Born 1973 in Prague, ČSSR
education
1992-1997 – History of Art, Charles University in Prague
1997-2003 – Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, (studios of painting and new media)
curatorial activities:
2001-2007: Co-founder of Display, space for contemporary art in Prague
2008-2018: Co-founder of Tranzit Display,
and curator of Tranzit-Display gallery
2018 – curator of Display Galerie
other curatorial activities (together with Vít Havránek)
2013 “Encyclopedia of Failure”, Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta
2012 “Why would you live if you knew was going to happen tomorrow?”, Steierischer Herbst Festival, Graz
2010 “Manifesta 8”, (tranzit.org), Murcia, Cartagena
2010 “Monument to Transformation as part of “Watchmen, Liars, Dreamers (Erudition concrete 3)”, FRAC Le Plateau, Paris
2010 “Monument to Transformation”, Montehernoso, Vitoria
2010 “Monument to Transformation”, GMK, Zagreb
2009 “Monument to Transformation”, CIV, Bucharest
2009 “Monument to Transformation”, Municipal library, City Gallery, Prague
2008 “Installation model, fragment # 7, Communism Never Happened / Vocabulary, tranzit, Bratislava
2008 “Installation model, fragment # 6, Labour Day”, Labor, Budapest
2007 “Installation model, fragment # 5”, Prague Biennale 3, Prague
2007-2009 “Permanent installation of Monument to Transformation“, tranzitdisplay, Prague
residencies, stipends, awards
12th Annual “Umělec ma cenu” Award for artists over the age of 35, Czech Republic, 2018
Audi Prize for New Positions, Cologne, 2013
Artist in Residence, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, PL, 2008
Jindřich Chalupecký Award Finalist, 2008
artist in residece, PROGR, Bern, 2007
Jindřich Chalupecký Award Finalist,2007
Museums Quartier 21, artist in residence, Tranzit, Vienna, AU, 2006
Residency stipend at PROGR, Bern, CH, 2006
Jindřich Chalupecký Award Finalist,2005
Jindřich Chalupecký Award Finalist, 2004
Tranzit development grant, 2004
solo exhibitions
2020
Things Fall Apart (Interim Report), Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris – Romainville, FR
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, FR
Out of Control, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, SK
2019
The Beginning of Something Yet to be Determined, hunt kastner, Prague
Interim Report: Capitalism Restoration in Central Europe, Salvator Rosa, Livorno, IT
2018
Peer-to-Peer Protocol, Trapéz Galéria Budapest, HU
2017
Difficulties to Describe the Truth, State of Concept, Athens, GR
Geography of Social Unconsciousness, Kunstraum D21, Leipzig, DE
2015
Socio-fiction, ICA, Sofia, BG
Contingent propositions, Půda, Jihlava
Contingent propositions, Gandy, Bratislava, SK
2014
Dead Reckoning, Jelení, Prague
Diderot’s Dream, hunt kastner, Prague
Dead Reckoning, CACS, Delme, FR
-map-fire-word-end-, artothek, Cologne, DE
Alphabet (a-m), BISTRO 8, Prague
Situace 51, Pavilon, Prague
The Measures Taken, Kunstraum, Munich, DE
2013
The Microscope and Telescope of Time, Fotograf gallery, Prague
Experimental Labor, m.odla, Prague
Preliminary Report, Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, FR
Difficulties, DADS, Liberec
2012
Without Any Assumptions, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, SK
2011
The Nervous System, with Jiří Kovanda, curated by Juan Pablo Macías, Milano Kunstverein, Milan, IT
2010
What I Do Not See, curated by Boris Ondreička, Tranzit Studios, Bratislava, SK
2009
Cognitive Maps, hunt kastner, Prague
2008
Time Crunch, castillo/corrales, Paris, FR
What History Do They Represent?, with Vangelis Vahos, Blow de la Barra, London, UK
Instruments of Uncertainty, House of Art České Budejovice
2007
Glossary, Secession Display Case, Vienna, AU
Vocabulary, Prague City Gallery at the Old Town Hall, Prague
Table, Monument to Transformation, Fragment #3, Moravian Gallery, Brno
2004
Zazděný vchod, Moravian Gallery, Brno
theory/praxis/exposition, Dům umění Brne – House of Art, Brno
2002
Warianta C, with Erik Binder, Open gallery, Bratislava, SK
Target Group, performance with T. Svoboda, Palais de Tokyo, Paris FR
2001
8, Galerie Eskort, Brno
10, Galerie Eingang, Ostrava
019, Galerie Jeleni, Prague
Diorama, BJ Case, Komunardu Street, Prague
group exhibitions
2021
Comme un parfum d’aventure, Museum of contemporary art of Lyon, Lyon
2020
Festival 4+4 Days in Motion: Everything is Different, Prague
Uneven Ground, Fotograf Festival X, House of Photography, Prague City Gallery, Prague
3. Non-Museum for Contemporary Art, Dresden, DE
Work: Documentation of Imagination, online project, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, PL
When the Present is History, MOMus, Thessaloniki
2019
Mercurial Boundaries: Imagining Future Memory, curated by Wang Han-Fang, MoNTUE, Taipei, TW
Photobloc, ICC, Krakow, PL
(Un)Commoning Voices & (Non)Communal Bodies, Open Hand Open Space, St.Laurence Church, Greenham Common Control Tower, Reading, UK
Laterna magika – Deconstruction and Actualization, Brno House of Arts (DUMB), Brno
Carnations and Velvet / Art and Revolution in Portugal and Czechoslovakia 1968–1974–1989, curated by Sandra Baborovská & Adelaide Ginga (MNAC, Lisabon), GHMP – Prague City Gallery at the Municipal Library, Prague
Temporary Structures 5/ Powerless source of all power, PLATO, Ostrava
FotoNovembrie, Festival Internacional de Fotografía de Tenerife, curated by Laura Vallés Víchez, Tenerife, Canary Islands
ZA PRAVDU…, Galerie Jaroslava Fragnera, Prague
Icons and Mythology, Desire for Change, curated Fabienne Budeaud, Galerie AMU, Prague
When the Present is History, curated by Daphne Vitali, DEPO, Istanbul, TR
Hidden Curriculum, curated by Jana Kapelová, Eliška Mazalanová, Tranzit, Bratislava, SK
Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life, curated by Ruth Noack, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, DE
Quodlibet, curated by Karel Císař, hunt kastner, Prague
2018
Eyelids Mirrored WIthin, curated by Borbála Szalai, Tenderpixel, London, UK
Metaphorai, curated by Katia Anguelova and Alessandra Poggianti, Art Today Association Center for Contemporary Art – Plovdiv, BG
A Display of Diversity in Public Space, ICA, Sofia, BG
Circular Defense, (along with Anna Daučíková), CarrerasMugica, Bilbao, SP
Space for Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, RU
So Far, So Right: A Study of Reforms and Transitions Across Borders, TCAC, Taipei, TW
We War 1968, curated by Hedwig Saxenhuber, & Georg Schöllhammer, Nordico Stadtmuzeum Linz, AU
The Value of Freedom, curated by Severin Dünser, 21 Haus, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, AU
Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life, Litost, Prague
2017
State of (In)Concepts, curated by iLiana Fokianaki, Kadist, Paris, FR
zbyněk baladrán and tomáš svoboda, what should have a frame and what already has one, curated by hana roušová, Entrance Gallery, Prague
Czechoslovak, A Critical Reader, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, SK
Don’t Worry Boy, curated by Karina Kottová & Tereza Jindrová, ForumBox, Helsinki, FI
OFF-Biennale Budapest, Guadiopolis 2017, Budapest, HU
Conditions of Impossibility, Loss of Time I/II, curated by Václav Magid, Cursor Gallery, Foundation and Center for Contemporary Art, Prague
Extra-Citizen-A Prologue, Extra City Kunsthal Antwerp, BE
It Won’t be Long Now, Comrades!, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, NL
Stopover – Ways of Temporary Exchange, Q21 Museumsquartier, Vienna, AU
Biafra of Spirit, National Gallery, Trade Fair Palace, Prague
2016
The Promise of Total Automation, curated by Anne Faucheret, Kunshalle Wien, Vienna, AU
Museum (Science)Fictions, Centre Pompidou / Espace Prospectif, Paris, FR
Tension Economy, Parc Saint Léger – Centre dárt contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, FR
A Hole in the Sea, Wurttembergisher Kunstverein, Stuttgart, DE
Teseract, Galerie AMU, Prague
Notes on a European Language, curated by Liana Fokianaki, State of Concept, Athens, GR
Third Mind, Jiří Kovanda and the (Im)possibilities of Cooperation, curated by Adam Budak, Prague National Gallery at Veletrzni Palace
Biafra of Spirit, Third World Students in Czechoslovakia, Tranzit, Bratislava, SK
Transaction, Coderood & tranzitdisplay, Sonsbeek, Arnhem, NL
2015
Ocean of Images, New Photography 2015, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., USA
Kyiv, Moscow and Beyond, 20 years of Springerin, Akademie der bildenden Kuenste, Wien, AU
Debt, 4+4 Day in Motion Festival, Prague
The School of Kyiv, Klasse Karlsruhe, Badischer Kubstverein, Karlsruhe, DE
Fear, Origin of the State, Nová Synagóga, Kunsthalle, Žilina, SK
Commemoration and Memory, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa
The School of Kyiv,The School of Image and Evidence, Kyiv biennial 2015, Kyiv, UA
Orde baru, Ok. video, National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
Goodbay Language, Atelier 35, Bucharest, RO
The Eclipse of an Innocent Eye, Veletržní palác, National Gallery, Prague
Od podlahy, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem
Sources Go Dark, Futura, Prague
Harun Farocki / Zbyněk Baladrán, Futura, Prague
2014
Selective memory: Artist in the archive, Gluckman Gallery, University College Cork, IR
Artonautics, Gdanska Galeria Miejska 2, Gdansk, PL
Kometa, Futura, Prague
Coming to Reality, Futura, Prague
Svět práce (Live in your Head), TIC, Brno
Art Under a Dangerous Star, tranzit.hu, Budapest, HU
Rekurze, Třeboň
About the Chair, 9th international biennial of photography and visual arts, Liege, BE
Report on the Construction of the Spaceship Module, New Museum, New York, NY, USA
2013
Biennale Cuveé, CCA, Linz, AU
Fussnoten zum Aufbruch, Motorenhalle, Dresden, DE
Film as Sculpture, curated by Elena Filipovic, Weils Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, BE
Always the Same Place, Pavilion of the Czech and Slovak Republics (together with Petr Feriancová), curated by Marek Pokorný, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
The Earth Turns and All Things Slip Away, curated by Edith Jeřabková and Jiří Kovanda, hunt kastner, Prague
Nouvelles Impressions de Raymond Roussel, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Memories of the Future II., Dům umění, Brno
Fussnoten zum Aufbruch, Motorenhalle, Dresden, DE
2012
State of Affairs, Space Through Ideological Appropriation, curated by Borbala Szalai, AMT Project, Bratislava, SK
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe, curated by Marc Bembekoff, Le Qartier, Centre de’art contemporain, Quimper, FR
How to look at Everything, The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Pokus-omyl-oprava, City Surfer, Prague
Aire de Lyon, curated by Victoria Noorthoorn, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, AR
Homo Mathematicus, NTK (National Technical Library), Prague
Economy Picasso, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, SP
Between the First and Second Modernity, 1985-2012, curated by Edith Jeřabková, and Jiří & Jana Sevčik, National Gallery in Prague at the Veletržní Palace, Prague
The Beginning of the Century, curated by Pavlina Morganová, Pilsen, Regional Museum, Pilsen
The 2nd Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekateringburg, RU
Conjuring for Beginners, project arts centre, Dublin, IR
Cartographies, La Caixa, Barcelona, SP
Film.Directed by artists, Nitranska Galeria, Nitra, SK
Ďakujeme, že ste prijali našu účast (Thank You For Participating), Nova synagóga, Žilina, SK
Uchronie, Saline Royale, Les Salines des Arcs et Senan, FR
The 7th Seoul International Media Art Bienniale, curated by Jinsang Yoo, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, KR
Praires-Les Ateliers Biennale D’Art Contemporain de Rennes, curated by Anne Bonnin, Rennes, FR
2011
A Terrible Beauty is Born, curated by Victoria Noorthoorn, 11TH BIENNALE DE LYON, Lyon, FR
Uchronie, curated by Le Bureau (FR), FRAC Franche-Comte, Besancon, Galerie Klatovy / Klenova, Klatovy, Galerie 35 – Institute Francais in Prague
Les amis de mes amis sont mes amis, homage a Ján Mancuška, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, FR
VI NEW ZLIN SALON, Zlin Regional Art Gallery, Zlin
Loophole to Happiness, curated by Maja and Reuben Fowkes, Futura Center for Contemporary Art, Prague
Piece de Resistance: Formen von Wiederstand in der Zeitgenossichen Kunst, curated by Andrea Domesle, Motorhallen, Dresden, DE
Gallery by Night, Studio Gallery, Budapest, HU
Mutating Medium: Photography in Czech Art 1990-2010, curated by Pavel Vančat, Rudolfinum, Prague
2010
2010 U bUdU tU bUdU, curated by Viktor Cech, Skolska28, Prague
No Ifs No Buts, curated by Gulsen Bal and Walter Seidl, DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey, TR
Ueberlendungen, curated by Anke Hoffmann und Yvonne Volkart, Shedhalle, Zurich, CH
Collected Reflections, curated by Edith Jeřabková, Entrance Gallery, Karlin Studios, Prague
Transitland in Trieste, Studio Tommaseo – Istituto per la documentazione e diffusione delle Arti, Trieste, IT
Raising Dust – Encounters in Relational Geography, Calvert 22, London, UK
Watchmen, Liars, Dreamers (Erudition Concrete 3), FRAC – Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris, FR
Planet Eden, The World of Tomorrow in Czechoslovakian Socialism, curated by Tomáš Pospiszyl, Dox Center for Contemporary Art, Prague & DUMB: Brno House of Arts, Brno
Metropolitan Periphery, curated by Martin Fišr, Zlín Regional Gallery, Zlín
Transition Times, Video Art from Central Europe, curated by Rita Kalman and Tijana Stepanovic, Paris Photo – Carrousel de Louvre, Central Exhibit – Project Room, Paris, FR
Akce Zet, curated by the MA curatorial students at the Faculty for Art and Design, University of J.E. Purkyně, Galerie Emil Filla, Ústí nad Labem
After Velvet, curated by Sandra Baborovská, Prague City Gallery at the House of the Golden Ring, Prague
Forms of Transformation – Identity, MUSA, Museum auf Abruf, Wien, AT
Caine and Abel, Kunsterhaus Sootboern, Hamburg, DE
Epilogue 1, Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, ES
Dust, Ashes and Residua, Open Space, Vienna, AU
EGO, Langhans Gallery, Prague, CZ
Comrades of Time, Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest, RO
The Romance of my Young Days, the Future of my Nostalgia, Central Slovakian Gallery, Banska Bystrica, SK
2009
Piece de Resistance: Formem von Widerstand in der Zeitgenosschen Kunst, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, CH
Formáty transformace, Dům umění, Brno
The Situation, The Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, RU
Bertha von Suttner Revisited, Harmannsdorf, DE
Any Instant Whatever, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, PL
Expanded City, 13th Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, PL
Farimani at Starr Space, Starr Space, NYC, New York, USA
Le Troisième Lieu / Der Dritte Ort / The Third Place, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AU
Blind Spots, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, AU
2008
Atomized, De Veemvloer, Amsterdam, NL
Gyumri Biennial, Gyumri, AM
Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better, Műcsarnok, Budapest, HU
The Provocation of the Real, National Center for the Arts, Mexico City, MX
Where the East Ends, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, DE
Jindřich Chalupecký Award, DUMB, House of the Lords of Kunštát, Brno
Rendez-vous Nowhere, Montehermoso Cultural Centre, Vitoria-Gasteiz, SP
New Aquisitions, Prague City Gallery, Old Town Hall, Prague
6th Biennale of Young Artists, curated by Karel Císář, Prague City Gallery, House of the Stone Bell, Prague
The Archive, Prometeo gallery, Milano, IT
Be a Happy Worker: Work-to-rule!, galerija miroslav kraljevic, Zagreb, HU
Another City, Another Life, Zacheta National Art Gallery and public spaces in Warsaw, PL
Same Democracy – artistic and curatorial practices in the era of open source culture, NEON CAMPOBASE, Bologna, IT
Videoart.cz – Young Czech Video-artists, Project SPACE, Bratislava, SK
2007
Fussion Confussion, Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE
Sklerotische Nachtbar/i/n, FLUSS-NOE Initiative fuer Foto-und Medienkunst, Wolkersdorf, AT
Why Do You Resist?, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, AU and Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem
October, Exit, Memory and Desire, Artra Gallery, Milano, IT
Simple Living, Contemporary Art Gallery of the Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, RO
Jindřich Chalupecký Award Finalists, gallery NoD, Prague
Stalking with Stories, curated by Antonina Majaca, APEX ART, New York, N.Y., USA
Monument to Transformation, Fragment #3, & DER PROZESS. Collective Memory and Social History, Prague City Gallery
Flash art Biennale 3, Karlin Hall, Prague
Invisible Things, Trafo House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest, HU
PUNCTUM, Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA, Prague
Passages, Passagen, Pasaze, Gandy Gallery, Bratislava, SK
Synonyma, MtT 1989-1968-2009, Index Foundation, Stockholm, SE
2006
The Other City, screening program, Trafo Gallery, Budapest, HU
F/acts/igures, exhibition artwalk, Amsterdam, NL
Tranzit: Auditorium, Stage, Backstage – An Exposure in 32 Acts, curated by Vít Havránek, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE
I Invited Some Friends to Come and Watch, Galerijam M. Kraljevic + Galerija Nova, Zagreb, HR
Closely Observed Plans, tranzit workshop, Bratislava, SK
Zbyněk Baladran – Carlos Casas – Alice Guareschi, neon>fdv, Milano, IT
Archeology of Today?, Kosova Art Gallery-Museum in Prishtina, Kosovo, KS
Donaumonarchie, Billboard project, Bratislava, SK
Věcné stavy / Eternal States, Karlin studios, Prague
Indikace, a selection of Czech conceptual artists, 4 Days in Motion Festival, Prague
Frisbee, DUMB, Brno House of Art, Brno
2005
Frisbee, MNAC, Bucharest, RO
Curatorial Project, Els Hannape Underground, Athens, GR
Turbulence, Karel Malich / E-area / Zbyněk Baladrán, Museum Kampa, Prague
1811197604122005, Plan B, Cluj, RO
Finalists of the 2005 Jindřich Chalupecký Award, Prague City Gallery at the Municipal Library, Prague
Praguebiennale2 – Definition of Everyday, Karlin Hall, Prague
Fifth Biennial of Young Artists, curated by Karel Císář, Prague City Gallery at the House of the Stone Bell, Prague
The Need to Document, Kunsthaus Basel and, Muttenz, CH
Insiders, curated by Pavla Morganová, Futura, Prague
2004
Insiders, curated by Pavla Morganová, DUMB, Brno House of Art, Brno
Finalists of the 2004 Jindřich Chalupecký Award, Brno House of Art, Brno
Spacecamp, Kolowratský palác, Prague
Prague and Dresden, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, DE
Manifesta 5, Donostia-San Sebastián, ES
Breakthrough, Grote Kerk, Den Haag, curator: waanja, NL
Interkosmos 2004, Raster, Warsaw, PL
2003
Kompression, Wedding, Berlin, DE
Paradies, with Tomáš Svoboda, Bunker, Alexanderplatz, Berlin, DE
Survey 03, curated by Karel Císář, Futura, Prague
Ceskoslovensko, National Gallery in Bratislava, SK
2002
Artchitektur, Galerie Jaroslav Fragner, Prague
Premiere vue, Passage de Retz, Paris, FR
Uhlopricka, Galerie Eskort, Brno
Wechselstube, der-ausstellunsgraum, Stuttgart, DE
Forum of Independent Galleries (4 th Biennale of Young Artists), Prague City Gallery at U Prsten, Prague
2001
Fotok, MEO, Budapest, HU
Prvni a posledni/First and Last, Galerie Vaclav Spala, Prague
Criss-Cross, (organized by the Center for Contemporary Arts-Prague), Broumov
2000
Vystava AVU – Academy of Fine Arts Prague exhibition, Manes, Prague
Kazda kapka…/ Each Drop/…, Gallery at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
1999
Vidiny, Roxy, Galerie NOD, Prague
Ricky‘s Gang, klub Depo, Olomouc
1998
Zelena / Green, Gallery at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
curated projects
2010
Manifesta 8, with Tranzit CZ/SK, Murcia, SP
Monument to Transformation”, with Vít Havránek, Montehernoso, Vitoria; GMK, Zagreb CIV, Bucharest; Prague City Gallery at the City Library, Prague
2008
Installation model, fragment # 7, with Vít Havránek, Communism Never Happened / Vocabulary, tranzit, Bratislava, SK
Installation model, fragment # 6, Labour Day”, with Vít Havránek, Labor, Budapest, HU
2007
Installation model, fragment # 5”, with Vít Havránek, Prague Biennale 3, Prague, CZ
Permanent installation of Monument to Transformation“, tranzitdisplay, Prague, CZ