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Solo show at ZVE Prague 2020
Exhibition at ZVE Prague 2017
Solo show at ZVE Bratislava 2015
Solo show at ZVE Bratislava 2012

Jiří DAVID (1956, Czech Rep.)

Education and Assignments

Since 2004 Head of intermedia and conceptual art studio at Academy of Art, Prague, Czech Rep.
1995 – 2002 Head of visual communication studio at Academy of Art, Prague, Czech Rep.
1987 – 1991 Member of Tvrdohlaví art group
1982 – 1987 Studied at Academy of Art, Prague, Czech Rep.

Collections

National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Galeria Nazionalle d´Arte Moderna, San Marino
National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Gallery of Moravia, Brno, Czech Republic
Tufts University, Boston, USA
ARCO Madrid Collection, Spain

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020 For the Wind Only, curated by Viktor Pivovarov, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Prague
2020 I AM HERE, curated by Viktor Pivovarov, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Rep.
2018 Esse Quam Videri / Being, not appearing, Kunsthalle Košice, Slovakia
2018 11 Steps to Heaven, China Czech Contemporary Art Museum, Beijing, China
2018 Closer to the night…, curated by Michal Novotný, Futura, Prague, Czech Republic
2018 Art Cologne, with Štefan Papčo, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2017 My Skin is Porcelain Again, curated by Michal Novotný, Topičuv salón, Praha, Czech Republic
2016 Apotheosis, National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic
2015/16 Tête à Tête, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2015/16 Prequel, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2015 Apotheosis, Czech and Slovak Pavilion, 56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Giardini, Italy
2015 Redundant Earth from the Grave, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 Stenchs overlap, but do not disappear, City Gallery, Plzeň, Czech Republic
2014 Jiří David, Andy Hope 1930, Florian Meisenberg, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2014 …timelessness time = nothing actually happens!, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2013 BABOON SHRIEK, Colloredo – Mansfeld Palace, City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2012 LOVE, object in public space, Prague, Czech Republic
2012 Too light…Vertigo…Panic…Stendhal Syndrome…Local Anaesthesia…Geopornography, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN Bratislava, Slovakia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 Middle European Mysticism, Thomas Erben Gallery, Chelsea, New York
2019 For the Truth, Galerie Jaroslava Fragnera, Prague, Czech.Rep.
2019 Techné, Gallery NTK, Prague, Czech Rep.
2018 West kunst – Ost Kunst, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2018 viennacontemporary, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN
2017 New / Newly Discovered, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2017 Tugendhat 1 / with Jiří Kovanda and Roman Ondak, curated by Martin Dostál, Vila Tugendhat, Brno, Czech Republic
2017 Eye Ichnography / with Milan Adamčiak and Milan Grygar, curated by Jiří Kovanda, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN Prague, Czech Republic
2016 – 2017 Jiří Kovanda and the (Im)Possibility of Collaboration, National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic
2016 Václav Havel’s portrait, The National Museum of History, Moldova
2016 Frieze Art Fair New York, represented by Le Guern Gallery, New York, USA
2016 ARTEFIERA, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bologna, Italy
2016 Interior, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw
2015 2nd Biennal of Artists in Haus der Kunst, Munchen, Germany
2015 ARTEFIERA, represented by ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN, Bologna, Italy
2015 Arco Madrid, represented by Le Guern Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2015 Artissima, represented by Le Guern Gallery, Turin, Italy
2015 Art Cologne, represented by Le Guern Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2014 Food is a central concept, Tranzitdisplay, Prague, Czech Republic
2014 Artissima, represented by Le Guern Gallery, Turin, Italy
2013 Verejný priestor inak / Public Art Days, EHMK 2013, Košice, Slovakia
2013 Inner Circle in the Contemporary Czech Photography, Municipal Library, Prague, Czech Republic
2013 Responsibility -The Vögele Kultur Zentrum in Pfäffikon SZ/ Switzerland
2012 ANOTHER WORLD, ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN Bratislava, Slovakia
2012 Island of Resistance, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

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