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  • Martins Kohout

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    *1984, Prague, Czech Republic
    Currently living and working in Berlin and Prague.

    Contact
    https://martinkohout.com/
    https://linktr.ee/shapeswithoutnames

    Education
    2013
    Meisterschüler, Städelschule, Frankfurt (De), class of Simon Starling
    2011
    Absolvent at UdK Berlin (De), classes of Alicja Kwade, Gregor Schneider
    2010
    BA, Film Academy FAMU, Prague (Cz)

    2024
    Polansky, Prague (October 2024)

    2023
    Still there, more or less, or not (performance) @ National Gallery, Prague (Cz)
    A guided tour with Martins @ Pinacoteca, Vienna (At)

    2021
    Quiet Attachments @ Springs.video & EXILE TV, a screening of selected video works (2012-2021)

    2020
    BATEARS @ Exile, Vienna (At), with Adrienne Herr as a guest

    2019
    What if we gave a birth to a frog @ Brno Art Open, Zoological exposition, Zemske muz., Brno (Cz)

    2018
    Alonso, I Just Want to Spoon You. That's All., Vitrina Deniska, Olomouc (CZ)
    Shade at the Shapes without Names headquarters, Polansky Gallery, Prague (CZ)
    Victorian Basics and Martian Stories, duo show with Viktor Timofeev, Levy/Delval, Brussels (BE)
    Close Personal Friends, duo show with Holly White, Firstdraft, Sydney (AU)
    Slides, Exile, Berlin (DE)
    Daylight Management, Auto Italia, London (UK)
    Alonso! It's Elastic, 427 Riga (LV)
    DungeonTT (together with Lars TCF Holdhus) @ Rupert, Vilnius (Lt)

    2017
    Hungry, Wschód, Warsaw (PL)

    2016
    Jokes Machines Make About Humans: 2nd infusion, Kunstraum Riehen, (CH)
    Lebensrhythmen Und Geschwindigkeit, Goethe Institut China, Beijing (CN)

    2015
    Jokes Machines Make About Humans: 1st infusion, Polansky Gallery, Prague (CZ)
    DungeonTT (duo with Lars TCF Holdhus), Tromso Kunstforening (NO)
    DungeonTT (duo with Lars TCF Holdhus), Meetfactory, Prague (CZ)

    2014
    Sjezd, etc. galerie, Prague (CZ)
    Skip the door, save 4s, Forum-1822, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
    5006 years of daylight and silent adaptation., Exile, Berlin (DE)

    2013
    Wrong Step, Percival Space, Oslo (NO)

    2012
    Glare Inland, Quiet Attachment 2, Futura, Prague (CZ)
    Skinsmooth Sur+, Headquarters, Zurich (CH)

    2011
    Glare Inland, Quiet Attachment, Exile, Berlin (DE)

    2024 - Dormancy settings @ Longtermnhandstand, Budapest (HU)

    2023
    HYPERTENSION23 @ National Gallery, Prague (CZ)
    Let Them Eat Cake @ 3hd Festival @ HAU 2, Berlin (DE)
    1939–2021: The End of the Black-and-White Era @ National Gallery, Prague (CZ)
    Symbiosis 2.0 @ Hong Kong Arts Centre (HK)
    Flower Union @ Trade Fair Palace, National Gallery Prague (CZ)

    2022
    Optimised Fables about a Good Life @ PLATO, Ostrava (CZ)
    Flower Union @ Council of the European Union, Brussels (BE)
    BEL ETAGE: EXTENSION @ Kleiner Wasserspeicher, Berlin (DE)

    2021
    State of High Performance @ Basis, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
    No Art Today? @ Municipal Gallery Prague, City Library, Prague (CZ)
    Vienna Biennale For Change 2021 @ MAK (AT)
    Ora et lege @ Broumov Monastery (CZ)

    2020
    Vienna Contemporary screening programme @ Vienna Contemporary (AT)
    25 of 78 @ HMKV, Dortmund (DE)
    Mood Spelled Backwards @ Kurzor, Prague (CZ)
    Animace / Animácia @ Österreichisches Filmmuseum (AT)
    NEMAF, Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival (KR)

    2019
    Halfway House, Exile, Vienna (AT)
    Healing 2.0, Meetfactory, Prague (CZ)
    (Dis)connection, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim (NL)
    Realism with a Bow, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (DE)
    Orient 2 @ Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava (SK)
    What is happening with sleep today? @ AlbumArte, Rome (IT)
    Im Licht der Nacht @ Marta Herford, Herford (DE)

    2018
    Liquid Bodies, AQB Project Space, Budapest (HU)
    The Undisciplined, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin (DE)

    2017
    Jindrich Chalupecky Award 2017, Moravian Gallery, Brno (CZ)
    QWAY, Siliquoon (digital publication)
    The Brutalism Appreciation Society, HMKV, Dortmund (DE)
    Medium: Figure, Prague City Gallery, Prague (CZ)
    Its blueness soothes the sharp burn in your eyes, Loris, Berlin (DE)
    Preparatory portrait of a Young-Girl, PLATO Gallery, Ostrava (CZ)
    New Scenario Residency, Mariina Skala (CZ)

    2016
    Survival Guides for Ballroom Dancers, Renovators,..., Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL)
    Thirsty Garden, The Composing Rooms, Berlin (DE)
    Episode 9: Dinner Room Terravore, Oslo10, Basel (CH)
    Lock Up International, Ks Wave, Nakano Broadway, Tokyo (JP)
    States of Flux, Swimming Pool, Sofia (BG)
    Пикник на обочине, Exo Exo, Paris (FR)
    F-Holes, HHDM, New York (US)
    Latent Fiction, Sperling, Munich (DE)
    Grand New, Future Gallery, Berlin (DE)

    2015
    Aufloesung / Neuordnung, D21, Leipzig (DE)
    HPSCHD 1969>2015, MAMbo, Bologna (IT)
    Telepathy or Esperanto, Futura, Prague (CZ)
    Typografie, Tsjechisch Centrum, Rotterdam, (NL)

    2014
    Jindrich Chalupecky Award, Veletrzni Palac, National Gallery, Prague (CZ)
    Redrawing Sol LeWitt, Exile, New York (US)
    The Meditative Relaxation Cycle, Arcadia Missa, London (UK)