Vladimír Kokolia, 2005, Three Czech Painters, English

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autor textu: Sara Brock, Barbara Benish

Vladimír Kokolia

bar. katalog Three Czech Painters, 2005, vyšlo k výstavě: Three Czech Painters, Pricewaterhouse Coopers Gallery, Wellington, New Zeeland

Vladimír Kokolia

He received his MFA degree from the Academy of Fine Art in Prague in 1981. In eighties, Kokolia was recognized as a cult drawer, with hundreds of sarcastic drawings of the Big Cycle. During nineties, he received international attention with his paintings which integrate reprezentational motives with patterns, and physical gesture with meditation. In 1990, Kokolia became the first winner of the prestigious Jindřich Chalupecký Prize, and, consequently, he stayed for six months as artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

Kokolia has been the subject of more then 90 solo exhibitions, and his work was included in about 360 group shows. In 1992, he was the only Czech artist participating in the Documenta IX in Kasel, Germany. Kokolia’s work has been collected at the S.M.A.K. in Gent, at Albertina in Vienna, National Gallery in Prague.

Since 1992 Kokolia has been the head of the printmaking department II at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Besides painting and drawing he is also a qualified instructor of the traditional Chen family taijiquan. He lives and works in Veverské Knínice and Prague, since 1992 teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague.

Born

1956 in Veverské Knínice, Czechoslovakia

Education

1981, M.F.A. in Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Prague

Awards and Residencies

1990, Jindřich Chalupecký Prize

1991, Headlands Center for the Art, San Francisco

1993, The Royal College of Arts, Stockholm

1995, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York

2001, Grey's School of Art, Aberdeen

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2004, Certain Traces, S.C.A.P.E., Los Angeles

2003, House of Art, DŮM UMĚNÍ MĚSTA BRNA, Brno, curators: Pavel Liška a Radek Horáček

2003, Vision, GALERIE BEHÉMÓT, Praha, curator: Karel Babíček

2002, Energy, ARS, Brno, curator: Josef Chloupek

2001, Garden, OPERA HOUSE GALLERY, Cairo, curator: Sylva Pavlasová

1998, Brests, VÝSTAVNÍ SÍŇ MÁNES, Praha, curator: Magda Juříková

1995, Langzaam, KNOLL GALERIE, Wien, (with Arjanne van der Spek), curator: Hans Knoll

1994, Wechselspiel, KUNSTRAUM MÜNCHEN, München, (with Tomáš Ruller), curator: Christine Tacke

1993, Narcissus End, MUSEUM VAN HEDENDAAGSE KUNST, Gent, curator: Bart de Baere

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005, International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Narodni galerie v Praze, Prague, curator: Milan Knizak

2005, Three Czech Painters, Pricewaterhouse Coopers Gallery, Wellington, New Zeeland, curator: Jan Kavalirek

2004, Certain Traces, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, curators: Barbara Benish, Sara Brock

2002, Slice of the Generation, GALERIE TVRDOHLAVÍ, Praha, curator: Václav Marhoul

2001, New Connection, WORLD TRADE CENTER, New York, curators: Ĺubomíra Slušná, Dan Merta, Barbara Holubová

1997, SelestArt, FRAC ALSACE, Selestat, curator: Karin Graff

1996, Balkan Orient Express, IFA, INSTITUT FÜR AUSLANDSBEZIEHUNGEN, Berlin, curator: Dan Mihaltianu

1996, Dawn of Magicians, NÁRODNÍ GALERIE V PRAZE, Praha, curator: Jaroslav Anděl

1994, Europa, Europa, KUNST-UND AUSSTELLUNGSHALLE, Bonn, curator: Ryszard Stanislawski a Christoph Brockhaus

1993, Future Perfect, HEILIGENKREUZER HOF, Vídeň, curator: Dan Cameron

1993, Der andere Ausgang, LUDWIG FORUM, Aachen, curators: Jana and Jiří Ševčíkovi

1992, Documenta IX, AUE-PAVILIONS, Kassel, curator: Jan Hoet

1991, The Exhibition of Czech Contemporary Art, TAIWAN MUSEUM OF ART, Taiwan, curators: Jana and Jiří Ševčíkovi

1991, Three Artists from Bohemia, P.S.1 MUSEUM, New York, curator: Zdenka Gabalová

1990, Czech Art Today, Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, curator: Jana a Jiri Sevcikovi

1987, Groteskque in Czech Art of 20th Century, GALERIE HLAVNÍHO MĚSTA PRAHY, Praha, curator: Alena Pomajzlová

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