Jiří Kovanda

Jiří Kovanda est né en 1953 à Prague. Il vit et travaille à Prague (République Tchèque).

Jiří Kovanda rejoint les artistes du mouvement ‘body art’ au milieu des années 70 et réalise des actions (performances) minimales, discrètes dans les rues de Prague. L’activité passive de Kovanda rejoint quelque peu le situationnisme. La plupart de ses actions corporelles se déroulent dans la ville. Elles sont tellement intrusives qu’il est presque impossible de les différencier de la vie réelle. A Prague dans les années 60, le mouvement Fluxus a trouvé un écho. L’expérience politique du printemps de Prague s’est résumé en un nettoyage de l’espace public. Jiri Kovanda utilise cet espace public comme une sphère mentale, dématérialisée et la performance comme un processus de changement.

Sculpture park and contemporary art at Bechyně Castle

Group show with the work of Jirí Kovanda
Bechyně Castle, Bechyně
June 3 - September, 2023

Between Looking and Seeing

Exposition collective avec les oeuvres de Július Koller, Jirí Kovanda, Apostolos Georgiou, Ryan Gander et Hassan Sharif
gb agency, Paris
25 Mars - 22 Avril 2023

Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit

Ridiculously yours!, Art, Awkwardness and Enthusiasm

Group show including the work of Robert Breer and Jirí Kovanda
Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
October 13, 2022 - February 25, 2023, extended until April 10, 2023

Art Basel 2022

Art Fair
Art Basel, Messe Basel
June 14 - 19, 2022

Two of Us

Activation d’une performance de Jirí Kovanda
Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
15 mai 2022

Before Waiting Becomes Part of Your Life

Collective show with the works of Mark Geffriaud, Apostolos Georgiou, Tirdad Hashemi, Paul Heintz, David Horvitz, Július Koller, Jirí Kovanda, Roman Ondak, Pak Sheung Chuen, and Yann Sérandour
gb agency, Paris
May 14 - July 19, 2022

Ce devant quoi

Une exposition collective de Yann Sérandour
gb agency, Paris
26 mars - 7 mai, 2022

Vladimír Skrepl: Remixed & Reimagined

Group show with works by Jiří Kovanda
Centre of Contemporary Art DOX, Prague
October 1, 2021 - January 30, 2022

Art Basel, 2021

Art Fair
Messe Basel, Basel
September 21 - 26, 2021

Jiri Kovanda and Zhanna Kadyrova: (Almost) involuntary sculptures and material situations

Duo show with works by Jiri Kovanda
Grössling Bathhouse, Bratislava
Jusqu’au 29 Avril 2021

Jiří Kovanda: On Paper/ On Air

Solo show
Czech Centre, Tokyo
Until February 12, 2021

Jiří Kovanda, Ten Minutes Earlier

Exposition personnelle
Fait Gallery, Brno
Jusqu’au 17 Avril 2021

Pierre Bal-Blanc, Collective Exhibition for a Single Body

Exposition collective
Commissaire d’exposition, Pierre Bal-Blanc
gb agency, Paris
12 Octobre - 5 Novembre 2019

Jiri Kovanda, Somebody sitting there...

Exposition personnelle
Jiri Kovanda
gb agency
11 Mai - 20 Juillet 2019

Paper stories

Group Exhibition
Level One, gb agency
From December 3rd, 2016 to January 14th, 2017

Jiri Kovanda: Fresh Breeze

A solo show by Jiri Kovanda
gb agency
from April 2 to May 14, 2016

Jiří Kovanda Versus the Rest of the World

Solo exhibition
Galerie TZB, Czech Center, Berlin
March 11 - May 8, 2015

New Ways of Doing nothing at Kunsthalle Wien with Robert Breer, Ryan Gander and Jirí Kovanda

Group exhibition
Kunsthalle Wien.
27 June - 12 October 2014.

Art 45 Basel

Art Fair
Art Basel
June 19 - 22, 2014.

Frieze, New York, 2014

Frieze Art Fair
New York
May 9-12 2014

Jiří Kovanda at Rhubaba Gallery and Studios

Group exhibition
Rhubaba Gallery and Studios at Edinburgh
March 28 - until Aril 20, 2014

Ryan Gander, Mark Geffriaud, Jiri kovanda, Yann Sérandour - La Panacée, Montpellier

Group exhibition
La Panacée, Montpellier
February 7 - September 14, 2014

Jiří Kovanda, I havent been here before, 1973 -2013

Retrospective
Dum Umeni, The Brno House of Arts
Feb 7 - April 6, 2014

Július Koller, Jiří Kovanda, Tamás St. Turba. New Museum, New York

Group exhibition
New Museum, New York
January 24 – April 13 2014

Parallel Forms

Group exhibition
gb agency
January 11 - February 22, 2014

Performance by Jiri Kovanda

Performance
Centre d’art contemporain, Noisy-le-Sec
13th November, from 6pm to 8pm 2013

Inventing a Future

Inventing a Future, group exhibition
gb agency
January 26 - March 13, 2013

Jiří Kovanda: In front of the Museum at Four ?

Solo exhibition by Jiří Kovanda
gb agency
From November 8, 2012 to January 12, 2013

A common feeling

Group exhibition
gb agency
from April 21 to May 26 2012

Jirí Kovanda: Wait, please, she will come

A solo show by Jiří Kovanda
gb agency
From January 22th to February 26th, 2011

Both before and after

Group show
gb agency
7 May to 3 July 2010

Nord, Nord-Ouest

Group show
gb agency
From June 25 to July 25, 2009

Jiri Kovanda: Two Cushions

A solo show by Jiri Kovanda
gb agency
From March 15 to May 17, 2008

Jiri Kovanda: Jiri Kovanda Versus Rest Of The World

A solo show by Jiri Kovanda
gb agency
From September 9 to October 14, 2006

publications (sélection)

2010: JIŘÍ KOVANDA - White Blanket - Secession, texte et entretien avec Jiří Kovanda: Edith Jeřábková, Allemand/anglais, publié par Secession 2010; Monographie: Jiri Kovanda. Éditeur: Edith Jerabkova, Rédactrice: Micheala Thelenova, Conception du catalogue: Edith Jerabkova et Jiří Kovanda; Textes de Richard Adam, Nina Beier & Marie Lund, Vjera Borozan, Karel Cisai, Jan Cerny, Jiri David, Guillaume Désanges, Nathalie Boutin & Solène Guillier, agence gb, Paris, Frantiska et tim Gilman-Sevcikovi, Vit Havranek, Edith Jerabkova , Zdena Koleckova & Michal Kolecek, Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Zofia Kulik, Dominik Lang, Lenka Lindaurova, Petr Lysacek, Ivan Mecl, Josephine Michau, Jan Mlcoch, Pavlina Morganova, Boris Ondreicka, Michal Pechoucek, Marek Pokorny, Tomas Pospiszemi, Smolik, Jana Sevcikova a Jiri Sevcik, Jiri Valoch, Catherine Wood; Publié par Fakulta umeni a designu Univerzita JanEvangelisty Purkyne contre Usti nad Labem spolecne s Galerii Klatovy / Klenova, 288 pages; Livre d’artiste: Jiri Kovanda, Composition with Butterfly, Textes par Edith Jerabkova, Jiří Kovanda, Jana and Jiří Sevcik, François Piron. Publié par Dominik Art Projects Foundation, Krakow.
2007: Tranzit, catalogue d’exposition, entretien avec Han-Ulrich Obrist, conversation entre Jiri Sevcik et Georg Schölhammer, texte de Vit Havranek, Pawel Polit et Igor Zabel, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Steinernes Haus am Römerberg, Frankfurt, (anglais).
2006: Performances and Installations — 1976-2005, texts by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Jiri Sevcik, Georg Scholhammer, Vit Havranek, Pawel Polit, Igor Zabel, published by tranzit & jrp ringier, 2006
2004: 1985, Galerie Na bidylku, Brno; East Art Map, New Moment nr. 20, Ljubljana, Slovinsko,p. 43.
2002: Galerie Na bidylku, Brno (avec J. Mancuska)
1999: Kresby 1970-1999 (“Drawings 1970-1999”), Galerie Na bidylku, Brno; Pavlína Morganova: Art of Action, pp. 123—126, 203, 227—228, Votobia
1996: Galerie Na bidylku, Brno; Galerie Caesar, Olomouc
1982: Petr Rezek, Body, Thing and Reality in Contemporary Art, p. 156, Publié par Jazzova sekce, Prague.

Jiří Kovanda
Composition with Butterfly, 2010

Catalogue

Texts by Edith Jerabkova, Jiří Kovanda, Jana and Jiří Sevcik, François Piron
Published by Dominik Art Projects Foundation, Krakow.

Jiří Kovanda
Jiří Kovanda, 2010

Publication

Editor: Edith Jerabkova, Redactor: Micheala Thelenova, Catalogue Conception: Edith Jerabkova and Jiří Kovanda
Texts by Richard Adam, Nina Beier & Marie Lund, Vjera Borozan, Karel Cisai, Jan Cerny, Jiri David, Guillaume Désanges, Nathalie Boutin & Solène Guillier, gb agency, Paris, Frantiska and tim Gilman-Sevcikovi, Vit Havranek, Edith Jerabkova, Zdena Koleckova & Michal Kolecek, Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Zofia Kulik, Dominik Lang, Lenka Lindaurova, Petr Lysacek, Ivan Mecl, Josephine Michau, Jan Mlcoch, Pavlina Morganova, Boris Ondreicka, Michal Pechoucek, Marek Pokorny, Tomas Pospiszyl, Rafani, Noemi Smolik, Jana Sevcikova a Jiri Sevcik, Jiri Valoch, Catherine Wood
Published by Fakulta umeni a designu Univerzita JanEvangelisty Purkyne v Usti nad Labem spolecne s Galerii Klatovy/Klenova
288 pages
22 x 24 cm
ISBN 978-80-7414-278-9 & 978-80-87013-18-2

Jiří Kovanda
White Blanket, 2010

Publication

96 pages, dimension: 23 x 31 cm, about 130 color illustrations
Text and Interview with Jiří Kovanda: Edith Jeřábková
German/English
Published by Secession 2010
Distribution: Revolver Verlag
ISBN 978-3-902592-30-9

Jiří Kovanda
Actions & Installations, 2006

Publication

Texts by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Pawel Polit, Georg Schollhammer, Jiri Sevcik, Igor Zabel, Jiri Kovanda, Vit Havranek (Editor)
Publisher: JRP|Ringier/Tranzit series
ISBN: 390570174X
ISBN13: 9783905701746
DDC: 709

Neue Gallery, Graz, Austria
Erste Bank, Wien, Austria
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
Wannieck Gallery of Modern Art, Brno, Czech Republic
City Gallery Prague, Galerie Hlavního M sta Prahy, Prague, Czech Republic
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Frac Pays de Loire, Carquefou, France
Frac Nord Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
Frac Ile de France, Paris, France
Musee Departemental d’Art Contemporain, Rochechouart, France
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, Lodz, Poland
CGAC Santiago de Compostella, Spain
Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tate Modern, London, UK
MoMA, New York, USA

Exhibition view, Jiří Kovanda: Two golden rings, Palacio de cristal, Parque del retiro, Madrid. Commissioned by the Museo Reina Sofía, 2014

“Cheap and simple things can sometimes turn out to be important and extraordinary, while expensive objects can be invisible. […] It just depends on the situation” Jiří Kovanda