Jiri Svestka Gallery  

MARKETA OTHOVA

Born 1968 in Brno, lives in Prague

Education

1987 – 1993 Academy of Applied Arts, Prague
1994 Three months fellowship in Paris

Awards

2002 Jindrich Chalupecky Prize, Prague

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2012
Nicolas Krupp Contemporary Art, Basel

2011
KW - Othova, House of The Kunstat Lords, The Brno House of Arts
Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague

2010
Jiri Svestka Berlin

2007
You don´t know me, but I know you, Kunsthalle Mucsarnok, Budapest
Lecon de photographie, Nicolas Krupp Contemporary Art Gallery, Basel
Mayday, Atelier Sudek, Prague

2006
Talk to Her, JIRI SVESTKA GALLERY, Prague
Pardon?, The Photographers’ Gallery, London

2005
Belongings. Place, with Adriena Simotova, Galerie Caesar, Olomouc
Emergent View, with Michal Pechoucek, Kommunale Galerie im Leinwandhaus, Frankfurt am Main

2004
I´IIe de la tentation, Nicolas Krupp Contemporary Art Gallery, Basel
A Good Idea, with Ivan Vosecky, Experimental space NoD, Prague

2003
Best of, JIRI SVESTKA GALLERY, Prague
Comeback, Bratislava´s City Gallery, Bratislava
Next Year in Marienbad, with Jan Mancuska, Czech Centre New York

2002
Other Voices, House of Art, Ceske Budejovice

2001
Other Voices, Sternberk City Gallery, Sternberk
French Connection, with Pierre Daguin, Czech Centre, London
While You Were Sleeping, Czech Front Gallery, Los Angeles
Utopia, Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Basel

2000
Claudio Moser, Marketa Othova, Kunsthalle Basel (catalogue)

1999
Power of Destiny, Moravian Gallery, Brno (catalogue)

1998
Team Spirit, with Pierre Daguin, Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague
Her Life, National Gallery in Prague, Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art

1997
A Perfect World, Gallery Alain Gutharc, Paris
Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaujvaros, Hungary

1996
Old Sources, City Gallery Prague (catalogue)
Apollo 13, with Pierre Daguin, Ruce Gallery, Prague

1994
Other Weapons, The British Council – Window Gallery, Prague

1993
Around, with Veronika Bromova in Radost Gallery, Prague

1990
Photography exhibition at the Private Bar, Brno

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011
Brno Art Open - Sculpture in the streets, The Brno House of Arts
To Perceive in the Darkness of the Present/Prague Biennale 5, Microna Building, Prague
Mutating Medium - Photography in Czech Art 1990–2010, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague

2010
Collectors „The Czecho-Slovak pavilion“, Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna
50% Grey: Contemporary Czech Photography Reconsidered, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
East Bound, Kai 10 Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf

2009
After velvet, Golden Ring House - City Gallery Prague
Art in general – White paper black bride - The contemporary art scene in Czech republic - Prague Biennale 4, Karlin Hall
Any-instant-whatever, The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery,
Krakow
Czech Photography of the 20th Century, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
Memories of the Future, Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague

2008
The Subject now, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
IN/visible festival of visual art, Flora, Olomouc
I Don´t Exist When You Don´t See Me, Futura Gallery – Center for
Contemporary Art, Prague
The Subject Now, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ

2007
(sclerotic) neighbour, FLUSS, Stadtgemeinde Wolkersdorf
Invisible Things, Trafó gallery, Budapest

2006
EUROPART – contemporary art from Europe, on “Rolling Boards” in Wien
and Salzburg

2005
Czech Photography of the 20th Century, City Gallery Prague
Prague Biennale 2: Expanded Painting, International Contemporary Art,
Karlín Hall, Prague
Sitting, Standing, Reclining II, Modern Culture, New York
Nature´s Mirror, Otowa, Tokyo, Japan

2004
Photography??, White Unicorn Gallery, Klatovy
Eastern Alliance, Lichtturm, Berlin

2003
Prague Biennale, National Gallery - Veletrzni Palace, Prague
Glamour, British Council - Window Gallery, Prague
Balkan Konsulat, Gallery Rotor, Centre of Contemporary Art, Graz

2002
Prague, d´un printemps l´autre, Ecole d´art Gérard Jacot, Belfort
ICING, Vaclav Spala Gallery, Prague
JIRI SVESTKA GALLERY, Prague

2001
A Sense of Wellbeing, Palace of the Imperial Thermal Baths, Karlovy Vary
ICING, Institute for Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros
Fotok, MEO – Contemporary Art Collection, Budapest

2000
Bohemian Birds – Position of Czech Contemporary Art, Kunst Haus Dresden
Examining Territories, Plan B Art Centre, Santa Fé
Melancholy, Moravian Gallery, Brno
Confrontation, Czech Centre, London
JIRI SVESTKA GALLERY, Prague

1999
CI:99/00, Carnegie International 1999/2000, Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh (catalogue)
Kunst im Dialog, Czech Centre, Berlin
Brother of Brother, Muzeum V. Lofflera, Kosice, Slovakia (catalogue)

1998
Reduced Budget, Exhibition Hall Manes, Prague (catalogue)
Close Echoes, City Gallery Prague and Kunsthalle Krems (catalogue)
Intimacies, Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art, Crete

1997
Parallels Prague – Paris, Czech Centre, Paris (catalogue)
Toward the Object, with Lukas Jasansky / Martin Polak and Kristof Kintera,
Riverside Studios, London

1996
City Legends – Prague, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (catalogue)
Lovers, with Katerina Vincourova and Veronika Bromova, JNJ Gallery, Prague
Moment of Focus, MXM Gallery, Prague
Natura – Naturans, Trieste (catalogue)

1995
Test Run, Exhibition Hall Manes, Prague (catalogue)

1994
The Bell 94, Biennial of Young Artists, Stone Bell House, City
Gallery Prague (catalogue)

1993
New Names, Prague House of Photography
Book Arts, The Globe Cafe, Prague

1991
Coup de Lune, International Students‘ Exhibition, Paris (catalogue)

Collections

Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Florida, USA
Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg
Nicolas Krupp Collection, Basel
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
City Gallery Prague
Modern and Contemporary Art Collection, National Gallery, Prague
Foundation for Contemporary Art, Prague
Moravian Gallery, Brno
private collections in Germany, Switzerland, USA, France

Marketa Othova is represented by the Jiri Svestka Gallery
www.jirisvestka.com