MICHAL PECHOUCEK
Born 1973 in Duchcov, CZ
Education
1993 - 1999 Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, CZ
Selected solo exhibitions (2003 - 2011)
2011
Virgins' Lives, Jiri Svestka Berlin, DE
Art Lessons, Prague City Gallery, The Stone Bell House, Prague, CZ
2010
About the Beauty (with Pavel Svec), Cafe Turecek - private gallery, Prague, CZ
2009
Time for Bed, Gallery of Fine Arts, CZ
2008
Screen, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, CZ
2007
Filmogram, Josef Sudek Studio, Prague, CZ
2006
Passenger Train, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, CZ
Playtime, Brno Gallery, Brno, CZ
2005
Emergent View (with Marketa Othova), Kommunale Galerie im Leinwandhaus, Frankfurt a. M., DE
Groundfloor, Czech Centre, New York, US
2004
Pram Room, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, CZ
Collector, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, GB
2003
Collector, Moravian Gallery, Prazak Palace, Brno, CZ
Selected Group Exhibitions (2003 - 2011)
2011
Exhibitor, The Brno House of Arts, Brno, CZ
2010
And Do Not Forget the Flowers, Moravian Gallery, Prazak Palace, Brno, CZ
50%Gray: Contemporary Czech Phography reconsidered, MoCP, Chicago, US
Collectors, BROT Kunsthalle, Wien, AT
Gaspard of the Night, Futura, Prague, CZ
2009
After the Velvet, Prague City Gallery, Prague, CZ
Any-instant-whatever,The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, PL
Fourteen S, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ
2008
Die Gehilfen, Klatovy - Klenova Gallery, Klatovy, CZ
2007
Raum. Orte der Kunst, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE
Punctum, Galerie Futura, Prague, CZ
2006
Frisbee – Contemporary Czech Videoart and New Media, The House of the Lords of Kunstat, Brno, CZ
2005
Czech Photography of the 20.Century, Prague City Gallery, Prague, CZ
Insiders, Futura, Prague, CZ
2004
Instant Europe, Villa Manin - Centro d´Arte Contemporanea, Udine, IT
Passage d´Europe, Musée d´Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, FR
Welcome!, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, GB
2003
Retroperspective, The House of the Lords of Kunštát, Brno, CZ
Inflexible Clash, ICA, Dunaujvaros
Hounted Swings, College of Art, Edinburgh, GB
Awards
2003 Jindrich Chalupecky Prize
Michal Pechoucek is represented by Jiri Svestka Gallery
www.jirisvestka.com
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Michal Pechoucek is a storyteller and very sensitive observer in Czech tradition intentions. His work seems to be conceptual but always includes exceptions that open a space for individual explanation. He transforms human relations, emotions and private experience into contrived stories that he enters with documentary precision. Nostalgia is present in his painting, photographs, videos and dramas and is absolutely incommutable as his artistic expression.