Artwork: |
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| Bez Navu (untitled), 05-11-1991 |
| gb agency |
 Artist's arttributes:
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Male |
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Painting, Performance |
Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| Czech Republic | 45 |
| France | 28 |
| Germany | 20 |
| USA | 13 |
| Austria | 11 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
№ |
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gb agency, France |
10 |
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Moravska Galerie / Moravian Gallery, Czech Republic |
4 |
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Emil Filla Gallery / Galerie Emila Filly, Czech Republic |
3 |
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Galerie Krobath - Wien, Austria |
3 |
Biography: 
1953 Born in Praha, PR (CZ)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 164
until 8.7.
Solo shows 30
2012
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| Jiří Kovanda - Dos anillos dorados / Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid |
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| Jiri Kovanda - Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok |
2011
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| Jiří Kovanda - Galerie výtvarného umění v Chebu / Gallery of Visual Art in Cheb, Cheb |
2010
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| "Blue things, leaning, found here," Jiri Kovanda - Art radionica Lazareti - Gallery Otok, Dubrovnik |
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| Jiri Kovanda - White Blanket - Wiener Secession, Vienna |
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| Jiří Kovanda - Galerie Města Blansko, Blansko |
2009
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| Jiří Kovanda - Galerie Krobath - Wien, Vienna |
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| Jiří Kovanda - Galerie Krobath - Berlin, Berlin |
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| Jiri Kovanda - Wallspace Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Jiri Kovanda - Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York City, NY |
2008
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| Jiri Kovanda - Alfombra Rosa - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Okna, ryby, pelargonie - galerie 5. patro, Prague |
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| Jiří Kovanda - Killing The Blues - Galerie ad astra, Kuřim |
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| Jiři Kovanda - Resistance - DOMINIK ART PROJECTS, Krakow |
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| Jiří Kovanda - Golden Ring - Galerie Zdenek Sklenar, Prague |
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| Jirí Kovanda: When I was a little boy, I used to play with girls - Galerie Klatovy / Klenová GKK, Klenová |
2007
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| Jiri Kovanda - Galerie Kabinet, Brno |
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| Jiří Kovanda - Galerie Krobath - Wien, Vienna |
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| Jiří Kovanda - Moravska Galerie / Moravian Gallery, Brno |
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| Jiri Kovanda VS reste du monde (Tentatives de Rapprochement) - Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest |
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| Works and Words - de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam |
2006
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| Jiří Kovanda - Radši bych byl andělem - Atelier Josefa Sudka, Prague |
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| Jiří Kovanda: Vánoční ozdoby - Galerie Jelení - Center for Contemporary Art, Prague |
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| Jiří Kovanda - Galerie Krobath - Wien, Vienna |
2005
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| Jiří Kovanda - pictures - House of Art - Dum umeni, Ceské Budejovice |
2004
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| Jiří Kovanda, Druhá polovina. Obrazy, kresby, objekty z let 1996-2004 - Galerie Šternberk, Šternberk |
Group shows 133
2013
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| The Order Of Things: Kadist Fellowship Show - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
2012
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| Art By Telephone - Angers - Bordeaux - New York - Paris / Chatou - San Francisco - CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux |
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| Now Here is also Nowhere: Part I - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| 7th Liverpool Biennial - Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool (England) |
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| 30th Săo Paulo Biennial - Bienal de Sao Paulo, Săo Paulo |
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| Paramor - FRAC - Pays de la Loire, Carquefou |
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| It is what it is. Or is it? - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| From an object´s point of view - Murray Guy, New York City, NY |
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| Ab in die Ecke! - Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst |
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| Collaborations & Interventions - Nymphius Projekte Berlin, Berlin |
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| Foreign Excursions - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
2011
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| KONTAKT COLLECTION - Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia |
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| 12 bodů - Galerie 35m2, Prague |
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| Les amis de mes amis sont mes amis, hommage ŕ Ján Mančuška - Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris |
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| Impossible Community - Moscow museum of modern art - MMOMA, Moscow |
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| 35 Years 7000 Kilometres - SVIT Praha, Prague |
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| The Encounter - Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels |
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| Ostalgia - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Rytmika ĆwiczeŃ - Druga OdsŁona Projektu Galicja. Topografie Mitu - BWA Sokol Gallery of Contemorary Art, Nowy Sacz |
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| Void if Removed - Concrete Erudition 4 - FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris |
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| Érudition Concéte 4 - FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris |
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| Gone to Croatan – Strategien des Verschwindens - HMKV - Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund |
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| Pičces de résistance - Stücke des Widerstandes - Motorenhalle - riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden, Dresden |
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| Museo de las narrativas paralelas. En el marco de La Internacional - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona |
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| Berliner Zimmer - Galerie Krobath - Berlin, Berlin |
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| Why do you resist? Forms of Resistance in Contemporary - Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok |
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| Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Boba Dylana - DOX - Centre for contemporary art, Prague |
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| Médium - Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague |
2010
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| Words Billboard - Fondazione March, Padova |
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| Der ideale Ort, um mit der Freiheit unter vier Augen zu sprechen - Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen |
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| Trailer Park - Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples |
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| And don't forget the flowers - Moravska Galerie / Moravian Gallery, Brno |
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| 1984 - 1995 /Czech Painting of the 1980s Generation/ - Wannieck Gallery of Modern Art, Brno |
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| Exhibition of Martin John, Jiří Kovanda, Vladimír Skrepl, 1988 - SVIT Praha, Prague |
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| moss grows in shadow - amt _ project, Bratislava |
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| Swagger, Drag, Fit Together - Wallspace Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Painting, Process and Expansion - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna |
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| Altruismus: Kunst aus Tschechien Heute - Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn |
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| Czech Dream - Lucid Dream - DOMINIK ART PROJECTS, Krakow |
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| Why do we resist? - Pori Taidemuseo / Pori Art Museum, Pori |
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| Chemin Faisant… A Walk Around the Block - La Ferme du buisson - centre d'art et de curiosités culturelles, Noisiel |
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| HIGH IDEALS & CRAZY DREAMS - Compiled by Gerwald Rockenschaub - Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg |
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| Ŕ l'ombre d'un doute - 49 NORD 6 EST – Frac Lorraine, Metz |
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| A Part of No-Part: Parallelisms Between Then and Now - CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, NY |
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| The Nice Thing About Castillo/Corrales... - castillo/corrales, Paris |
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| Les Promesses du passé - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Che cosa sono le nuvole? Werke aus der Sammlung Enea Righi - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano |
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| WHITE PAPER - Entrance Gallery, Prague |
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| City Dreamers - Emil Filla Gallery / Galerie Emila Filly, Ústí nad Labem |
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| DOUBLE BIND / Arrętez d’essayer de me comprendre ! - Villa Arson, Nice |
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| making worlds / tvoření světů - Emil Filla Gallery / Galerie Emila Filly, Ústí nad Labem |
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| Monument to Transformation - Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb |
2009
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| UFF 4 - Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, Wroclaw |
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| Performance Art Of The 80´s Comparison - Galerie Vernon, Prague |
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| TINA B. – The Prague Contemporary Art Festival 09 - TINA B. – The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague |
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| My Europe - DOX - Centre for contemporary art, Prague |
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| "Ohne Uns!" - zur Kunst & alternative Kultur in Dresden vor und nach ´89 / Prager Spitze - Prager Spitze, Dresden |
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| Pičces de résistance: Formen von Widerstand in der zeitgenössischen Kunst - Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun |
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| It rests by changing - Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan |
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| Historical Work - Václav Spála Gallery, Prague |
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| Július Koller & Jirí Kovanda - Ludlow 38, New York City, NY |
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| The Death of the Audience - Wiener Secession, Vienna |
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| Just Around the Corner - La Casa Encendida, Madrid |
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| Gone to Croatan - CoCA - Centre of Contemporary Art Torun, Torun |
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| We would like to thank (again) the curators who wish to remain anonymous - Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris |
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| Monument to Transformation 1989-2009 - City Gallery Prague / Galerie Hlavního Města Prahy, Prague |
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| FLOWER POWER - Craa Centro di ricerca arte attuale Villa Giulia, Verbania |
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| Performing the East - Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg |
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| Minimal Shift - Galéria Jana Koniarka, Trnava |
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| Azioni molto semplici senza uno scopo preciso - Artra, Milan |
2008
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| ...no places no frontiers... - DOMINIK ART PROJECTS, Krakow |
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| Playtime - Bétonsalon, Paris |
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| BETWEEN CONCEPT AND ACTION - Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin |
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| Eva Kotatkova a Jiri Kovanda: Stains - Futura, Prague |
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| Peripheral vision and collective body - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano |
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| Michel de Certeau - OUI, Grenoble |
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| Kontakt... Works from the Art Collection of Erste Bank Group - Institute of Contemporary Art - Dunaújvŕros, Dunaujvaros |
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| MANUAL CC. Instructions for beginners and advanced players. - Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw |
2007
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| WHY DO YOU RESIST? - Forms of Resistance in Contemporary Art and Society - Emil Filla Gallery / Galerie Emila Filly, Ústí nad Labem |
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| TINA B. – The Prague Contemporary Art Festival 07 - TINA B. – The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague |
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| Form Follows... Risk - Slovak National Gallery / Slovenská Národná Galéria, Bratislava |
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| Intocable (el ideal de la transparencia) - Patio Herreriano - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Espańol, Valladolid |
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| Steve Claydon, Jacob Dahl Jürgensen, Jiri Kovanda, Anselm Reyle, Xavier Veilhan - Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich |
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| Ver bailar. Diálogo entre la danza y las bellas artes - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla |
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| Documenta 12 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Prague Biennale 3 - Prague Biennale, Prague |
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| Rückblende. Die Fotosamlung der Neuen Galerie Graz - Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
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| Form follows… risk - Futura, Prague |
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| GALERIE.FOCUS WIEN - Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck |
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| (in)visible things - Trafo House of Contemporary Art, Budapest |
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| Tanzen, Sehen - Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen |
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| Jan Merta / Jiří Kovanda - Johnen Galerie, Berlin |
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| Some time waiting - Kadist Art Foundation, Paris |
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| Ketzer & Co. Die Goldene Stadt - Jiri Svestka Prague, Prague |
2006
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| tranzit - Auditorium, Stage, Backstage – Eine Ausstellung in 32 Szenen - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main |
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| Kontakt ... aus der Sammlung der Erste Bank-Gruppe - Palais Liechtenstein - Forum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Feldkirch |
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| I´ve Invited a Couple of Friends to Have a Look - Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb |
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| Get together - Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana |
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| Július Koller, Jirí Kovanda - Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm |
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| Heretic & CO. - Young Artist from the Berlin - House of the Lords of Kunštát, Brno |
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| I, an exhibition in three acts - Futura, Prague |
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| Grey Zones - Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst - GfZK, Leipzig |
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| GREY ZONES - The Brno House of Arts - Central Building, Brno |
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| Kontakt - ... aus der Sammlung der Erste Bank-Gruppe - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna |
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| Office Art - C2C Gallery, Prague |
2005
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| 1811197604122005 - Galeria Plan B, Cluj |
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| East Art Museum - Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum, Hagen |
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| Prague Biennale 2 - Prague Biennale, Prague |
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| IV. New Zlín Salon 2005 - Dům umění, Zlín |
2004
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| Cordially invited - in Post CM - Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Strategies of Desire - Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel |
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| De ma Fenętre, des artistes et leur territoire - École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris |
2003
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| Parallel Actions: Conceptual Tendencies in Central Europe from 1965 to 1980 - Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York City, NY |
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| Wir müssen heute noch an Ihr Vorstellungsvermögen appellieren... - Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne |
2002
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| Field of phenomena - solitude of matter/Pole jevu - samota vec - Moravska Galerie / Moravian Gallery, Brno |
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| Denisa Lehocká, Jiří Kovanda - Galerie Jelení - Center for Contemporary Art, Prague |
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| Object / Object. Metamorphoses in Time - Moravska Galerie / Moravian Gallery, Brno |
2001
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| skupinová výstava: Slepená intimita - Galerie Jelení - Center for Contemporary Art, Prague |
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| Object / Obejct - Metamorphoses in Time / Metamorfózy v čase - - Czech Museum of Fine Arts - Ceské muzeum vytvarných umeni v Praze, Prague |
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| Body and the East - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
2000
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| Aspect - Positions - 50 Years of Art in Central Europe 1949-99 - Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, Budapest |
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| ÜberlebensKunst - Junge künstler aus Prag - NBK - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin |
1999
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| Structures Transverses / Strukturveränderungen - FORUM d`ART Franco-Allemand, Chateau Vaudrémont, Colombey-les-Deux-Églises |
| Dealer Directory 7 |
Austria
| | Galerie Krobath - Wien, Vienna
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Czech Republic
| | Galerie Zdenek Sklenar, Prague
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France
Germany
| | Galerie Krobath - Berlin, Berlin
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| | Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
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Collections 6
Austria
| | Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna
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Czech Republic
| | Wannieck Gallery of Modern Art, Brno
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| | City Gallery Prague / Galerie Hlavního Města Prahy, Prague
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France
| | Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart
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Poland
| | DOMINIK ART PROJECTS, Krakow
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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