Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin

In the 20th issue of Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin we introduce you to the young sculptor Dominik Adamec. Dominik Adamec graduated from the Academy of Arts in Prag in Sculpture last year and then moved to Berlin, where he just presented his work for the first time during the festival artspring. In his paper-sculptures he deals with the topic of genetic chimerism in biotechnology. More about his...

In the 19th episode of Contemporary Czech Art we will present the young painter Gabriela Těthalová. Gabriela Těthalová graduated from Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, Painting / Drawing at Prof. Jutta Koether and Prof. Dr. Bettina Uppenkam in September 2020 and was e.g. represented at Academy POSITIONS 2020 in Berlin. Her aim is to expand the field of painting while commenting on the...

In the 18th issue of Contemporary Czech Art we speak with Anna Kubelík. She is an architect and artist. Science, music and architecture play an important role in her practice. Therefore, she often collaborates with musicians, dancers or specialists of diverse fields. The context always determines the content, form, material and dimension of her work. There is always a performative element to be fo...

In the 17th issue of Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin by the Czech Centre Berlin we spoke to Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelová. She is a curator and artist currently working between Berlin, Prague, and the Bay Area. She focuses on care and its ethics in action through exhibition and art making, writing, social practice projects and community organizing. Härtelová received her MA degree in Curatorial Pra...

Graphic designer, illustrator and curator Barbora Demovičová is our guest of the 16th episode of Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin. She was born in Slovakia and is currently living in Berlin. Barbora Demovičová studied graphic design at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno in the Czech Republic, and completed exchange years at the Akademie der Bildende Künste in Stuttgart and at the Hochschule für Graf...

Die Fotografin Anna Poubová ist der erste Gast in unserer Podcast-Reihe im neuen Jahr. Sie studiert seit 2016 Photographie an der Universität der Künste Berlin in der Klasse von Prof. Ursula Neugebauer und wurde 2020 mit dem IBB-Preis für Photographie (Anerkennung) ausgezeichnet. Mit Anna Poubová sprechen wir vor allem über Ihr Projekt Satellitendorf, mit welchem Sie den Anerkennungspreis der Inve...

Die letzte Ausgabe unserer Reihe Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin in diesem Jahr widmen wir dem Maler Roman Liška. Er lebt in Berlin und arbeitet als künstlerischer Mitarbeiter von Prof. Jana Gunstheimer am Lehrstuhl für experimentelle Malerei und Zeichnung der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Dort haben sie gemeinsam das Institut für regionale Realitätsexperimente “IRRE” gegründet. Mehr können Sie hie...

In der 13. Folge von Comtemporary Czech Art in Berlin stellen wir den Maler Lubomír Typlt vor, der zu den bekannten Vertretern der tschechischen zeitgenössischen figurativen Malerei zählt und ein ehemaliger A.R. Penck- Schüler ist. Noch bis Ende November sind nun seine aktuellen Werke in der Galerie c&k in Mitte zu sehen. In dieser Folge sprechen wir auch mit der Galeristin Christiane Bühling...

In the 12th episode of Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin we present SUMO Prague 2020, an international gallery cooperation that led to a three-day showcase of contemporary art in Prague in September. Nine local galleries were hosting exhibitions and an accompanying program curated in collaboration with partner institutions from abroad. The project aims to present new forms of international art to t...

The first artist with Czech origins who we will present after the summer break in the series Contemporary Czech Art in Berlin is Jan Smejkal (born 1948 in Beroun, CZ). Jan Smejkal studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague in 1967 and then continued his studies at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main from1968. He is mostly interested in the process of capturing moments in his...

In the 10th issue of the series Contemporary Czech Art Sim Binko talks to Jakub Valenta, who is an artist and software developer. He has been living in Berlin for the last four years. Most of Jakub’s projects are digital, usually presented as a web page, in an intentionally unaesthetic form, or using common technology such as a calendar app, Google documents, emojis, or Twitter. He often creates p...

In der neunten Ausgabe von Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin stellen wir die Malerin und Fotografin Eliška Bartek vor, die 1972 nach Westdeutschland geflüchtet ist und seitdem in Berlin und im Tessin lebt. Sie beschreibt im Interview sehr lebendig, wie ihr die Coronakrise den Abschluss ihrer dreijährigen Arbeit am Buch "Diario di Maggia" schwer gemacht hat, wie schwierig es für sie war, k...

In the 8th issue of Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin, we would like to introduce Adéla Součková. Since we are slowly getting back to regular workflow at the Czech Centre, we will prepare new interviews for the series Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin every two weeks. Adéla Součková (*1985) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (Painting Studio II / Vladimír Skrepl School) and from Hochs...

In the 7th issue of Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin we would like to introduce Petra Hermanová. Petra Hermanová (*1987 in Valašské Meziříčí, CZ) is a visual artist and musician. She studied with Václav Stratil at the Studio of Intermedia at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno and at the Studio of Art in Public spaces at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, where she concentrated mostly on...

In the 6th issue of the series Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin we will introduce the curatorial collaborative. Helena and Jana describe curatorial collaborative as an agency for presentation, communication and mediation of art and architecture focusing on finding innovative means of mediation and display. Through art and architecture networks they try to advance the discourse on curation in the C...

In this issue of the series Czech Conteporary Art in Berlin we would like to introduce Julia Gryboś (*1988, PL) and Barbora Zentková (*1986, SK). They are an artistic duo, working together since 2010. They met during their studies at Ostrava Faculty of Arts and continued with their studies already as a duo at the faculty of Arts in Brno. They made themselves known to wider audiences mainly in th...

In this issue of the series Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin we will introduce the multimedia artist Martin Kohout. Martin Kohout was born 1984 in Prague, he graduated from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU, Department of Cinematography) and from the Städelschule in Frankfurt (Simon Starling Studio). He also spent two years studying at the Universität der Kün...

Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin mit Manuel Stehli Unser nächster Gast in der online-Reihe Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin ist der Maler Manuel Stehli . Er ist zwar in Zürich geboren und aufgewachsen, ein Großteil seiner Familie ist aber in Tschechien. Aktuell lebt und arbeitet er in Berlin und Zürich. Manuel Stehli hat an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig und an dem Camberwell C...

Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin with Hošek Contemporary This time we present with Czech Contemporary Art in Berlin not an artist, but a Czech gallery owner. Petr Hošek, founder of Hošek Contemporary, relocated to Berlin in 2014 and opened a little gallery in Berlin-Mitte, close to the theatre Volksbühne. In 2018 he moved to a special place - an old freighter, where his gallery Hošek Contemporary...

#czechart zu Coronazeiten In kurzen Interviews stellen wir zeitgenössische Künstlerinnen und Künstler mit Wurzeln in Tschechien und/oder der Slowakei vor. Kreative, die schon länger oder erst kurz in Berlin leben. Das Format des Gesprächs heißt 3x3: Die ersten 3 Minuten sprechen wir über den Ort, wo die KünstlerInnen arbeiten. Die nächsten 3 Minuten dann darüber, was sie im Moment beschäftigt, und...