Eliška Bartek

Eliška Bartek (born November 8, 1950 in Nový Jičín ) is a Czech photographer , painter and author . She lives and works in Berlin and Ticino .

Life

Bartek fled to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1972 . She has had Swiss citizenship since 1975 . From 1976 to 1978 she took painting lessons with Fritz Deutsch . From 1979 to 1983 she attended the Zurich University of the Arts and from 1983 to 1986 the private school "Form und Farben" in Zurich . Between 1995 and 1996 she lived in Vienna and received a grant from the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture . She has lived and worked in Berlin and Ticino since 1997 .

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Bartek has been working on her abstract photographic works and paintings since the late 1980s. Her photographs , photograms and glass cliché prints are closely related to the tradition of concrete photography and are influenced by constructivism and surrealism . Her work with floral elements was able to attract a lot of attention. In doing so, she photographs flowers of different colors in extreme close-up. Her neo-impressionist paintings often deal with classical landscape views and try to question their idyll.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

1989: Solo exhibition , Gallery A16, Zurich, catalog.
1990: Eliška Bartek , Hannah Feldmann Gallery, Bern, catalog.
1992: Solo exhibition , Werfen Museum Association, Werfen (AT), catalog.
1995: Im Zwischenraum , Kunsthaus Zug , Zug, catalog.
1996: Solo exhibition , Galerie Victor Feldjuschin, Zurich.
1998: Solo exhibition , project space, Leipzig.
2002: Kvetoslava , Galerie & Edition Artelier, Graz.
2004: Solo Exhibition , Kunsthalle Vierseithof , Luckenwalde.
2004: And in the evening the Vltava blooms . Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, catalog.
2007: Green World , China's Beijing Institute of Culture and Art of the Oriental and Western Celebrities, Lianyungang , catalog.
2009: Silence , ROSPHOTO , The Russian Center for Photography, Saint Petersburg, catalog.
2010: moving mountains . Haus am Lützowplatz , Berlin, catalog.
2011: I can't remember anything… . Galerie Hiltawsky, Berlin, catalog.
2015: Secret Photography - Cliché Verre and Photograms . PHOTO EDITION BERLIN, Berlin, catalog.

Group exhibitions

1988: Accrochage , Kunstmuseum Luzern , Luzern.
1989: Contemporary German Art , Gallery Alena Adlung, New York.
1993: Group exhibition , Kunstmuseum Luzern , Luzern.
2010: LIFE elementary . International Photo Days, Trier, catalog.
2010: Beauty - The Flower Show , Artists' Cooperative Gallery, Omaha (USA).
2011: HotSpot Berlin - A snapshot , Georg Kolbe Museum , Berlin.
2012: Flying , Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin.
2012: Beauty - Flowers in Contemporary Photography , Tokyo Art Museum, Tokyo, catalog.
2013: Prague Photo Festival , Prague Photo, Prague.
2013: Flowers and Mushrooms , Museum der Moderne Salzburg , Salzburg, catalog.
2015: Czech Fundamental , Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome, catalog.

Works

Havana, the diva of the Antilles . S. Fischer , Frankfurt am Main 2016, ISBN 978-3-86455-071-3 .

literature

Suzanne Pastor: Czech Fundamental. Artinbox and KANT, Prague 2015, ISBN 978-80-7437-183-7 .
Gunther Dietrich (Ed.): Eliška Bartek. Secret photography. Photo Edition, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-048105-5 .
Toni Stooss (Ed.): Flowers and Mushrooms. Publication on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Museum der Moderne Salzburg . Hirmer, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-2154-4 .
Matthias Harder (Ed.): Flower Power. Flowers in Contemporary Photography. DuMont , Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8321-9266-2 .

Web links

Literature by and about Eliska Bartek in the catalog of the German National Library
Eliška Bartek's website
Eliška Bartek at artfacts.net
Eliška Bartek at photography now
Gerhard Charles Rump: Eliska Bartek: It's the aesthetics, not the botany. In: Die Welt , July 9, 2004, accessed January 31, 2017.

Individual evidence

↑ Michael Schultz (Ed.): Eliška Bartek. And in the evening the Vltava blooms. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Galerie Michael Schulz, Berlin 2004, p. 60.
↑ Marc Peschke: In Search of the Autonomous Image. In: PhotoKlassik. Issue 1, 2013.
↑ Toni Stooss (ed.): Flowers and Mushrooms. Publication on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Museum der Moderne Salzburg . Hirmer, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-2154-4 , p. 228.
↑ Christoph Tannert: I believe i can fly. In: Gunther Dietrich: Eliška Bartek - moving mountains. Catalog for the solo exhibition in the house on Lützowplatz . Photo Edition, Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030395-1 .

personal data
SURNAME	Bartek, Eliška
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bartek, Eliska
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech artist, photographer and author
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nový Jičín

[1] Michael Schultz (Ed.): Eliška Bartek. And in the evening the Vltava blooms. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name. Galerie Michael Schulz, Berlin 2004, p. 60.

[2] Marc Peschke: In Search of the Autonomous Image. In: PhotoKlassik. Issue 1, 2013.

[3] Toni Stooss (ed.): Flowers and Mushrooms. Publication on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Museum der Moderne Salzburg . Hirmer, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-2154-4 , p. 228.

[4] Christoph Tannert: I believe i can fly. In: Gunther Dietrich: Eliška Bartek - moving mountains. Catalog for the solo exhibition in the house on Lützowplatz . Photo Edition, Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030395-1 .