JIŘÍ KOVANDA (born 1953). He lives and works in Prague (CZ).
Selected solo exhibitions from recent years:
2008 Jiří Kovanda - Pink Carpet, Centro Galego De Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela (E)
Kissing through Glass (Performance), Frac Lorraine, Metz (F)
Two Cushions, gb agency, Paris (F)
2007 Jiří Kovanda, Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Wien (AT)
Jiří Kovanda vs The Rest of the World, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona (E)
Jiří Kovanda VS reste du monde, Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest (F)
Works and Words, De Appel, Amsterdam (NL)
2006 Julius Koller, Jiří Kovanda, Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm (S)
Jiří Kovanda, Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Wien (AT)
Jiří Kovanda VS reste du monde, gb agency, Paris (F)
2005 Jiří Kovanda - pictures, House of Art, Ceské Budejovice (CZ)
Selected group exhibitions:
2009 Flower Power, Cara Centro di ricerca arte attuale Villa Giulia, Verbania (IT)
Performing the East, Salzburgen Kunstverein, Salzburg (AT)
2008 Peripheral vision and collective body, MUSEION, Bolzano (IT)
Crowd, Center d'Art Contemporain La Tolerie, Clermont-Ferrand (F)
Skvrny / Stains, Futura Gallery, Prague (CZ)
Absence Recorded, Vaclav Gallery, Prague (CZ)
2007 Documenta 12, Kassel (D)
Actions and Interruptions (Saturday Live), Tate Modern, London (UK)
Prague Biennale 3, Prague (CZ)
Form Follows... Risk, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
Intocable (el ideal de la transparencia), Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid (E)
Ver bailar. Diálogo entre la danza y las bellas artes, CAAC, Sevilla (ES)
Some time waiting, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, (F)
2006 Tranzit - Auditorium, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (D)
I´ve Invited a Couple of Friends to Have a Look, Miroslav Kraljević Gallery, Zagreb (HR)
I (ICH) / PERFORMATIVE ONTOLOGY, Secession, Wien (AT)
Kontakt - ... aus der Sammlung der Erste Bank-Gruppe, MUMOK, Wien (AT)
2005 Prague Biennale 2, Prague (CZ)
East Art Museum, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Den Hagen (NL)
Concept Art, Neue Gallery, Graz (AT)
2004 De ma Fenêtre, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris (F)
Eintritt Frei, BAWAG Foundation, Wien (AT)
Being the Future, Palac of Republic, Berlin (D)
Cordially invited - in Post CM, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (D)
Strategies of Desire, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (CH)
2003 Wir müssen heute noch an Ihr Vorstellungsvermögen appellieren..., Kölnischer Kunstverein (D)
Parallel Actions, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York (USA)
2002 Field of phenomena - solitude of matter/Pole jevu - samota vec, Moravska Galerie, Brno (CZ)
2001 Die Sammlung, MUMOK, Wien (AT)
Body and the East, Exit Art, New York (USA)
2000 Uberleben Kunst, Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (D)
2001 Object, Object, Czech Museum of Fine Artists, Prague (CZ)
1999 Aspect / Positions. 50 Years of Art in Central Europe 1949-1999, MUMOK, Wien (AT)
Aspect / Positions. 50 Years of Art in Central Europe 1949-1999, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (HU)
Aspect / Positions. 50 Years of Art in Central Europe 1949-1999, Fundació J. Miró, Barcelona (E)
Aspect / Positions. 50 Years of Art in Central Europe 1949-1999, JH Gallery, Sauthampton (UK)
Translocation, Generali Foundation, Wien (AT)
1998 Body and the East, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana (SLO)
Sensitivities, Contemporary Art of Cenral Europe, European Academy for the Arts, London (UK)
Gifts and Purchases, National Gallery, Veletrzni Palac, Prague (CZ)
1997 The Art of the Frozen Time: The Czech Art Scene 1969-1985, Moravian Gallery, Brno (CZ)
Interfaces, Kunstverein, Konstnz (D)
Distribution of Presents, MXM Gallery, Prague (CZ)
1996 L'Art au Corps, MAC, Galeries Contemporaines des Musées de Marseille, Marseille (F)
Abstract/Real, Museum of Modern Art, 20er Haus, Wien (AT)