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Jakub Hošek
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Artist’s Pages: http://www.myspace.com/jakubhosek
Mail: jakub.hosek@radio1.cz
Year/Place of Birth: 1979 - Praha - ČR
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“Jakub Hosek creates his paintings in a very interesting method, applying acrylic paint onto the canvas using disposable cardboard templates. It results in technically complex, accurately created paintings that are remarkable, and not only at the first sight. It is characteristic of Jakub Hosek to encipher texts into his paintings in a very sophisticated manner. The texts are mostly titles of his favourite bands’ songs, quotations from literature and films, or names of his idols. The text in the painting does not necessarily correspond to the painted symbols, or motifs on the canvas, so the viewer is often entirely confused. There is no room for logic in Hosek’s paintings. His specific technique is recognizable at first sight. His paintings are also united by continuously repeated motifs, such as leaves, trees, daggers, knives and swords, bones, blood, towers, mountains and tufts of hair. At present time, his paintings are shifting more to the abstract and 3D levels, where Hosek’s specifically mastered calligraphy gets more latitude for experimenting. His most recent objects, made of wood, are becoming a so-called painting in space; they are carved in a very intricate way. In combination with a delicate drawing on the walls and his paintings, they move Hosek’s artwork closer to being a vehicle of setting up.
For Jakub Hosek, script and text are important binding elements in his (not only painter’s) work. He is a great connoisseur of music; therefore it is only natural that he is one of the founding members of the A.M. 180 collective, a non-profit DIY group. Hosek organizes concerts and runs his own AM180 off-space in Prague, creates designs for concerts and other cultural activities, where he uses script in a very original way. During those years that Hasek dedicated to art, he created a specific fund that determines a hallmark as well as a form for all those unmistakable posters that are so closely connected with his work, although not so very well recognized or appreciated by viewers.
Hana Beranova
Education/Scholarships
1994.1998 Grammar School in Europska Street, Prague
1998.2004 AVU (Vladimir Skepl, Jiri Kovanda)
2003 Middlesex University, London, Great Britain
2002.2004 AVU vs. SAIC Workshop (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
2006 PROGR/ Bern, Switzerland (residential stay)
2008 MuseumsQuartier/ Vienna, Austria (residential stay/transit)
Awards
2004 Start point – finalist
2005,2007 Jindrich Chalupecky Award – finalist
2007 Sovereign European Art Prize 2007 – finalist
Representation
Jiri Svestka Gallery
Single Exhibitions
2008 Jakub Hosek, tba, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague
2009 “Tejpci, kerky, cobras, zdarec, goulash, workbox, maintenance”, Indie Twins dj’s (+ Anezka Hoskova), Galerie, 5th floor, Prague
2007 San Redux-o-grapher, H’art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2007 Think Hard What You Don’t Mind Losing, Sternberk Gallery, Sternberk
2006 Jakub Hosek/ Arrivals, Turner Cintemporary, Margate, UK
2006 He Is Young, He Has a Lot of Time, Ad Astra Gallery, Kurim
2005 Jakub Hosek (+Kim Nekarda and Johan Zetterquist), Rudiger Gallery Schottle, Munich
2004 Indie Twins (+ Anezka Hoskova), Eskort Gallery, Brno
2002 Likelikethethedeath, Open Air Gallery CO14, Prague
2000 Cabaret, Public Wall Box Gallery BJ, Prague
Group Exhibitions
2008 TRANSFER, WhiteBOX, Munich, Germany
2008 Pictures of Words, Letohradek Hvezda, Prague
2008 ITCA, International Triennial of Contemporary Art NG 2008, Expo Palace NG, Prague
2008 6th ZVON Biennial 2008, Gallery of the House at a Stone Bell/GHMP Prague
2008 Fluff Fest 2008, A.M. 180 Stage, Rokycany
2008 INTRO 518 NOW 69 NOW* NOW 180 BONUS Q TRACK! Karlin Studios, Prague
2008 Fetish Versus Evocation, Galerie der Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste,Braunsweig, Germany
2008 Czech Music Posters Exhibition – From the 1960s Until the Present Time/United Islands of Prague, Meet Factory, Prague
2008 Spleen & Ideal, Karlin Studios, Prague
2008 Lucky Colours/ Paint and Lacquer, Contemporary Czech Painting,Richard Adam’s Collection, Jan Koniarek’s Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia
2007 Resetting, City Library/GHMP, Prague
2007 Jindrich Chalupecky Award Finale 2007, A.M. 180 Gallery, Prague
2007 Meetfactory Opening Exhibition, Prague
2007 Fragments.cz, Castello di Rivara, Torino, Italy
2007 Still, Another Exhibition of Painting, Futura Gallery, Prague
2007 The Collectors: Live ReEdit, The House of Kunstadts, Brno
2007 Fluff Fest 2007, A.M. 180 Stage, Rokycany
2007 Subculture 2007, 14 Mystic sk8 Cup, Prague
2007 MOBILITY, A.M. 180 Gallery Container, Haidplatz, Germany
2007 Flies Don’t Want to Behave, Fuk Gallery, Kosice, Slovakia
2007 Spleen & Ideal, Brno Gallery, Brno/ Gallery of Central Slovakia, Banska Bystrica, Sk/Bastard Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2006 Acne (R. Adam’s Collection), Rudolfinum Gallery, Prague
2006 Melancolia 2, VSUP Gallery, Prague
2006 Melancilia, NoD, Prague
2006 Fluff Fest 2006, Rokycany
2006 Subculture 2006, 13th Mystic sk8 Cup, Prague
2006 4th Zlin Youth Saloon, Zlin Regional Gallery, Zlin
2006 Hot Stuff, Gallery/ Cultural Centrum Station, Zilina, Sk
2005 So It’s Bad, But Even Worse, AVA Gallery, Prague
2005 Jindrich Chalupecky’s Award Finale, GHMP Gallery-City Library, Prague
2005 2nd Year of Painters’ Symposium, Brno Gallery, Brno
2005 Criss/Cross 05, Castle Gallery of Skala-Bischofstein
2005 Prague Biennale 2 (Expanded Painting Division), Karlin Hall, Prague
2005 5th ZVON 2005 Biennale, House at a Stone Bell Gallery, Prague
2005 Kosmix, Gps Art Gate, Prague
2005 Eastern Alliance 2, Motorenhalle, Dresden
2004 Open Art, Rathausgalerie, Munich
2004 Czech the Market, Kai Hilgemann Gallery, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague
2004 Start Point, Klatovy-Klenova-barn Gallery, Klenova
2004 Graduates of AVU Gallery, Prague
2004 Criss/Cross 04, Broumov
2003 Drawing Prize Exhibition, Middlesex University School Gallery, London, UK
2003 Women, Doubner Gallery, Prague
2002 Yo-yo Effect, Wortner’s House AJG, Ceske Budejovice
2001 Magnetic Fields, Jeleni Gallery, Prague
2001 Criss/Cross 01, Broumov
2001 Artrocksedativefrequebcies, Cultural Centre Sedm, Tabor
2001 Casino, NoD, Prague
2000 Enclave, Kamenicka Premises, Prague
2000 00 Iceroom, Aisrum Club, Prague-Prezletice
2000 Spring Shitters, Myslikova Gallery Premises, Prague
1999 Autumn Sleepers, Myslikova Gallery Premises, Prague
1999 Small Bedroom/Boys Room, AVU-No 303, Prague
