KATERINA VINCOUROVA
Born 1968 in Prague, lives in Prague
Education
1988 - 1994 Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
1986 - 1988 Surikov Academy of Fine Arts, Moscow
Scholarships
1999 - 2000 Scholarship in the Berlin artists programme of German Academic
Exchange Service (DAAD)
1998 Headlands Centre For Art, California
Awards
1997 Jindrich Chalupecky Prize, Prague
1993 Alexander Dorner Prize, Hannover
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague
2006
Inside Out, Galerie Die Aktualität des schönen..., Liberec
2004
Noví hrdinové, Galerie Caesar, Olomouc
2003
City Gallery, Bruntal
2002
New Heroes, JIRI SVESTKA GALLERY, Prague
Hobbyraum, Exhibition Hall Sokolska, Ostrava
2001
Gallery Priestor, Bratislava
Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
Hobbyraum, Ujazdowski Castle, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Hobbyraum, Priestor for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava
2000
Hobbyraum, DAAD Gallery, Berlin (catalogue)
1999
Call…, City Gallery Prague (catalogue)
1997
Le rose, Météo Gallery, Paris
Grapes of My Mind, Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague
1996
Gallery of the Youngs, Brno
1995
Nova Sin Gallery, Prague (catalogue)
1994
Targets, Galerie Caesar, Olomouc
1992
Sunday, Behemot Gallery, Prague
1991
Superbread, Gallery Na Bidylku, Brno
The Quick and the Dead, Vruchtenhagel Gallery, Kassel
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Absurdity? Groteque? Irony?, NoD Roxy, Prague
New Heroes, Vladimir Preclik Museum, Bechyne
2009
Behind the Velvet Curtain: Contemporary Art from the Czech Republic, Katzen Ars Center, Washington
Formats of Transformation 89-09 - Seven views on the New Czech and Slovak Identity, The Brno House of Arts
Formats of Transformation 89-09 - Seven views on the New Czech and Slovak Identity, MUSA, Vienna
2008
Central Europa Revisited II, Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt
Micro Narratives, Museé d`Art Saint Etienne, France
2007
Going Staying, Kunstmuseum Bonn
Micro Narratives, 48th October Salon, Belgrade
2006
Shadows of Humor, Galerie Bielska BWA, Bielsko Biala, Poland
Praagse Tuin – beelden uit Praag, Gouverneurstein van Assen, Holland
Giardino – Places for Small Stories, PAN, Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples
2005
Trouble with Fantasy, Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nurnberg
Prague Biennale 2: Expanded Painting, International Contemporary Art, Karlin Hall, Prague
Domicile, Musée d´Art Moderne de Saint Etienne
2004
ARTSEASONS 2004, Mallorca
Breakthrough, The Hague
GIANTS - European Conversation Pieces, The Hague Sculpture,
The Hague
The New Ten - Kunst aus den neuen EU-Ländern, Museum Küppersmühle Duisburg, Künstlerhaus Wien, Kunsthalle Mannheim
2003
Art Unlimited, Art 34 Basel, Basel
Elektrobot, Home Gallery, Prague
Survey ´03, Futura - Centre for contemporary art, Prague
2002
Corps et traces, Musée de Beaux-Art de Nancy (catalogue)
Alter Ego, Museum of History of the City of Luxembourg
2001
New Connection, National Gallery - Veletrzni Palace, Prague
Get that Balance, Kampnagel Hamburg
Progetto Bovisa, Milano
2000
Bohemian Birds – Positions of Czech Contemporary Art, Kunst Haus
Dresden
The End of the World? National Gallery, Prague
Art Statements, Art 31 Basel, Basel
1999
After the Wall, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin (catalogue)
Against All - The Chalupecky Award Winners, Central Exhibition
Hall Manege, Moscow
Sympathikus, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
1998
Contemporary Collection - Czech Art in the 90s, City Gallery Prague
Discurs Feminin, The Brno House of Arts (catalogue)
Close Echoes, City Gallery Prague, Prague and Kunsthalle, Krems (catalogue)
1997
Home Sweet Home, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (catalogue)
Parallels, Czech Cultural Centre, Paris
Born ’68, Czech Centre, Berlin
1996
Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague
Interior versus Exterior, Factory Cosmos, Bratislava
Lovers, with Marketa Othova and Veronika Bromova, JNJ Gallery, Prague
Respekt, Richter’s Villa, Prague
1995
Test Run, Manes Exhibition Hall, Prague
Artcircolo, Melnik Castle, Melnik
Fly Beetle, Fly, Cologne
1994
Students of the Art Schools of Prague, Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf
Ventilation, Atelier Toit-de-monde, Vevey
Net Europe, Linz
Biennial of Young Artists, Stone Bell House, City Gallery Prague
1993
Post Security, Gallery 5020, Salzburg
10 Years of ADK, Alexander Dorner Kreis, Hannover
1992
The Egg of Columbus, Behemot Gallery, Prague
Between Aesop and Mowgli, Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague
Women´s Accommodation Rooms, Prague
1990
15 Students of the Prague Academy, Wien
Projects / Commissions
2000
Design of showroom in Skoda pavilion, Autostadt Wolfsburg
2001
Design of Experience Space, Microsoft Prague
Selected Public Collections
City Gallery Prague
Modern and Contemporary Art Collection, National Gallery, Prague
European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
Selected Privat Collections
Helga de Alvear Collection, Madrid
Distrito Cu4tro Collection, Madrid
Katerina Vincourova is represented by the Jiri Svestka Gallery
www.jirisvestka.com
ABOUT THE ARTIST
For several years Katerina Vincourova has been a conspicuous personality among the youngest generation of artists in this country. Her work always attracts the attention of the public, its magic addresses and fascinates them but it also seems as if she is able to evoke negative emotion and sometimes even disgust. The seemingly naive simplicity of Vincourova installations, in fact, provide an intensive testimony of the impossibility of open communication, of hopelessness, vulnerability and of the flight and general dehumanisation of modern society. Vincourova seems to have one general theme, namely the distinction between inter-persona relationships, solitude, love, marriage, leisure time, boredom and hope. Katerina Vincourova is able to formulate the sentiments of her generation with an effective language rid of intellectual dead weight.