The important things for my work are always intuition, association and metaphor. But the existence of these approaches is not clear at first glance, and it cannot be simply decoded against the backdrop of tasks (works), which are sometimes intentional and sometimes literal for reasons of capacity. The literal nature of the work smacks of cheap perfume from which there is no escape. I like literality because, at the surface of events, it affords a seemingly unambiguous interpretation. It has the power to comfort a superficial viewer and the power to beguile the more demanding ones, offering them further layers of cheap glitter. Literality is raw, naked and secular, but intuition, association and metaphor come most likely from jam jars meant to be filled with star dust, whose lids bend light into black holes, so they can be neither preserved nor digitalized. Nevertheless, don’t look for anything beyond them. Definitely. Not too much.
Biography
Education
2007–2011
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Ph.D. (Milan Knížák) unfinished
2005–2006
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, New Media (Michael Bielický)
2003–2004
Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, Art & Science (Frans Evers)
2002–2003
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Design and Architecture (Jiří Pelcl)
2000–2002
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Intermedia (Milan Knížák)
Individual Exhibition
2021
Names proposed to nature (with David Helán), Lipenice Park, Prague City Gallery, Prague, CZ
2020
Conditional Jump, Vyšehrad Gallery, Prague, CZ
2019
Greenpiece (with David Helán), Jáma 10 Gallery, Ostrava , CZ
Unknowing That Knows Not, GASK – Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora, CZ
2018
Headless (with Jakub Janovský), Pragovka Gallery, Prague, CZ
2017
Merda d’Artista, The White Room, Prague, CZ
2015
Teige in Poruba, Industrial Gallery, Ostrava, CZ
Proto (with Monika Žáková), Prototyp studio, Prague, CZ
House of Meat / House of Bread, Jekor Gallery, Prague, CZ
2014
Autopsy Room, Pitevna Gallery, Brno, CZ
Art That Nobody Understands Isn’t Art, G99 Gallery, The Brno House of Arts, Brno, CZ
2010
The Important Thing is the One That Is Missing (with Štefan Tóth), Dea Orh Gallery, Prague, CZ
2008
At Your Own Risk!, Půda Gallery, Český Těšín, CZ
2007
Tichon / Cimala (with Michal Cimala), Trafačka Gallery, Prague, CZ
Side Product, Jáma 10 Gallery, Ostrava , CZ
2006
Sandpit, Nibiru Gallery, Ostrava, CZ
2005
Pankow (with Jan Vlček), Nibiru Gallery, Ostrava, CZ
2004
The Service Drive (with Vladimír Véla), City Theatre, Turnov, CZ
Recycling Souls (with Pavel Klvaňa), Linhart’s Foundation / Školská 28, Prague, CZ
Group Exhibition (selection)
2021
Ko-laborace, Pragovka Art District, Prague, CZ
2020
Reckless, Photogether Gallery, Zlín, CZ
Cubes, Gumárna, Forman`s Čáslav festival, Čáslav, CZ
2019
Malamut International performance meeting, PLATO Gallery, Ostrava , CZ
Flying Inn, Pragovka Art District, Prague, CZ
2018
Diplomatic Art International Group Exhibition, Mihai Eminescu Theater, Oravia, RO
Post-rubbish, Pragovka Art District, Prague, CZ
2017
Prague Now, Clam-Gallas Pallace, Prague, CZ
Pragovka with Wings, Pragovka Art District, Prague, CZ
2016
Sexy, Pragovka Art District, Prague, CZ
Random, Pragovka Art District, The White Room, Prague, CZ
2015
Diplomatic Arts, Helios Gallery, Timisoara, RO
2013
Hinter den Bergen, Weltecho Gallery, Chemnitz, DE
45, Pragovka Art District, Prague, CZ
Maybe Snakes, Akademia Gallery, Sofia, BU
I-con, Hristo Cokev Gallery, Gabrovo, BU
2012
Velocypédia, NTK Gallery, Prague, CZ
2011
Intermedia School, UFFO Gallery, Trutnov, CZ
Contemporary Czech Painting, Dea Orh Gallery, Prague, CZ
2010
Transgression, Videotage, Hong Kong, CH
Paper Heads, Trafačka Gallery, Prague, CZ
2009
FIVE, Dea Orh Gallery, Prague, CZ
Fourteen S, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ
19 Years After, Embassy of the Czech Republic, Berlin, DE
Those! Theme!, SAM 83 Gallery, Česká Bříza, CZ
Sjezd 396, Půda Gallery, Český Těšín, CZ
2008
Zebra Festival, Babylon cinema, Berlin, DE
Cosmopolitics III, Czech Center, Moscow, RU
Sjezd 112, Půda Gallery, Jihlava, CZ
Cosmopolitics II, Art Laboratory, Berlin, DE
2007
NG 333, National Gallery in Prague, Prague, CZ
Signale, Ostragehege, Dresden, DE
Simple Living, Bruekenthal National Museum, Sibiu, RO
Cosmpolitics I, NOUA Gallery, Bucharest, RO
Not Charles Bridge but the Castle Can Be Yours, City Gallery, Uherské Hradiště, CZ
ESSL Award, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Prague, CZ
2006
Charming Nonchalance, NO Gallery, Prague, CZ
59th Art Salon Policka, City Gallery, Polička, CZ
AVU Graduates, National Gallery in Prague, Prague, CZ
4th Salon of Young Artists in Zlín, County Gallery of Fine Arts, Zlín, CZ
Scalo Books, Langhans Gallery, Prague, CZ
2005
IBCA International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Prague, National Gallery in Prague, Prague, CZ
2004
4th International Triennial of Graphic Arts Prague, Mánes Gallery, Prague, CZ
2003
The Youngest, National Gallery in Prague, Prague, CZ
School of Intermedia, Alšova Jihočeská Gallery, České Budějovice, CZ
2002
Twice / Stuttgart – Prague / Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, CZ / DE
Representation in collections
National Gallery in Prague, Prague, CZ
GASK – Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora, CZ
Klatovy Gallery, Klenová, CZ
Private collections
Curated exhibitions
2018
Post-rubbish, Pragovka Art District, Prague, CZ
2016
Random, The White Room, Prague, CZ
2013
45, Pragovka Art District, Prague, CZ
2011
Hay Infusion, AVU Gallery, Prague, CZ
2007
Not Charles Bridge but the Castle Can Be Yours, City Gallery, Uherské Hradiště, CZ
Catalogues
Art Is Better Than Nothing, © Pavel Tichoň – INDIVIDUUM, Prague 2019
Diplomatic Arts, © UAP Timisoara, Timisoara 2015
Trafačka! 7 Years of the Temple of Freedom, © Trafačka, Prague 2013
The Important Thing is the One That Is Missing, © Dea Orh Gallery, Prague 2011
Paper Heads, © Trafačka, Prague 2015
Art from the Turn of the Millennium in The National Gallery in Prague Collections 1990–2009, © National Gallery in Prague, Prague 2009
FIVE, © Dea Orh Gallery, Prague 2009
Fourteen S, © Publisher House Houdek, Prague 2009
NG 333 & CEZ Group Award, © National Gallery in Prague, Prague 2007
ESSL Award, © Essl museum contemporary art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna 2007
AVU 18, © Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Prague 2007
AVU Graduates 2006, © Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Prague 2006
4th Salon of Young Artists in Zlín, © County Gallery of Fine Arts, Zlín 2006
International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2005, © National Gallery in Prague, Prague 2005
4th International Triennial of Graphic Arts Prague, © The Inter-Kontakt-Grafik Association, Prague 2004