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  • Vladimír Houdek

    Biography
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    *born 1984 in Nove Mesto na Morave / Czech republic
    works and lives in Prague

    Education:
    2007 - 2013 Prague Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Studio of Vladimir Skrepl
    2009 a half-year stay in studio of Ladislav Saloun, supervisor- Jan Merta
    2011 a half-year stay in studio of Ladislav Saloun, supervisor- Silke Otto-Knapp

    Awards:
    The Award of Critics for Young Painting 2010, Prague
    The Jindrich Chalupecky Award 2012

    Collections:
    AMC Coppola Collection, Vicenza
    Collection Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann, Berlin
    Olbricht Collection, Berlin
    Barbara and Aaron Levine, Washington
    Leinemann Foundation, Berlin/Hamburg
    Collection Schnetkamp, Germany
    ACT - Art Collection Telekom, Germany
    Collection of Dorothea Zwirner, Berlin
    Collection Herbert and Gunda May, Germany
    Collection Tanazacq de Stigliano, Argentina
    Videoinsight Foundation, Torino
    Manuel de Santaren, Boston
    Collection of contemporary art of Richard Adam, CZ
    Collection of Fait Gallery, CZ
    Klatovy/Klenová Gallery, CZ
    Zeman Collection, CZ
    National Gallery in Prague, CZ
    Kunstpalais Erlangen, DE
    J&T Bank Collection, Prague
    Rober Rutnák Collection, CZ
    8SMIČKA Collection, CZ
    Havrlant Art Collection, CZ
    Pekelné sáně Art Collection, CZ
    Kunsthalle Praha, Pudil Family Foundation, CZ

    Symposium:
    Mikulov Art Symposium „Workshop“ 2011

    2022
    Polansky Gallery, Prague, CZ (February)

    2021
    Anna Hulačová and Vladimír Houdek, AMB Gallery, Hradec Králové, CZ
    Identity, Pitevna Gallery, Brno, CZ
    Xanax, Berlínskej model, Prague, CZ
    Echo, Hořice Museum, Hořice, CZ
    Migraine, NoD Gallery, Prague, CZ

    2020
    Atilis Press, Polansky Gallery, Prague, CZ
    Substance and Body, Dole Gallery, Ostrava, CZ
    Vladimír Houdek and Markus Huemer, Acarophobes, Architectural Nostalgics, Heidi Klum and Others, Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin, Berlin, DE

    2019
    Sediment, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, (AT)
    The Future Polis II, GAVU, Cheb, (CZ)
    Schiebekabinett, Galerie Kai Erdmann, Hamburg, (DE)
    The Steel, GaP, Znojmo, (CZ)

    2018
    Night Shift, Polansky Gallery, Brno, (CZ)
    Vladimír Houdek, Painting, The Horácká Gallery in Nové město na Moravě, (CZ)

    2017
    Resonanz, Kunstpalais Erlangen, (DE)
    Interaction, Polansky Gallery, Prague, (CZ)
    Vladimír Houdek, The Opava House of Art, (CZ)
    Rasura, Galerie Kaple, (CZ)

    2016
    Relations, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, (AT)
    Levitations, Mönchehaus Museum in Goslar, (DE)
    Vladimír Houdek, Luxfer Gallery, (CZ)
    Panorama, Berlínskej model, Prague, (CZ)

    2015
    Future Polis, Polansky Gallery, Prague, (CZ)
    Levitationen, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Kunstverein Lübeck, (DE)
    Reaktion, Galerie Kai Erdmann, Hamburg, (DE)

    2014
    Tenseness of Grey, Richard Adam Gallery, Brno, (CZ)
    Net, TIC, Brno, (CZ)
    The Murk of Dawn, Schleicher/Lange, Berlin, (DE)
    The Trickling Expanse, PLATO/Kunsthalle, Ostrava, (CZ)

    2013
    The Matter of Bending Length, National Gallery, Prague, (CZ)
    Vladimír Houdek, Czech Center, Berlin, (DE)
    ABC art berlin contemporary, solo presentation (Polansky Gallery), (DE)
    Viennafair The new contemporary, Vienna, solo presentation (Polansky Gallery), (AU)
    Artissima Torino, solo presentation (Polansky Gallery), (IT)
    Glowing Alabaster, Polansky Gallery, Prague, (CZ)

    2012
    Vladimír Houdek and Sláva Sobotovičová, Screla, Karlín Studios, Prague, (CZ)

    2011
    Vladimír Houdek & Monika Žáková, The White Dress, Gallery Pavilon, Prague, (CZ)
    Vladimír Houdek & Monika Žáková, Strings on your Fingers, Gallery 35m2, Prague, (CZ)
    Melancholy, Moravian Gallery in Brno, Pražák Palace (atrium), Brno, (CZ)
    Magion, Gallery City Blansko, Blansko (CZ)

    2010
    Round and around, into silence, Gallery of Critics, Prague, (CZ)
    Sleepless, Galery Pavilon, Prague, (CZ)
    The Boy Náprstník, Galery Jelení, Prague, (CZ)

    2008
    I am your mood, Galery A.M. 180, Prague, (CZ)

    2022
    There must be some kind of way outta here, Galerie Crone, Vienna/Berlin

    2021
    The Time Has Come to Talk of Many Things… from the Art Collection Telekom, National Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria
    Signal II, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, CZ
    J&T BANKA Art Index Pop Up, Art index pop-up gallery Prague, CZ

    2020
    Keeping the Balance: Works from the Art Collection Telekom, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
    White Snake, Galerie Kai Erdmann, Berlin, DE

    2019
    NOSZTRÓMO, ASHES/ASHES, New York, (USA)
    J&T Banka Art Index Pop-Up, Dům U Zlatého hroznu, Prague, (CZ)
    LISTEN TO US – ARTISTIC INTELLIGENCE, City Gallery of Fine Arts, Ancient Plovdiv, SKLAD, Ivan Vazov Library (BG)
    What Are We Made Of? Works from Art Collection Telekom Kunsthalle Darmstadt, (DE)
    ECHO / SELECTION FROM THE FAIT GALLERY COLLECTION, Fait Gallery, Brno, (CZ)
    Beyond the horizon, Chateau Mikulov, Mikulov, (CZ)

    2018
    Repeater, Galerie Kai Erdmann, Hamburg, (DE)
    WEIHNACHTSAUSSTELLUNG, Krinzinger Projekte/Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, (AT)
    Articulations - Nemrég festett képek/Recently Painted Works, Glassyard Gallery, Budapest, (HU)
    Temporary Structures, PLATO, Ostrava, (CZ)
    Salon Czech and Slovak scenography, ND Reduta, Brno, (CZ)
    Salon Czech and Slovak scenography, Galeria Umelka, Bratislava, (SK)

    2017
    PÓŁPRAWDA/HALF-TRUTH, Works by Central and Eastern European Contemporary Artists from Art Collection Telekom, Museum of Sculpture – Królikarnia Palace, Warsaw, (PL)
    Lübeck sammelt I, Von Max Beckmann bis Miroslav Tichý, Kunsthalle St. Annen, Germany, (DE)
    DE AWKWARD HANDSHAKE, INI Gallery, Prague, (CZ)
    ART FOR A BETTER WORLD, Gallery NTK, Prague, (CZ)
    Ideology Recycling, Emil Filla Gallery, Ústí nad Labem, (CZ)
    Home, Caesar Gallery, Olomouc, (CZ)
    Salon Czech and Slovak scenography, Kotva, Prague, (CZ)
    Petr Bezruč-bard prvý, co promluvil, Opava, (CZ)

    2016
    Shape of Time – Future of Nostalgia, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, (RO)
    My Abstract World, me Collectors Room, Berlin, (DE)

    2015
    Le Souffleur, Schürmann meets Ludwig, Ludwig Forum Aachen, (DE)
    132,54 m², Schleicher/Lange Gallery, Berlin, (DE)
    Der zweite Blick, Galerie Scharmann/Laskowski, Cologne, (DE)
    Geo Ego, Czech Center Berlin, (DE)
    Geo Ego, NTK, Prague, (CZ)
    Silver Lining, National Gallery, Prague, (CZ)

    2014
    Late at Night I Fall Asleep, Polansky Gallery, Prague, (CZ)
    Inspired by Cubism, House of Arts, Brno, (CZ)
    Boogie Woogie, Trafó, Budapest, (HU)
    She-wolf of the Night, Karlín Studios, Prague, (CZ)
    ME COLLECTORS ROOM, Fragile sense of hope-Art Collection Telekom, Berlin, (DE)

    2012
    Exhibition of the finalists of The Jindrich Chalupecky Award 2012, House of Arts, Brno, (CZ)
    EXHIBITION TWO, ZAHORIAN&co GALLERY, Bratislava, (SK)
    VI. Zlín Youth Salon, Zlín House of Arts, Zlín Chateau, Zlín, (CZ)
    Wolf of the Night, OGV Jihlava, Gallery Alternativa, Jihlava, (CZ)
    READ IT-Šaloun Studio Exhibition with Guest Professor Silke Otto-Knapp, NOD Gallery, Prague, (CZ)

    2011
    Mikulov Art Symposium „dílna“ 2011, Chateau Mikulov, 2011, Mikulov, (CZ)
    Czech painting of the 21st Century Noughties Generation, Wannieck Gallery, Brno, (CZ)
    Czech painting 2011, Gallery Fontána, Piešťany, (SK)
    Antithesis of Painting, Gallery Critics, Prague, (CZ)

    2010
    Open doors days, Gallery Jelení, Prague, (CZ)
    Little curator‘s overstep in summer, 36 Gallery, Olomouc, (CZ)
    Vladimír Houdek, Matěj Smetana: Physics, Gallery Ve Sklepě, Prague, (CZ)

    2009
    Come here everybody!, Austrian cultural forum, Prague, (CZ)