Marek Schovánek
Marek Schovánek (born January 28, 1965 in Prague ) is a Canadian artist and curator .
life and work
From 1987 to 1990 he attended Grant McEwan University Edmonton in Canada and in 1990 did his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. After graduating from his senior studio at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, he returned to Prague in 1992 and has been working as an artist and curator in Berlin since 1993.
In 1998 Marek Schovánek founded MANIFEST International - Foundation for supporting Contemporary Art and Culture and worked as an international curator in the following years. Here he promoted cultural exchange between East and West.
In 1999 he opened the first non-commercial gallery in the former socialist Prague, Gallery No D , with the exhibition The Last Underground and in the same year presented the interactive exhibition with performance character 1999 - Beyond Art in the MANES Gallery of Modern Art in Prague.
In 2000 he showed a retrospective of international young art in Berlin. The project INTERZONE -Recycling the Future showed a month various tendencies in the visual arts, literature, music, dance, performance and film.
In 2001 he was invited to present international art from Berlin in Japan for Energy Field - 1st Biennale for Art and Culture Biwako Hall . In 2005 he curated the German contribution to the 1st Biennale of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery in Prague, which Richard Vine rated in Art in America magazine as one of the best contributions to contemporary art of 2005.
Selected exhibitions (* = solo exhibitions, ** = curator)
2016
The Soul of Money, DOX Center for Contemporary Art Prague, CZ
2015
Inter Nation Art, Galerija PM, HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
Wunderkammer Art stays, Contemporary Art Festival Ptuj, SLO
PROPAGANDA, DOX Center for Contemporary Art Prague *, CZ
The Anarchist Cookie Shop, Art Salon S - Tančící dům, Prague *, CZ
2014
PHARMATOPIA DOX Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ
Rotation Spreeviera Gallery, Berlin *
PHARMATOPIA / CANDYLAND EPEKA Gallery, Maribor, SLO *
Trout Cloud Swarm Art stays, Contemporary Art Festival Ptuj, SLO
DANGEROUS Spreeviera Gallery, Berlin **
Future castle in Valtice, Feldsberg, CZ
2013
CANDYLAND Spreeviera Gallery, Berlin *
Trust your Art Dealer AERO KARLIN Gallery, Prague, CZ
Crystal distortion Spreeviera Gallery, Berlin *
THE GESTURE Serendipity Gallery, Berlin
2012
Anarchist Cookie Shop European Capital of Culture Art Stays Maribor / Ptuj, SLO
Memory of work, installation of the Zollverein World Heritage Site, Essen
Hunter Gatherer Spreeviera Gallery, Berlin *
2011
Good Hunt Nitra Gallery, Nitra, SK
Contrary Voices, Changeable Realities Kare Art Gallery, Istanbul, TR
International Art Festival Kerteminde, DK
A to B - Tim Roeloffs & Marek Schovánek KienhuisHoving Art Gallery, Enschede, NL
2010
1st Ruhrbiennale Düsseldorf, D
Galante, Galizia, Kawanabe, Schovànek Galerie Livio Nardi, Nuremberg, D
Koridoor Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul, TK
2nd National Gallery Biennale, Canakkale, TR
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schovánek, Marek |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian artist and curator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
- ↑ 2Fresh- www.2fresh.cz: THE SOUL OF MONEY. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
- ↑ 2Fresh- www.2fresh.cz: Marek Schovánek: PROPAGANDA. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
- ↑ 2Fresh- www.2fresh.cz: Marek Schovánek: Pharmatopia. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Spreeviera Gallery. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Marek Schovanek - News »Blog Archive» CANDYLAND / PHARMATOPIA. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Marek Schovanek | ART STAYS. Retrieved January 27, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Marek Schovanek - News. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Good hunt! - Nitrianska galéria. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Kare Sanat Galerisi. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
- ^ Gallery Livio Nardi. Retrieved January 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Canakkale Biennial (Turkey). Retrieved January 27, 2019 (American English).