erasmus stipend, Gray School of Art Aberdeen, GB
  • 2002
    Kunstlerwege, AKA Stuttgart, DE
    Josef Hlávka Award, Prague

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

  • 2019
    Work on the Future (with Dušan Zahoranský), curated by Václav Janoščík, Fait Gallery, Brno, CZ
  • 2018
    Moon in the Day, Moon in the Day gallery, České Budějovice, CZ
    Selection of Works 2007–2018, Lucie Drdova Gallery, Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
    Art Brussels (with Aleksandra Vajd), Discovery section, Brussels, BE
  • 2017
    Surface Tension, Pavla and Lucia Sceranková, curated by Lily Hall, Pump Gallery, London, UK
  • 2015
    Veritas, curated by Alexandra Landré, Drdova Gallery, Prague
  • 2014
    Old Light in the Department Galaxies, Fait Gallery, Brno, CZ
  • 2013
    Constellations, Moravian Gallery in Brno, CZ
    Woman in the Moon, Prague City Gallery, Prague
  • 2012
    Missing Chapter, Drdova Gallery, Prague
  • 2011
    Loud, Cyprian Majernik Gallery, Bratislava, SK
    A Message from the Neocortex, Prague City Gallery, The Golden Ring, Prague
  • 2009
    Alles wird gut, G99, The Brno House of Arts, Brno, CZ
    Puzzle, BKC gallery, Brno, CZ
  • 2008
    Open closed open closed open… , site specific, CZ
  • 2006
    Sauer Kraut, Jelení Gallery, Prague

Group Exhibitions (selected)

  • 2019
    Signal – The Story of Postconceptual Art in Slovakia, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, HU
  • 2018
    OBJECTive, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava, SK
    Who is the Victor?, curated by Yvona Ferencová, Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava, CZ
    Hidden Beauty, curated by Marina Dacci and Krištof Kintera, Sara Zanin Gallery Rome
  • 2017
    Medium: Figure, Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace, Prague City Gallery, Prague
    Don’t Worry Boy, Forum Box, Helsinki, FIN
  • 2016
    Apparatus for a Utopian Image, curated by Pavla Sceranková and Dušan
    Zahoranský, artists: Matěj Al-Ali, Keren Bebenisty, Tyler Coburn, David Court, Sean Fader, Kara Hearn, Zebadiah Keneally, Barbora Kleinhamplová, Alena Kotzmannová, Václav Magid, Tomáš Moravec, Freya Powell, Markéta Othová, Elisabeth Smolarz, Magda Stanová, Tomáš Svoboda, Danielle Tegeder, Jiří Thýn, EFA Project Space, NYC, USA
    The Independent Research of Subjectivity, curated by Pavlína Morganová, 4+4 Days in Motion, 21st International Festival of Contemporary Art Prague
  • 2015
    Jindrich Chalupecky Award / Final 2015, Moravian Gallery in Brno, CZ
    4 + 4 Days in Motion Festival, Prague
    Beyond the Obvious, Deák Erika Gallery, Inda Gallery, Viltin, Budapest, HU
    Distant Observers, Gallery of Modern Art Roudnice nad Labem, CZ
    The Soft Codes. Conceptual Tendencies in Slovak Art. Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, PL
    Model, curated by Ladislav Kesner, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
  • 2014
    Europe, Europe, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Thomas Boutoux and Gunnar B. Kvaran, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
    Who is the director? curated by Kristof Kintera & Denisa Vaclavova, 4+4 Days in Motion Festival, Prague
    7th New Zlin Salon, Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlin, CZ
    Circular Ruins, curated by Jean-Marc Avrilla, Meetfactory gallery, Institut Francais de Prague
    9th Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Liege, BE
  • 2013
    The Beginning of the Century, curated by Pavlína Morganová, House of Arts in Ostrava, Ostrava, CZ
    Jamais Vu, curated by Maria Niemyjska, Art Gallery Wozownia, Torun, Pl
    Things and People, curated by Michal Jachula, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Pl
    Sun in the Shop Window, with Lucia Sceranková, Fotograf gallery, Prague
    Grey Zone, with Mihut Boscu Kafchin, Peter Puklus, Krokus gallery, Bratislava, SK
    Systems and Accidents, with Cyril Blažo, Tomáš Džadoň, Eva Koťátková, bad contemporary, Pietrasanta (Lucca), IT
  • 2012
    Systems and Accidents, with Cyril Blažo, Tomáš Džadoň, Eva Koťátková, Exelettrofonica, Rome, IT
    The Stars Look Different Today, curated by Zita Sarvari, Dovin Gallery Budapest, HU
    Would you like to play another game? curated by Denisa Václavová, Krištof Kintera, 4+4 Days in Motion, 17th Performing Arts Festival, former Casino, Pařížská Street, Prague
    On the contrary, curated by Karina Kottová, Meetfactory, Prague
    The Beginning of the Century, curated by Pavlína Morganová, Pilsen Regional Museum, Pilsen, CZ
    Pavla Sceranková a Juraj Kollár, curated by Martin Fišr, Martin Beníček, Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín, CZ
    The Islands of Resistance. Between the First and Second Modernity 1985-2012, curated by Jiří Ševčík, Edith Jeřábková and Jana Ševčíková, National Gallery in Prague at the Veletržní Palace, Prague
  • 2011
    Short Amorpha, BFI London, GB
    Raum Selbst, The Brno House of Arts, Brno, CZ
    Prague Biennale 5, Microna, Prague
    Critical Space, Trafo Gallery, Budapest, HU
    Interview, Nitra Gallery, Nitra, SK
  • 2010
    The Bell 2010 Young Art Biennial, Prague City Gallery, The Stone Bell, Prague
    Oskár Čepan Award Final 2010, Medium, Bratislava, SK
    Collectors. The Czecho-Slovak Pavilion. Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna, AT
  • 2009
    Situation, the 3rd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, RU
    5th Zlín Youth Salon, Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín, CZ
  • 2008
    Contemporary Czech Cubism, Old Town Hall, Prague
    Videoart.cz, Space gallery, Bratislava, SK
  • 2007
    Jindřich Chalupecky Award Final 2007, Entrance Gallery, Prague
  • 2007
    Form follows…risk, Futura and Karlin Studios, Prague
  • 2007
    Bienale of young Slovak art, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, SK
    Punctum, Futura, Prague
    Klasse Cragg, UDK Berlin, DE
  • 2006
    RE/ACT Festival, University in Mannheim, DE
  • 2005
    Best Of Festivals‘BO2, Médiatheque José Cabanis, Toulouse, FR
    Essl Award CEE, Modern Gallery, Prague
  • 2004
    Extended Views, video festival, Amsterdam, NL

Jan Nálevka

*1976

The term of “emptiness“ is fascinating already for the number of diverse and frequently incompatible circumstances under which it is […]

Studies

  • 1994 – 2000 Faculty of Fine Arts, Technical University Brno, CZ

Awards and Stipends

  • 2012
    Artist in Residence, Krems an der Donau, A
    Henkel Art Award – 1st prize, the Czech section, Prague
  • 2010
    Triangle Arts Association, New York, USA
  • 2007
    Finalist of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award, CZ
  • 1999
    Centr D´Art Contemporain, Germinations 11, Domaine de Kerguehennec, FR
  • 1998
    Magyar Iparmüvészeti Föiskola, Budapest, HU
  • 1996
    Kultur Kontakt, Horn, A
  • Member of the artist doublet Mina (since 1995)

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

  • 2018
    And Now Let’s Finally Turn the Page, curated by Jiří Ptáček, Fait Gallery, Brno, CZ
  • 2017
    Index, Lucie Drdova Gallery, Prague
    Moving Image Department # 7 (with Brian Eno), Trade Palace, National Gallery in Prague
    Case Study, Set gallery, Liberec
  • 2016
    solo presentation, Art on Paper, Brussels, Belgium
    (Times Bold), Karlin Studios, Prague
    A New Definition of Progress, Fotograf gallery, Prague
  • 2014
    ISO 216, Gallery 207, Prague
  • 2013
    Prací samočinných strojů k volnému času… , Die Aktualität des Schönen…, Liberec, CZ
    The Thoughts of Modern Sculptors, Ferdinand Baumann Gallery, Prague
    AAAA ( with Petra Herotová), 35M2 gallery, Prague
    As I Added Before, Drdova Gallery, Prague
  • 2011
    Other Rooms, Other Voices, Make Up Gallery, Košice, SK
    The Same, The Similar (with Siegrun Appelt), Stadtpark gallery, Krems, AT
  • 2010
    I would also like to add that…, Moravian Gallery, Brno, CZ
    Till the Blue Skies Drive the Dark Clouds Far Away, Kabinet Gallery, Brno, CZ
  • 2009
    Until The Morning Comes, House of Art, České Budějovice, CZ
  • 2007
    Jindřich Chalupecký Award, Final 2007, etc.gallery, Prague
  • 2006
    We will meet again, Futura, Prague
    Will you ever return?, Entrance Gallery, Karlin Studios, Prague

Group Exhibitions (selected)

  • 2020
    Umění je vydržet!, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, CZ
  • 2019
    Pozoru Hodný projekt, Municipal Gallery, Týn nad Vltavou, CZ
    News In NGP Collections 2013–2018, Trade Fair Palace, National Gallery Prague, CZ
    Echo/selection from the Fait Gallery collection, Fait gallery, Brno, CZ
    Monologue of a Chimneysweep from a Chimneyless Town, Nevan Contempo, Prague, CZ
    J&T Banka Art Index Pop-Up, Dům U Zlatého hroznu, Prague
    Prototyp 2019, Festival of Arts, Science and Technology, Brno Exhibition Grounds, Brno, CZ
  • 2018
    Homage to Broadcloth, 8osmička, Humpolec, CZ
Two Heads, Four Hands, 8osmička, Humpolec, CZ
    Modern #1: Dimensions of Dialogue, Salm Palace, National Gallery Prague, 
CZ
  • 2017
    AMIWHATIAMTHINKINGABOUT?, curated by Tomáš Svoboda and Ondřej Chrobák, 4+4 Days in Motion, 22nd International Festival of Contemporary Art, Prague
    2017 Můžeme ztratit všechno jen ne čas, Měsíc ve dne (The Moon during daytime gallery), Ceske Budejovice, CZ
    Absolute beginners, SVIT, Prague
  • 2016
    Junge Menschen kommt, Flag, SPZ gallery, Prague
    Václav Stratil / Landscape, Fait gallery, Brno
  • 2015
    Objectonomy, curated by Sally Haftel, Meetfactory, Prague
  • 2014
    Tracing the Memory, Vaal gallery, Tallinn
    Truth and the Void Between Realities, by Markéta Stará Condeixa, Baginski gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
    Nula Dies Sine Linea, Post-conceptual overlap in the Czech drawing, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, CZ
    Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities, Williams Center Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania, USA
  • 2013
    The Beginning of the Century, curated by Pavlína Morganová, House of Arts in Ostrava, Ostrava, CZ
    SKOK! Tales of (y)our City, Spinnerei Leipzig, Werkschauhalle, Germany
    Needless Cleanup, curated by Karina Kottová, Meetfactory, Prague
    Minimální trvanlivost –  kontext roku 2012 ve výtvarném umění / Best-before with subheading Context of 2012 in Art, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, CZ
    Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities, curated by Zeljka Himbele & Wiliam Heath, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NYC, USA
    Best-before with subheading Context of 2012 in Art, Emil Filla Gallery, CZ
    (O)svícení, NTK gallery, Prague
  • 2012
    The Beginning of the Century, curated by Pavlína Morganová, Pilsen Regional Museum, Pilsen, CZ
    The Islands of Resistance. Between the First and Second Modernity 1985-2012, curated by Jiří Ševčík, Edith Jeřábková and Jana Ševčíková, National Gallery in Prague at the Veletržní Palace, Prague
  • 2011
    The Waste Land, Tranzitdisplay, Prague
    Prague Biennale 5, Microna, Prague
    6th New Zlín Salon, The Regional Gallery of Fine Arts, Zlín, CZ
    Prague Quadriennal, Contemporary Czech Videoart, Piazzetta of the National Theatre, Prague
    Performance Lab: Exploring Contemporary Czech Performance, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
    The 90´s Generation, The House of Arts, Brno, CZ
  • 2010
    Seeing New York, Czech Center New York, New York, USA
    Open Studio, Triangle Arts Association, New York, USA
    Where do we go from here? Secession, Vienna, A
    Hot Line, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague
    One On One, House of The Kunstat Lords, House of Arts, Brno, CZ
  • 2009
    Kortárs rajz (Contemporary Drawing), Stúdio Galéria, Budapest, HU
    Contemporary Drawing, Galerie 2. Patro, Prague
    Contemporary Drawing, Kasárne Kulturpark, Košice, SK
    Re-romantic, Youth Gallery, Brno, CZ
    Ribba, Kabinet Gallery, Brno, CZ
    Donumenta, European Open Air Gallery, Regensburg, DE
    Prague Biennale 4, Karlin Hall, Prague
    Psychology of Future, a.m.180 gallery, Prague
    Czech Sources-contemporary czech art of three generations, Prague House, Brussels, BE
  • 2008
    5th New Zlín Salon 2008, The Regional Gallery of Fine Arta, Zlín, CZ
    Contemporary Czech Cubism, Old Town Hall, City Gallery Prague
    30% off / image is nothing, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague
    I don´t exist when you don´t see me, Futura – Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
    Gross Domestic Product 2: according to Krištof Kinstera, Mars Gallery, Moscow, RUS
    Prague Biennale 3, Karlin Hall, Prague
    Gross Domestic Product, Municipal Library, City Gallery Prague
    ViennaFair, Messezentrum, Vienna, AT
    Indexes of Delight, Central Houses of Artists, Moscow, RUS
    Against Everyone, Bastart Gallery, Bratislava, SK

Václav Kopecký

*1983

Václav Kopecký continuously approaches photography not only as a tool of reflection of reality but also as a physical object that fills […]

Education

  • since 2012 PhD., Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague
  • 2010 – 2012 Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Studio of Photography of Hynek Alt & Aleksandra Vajd
  • 2006 – 2010 Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Photography of Pavel Baňka, Ústí nad Labem, CZ

Stipends

  • 2011 Academy of Fine Arts, Studio of Intermedia of Tomáš Vaněk, Prague
  • 2009 University of Derby, Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology, Derby, GB

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2019
    Four Balls, Lucie Drdova Gallery
    Untitled : Sky, Galerie 207, Prague
  • 2017
    Petrification, OFF/Format, Brno, CZ
  • 2016
    Petrification, Josef Sudek Studio, Prague
  • 2015
    Petrification, Lucie Drdova Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2014
    Petrification, curated by Jiří Ptáček, House of Art, České Budějovice, CZ
    Hotel Zenit, Buňka gallery, Prague
  • 2013
    Hotel Zenit – Reverse wave, Kabinet gallery, Brno, CZ
  • 2012
    Zenit Hotel, Drdova Gallery, Prague
    Still Life, the30gallery, Festival Fotograf, Prague
    Neon (with Jiří Thýn), The Good-bye Gallery, Volyně, CZ
    Hotel Zenit, 35m2 gallery, Prague
  • 2011
    Fading light, growing shadow (with Pavel Baňka), Entrance Gallery, Prague
    Untitled, Fotograf Gallery, Prague
2011 Invisible Cube, M.odla gallery, Prague
  • 2010
    As bee hive seen it / Včela z úlu v pohledu, Jelení Gallery, Prague

Group Exhibitions

  • 2017
    Ripple Effect, Futura gallery, Prague
  • 2016
    Inventura, White Unicorn Gallery, Klatovy, CZ
    Cities and (Velo)cities, curated by Vaclav Janoscik, Summer of Photopgraphy, Bozar, Brussel, BE
  • 2015
    Who on my Place / Kdo na moje místo, Plato gallery, Ostrava, CZ
  • 2014
    7th New Zlín Salon, Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlin, CZ
    About the Chair, 9th Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Liege, BE
    Hast du von Bergen geträumt ? III, curated by Alena Drahokoupilová, Czech Centre Prague, DE
    Hast du von Bergen geträumt ? II, curated by Alena Drahokoupilová, Czech Centre Berlin, DE
  • 2013
    Hast du von Bergen geträumt ? I, curated by Alena Drahokoupilová, Kulturrathaus, Dresden, DE
    Prague Biennale Photo 3, curated by Pavel Vančát, the functionalist railway station Žižkov, Prague
  • 2012
    Hidden River, DOX Centre for contemporary Art, Prague
    6th Zlín Youth Salon, Zlín House of Arts, Zlín, CZ
    Fotofestival Uničov 2, Teta Gallery, Uničov, CZ
  • 2011
    Finalists of EXIT Award, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, CZ
    The Exhibition 2011, curated by Karel Císař, Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, Prague
    Magic circle (annual exhibition of the department of photography of Pavel Baňka), Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, CZ
    In Optima Forma, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí and Labem, CZ
  • 2010
    Collected reflections, curated by Edith Jeřábková, Entrance Gallery, Prague
    One day you will lose it all, curated by Markéta Kinterová, 4+4 Days in Motion, 15th Performing Arts Festival, Prague
    Making worlds, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí and Labem, CZ
    Notes to the Subject (with Veronika Daňhelová), Školská 28 Communication space, Prague
  • 2009
    Gedanken Zur Revolution,  Part 03 “Art & Politics”, Leipzig, DE
    Body, Old Brewery Gallery, Brno, CZ
    Second shift, Armaturka  gallery, Ústí nad Labem, CZ

Barbora Kleinhamplová

*1984

Conceptual and multimedia artist Barbora Kleinhamplová employs a performative dimension in her work which is closely related to the aspects of […]

Education

  • 2003 – 2008 Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Department of Still Photography, graduated: MgA.
  • 2008–2012 Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, graduated: MgA.
    Studios of Vladimír Skrepl, Jiří Kovanda & Tomáš Vaněk, Jiří Skála
  • Since 2017 Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, PhD. studies

Internships

  • 2014 Studio of Guest Professor, AVU: Ruth Noack
  • 2012 The Cooper Union School of Arts, NY, USA
  • 2010 Studio of Guest Professor, AVU: Gelitin
  • 2008 Studio of Guest Professor, AVU: Zbignew Libera

Grants & Residencies

  • 2017
    Project of Excellence (for Institute of Anxiety), GOETHE INSTITUT, DE
    Artist in residence, Residency Unlimited, New York City, USA
  • 2016
    Artist in residence, Gasworks, London, UK
    Grant for the creation of a work, Ministry of Culture, CZ
  • 2015
    Artist in residence, INI gallery, Prague
    Artist in residence, MMCA Residency, Seoul, Korea, KR
  • 2014
    Developmental grant of TRANZITDISPLAY, Prague
    Artist in residence, The Muzychi Expanded History, Muzychi, Ukraine, UA

Live Performances & Performative Lectures

  • 2018
    12-Hour Conference, with Eva Koťátková, The National Institute of Menthal Health, Prague
    Weeping Over a Too Long Life, with tereza Stejskalová, Fotograf Festival, Prague
  • 2017
    Hand over Heels, Art in General, New York City, USA
  • 2016
    Hand over Heels, Gasworks, London, UK
  • 2014
    Sleepers. The Three Act Play live performance version, Tranzitdisplay, Prague
    Meeting Expactations, performative lecture, 209 gallery, Brno, CZ
    Bearded Ladies, with Tereza Stejskalová, gallery Armaturka, Ústí n.L., CZ
    Reliable Relationship live performance version, National Gallery, Prague

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2018
    Sickness Report, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, DE
    WorkWorkWork, with Inna Wudke, Acud Gallery, Berlin, DE
  • 2016
    Mpeg Girl, Jelení Gallery, Prague
  • 2015
    I Love Things, Silent Comerades INI gallery, with J. Skála, T. Stejskalová, Prague
    Fieldwork on the Human Kind, with T. Stejskalová, GAMU, Prague
  • 2014
    Sleepers’ Manifesto, with Tereza Stejskalová, gallery Armaturka, Ústí n.L, CZ
  • 2013
    Circle of Confusion, Fotograf Gallery, Prague
    Invisible Hand, Dobrý den gallery, Uničov, CZ
  • 2012
    Ball is Lost, 35m2 gallery, Prague
    Thoughts in Circles, Kostka gallery, Prague
    Long Dawning (with Jiří Kovanda), gallery I.D.A., Prague
    Image before the Game, with M. Chochola, Prádelna, Prague
  • 2010
    Studio 207, Gallery 207, Prague
    Dušování (Swearing Solemnly / Tyre Tubing), Pavilon gallery, Prague
    Conquest of Paradise, with M.Chochola, Galerie Mladých, Brno, CZ
  • 2009
    Type of Style, with M. Chochola, Anne Frank Memorial, Brno, CZ
    Show(in)Rooms, with K. Držková, Filature, Mulhouse, FR

Group Exhibitions (selected)

  • 2019
    The Beginning and The End, curated by P. Rylko, Gdansk City Gallery 2, Gdansk, PL
    Fauxthenticity, curated by J. Kratochvíl & L. Amman, Austrian Cultural Forum, Prague
    Eyelids Mirrored Within, curated by Bori Szalai, Tenderpixel, London, UK
  • 2018
    Escapism. Training Program, curated by M. Sarycheva & A. Remešová, Fabrika CCI, Moscow, RU
    Video Europe for Everybody, curated by I. Boubnova & K. Serapionov, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Sofia, BG
    Zzzzz: Sleep, Somnambulism, Madness, curated by M. Feary, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, AUS
    Healing, curated by T. Jindrová, Czech Centre, Berlin, DE
    Art is Work, curated by APART collective, Krokus Gallery, Bratislava, SK
  • 2017
    Groundhog Day, curated by A.Nillson, SIC gallery, Helsinki, FI
    Department for Work Relations, curated by À. Miralda, Projektraum LS43, Berlin, DE
    It Could Be a Community, curated by K. Semenova & L. Vene, KV Leipzig, Leipzig, DE
    Mood Swings – On mood politics, sentiment data, market sentiments and other sentiment agencies, curated by S. Winkler, Q21 / Museums Quartier Wien, Vienna, AT
  • 2016
    Third Mind. Jiří Kovanda and the (im)possibilities of cooperation, curated by A. Budak, National Gallery at the Trade Fair Palace, Prague
    Gwangju Biennale, curated by M. Lind, Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju, KR
    Apparatus for a Utopian Image, curated by P. Sceranková & D. Záhoranský, Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts, New York, USA
    Other Visions, concept by L. Střeláková & PAF, GAMU, Prague
    Fashion House, curated by V. Jánoščík & M.Johnová, Gallery Hraničář, Ústí nad Labem, CZ
  • 2015
    The Rule and the Exception, curated by M. Serranová, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje, MK
    Ny Show #3, curated by M. Serranová, Ny Space, Manchester, UK
    Liturgy, curated by M. Novotný, Centre Tchèque Paris, Paris, FR
    Subversive Tactics, curated by Z. Baladrán, The Czech Center New York, New York City, USA
    MMCA Residency Changdong Final Exhibition, MMCA Gallery, Seoul, KR
    Finalists of Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2015, Moravian Gallery in Brno, CZ
    Telepathy or Esperanto, curated by J. Brož, Futura Gallery, Prague
    New Now 2015, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, NL
    Who on my Place, curated by Z.Baladrán & M.Pokorný, Plato, Ostrava, CZ
  • 2014
    Startpoint Prize 2014, DOX, Prague
    Europe, Europe, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran & co-curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Astrup Farnley Musset, Oslo, NO
    Relaxing in the Shadow of Art, curated by S.Bader, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna, AT
    Comet, curated by E.Jeřábková & D.Lang, Futura Gallery, Prague
    Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module, curated by tranzit.cz, New Museum, NewYork City, USA
    Astronautics, curated by V. Havránek, D. Hegyi, G. Schoellhammer, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk, PL
    7th New Zlín Salon, Contemporary Czech and Slovak visual art, Building No.14 and 32 of the factory complex, Zlín, CZ
    Explain Me Not, curated by E. Jeřábková & M. Serranová, Autocenter Berlin, Berlin, DE
  • 2013
    The Encyclopedia of Failure, curated by V. Havránek & Z. Baladrán, Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta, ID
    The Earth Turns And All Things Slip Away, curated by E. Jeřábková & J. Kovanda, Hunt Kastner Artworks, Prague
    High Five, curated by S. Tolj & B. Šedivá, House of Art, Brno, CZ

Screenings

  • 2019
    Sometimes They Almost Feel Happy, Meetfactory, Prague
  • 2017
    MPEG Girl, MFDF Jihlava 20, Jihlava, CZ
    Reliable Relationship, Arkipel Festival, Jakarta, ID
  • 2016
    More Than Lovers More Than Friends (with Jan Brož), Edimburgh Art Festival, UK
    More Than Lovers More Than Friends (with Jan Brož), PAF, Olomouc, CZ
    Reliable Relationship, Martin Gropius Bau, Cinema, Berlin, DE
    Genius Loci/ spirit of place, Driveway 327, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 2015
    Zeitschwindel (with Z.Baladrán), Plato gallery program, Ostrava, CZ
    PAF: Czech Moving Image, Union Docs, Brooklyn, New York City, USA
    Other Visions, Béla Studio, Prague
    Reliable Relationship, Museum night, Pražák Palace, CZ
  • 2014
    Reliable Relationship, HÁTÍÐ FILM FJÖR, Reykjavik, Island, IS
    Reliable Relationship, Oslo, NO
    Reliable Relationship, Festival of Film Animation, Olomouc, CZ

Awards

  • 2015 Laureate of Jindřich Chalupecký Award, CZ
  • 2014 Winner of Other visions, PAF, CZ
  • 2014 The prize of the Czech Centres, Startpoint, CZ

Others

  • Since 2018 co-founder and program co-director of Institute of Anxiety (with Z. Blochová, E. Jeřábková, E. Koťátková)
  • Since 2017 institutional member of Feminist Art Institution
  • Since 2012 member of Zero Wage Movement
  • 2014 co-author of a book Who is an Artist? (with T. Stejskalová)

Hynek Alt & Aleksandra Vajd

2005–2015

The Holes in the Palms of Hynek Alt and Aleksandra Vajd Czech Hynek Alt and Slovenian Aleksandra Vajd demonstrate both […]

  • Hynek Alt, *1976 in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic.
    Lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Aleksandra Vajd, *1971 in Maribor, Slovenia.
    Lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic and Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Awards and Stipends

  • 2011
    Residency, El centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, MX
  • 2010
    Nomination Deutsche Börse Photographic Award, London, UK
    Atelier MK Slovinsko, London, UK
  • 2009
    Finalists, Henkel Art Award, MUMOK, Wien, AT
  • 2007
    Honorable mention /Aperture Prize, New York City, USA
  • 2006
    Nomination Deutsche Börse Photographic Award, London, UK
    Finalists, OHO Group Award, Slovenia
  • 2005
    1st prize, Frame005 Award, Brno, CZ
    Finalists, EgoArt Prize, Slovakia
  • 2004
    Fubright Schollarship, U.S.A.
  • 2001
    First Prize at the Portfolio Review Award, Month of Photography

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

  • 2016
    Second Half (1st Season), Galerija Fiducia, Ostrava, CZ
  • 2015
    Vila Pirkmajer na Vrtači (architect Josip Costaperaria), Ljubljana
  • 2014
    Systems’ Decomposition, Drdova Gallery, Prague (HA)
  • 2013
    Menu, Drdova Gallery, Prague (AV)
    Blind Spot, House of Art, České Budějovice, CZ
  • 2012
    When I Will See You Again, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, SLO
    Not Ready! curated by Jiří Ptáček, TIC Gallery, Brno, CZ
    The Place from Where You Think, curated by Edith Jeřábková, Fotograf Gallery, Prague
  • 2011
    You Can’t Change The Weather, curated by Markéta Vinglerová, etc. gallery, Prague
    How the Other Half Lives, curated by Pavel Vančát, Jelení Gallery, Prague
  • 2010
    Bright Eyes Burning Like Fire, m.odla, Prague
    Díra v dlani / Hole in the Palm, curated by Michal Pěchouček, 35m2 gallery, Prague
  • 2009
    Dál nic není / Nothing Follows, Entrance Gallery, Prague
    Media Specific, curated by Jiří Ptáček, 207 gallery, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague
  • 2007
    Photographer, Galerie 35, Berlín, DE (HA)
    Fotograf, Josefa Sudka Atelier, Prague, CZ (HA)
    manwomanunifinished, DVD projection, Krakow Photo Festival, PL (catalogue)
    manwomanunfinished, DVD projection, Likovni salon Celje, SL
    manwomanunfinished, F/Stop Photo Festival, Leipzig, DE (catalogue)
  • 2006
    untitled 2003, Atelier Josefa Sudka, Prague, CZ (AV)
    Book: manwomanunfinished, Kibla, Maribor, SLO
    Book: manwomanunfinished, Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana, SLO
    Exposed Appearance, Public presentation at CEC ArtsLink, New York City, USA
    The Documentation Project, At 932 2nd Avenue, New York City, USA
  • 2005
    Exposed, Vitrínka P. A. S., Prague
    You Look Like I Look, Czech Center, New York, USA

Group Exhibitions (selected)

  • 2015
    Manwomanunfinished, Central Europe – Japan Contemporary Art Exchange Kyoto, Zuiun-an- Art Project Space, Kyoto, Japan
    Objectonomy, curated by Sally Haftel, Meetfactory, Prague
    Still Life Recurring, with Joe Morgan, Lisa Helder, Nathan Cahill, Néstor Guttiérez, Amu gallery, Prague
    Setkávání / Begegnung(en), Austrian, Cultural Forum, Prague
    You Can´t Change the Weather, Europe Europe, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Ulrich Obrist, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
  • 2014
    Vienna Fair, The New Contemporary ( solo presentation), Vienna, Austria
    7th New Zlin Salon, Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlin, CZ
    Hin Mah Too Yah Lat Kekt, Gamu gallery, Prague
    Ready or not, here I come, Fait gallery, Brno, CZ
    Things, curated by Michal Novotný, Design Cloud’s Gallery, Chicago, USA
    Explain Me Not, curated by Edith Jeřábková & Mariana Serranová, SVIT / Autocenter Berlin, DE (AV)
    Graphic design, curated by Michal Novotný, Futura gallery, Prague
    Pierre Huyghe, curated by Jan Kratochvil, Drdova Gallery, Prague
    About the Chair, 9th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Liege, Belgium
  • 2013
    Intimate interactions, curated by Ladislav Kesner, City gallery Ostrava, CZ
    The Beginning of the Century, curated by Pavlína Morganová, House of Arts in Ostrava, Ostrava, CZ
    Prague Biennale Photo 3, curated by Pavel Vančát, the functionalist railway station Žižkov, Prague
    The Intimate Circle in Contemporary Czech Photography, curated by Vladimít Birgus,City Gallery Prague
    Measures of Saving the World_Part 1, curated by Margarethe Makovec & Anton Lederer, < rotor > center for contemporary art, Graz, Austria
  • 2012
    The Islands of Resistance. Between the First and Second Modernity 1985-2012, curated by Jiří Ševčík, Edith Jeřábková and Jana Ševčíková, National Gallery in Prague at the Veletržní Palace, Prague
    The Beginning of the Century, curated by Pavlína Morganová, Pilsen Regional Museum, Pilsen, CZ
    Nova F, curated by Vasja Nagy, Galerie Stolp, EPK, Maribor, SLO
  • 2011
    Uchronie, curated by Le Bureau, Klatovy/Klenová Gallery, CZ
    Inter-view 2, Nitra gallery, Nitra, SK
    The Object of the Spectacle, hosté výstavy Jasminy Cibic, Škuc, Ljubljana, SLO
    Oblikovanje republike, Muzej za arhitekturo in oblikovanje, Ljubljana, SLO
    Fotoobjekti, kurátor: Jan Babnik, Galerija Simulaker, Novo mesto, SLO
    Prague Biennale 5, curated by Vjera Borozan, Mariana Serannová, Microna, Prague
    Mutating Medium – Photography in Czech Art 1990-2010, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
    In optima forma, Galerija Emily Filly, Usti nad Labem, CZ
    Fundamentals & sediments, curated by Petr Vaňous, City Gallery Prague
    Cinetactics – Residents IV, MeetFactory Gallery, Prague
  • 2010
    Ego / Portrait x Photography, Langhans Gallery, Prague
    Cinetactics – Residents IV, MeetFactory Gallery, Prague
    Artyčok.tv – Art Fair, MeetFactory Gallery, Prague
    Spotlight on Central Europe, Paris Photo 2010, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, FR
    One Day You Will Loose It All, 4+4 Days in Motion, 15th Performing Arts Fesival, Prague
  • 2009
    After Velvet, City Gallery Prague
    Finalists of the Henkel Art Award, MUMOK, Wien, AT
    Not a Photograph, Obalne galerije Piran, SLO
  • 2007
    Plus, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, DE (AV)
    Paperworks, City Museum, Ljubljana, SLO
    Neexistuju, když mě nevidíš, Galerie Futura Gallery, Prague
    Photographic Biennial Dunaujvaros, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaujvaros, Hungary
    Relative closeness, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA (AV)
    F-Stop Photo Festival, Leipzig, DE
    I Don’t Wanna Talk, Czech Centre, Moscau, RU
    Intercity: Berlin – Prague, KMZA, Berlín, DE
    Contemporary Slovene Photography, Month of Photography, Bratislava, SK
  • 2006
    Not quite/not right, Histories, Bodies and Concepts in Contemporary Photography, Galerie Božidar Jakac, SLO
    Finalists of the OHO Group Award, Gallery and Center P74, Ljubljana, SLO
    Check-In-Europe, Reflecting Identities in Contemporary Art, European Patent Office, Munich, DE
    MFA Thesis Show, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Arts, New York, USA
    I Image, Galeria Nowa Przestrzen, Lodž Photographic Festival, PL
    Intimacy, City Gallery Piran, SLO
    1:1 The Interpersonal in the Contemporary Art, Gallery PM, HDLU, Zagreb, HR
  • 2005
    Prizor-Privlacnost-Prag, Galerija Kresija, Ljubljana, SLO
    Czech Photography of the 20th centrury, City Gallery Prague (HA)
    EuroPART, Aktuelle Kunst aus Europa, Billboard Project, AT
    Intercity: Berlin – Prague, Mánes, Prague
    2LIVE, Gallery of Fine Arts Koroska, Slovenj Gradec, SLO
    I Image, Dorothya Gallery, Budapest, HU
    EgoArt Prize: Finalists 2005, NoD Roxy, Prague
    This is not an Archive, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, USA

Hynek Alt

*1976

Shifting between photography, video, object and installation, he is concerned with forms of perception of the human in the current […]

Awards and Stipends

  • 2019
    AIR, Meetfactory, Prague, CZ
  • 2018
    AIR, Galerie Miroslava Kubíka, Litomyšl, CZ
  • 2016
    AIR, Banská St a nica, Banská Štiavnica, SK
  • 2014

    Studio of Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia, New York, USAA
  • 2011
    Residency, El centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, MX
  • 2010
    Nomination Deutsche Börse Photographic Award, London, UK
    Studio of Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia, London, UK
  • 2009
    Finalists, Henkel Art Award, MUMOK, Wien, AUT
  • 2007
    Honorable mention /Aperture Prize, New York City, USA
  • 2006
    Nomination Deutsche Börse Photographic Award, London, UK
    Finalists, OHO Group Award, Slovenia
  • 2005
    1st prize, Frame005 Award, Brno, CZ
    Finalists, EgoArt Prize, SK
  • 2004
    Fubright Schollarship, USA
  • 2001
    First Prize at the Portfolio Review Award, Month of Photography

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

  • 2020
    How Soon is Now (curated by Pavel Kubesa), NoD Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2019
    Avatar Zet (with Martin Zet), Plato, Ostrava, CZ
    Avatar Zet (with Martin Zet), Studio Hrdinů, Praha, CZ
  • 2018
    Unseen (with Václav Kopecký), Amsterdam, NL
  • 2017
    Deep Purple, Lucie Drdova gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2016
    Second Half (1st Season), Galerija Fiducia, Ostrava, CZ
  • 2015
    Vila Pirkmajer na Vrtači (architect Josip Costaperaria), Ljubljana, SLO
  • 2014
    Systems’ Decomposition, Drdova Gallery, Prague, CZ (HA)
  • 2013
    Blind Spot, House of Art, České Budějovice, CZ
  • 2012
    When I Will See You Again, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, SLO
    Not Ready! curated by Jiří Ptáček, TIC Gallery, Brno, CZ
    The Place from Where You Think, curated by Edith Jeřábková, Fotograf Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2011
    You Can’t Change The Weather, curated by Markéta Vinglerová, etc. gallery, Prague, CZ
    How the Other Half Lives, curated by Pavel Vančát, Jelení Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2010
    Bright Eyes Burning Like Fire, m.odla, Prague, CZ
    Díra v dlani / Hole in the Palm, curated by Michal Pěchouček, 35m2 gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2009
    Dál nic není / Nothing Follows, Entrance Gallery, Prague, CZ
    Media Specific, curated by Jiří Ptáček, 207 gallery, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague, CZ
  • 2007
    Photographer, Galerie 35, Berlín, DE (HA)
    Fotograf, Josefa Sudka Atelier, Prague, CZ (HA)
    manwomanunifinished, DVD projection, Krakow Photo Festival, PL (catalogue)
    manwomanunfinished, DVD projection, Likovni salon Celje, SL
    manwomanunfinished, F/Stop Photo Festival, Leipzig, DE (catalogue)
  • 2006
    Book: manwomanunfinished, Kibla, Maribor, SLO
    Book: manwomanunfinished, Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana, SLO
    Exposed Appearance, Public presentation at CEC ArtsLink, New York City, USA
    The Documentation Project, At 932 2nd Avenue, New York City, USA

Group Exhibitions (selected)

  • 2020
    Boundaries, Poetics of Conflict (curated by Jan Van Woensel), Ladislav Sutnar Gallery, Plzeň, CZ
    Lovelies from the Files. Sudek and Sculptures (Hana Buddeus), House of Photography, GHMP, Prague, CZ
    Still, Lucie Drdova Gallery, Prague, CZ
    video_on (curated by Jen Kratochvil), Vienna Contemporary, Karl Marx Halle, Vienna, AUT
  • 2019
    Objects in Love With Humans (curated by Václav Janoščík), FOAF / Lucie Drdova Gallery, Prague, CZ
    Public House (curated by Lucia Kvočáková, Piotr Sikora), Meetfactory, Prague, CZ
    Adéla Babánová Neptun, guests: Hynek Alt, Christian Kosmas Mayer and Daniel Pitín, Zahorian Van Espen, Bratislava, SK
  • 2018
    #OK Trienále malého objektu (kurátoři: Mária Janušová, Erik Vilím), Jozef Kollár Gallery, Banská Štiavnica, SK
    Theatre of Static Object (curated by Jiří Ptáček), Divadlo Minor, Prague, CZ
    7th Litomyšl Symposium, curated by Jan Zálešák & Jen Kratochvil, Miroslav Kubík Gallery, Litomyšl, CZ
    m3 / Art in Space Festival, curated by Jen Kratochvil and Laura Aman, Prague, CZ
    Two Heads, Four Hands (with Hynek Alt), 8Osmička Foundation, Humpolec, CZ
  • 2017
    Apparatus of a Utopian Observer (curated by Pavla Sceranková), Krokus Gallery, Bratislava, SK
    We Can Lose Everything But Time (curated by Jiří Ptáček), Měsíc ve dne Gallery, České Budějovice, CZ
    Conditions of Impossibility V/VII: Labour of leisure (curated by Václav Magid), FCCA Kurzor Gallery, Prague, CZ
    Flash Art Special Project, DesignBlok, Prague, CZ
  • 2016
    Gremo naprej / Slovenian Photography 1990 – 2015, curated by Brane Kovič, City Gallery Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SLO
  • 2015
    Manwomanunfinished, Central Europe – Japan Contemporary Art Exchange Kyoto, Zuiun-an- Art Project Space, Kyoto, JPN
    Objectonomy, curated by Sally Haftel, Meetfactory, Prague, CZ
    Still Life Recurring, with Joe Morgan, Lisa Helder, Nathan Cahill, Néstor Guttiérez, Amu gallery, Prague, CZ
    Setkávání / Begegnung(en), Austrian, Cultural Forum, Prague, CZ
    You Can´t Change the Weather, Europe Europe, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Ulrich Obrist, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, NOR
  • 2014
    Vienna Fair, The New Contemporary (solo presentation), Vienna, AUT
    7th New Zlin Salon, Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlin, CZ
    Hin Mah Too Yah Lat Kekt, Gamu gallery, Prague, CZ
    Ready or not, here I come, Fait gallery, Brno, CZ
    Things, curated by Michal Novotný, Design Cloud’s Gallery, Chicago, USA
    Graphic design, curated by Michal Novotný, Futura gallery, Prague, CZ
    Pierre Huyghe, curated by Jan Kratochvil, Drdova Gallery, Prague, CZ
    About the Chair, 9th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Liege, BE
  • 2013
    Intimate interactions, curated by Ladislav Kesner, City gallery Ostrava, CZ
    The Beginning of the Century, curated by Pavlína Morganová, House of Arts in Ostrava, Ostrava, CZ
    Prague Biennale Photo 3, curated by Pavel Vančát, the functionalist railway station Žižkov, Prague, CZ
    The Intimate Circle in Contemporary Czech Photography, curated by Vladimít Birgus,City Gallery Prague, CZ
    Measures of Saving the World_Part 1, curated by Margarethe Makovec & Anton Lederer, < rotor > center for contemporary art, Graz, AUT
  • 2012
    The Islands of Resistance. Between the First and Second Modernity 1985-2012, curated by Jiří Ševčík, Edith Jeřábková and Jana Ševčíková, National Gallery in Prague at the Veletržní Palace, Prague, CZ
    The Beginning of the Century, curated by Pavlína Morganová, Pilsen Regional Museum, Pilsen, CZ
    Nova F, curated by Vasja Nagy, Galerie Stolp, EPK, Maribor, SLO
  • 2011
    Uchronie, curated by Le Bureau, Klatovy/Klenová Gallery, CZ
    Inter-view 2, Nitra gallery, Nitra, SK
    The Object of the Spectacle, hosté výstavy Jasminy Cibic, Škuc, Ljubljana, SLO
    Oblikovanje republike, Muzej za arhitekturo in oblikovanje, Ljubljana, SLO
    Fotoobjekti, kurátor: Jan Babnik, Galerija Simulaker, Novo mesto, SLO
    Prague Biennale 5, curated by Vjera Borozan, Mariana Serannová, Microna, Prague, CZ
    Mutating Medium – Photography in Czech Art 1990-2010, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, CZ
    In optima forma, Galerija Emily Filly, Usti nad Labem, CZ
    Fundamentals & sediments, curated by Petr Vaňous, City Gallery Prague, CZ
    Cinetactics – Residents IV, MeetFactory Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2010
    Ego / Portrait x Photography, Langhans Gallery, Prague, CZ
    Cinetactics – Residents IV, MeetFactory Gallery, Prague, CZ
    Artyčok.tv – Art Fair, MeetFactory Gallery, Prague, CZ
    Spotlight on Central Europe, Paris Photo 2010, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, FR
    One Day You Will Loose It All, 4+4 Days in Motion, 15th Performing Arts Festival, Prague, CZ
  • 2009
    After Velvet, City Gallery Prague, CZ
    Finalists of the Henkel Art Award, MUMOK, Wien, AUT
    Not a Photograph, Obalne galerije Piran, SLO