Jiri Svestka Gallery  

LUKAS JASANSKY / MARTIN POLAK

Born 1965 and 1966 in Prague, both live in Prague.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011
Director and founder, Ferdinand Baumann Gallery, Prague
Jokes, Kabinet Gallery, Stritez

2010
10 000 GUYS, Gallery at the White Unicorn, Klatovy
Colour photograph, Jeleni Gallery, Prague
Colour photograph, Gallery Blansko

2009
Wannieck Gallery, Brno

2008
Brussels Sprouts, NoD Roxy, Prague

2005
From St. Petersburg, Jaromir Funkes Kolin

2004
Village, JIRI SVESTKA GALLERY, Prague

2003
Ignac, Josef Sudek Atelier, Prague

2001
Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg; together with M. Dopitova
Jasansky – Polak, Sypka Gallery, Brno
County Photography Exhibition, JIRI SVESTKA GALLERY, Prague
Villages, Czech Centre, Berlin

2000
Gallery 761, Ostrava

1999
Photographic Exhibition, Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague

1998
PRAGENSIE 1985 - 1990, Old Town Hall, City Gallery Prague,
Prague
Gallery Behemot, Prague
Abstrakta, Emil Filla Gallery, Usti nad Labem

1994
Jokes, Jokes, Jokes, Window Gallery, Prague
1993
Comprehensive Photographic Exhibition in Museum, Olomouc
MXM Gallery, Prague

1990
Jasansky – Polak: Photography, Gallery M.& R. Fricke, Düsseldorf

1989
Photographic Exhibition, Kniha Gallery, Prague

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011
Mutating Medium - Photography in Czech Art 1990–2010, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague

2010
50% Grey: Contemporary Czech Photography Reconsidered, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

2009
Exhibition - Jan Merta, Wannieck Gallery, Brno
OUTSIDE - photographs 1970-1989, The Langhans Gallery, Prague
Prague Biennale 4 – Art in general – White paper black bride - The contemporary art scene in Czech republic, Karlin Hall
Any-instant-whatever, The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery,
Krakow

2008
IN/visible festival of visual art, Flora, Olomouc
The Photogeny of Identity / The Memory of Czech Photography.
The Brno House of Arts, Brno

2007
Gross Domestic Product, Municipal Library, City Gallery Prague

2005
Czech Photography of the 20th Century, City Gallery Prague
Prague Biennale 2: Expanded Painting, International Contemporary Art,
Karlin Hall, Prague
Nature´s Mirror, Otowa, Tokyo, Japan

2004
Instant Europe, Villa Manin - Centro d´Arte Contemporanea, Udine
E.U. Positive, Akademie Der Künste, Berlin

2003
Survey 03, Futura - Centre for contemporary art , Prague
Glamour, Window Gallery, Prague
Olympia, The Brno House of Arts, Brno

2002
The View from Here: recent pictures from Central Europe
and the American Midwest, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Prague, d´un printemps l´autre, Ecole d´art Gérard Jacot, Belfort
ICING, Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague

2002
A Sense of Wellbeing, Palace of the Imperial Thermal Baths, Karlovy Vary
Biennale of Young Artists, Zagreb
About People, Czech Museum of Art, Prague
Laboratory, National Gallery – Veletrzni Palace, Prague
ICING, Institute for Contemporary Art, Dunaúváros

2000
Bohemian Birds – Positions of Czech Contemporary Art, Kunst Haus
Dresden
Confrontation, Czech Centre, London

1999
Without Side, Marble Palace, Petersburg

1998
Harmony, Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague
Close Echoes, The Municipal Library, City Gallery Prague

1997
Towards the Objects?, Riverside Studio, London
Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions, Site Santa Fe
Born ‘68, Czech Centre, Berlin
Delta, Musée de le Viele, Paris
Confidencies and Searching of Czech Photography, Prague Castle, Prague
Art in the Public Space, National Gallery, Prague

1996
Czech Abstraction, Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague

1995
On the Edge, Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague
Campo 1995, Venezia

1993
What Is Left, Stenc House, Prague

1992
Frontiera, Bolzano
Her Brother – His Husband, Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague
What Is New, Prague?, The Art Institute of Chicago

1991
Progressive Photography in Czechosovakia, Mülheim, Strassbourg,
Nancy
Czechoslovak Photography, Kunst Haus, Hamburg

1990
Czech Symbolism, Gallery ULUV, Prague

1989
Exhibition of the Pigheadeds /as guests/, Gallery ULUV, Prague
Rock Club Na Chmelnici, Prague

1988
Preis für Junge Europäische Fotografen, Museum Ludwig, Köln
De Prague et de Boheme, Toulouse

Lukas Jasansky & Martin Polak are represented by the Jiri Svestka Gallery
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