Robert Barta

Robert Barta (born May 25, 1975 in Prague ) is a Czech object and installation artist .

life and work

Barta studied from 1998 to 2005 at the Munich Art Academy and from 2002 to 2003 at the San Francisco Art Institute . From 2002 to 2004 he received a scholarship from the Cusanuswerk Bonn . He received further funding in 2004 from the Steiner Foundation in Munich. In 2006 he was one of three young artists who were selected for the jury debut exhibition of the BBK Munich. In 2007 his first exhibition took place in Berlin . He has received numerous invitations to curated exhibitions, mainly in Germany. For the Rohkunstbau XVI. In Potsdam he created a door behind which a knocking sound could be heard, as if someone were locked in. As the third of five artists in the “Reality looks back on me” project for artists between the ages of 30 and 45, he exhibited in 2010 at the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern . Works that deal with feedback phenomena were selected.

Robert Barta's work is irritating. Objects that initially seem banal turn out to be absurd on closer inspection or at least contain an astonishing phrase. Correlations are reversed, relationships of size interchanged. This impression is also reinforced by the picture titles. One of his works Mal consists - based on Duchamp's fountain - of a urinal. Barta's fountain pees back and is titled “Don't piss on your legs”. In his first exhibition in Berlin in 2007 at the Mertens Gallery, Barta showed jeans that are hanging on the wall in a frame and whose pockets are sewn on the wrong way round. The title of this work is “never lost anything”.

Marc Wellmann writes in the exhibition catalog Romantic Machines. Contemporary kinetic art about the artist: “The works of the artist Robert Barta, who was born in Prague in 1975 and trained in San Francisco and Munich, confuse the (supposed) certainties of everyday life in a virtuoso way. It starts with the language that we commonly see as a practical medium for the smooth transmission of information. "

Barta lives in Munich and Berlin .

Solo exhibitions

• 2010: Shootout in the solarium , KWADRAT Berlin
• 2010: Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern , Kaiserslautern
• 2007: Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
• 2007: Deutsche Bundesbank Art Collection, Frankfurt

Holdings

• 2010: Blickwechsel , “Project Deposit”. Sculpture in public space in collaboration with the Beckum City Museum
• 2009: XVI. Rohkunstbau , Marquardt Palace , Potsdam
• 2009: SCULPT-O-MANIA . New sculpture from Germany. Stadtgalerie Kiel , catalog
• 2009: Romantic Machines - Kinetic Art of the Present , curator Marc Wellmann. Georg Kolbe Museum , Berlin, catalog
• 2009: SCULPT-O-MANIA. New sculpture from Germany. City Gallery Kiel
• 2007: also and not only that , Artothek Munich
• 2007: gross domestic product , City Gallery, Prague
• 2006: Debutants , exhibition at the BBK Munich. Catalog.
• 2006: Dear Friedrich Kunstverein Kassel, catalog
• 2004: CONNECT THE DOTS LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York

Scholarships and Awards

• 2002 to 2004 Cusanuswerk Bonn, scholarship
• Scholarship 2004 Steiner Foundation Munich, Project Space Camp
• 2006 Jury debut exhibition of the BBK Munich

Works in public collections

• Columbus Art Foundation , Leipzig
• Columbus Art Foundation , Ravensburg
• FNAC , Puteaux

literature

• Robert Barta, The Art of Reversal or the Poetry of Pure Senselessness. With German and English texts by Heinz Schütz (art historian, Munich) and an interview with Marcus Graf (Siemens Sanat, Istanbul) and Klara Hobza. Catalog for the exhibition DEBUTANTEN 2006 in the gallery of artists of the BBK Munich. 124 pages, design: Robert Barta, Lukas Pospichal. ISBN 978-3-938370-12-4
• Robert Barta in: Romantic machines. Kinetic art of the present. Catalog. Edited by Marc Wellmann for the Georg Kolbe Museum Cologne. With a contribution by Peter Weibel
• SCULPT-O-MANIA, New sculpture from Germany. Edited by Landeshauptstadt Kiel / Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel 2008. Artists: Nándor Angstenberger, Robert Barta, Anja Ciupka, Dennis Feddersen, Jan Klopfleisch, Hendrik L Körper, Antonia Low, Daniel Rode, Oliver Ross, Jan Scharrelmann, André Tempel, Stefan Vishnewski . Text contributions by: Peter Kruska, Wolfgang Zeigerer / Isabell Schenk-Weininger. 64 pp., 57 ills., ISBN 978-3-927979-73-4
• Dear Friedrich: Scholarship holders of the artist promotion of the Cusanuswerk exhibit in the Kasseler Kunstverein, July 9th. - 11.8.2006, catalog, Verlag Cusanuswerk, Bischöfliche Studienförderung, 2006, 26 pages

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Barta in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website
• Robert Barta on kunstaspekte.de
• Picture lexicon Robert Barta on Kunstforum.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Astrid Mania. xvi. Rohkunstbau. The same in green. Artnet.de
2. ↑ Reality looks back on me, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ " The man who turns guard rails red ", article from the Berliner Zeitung by Sebastian Preuss from March 1, 2007 online view
4. ↑ Article on the exhibition on kunstaspekte.de
5. ↑ Article on the exhibition in the Pfalzgalerie
6. ↑ Sebastian Preuss: The man who turns guard rails red. In: Berliner Zeitung 2007 (accessed on October 25, 2011)
7. ↑ Exhibition note on kunstaspekte.de
8. ↑ Blickwechsel, Beckum ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Robert Barta at Blickwechsel  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Article about the exhibition on kunstmarkt.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Article about the exhibition on artnet.de
12. ↑ Article about the exhibition on kunstaspekte.de
13. ↑ Exhibition note on kunstaspekte.de
14. ↑ Selection of debutants from the BBK Munich
15. ^ Columbus Art Foundation
16. ↑ Robert Barta on the website of the Center national des arts plastiques
17. ↑ Romantic machines. Kinetic art of the present. Catalog. Edited by Marc Wellmann for the Georg Kolbe Museum Cologne. With a contribution by Peter Weibel. (PDF; 2.1 MB)